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Residents of Whitehall, Arkansas are literally drinking gold
Residents of a small town in the United States have struck gold in the most unlikely of places.
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Venezuela Sacrifices Drinking Water to Pay Bondholders
At a time when Venezuela’s record $25 billion in arrears to importers has its citizens waiting hours in line to buy drinking water and crossing borders in search of medicine, President Nicolas Maduro is using the nation’s dwindling supply of dollars to enrich bondholders.
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WTF water?
It's a water slinky! Waves make their way down a huge flight of stairs during a light rain. Let me know if you've ever seen anything like it!
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Earth May Have a Vast Underground “Ocean”
A reservoir deep beneath the Earth’s surface may contain three times the water of our oceans combined.
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Apartheid in Detroit: Water For Corporations, Not For People
In the spring, Detroit’s Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr ordered water shutoffs for 150,000 Detroit residents late on their bills. Orr is an unelected bureaucrat accountable only to Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, who appointed Orr and several other “emergency managers” in largely poor, black communities like Detroit, Benton Harbor, Flint, and Highland Park, to make all financial decisions on behalf of local elected governments.
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Indian officals order Coca-Cola plant to close for using too much water
Authorities in northern India have ordered the closure of a Coca-Cola bottling plant at the centre of protests that it is extracting too much groundwater, an official said Wednesday.
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Wind Turbine Makes 1,000 Liters of Clean Water a Day in the Desert
A cool new concept being tested in the Abu Dhabi desert uses a wind turbine to condense water from the air and pump it into storage tanks for filtration and purification. The technology was created by Eole Water after its founder, Marc Parent, was inspired by the water he could collect from his air conditioner unit while living in the Caribbean. He began thinking of ways that water could be condensed from air in areas without access to grid power and the wind turbine concept was born.
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Detroit activists call for UN help as city shuts off water for thousands
Detroit has too much of some things – stray dogs, abandoned houses – and not enough of others, such as residents who pay their water bills. The latest sign of Detroit’s decline came from the city’s water department, when it said in March it would begin shutting off water for up to 3,000 homes and businesses a week in an attempt to stop the utility from sliding even further into debt.
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North Korea Faces Worst Drought In Over A Decade
North Korea's rivers, streams and reservoirs are running dry in a prolonged drough, state media said on Monday, prompting the isolated country to mobilize some of its million-strong army to try to protect precious crops. The drought is the worst in North Korea for over a decade, state media reports have said, with some areas experiencing low rainfall levels since 1961.
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While Washington fights and funds various adventures abroad, Detroit suffers at home - Red Pill Times
The UN is being petitioned to come to the aid of the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department to help provide water service to struggling customers.
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Sugru builds the coolest water pistol... ever?
People all over the world use it for everything from fixing gadgets to customising outdoor sports gear. You can also use it to build the coolest water pistol ever.
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Study maps fracking methane risk
A major study into the potential of fracking to contaminate drinking water with methane has been published.
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Iran’s water crisis the product of decades of bad planning
Iran is headed for a water shortage of epic proportions, and little is being done to reverse a decades-long trend that has reduced the country’s water supply to crisis levels. Changes in the global climate, a century of rampant development and heavy subsidies for water and other utilities are all contributing to a situation that is likely to get much worse.
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Cracking an egg underwater
The egg is supported by the water surrounding it, which helps it to maintain its shape! This concept is captured by Archimedes' Principle, which states that the upward buoyant force exerted on a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the weight of the fluid that the body displaces, and of course, you get to feed some hungry fish
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"Toilet to tap" wastewater recycling begins in Texas city
As much of Texas grapples with lingering drought, a second city in the Lone Star State has begun reusing treated wastewater in a state-approved recycling process to bolster drinking supplies.
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Dog having fun as it may
Dog loves to play with water
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Coastal flooding has surged in U.S.
Coastal flooding along the densely populated Eastern Seaboard of the United States has surged in recent years, a Reuters analysis has found.
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The Most Astonishing Wave-Tracking Experiment Ever
"Hi, I'm from New York. But what about you? Where are you from?" Yes, I'm asking a wave to tell me where it was born. Can you do that? Crazily enough, you can. Waves do have birthplaces. Once upon a time, one of the world's greatest oceanographers asked this very question.
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California approves fines for wasting water during drought
Cities throughout California will have to impose mandatory restrictions on outdoor watering under an emergency state rule approved Tuesday.
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Why the modern bathroom is a wasteful, unhealthy design
Piped water may be the greatest convenience ever known, but Lloyd Alter argues that our sewage systems and bathrooms are a disaster
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