News tagged with drinking water
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Walkerton Tragedy: 10 years of research leads to breakthrough
Studies of the victims of the Walkerton, Ont. tainted drinking water tragedy have led researchers to discover DNA variations in genes that increase the risk of developing post-infectious irritable bowel syndrome (PI-IBS). ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 27, 2010 |
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Tracing the traces: Nanogram concentrations of a toxic compound detected in chlorinated tap water
(PhysOrg.com) -- Drinking water can transmit a number of diseases, including typhoid, dysentery, cholera, and diarrhea, which can then spread explosively throughout an entire service area. To avoid this problem, drinking ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Dec 23, 2009 |
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Feds mull regulating drugs in water
(AP) -- Federal regulators under President Barack Obama have sharply shifted course on long-standing policy toward pharmaceutical residues in the nation's drinking water, taking a critical first step toward regulating some ...
Dec 22, 2009 |
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India's Tata launches low-cost water filter for rural poor
India's giant Tata Group on Monday unveiled a new low-cost water purifier, hoping to do for health what it did for motoring and provide affordable, safe drinking water for millions and cut disease.
Dec 07, 2009 |
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Fast, easy, and highly sensitive arsenic detection with gold nanoparticles
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mention of arsenic poisoning usually brings to mind underhanded murder. However, the danger of arsenic poisoning from contaminated drinking water is far greater. Low concentrations of arsenic are found in ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 25, 2009 |
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Scientists decipher the formation of lasting memories
Researchers Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have discovered a mechanism that controls the brain's ability to create lasting memories. In experiments on genetically manipulated mice, they ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Scientists discover protein receptor for carbonation taste
(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1767, chemist Joseph Priestley stood in his laboratory one day with an idea to help English mariners stay healthy on long ocean voyages. He infused water with carbon dioxide to create an effervescent ...
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Reclaimed Riddle
(PhysOrg.com) -- It was the "yuck factor" of reclaimed water that got Karyna Rosario thinking. As communities increasingly turn to reclaimed water as a source for irrigation - and some communities consider ...
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Australian town in 'world-first' bottled water ban
An Australian town pulled all bottled water from its shelves Saturday and replaced it with refillable bottles in what is believed to be a world-first ban.
Sep 26, 2009 |
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School drinking water contains toxins
(AP) -- Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins.
Sep 25, 2009 |
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Increased risk of birth defects after PCE exposure
Exposure to tetrachloroethylene (also known as perchlorethylene, PCE) may cause congenital birth defects. A study of expectant women exposed to PCE in drinking water, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental He ...
Sep 23, 2009 |
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'Benchmark glaciers' shrinking at faster rate, study finds
Climate change is shrinking three of the nation's most studied glaciers at an accelerated rate, and government scientists say that finding bolsters global concerns about rising sea levels and the availability of fresh drinking ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 07, 2009 |
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Simple measures may prevent transmission of stomach ulcer bacteria
The stomach ulcer bacterium Helicobacter pylori is not transmitted through drinking water as previously thought, but rather through vomit and possibly faeces. This is shown in a thesis at the Sahlgrenska Academ ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 24, 2009 |
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First 'nanorust' field test slated in Mexico
Rice University researchers today announced that the first field tests of "nanorust," the university's revolutionary, low-cost technology for removing arsenic from drinking water, will begin later this year ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 27, 2009 |
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Scientists link influenza A (H1N1) susceptibility to common levels of arsenic exposure
The ability to mount an immune response to influenza A (H1N1) infection is significantly compromised by a low level of arsenic exposure that commonly occurs through drinking contaminated well water, scientists ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 20, 2009 |
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