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Fukushima radiation levels underestimated by five times
TEPCO has revised the readings on the radioactivity levels at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant well to 5 million becquerels of strontium per liter – both a record, and nearly five times higher than the original reading of 900,000 becquerels per liter. Strontium-90 is a radioactive isotope of strontium produced by nuclear fission with a half-life of 28.8 years. The legal standard for strontium emissions is 30 becquerels per liter.
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The great flood of London
In 1928 the Thames flooded much of central London, with fatal consequences. It was the last time the heart of the UK's capital has been under water. How did the city cope and what has changed?
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New highly radioactive leak at Japan's Fukushima plant
The operator of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant said on Thursday that 100 metric tons of highly contaminated water had leaked out of a tank, the worst incident since last August.
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New highly radioactive leak at Japan's Fukushima plant
The operator of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant said on Thursday that 100 metric tons of highly contaminated water had leaked out of a tank, the worst incident since last August, when a series of radioactive water leaks sparked international alarm.
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Scientists track Fukushima plume
The likely scale of the radioactive plume of water from Fukushima due to hit the west coast of North America should be known in the next two months.
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Ash Spill Shows How Watchdog Was Defanged
Last June, state employees in charge of stopping water pollution were given updated marching orders on behalf of North Carolina’s new Republican governor and conservative lawmakers. “The General Assembly doesn’t like you,” an official in the Department of Environment and Natural Resources told supervisors called to a drab meeting room here. “They cut your budget, but you didn’t get the message. And they cut your budget again, and you still didn’t get the message.”
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Water in the Anthropocene
Evidence is growing that our global footprint is now so significant we have driven Earth into a new geological epoch — the Anthropocene.
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All You Need Is A Stick: Plant xylem from the sapwood of coniferous trees can remove 99.9% of bacteria from water by pressure filtration.
Approximately 3 cm3 of sapwood can filter water at the rate of several liters per day, sufficient to meet the clean drinking water needs of one person. The results demonstrate the potential of plant xylem to address the need for pathogen-free drinking water in developing countries and resource-limited settings.
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Can Water Under the Mojave Desert Help Quench California?
As California's drought drags on, Scott Slater's company, Cadiz, says it can pump water 200 miles to Los Angeles from an aquifer in the Mojave Desert
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Scientists: Test West Coast for Fukushima radiation
Very low levels of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster likely will reach ocean waters along the U.S. West Coast next month, scientists are reporting. Current models predict that the radiation will be at extremely low levels that won't harm humans or the environment, said Ken Buesseler, a chemical oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who presented research on the issue last week.
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Fukushima Tanks Will Break And It Will Be Worst Than Chernobyl: Expert Says
Storage tanks at the Fukushima nuclear plant to hold radioactive water were not constructed to hold sea water, nor to withstand another strong earthquake. Nuclear analyst Michael Johnson tells OneWayJapan about his concern over the future of the plant.
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Earth has a secret reservoir of water, say scientists
A hundred and fifty years ago, in "Journey to the Centre of the Earth", French science-fiction forerunner Jules Verne pictured a vast sea that lay deep under our planet's surface. Today, that strange and haunting image has found an unexpected echo in a scientific paper. Writing in the journal Nature, scientists on Wednesday said they had found an elusive mineral pointing to the existence of a vast reservoir deep in Earth's mantle, 400-600 kilometres (250-375 miles) beneath our feet.
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20 Ways to Drink More Water Without Even Knowing It
Staying hydrated can be quite a chore, especially if you're not a huge fan of the flavor of water. It's boring and blah, and that sweet coffee is so much more delicious. However, with a little bit of creativity and a couple minutes of chopping, you can have water that is both flavorful and colorful and will quickly become your new drink of choice.
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Rio's 2016 Olympics Have a Sewage Problem
Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay, set to host a share of the 2016 Olympics on-water events, including (gah) marathon swimming, remains something of an open sewer, recieving daily over two-thirds of the city's untreated sewage.
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California Drought: San Joaquin Valley sinking as farmers race to tap aquifer
So wet was the San Joaquin Valley of Steve Arthur's childhood that a single 240-foot-deep well could quench the thirst of an arid farm.
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World Bank wants water privatized, despite risks
Humans can survive weeks without food, but only days without water — in some conditions, only hours. It may sound clichéd, but it’s no hyperbole: Water is life. So what happens when private companies control the spigot? Evidence from water privatization projects around the world paints a pretty clear picture — public health is at stake.
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Paying for giant Nile dam itself, Ethiopia thwarts Egypt but takes risks
Ethiopia's bold decision to pay for a huge dam itself has overturned generations of Egyptian control over the Nile's waters, and may help transform one of the world's poorest countries.
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China’s eco-crisis: 60% of underground water polluted
At least 60 percent of China’s underground water resources have “very poor” or “relatively poor” quality, which means these water can’t be used for drinking directly, says a new report, showing a deep environmental crisis in the country.
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This machine makes drinking water from thin air
A device for extracting water from air is being used by the military -- could it help developing countries too?
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How did Egyptians move pyramid stones? Mystery may be solved
Alien pyramid-building theories take a blow as a new study shows Egyptians may have used water to help move the massive stones.
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