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24.02.26 - 08:06
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′People yearn for stability′: the Thames Water sewage plant at frontline of its crisis (The Guardian)
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Weighed down by underinvestment and uncertainty, staff at Maple Lodge just want to get on with the jobIt is a grey day in a wet week but one of Thames Water's neglected plants is still coping. Wastewater is being pumped into the vast Maple Lodge sewage treatment centre in Rickmansworth, just off the M25, at a rate of about 3,000 litres a second, within capacity.The site manager points out the first-line screens that catch everything that will not pass through a 5mm filter. A “sheep” – a bundle of wet wipes, sanitary pads, cotton buds, condoms and indigestible bits of sweetcorn – is rotating at one edge. Credit cards and false teeth have been known to end up here. Continue reading......
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23.02.26 - 22:12
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Channel 4′s Dirty Business is a clarion call to nationalise the water industry (The Guardian)
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As the drama shows, private firms no longer able to pollute the coast of England of Wales just switched to rivers instead There is a moment in Channel 4's drama Dirty Business when Julie Maughan holds the body of her dead child and lets out an anguished cry. It is as brutal as it is compelling.Her eight-year-old daughter Heather had just died in hospital, two weeks after playing in the sea on the beach at Dawlish Warren in Devon, where she contracted E coli O157, a bug which comes from raw sewage. She became ill with diarrhoea and blood loss. Transferred to Bristol children's hospital, her parents agreed to switch off her life-support machine after she suffered kidney failure and brain damage. Continue reading......
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23.02.26 - 17:12
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Yorkshire Water fined over £700,000 for repeated sewage releases (The Guardian)
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Company admits three pollution events that killed fish and insects in Pools Brook country park near ChesterfieldA water company has been fined more than £700,000 for repeatedly releasing sewage into a stream.Yorkshire Water was issued with the penalty after pleading guilty to three offences of sewage pollution in Pools Brook country park near Chesterfield. Continue reading......
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21.02.26 - 13:54
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′Reimagining matter′: Nobel laureate invents machine that harvests water from dry air (The Guardian)
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Omar Yaghi's invention uses ambient thermal energy and can generate up to 1,000 litres of clean water every dayA Nobel laureate's environmentally friendly invention that provides clean water if central supplies are knocked out by a hurricane or drought, could be a life saver for vulnerable islands, its founder says.The invention, by the chemist Prof Omar Yaghi, uses a type of science called reticular chemistry to create molecularly engineered materials, which can extract moisture from the air and harvest water even in arid and desert conditions. Continue reading......
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21.02.26 - 11:12
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Under water, in denial: is Europe drowning out the climate crisis? (The Guardian)
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Even as weather extremes worsen, the voices calling for the rolling back of environmental rules have grown louder and more influentialIn the timeless week between Christmas and the new year, two Spanish men in their early 50s – friends since childhood, popular around town – went to a restaurant and did not come home.Francisco Zea Bravo, a maths teacher active in a book club and rock band, and Antonio Morales Serrano, the owner of a popular cafe and ice-cream parlour, had gone to eat with friends in Málaga on Saturday 27 December. But as the pair drove back to Alhaurín el Grande that night, heavy rains turned the usually tranquil Fahala River into what the mayor would later call an “uncontrollable torrent”. Police found their van overturned the next day. Their bodies followed after an agonising search. Continue reading......
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20.02.26 - 13:42
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Osaka stunned by anonymous gift of gold bars to fix ageing water pipes (The Guardian)
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Mayor says Japanese city will respect donor's specification that £2.7m gift must be used to repair dilapidated systemOsaka has received a hefty gift of gold bars worth 560m yen (£2.7m) from an anonymous donor and a request for its specific use: to fix the Japanese city's dilapidated water pipes.The gold bars, weighing a total of 21kg (46lb), were given to the Osaka City Waterworks Bureau in November by the donor who wants to help improve ageing water pipes, the mayor, Hideyuki Yokoyama, told reporters on Thursday. Continue reading......
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19.02.26 - 22:48
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European Markets Finish Under Water On Thursday (AFX)
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BRUSSELS (dpa-AFX) - The major European stock markets finished lower on Thursday, opening lower and then spending the session in negative territory to end near daily lows.Geopolitical issues weigh......
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19.02.26 - 08:09
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Wasser mit Geschmack kurbelt Geschäft bei Gerolsteiner an (DPA-AFX)
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GEROLSTEIN (dpa-AFX) - Mineralwasser mit Geschmack und stilles Wasser: Das sind 2025 Wachstumstreiber beim Gerolsteiner Brunnen gewesen. Vor allem Wasser ohne Kohlensäure habe überdurchschnittliche Zuwächse erzielt, teilte das Unternehmen in Gerolstein ......
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19.02.26 - 05:27
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How A Water War Is Brewing Over A Drying Lake In Nevada (ZeroHedge)
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How A Water War Is Brewing Over A Drying Lake In Nevada
Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times,
A Nevada lawsuit trickling toward trial could determine how the nation's most arid state balances the legal rights of upstream landowners to divert water from rivers for agricultural irrigation with the impacts those withdrawals have on downstream ecologies and economies.
Water rights exceed water supply across much of the western United States. With many watersheds failing to deliver enough water for local needs, the suit is being watched by attorneys, state water managers, and federal agencies. It could potentially set a precedent in revising how states across the West regulate access to water.
The Nevada case, filed by the Walker River Paiute Tribe and Mineral County, may also present an opportunity for a win-win solution, in which nonprofits and government entities purchase private water rights from willing upstream sellers and dedicate them to downstream public benefit.
Without public-pr...
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