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11.01.26 - 15:39
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Abwasser: Wer zahlt für das Ibuprofen im Wasser? (Sueddeutsche)
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Abgewaschene Schmerzcremes, Antibiotika in der Toilette runtergespült: Eine strengere EU-Abwasserrichtlinie soll helfen, Wasser sauberer zu machen. Pharmahersteller sehen allerdings eine Gefahr für die Versorgung mit bestimmten Medikamenten....
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10.01.26 - 09:42
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Wessex Water bosses handed £50,000 in extra pay despite Labour government′s bonus ban (The Guardian)
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Utility admits parent company paid CEO Ruth Jefferson and CFO Andy Pymer but denies bonus paymentsThe bosses of Wessex Water received £50,000 in previously undisclosed extra pay from a parent company, in the same year that the utility was banned from paying bonuses, the Guardian can reveal.Chief executive Ruth Jefferson and chief financial officer Andy Pymer were paid £24,000 and £27,000 respectively in the year to June 2025, according to a spokesperson for Wessex Water's owner, the Malaysian YTL group. Continue reading......
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06.01.26 - 16:06
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Kent water failure was foreseen and could have been stopped, regulator says (The Guardian)
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Problem at water treatment centre left 24,000 Tunbridge Wells homes without drinking water for two weeksA failure at a water treatment centre that left tens of thousands of Kent households without water was foreseen weeks before it happened and could have been stopped, the regulator has said.Twenty-four thousand homes in the Tunbridge Wells area were without drinking water for two weeks from 30 November last year due to a failure at the Pembury water treatment centre. Continue reading......
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01.01.26 - 19:12
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′The source of all life is here′: plan to mine lithium in Chilean salt flat sparks fears of water scarcity (The Guardian)
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The Colla Indigenous people claim Rio Tinto's plans to extract the key mineral will harm fragile ecosystems and livelihoodsMiriam Rivera Bordones tends her goats in a dusty paddock in the russet mountains of Chile's Atacama desert. She also keeps chickens and has planted quince and peach trees and grapevines, which are watered by a stream winding down the hills towards the Indigenous community of Copiapó.But now the huge British-Australian mining multinational Rio Tinto has signed a deal to extract lithium, the “white gold” of the energy transition, from a salt flat farther up the mountains, and she fears the project could affect the water sources of several communities in the area. Continue reading......
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