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by Marlowe HOOD Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — More than 16,000 desalination plants scattered across the globe produce far more toxic sludge than fresh water, according to a first global assessment of the sector’s industrial waste, published Monday. For every litre of fresh water extracted from the sea or brackish waterways, a litre-and-a-half of salty slurry, called brine, is dumped directly back into the ocean or the ground. The super-salty substance is made […]
by Maria ANTONOVA Agence France-Presse OY, Russia (AFP) — Innokenty Tobonov sinks his harpoon into a long block of ice while his helpers expertly push it out of freezing lake waters onto the snow-dusted surface before sliding it towards an idling tractor. After an hour of cutting ice blocks out of the lake in temperatures of minus 41 degrees Celsius (minus 42 Fahrenheit), cold vapor has frosted his eyelashes. But this is no excuse for […]
Videographic illustrating the role played by the world’s dams. In Quebec province in Canada, four massive hydroelectric dams that will produce “clean energy” for the northeastern United States are nearing completion. https://youtu.be/77P6moLrVRo
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP-Services) — Imagine you could quench your thirst with water that doesn’t originate from a river, spring or lake, but comes directly out of the blue sky, from the air that surrounds you. What sounds like a science fiction movie is already a reality, and it is potentially for everyone. The new technology, developed by Watergen, an Israel-based tech company, is currently being showcased in Vietnam’s capital city Hanoi. And this is […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Millions of people in Mexico City are set to be without water for at least four days as authorities undertake maintenance work on one of the major supply systems. Half of the capital’s eight million population are expected to be affected, with a further three million people from the neighboring State of Mexico also impacted. Authorities are preparing for the huge challenge by employing tanker trucks to supply strategic […]
(Eagle News)–Alarm Level 1 has been hoisted over Marikina River. The Marikina City Rescue 161 said water levels have reached 15 meters as of 7:07 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 15. This means residents near the river should prepare to evacuate. Rains continue to pound parts of the country as “Ompong” heads toward Apayao and Ilocos Norte.
by Fulya OZERKAN Agence France Presse KARABURUN, Turkey (AFP) — The waves of the Black Sea lap peacefully on the shore of the Turkish coastal village of Karaburun outside Istanbul. Not far away, water buffalo peacefully graze on green pastures. But if President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wins the June 24 presidential elections and succeeds in implementing one of his most controversial plans, this arcadian scene will be transformed by a shipping canal comparable to Panama […]
Indian slum dwellers collect potable water from a municipal water tanker in Durga Nagar area of Bhopal on March 21, 2018. Slum dwellers depend on government supplies for drinking water and struggle to get adequate supply during summer. /Files/ AFP /
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — The European Union proposed Thursday giving millions of people in the 28-nation bloc better access to safe tap water and reduce water consumption via wasteful plastic bottles. The legislation proposed by the European Commission, the EU executive, aims to make safe drinking water a citizen right in line with social rights adopted at a summit in Gothenburg, Sweden in November. The commission was responding to a petition signed by 1.6 million […]
NEW YORK, United States (Reuters) — Gitanjali Rao, an 11-year-old from Lone Tree, Colorado, won the 2017 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge for inventing Tethys, a device that detects lead in water. “Tethys, the Greek goddess of fresh water, is a lead detection tool,” Rao said. “What you do is first dip a disposable cartridge, which can easily be removed and attached to the core device in the water you wish to test. Once […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Plans to ration water in drought-hit Rome could have serious consequences for public health, Italy’s health minister warned Wednesday. The Lazio region has said that emergency measures to battle the prolonged dry spell could lead to staggered water supply shutdowns in neighborhoods in the capital for eight hours daily, starting from this weekend. Such a move could “seriously compromise sanitary hygiene standards in accommodation structures and restaurants in the capital, as […]
by Yussel GONZALEZ Agence France-Presse In a teeming, hardscrabble neighborhood on the outskirts of Mexico City, Virginia Solis spends a big part of her day hauling sloshing buckets to her home — one of tens of thousands in the capital without running water. Solis lives in the shadow of a ruddy mountain on the sprawling city’s far east side, in an impoverished district called Iztapalapa. There are no water pipes in her neighborhood. Instead, tanker […]
