News tagged with drinking
The environment and pharmaceuticals and personal care products: What are the big questions?
Researchers at the University of York headed a major international review aimed at enhancing efforts to better understand the impacts of chemicals used in pharmaceuticals or in personal care products, such as cosmetics, soaps, ...
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Potomac tops conservation group's list of endangered rivers
The Potomac River is much healthier today than it was 40 years ago, when its chemical-laced, sewage-laden waters helped inspire the 1972 Clean Water Act. But the Washington waterway still has a long way to go, as suggested ...
May 21, 2012 |
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Are you a gambling statistic? New 'expert summary' highlights the prevalence of problem gambling in the U.S.
Living within 10 miles of a casino doubles your risk of problem gambling. This is just one of the compelling statistics in the third "Expert Summary" issued by the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 09, 2012 |
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Groundwater pumping leads to sea level rise, cancels out effect of dams: study
As people pump groundwater for irrigation, drinking water, and industrial uses, the water doesn't just seep back into the ground – it also evaporates into the atmosphere, or runs off into rivers and canals, eventually ...
May 08, 2012 |
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French company uses wind turbine to create fresh water
(Phys.org) -- French company Eole Water has announced that they have developed and are now in the process of selling wind turbines that have been modified to produce fresh drinking water. Company reps say ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 01, 2012 |
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Water treatments alone not enough to combat fluorosis in Ethiopia
Increased intake of dietary calcium may be key to addressing widespread dental health problems faced by millions of rural residents in Ethiopia's remote, poverty-stricken Main Rift Valley, according to a new Duke University-led ...
Apr 26, 2012 |
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Use less water, producing energy and fertilizer at the same time
Clean drinking water and basic sanitation are human rights. Yet almost 780 million of the world's population still have no access to drinking water and some 2.6 billion people live without sanitary facilities. ...
Apr 18, 2012 |
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Researchers let loo-se on unique project
University of Manchester researchers are beginning work on a prototype device for harvesting energy and clean drinking water from human waste.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Apr 17, 2012 |
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Direct drinking water recycling could prevent floods
The use of a more streamlined process to recycle wastewater could have saved Brisbane from severe flooding in 2011 and mitigated recent flood risks in New South Wales, a leading water expert says.
Apr 17, 2012 |
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In environmental disasters, families respond with conflict, denial, silence
Environmental disasters impact individuals and communities; they also affect how family members communicate with each other, sometimes in surprising ways, according to a paper published by a faculty member ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 12, 2012 |
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Now Extra-Tropical Daphne, left flooding behind in Fuji on NASA satellite imagery
Tropical Storm Daphne has become an extra-tropical storm and is fading fast in the South Pacific Ocean, but not before making its mark on the Fuji Islands. NASA's TRMM satellite compiled rainfall data that ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 04, 2012 |
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UN hits water target, but 1.8 billion people still drinking unsafe water, study shows
Recent widespread news coverage heralded the success of a United Nations' goal of greatly improving access to safe drinking water around the world.
Mar 23, 2012 |
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Device for harvesting energy and water from human waste gets green light
Work on a prototype device for harvesting energy and clean drinking water from human waste gets the go ahead this month.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 15, 2012 |
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Nitrate in drinking water poses health risks for rural Californians
One in 10 people living in California's most productive agricultural areas is at risk for harmful levels of nitrate contamination in their drinking water, according to a report released today by the University of California, ...
Mar 13, 2012 |
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Greenpeace finds pollution from Italy cruise ship wreck
Greenpeace on Friday warned that chemicals from a cruise ship wreck were oozing into the sea around Italy's picturesque Giglio Island but the environment ministry said the levels were not "significant".
Mar 09, 2012 |
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Drinking
Drinking is the act of consuming water (or a beverage that contains water) through the mouth. Water is required for many of life’s physiological processes. Both excessive and inadequate water intake are associated with health problems.
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