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SINGAPORE, Singapore (Reuters) — Researchers in Singapore say they have devised a way to use electrodes and sensors to mimic the flavor and color of a beverage. The team working at NUS-Keio CUTE Center, a joint collaboration between Keio University and National University of Singapore, chose the sour taste of lemonade for their prototype. To start with a sensor is dipped into a glass of real lemonade and the PH value is then remotely transmitted […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — Approximately one in four children worldwide will live in regions with extremely scarce water resources by 2040, UNICEF said in a report Wednesday. In research released on World Water Day, the United Nations children’s agency warned that in just over two decades nearly 600 million children will be living in areas with severely limited safe water sources, as population growth and surging demand for water clash with the effects […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (March 21) – Water is a basic necessity of life. The fact that the human body is 60 to 80 percent water means that we need to drink a certain amount of liquids to sustain and replace the bodily fluids that our body loses when we sweat or urinate. Going beyond the obvious, there are numerous studies supporting that water is more than just a thirst-quencher. Aside from what we learned from our teachers that water […]
SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) — Thirty kilometers (18.6 miles) south of the outback New South Wales town center of Gunnedah, semi-retired farmer Robert Frend is hoping to save an Australian icon, the koala, from dying of thirst. The marsupials are known to get their water from chewing on eucalyptus leaves. But in 2009, 25 per cent of the koala population in Gunnedah – the self-proclaimed “koala capital of the world” was lost due to a heatwave. […]
by Veronique DUPONT PORTERVILLE, United States (AFP) — In California’s Central Valley, where verdant fields of fruit and vegetables unfurl under sunny skies, the water that feeds them — and flows into taps across the region — contains a toxic and silent poison. The very same farmers who have tilled and cultivated the earth for decades in one of America’s biggest produce regions have also poisoned it, dumping millions of tons of fertilizer, which has […]
by Trudy HARRIS GANGNAULI, India (AFP) — As large swathes of drought-devastated India desperately wait for the monsoon rains to arrive, one village in the dry, hot north is flush with water. But this farming area’s bountiful water supplies are feared contaminated with heavy metals, underscoring the profound challenges facing the world’s second most populous nation. From toxic pollution of rivers and lakes to contamination of groundwater supplies, together with chronic shortages in drought-hit districts, […]
FLORIDA, United States (Reuters) — Orange County deputies continued the search for the two-year-old boy, who was dragged by an alligator into the water near the Grand Floridian Resort and Spa on Tuesday (June 14), officials said during a news conference. The child was playing in the water on a beach when the alligator attacked, Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said. He described the alligator as between four and seven feet (1.21 meters – 2.13 […]
by Damien Simonart ZLOTORYJA, Poland (AFP) — Each spring they come from around the globe to the Kaczawa river in southwest Poland’s gold rush capital, vying for the biggest flash in the pan. Knee deep in water, excited enthusiasts, young and old alike, survey the riverbed in Zlotoryja in search of tiny gleaming flakes, hoping their perseverance will pay off. “Whenever I’m in the river, I find at least a dozen tiny pieces of gold […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Filipino protesters said Monday that Chinese coastguard ships blocked and sprayed them with water as they sailed to a disputed South China Sea shoal to plant a Philippine flag for independence day. China claims most of the strategic and resources-rich sea and has controlled Scarborough Shoal, just 230 kilometres (145 miles) off the main Philippine island of Luzon, since a 2012 standoff with the Philippine Navy. The Kalayaan Atin Ito (Freedom […]
(Eagle News) — Inanunsyo na ng ilang mga kompanya ng langis ang bigtime oil price hike bukas, Marso 15. Magtataas ang Shell, Sea Oil, Flying V at PTT ng P1.60 sa kada litro ng gasolina; P1.25 sa kada litro ng diesel; at P1.15 naman sa halaga ng kerosene. Inaasahan ding susunod nang mag-aanunsyo ng taas-presyo ang iba pang mga kumpanya ng langis. Samantala, maliban sa mga produktong petrolyo, magtataas din ng P0.12 per cubic meter sa […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (October 23) – In an article posted in CNN News, it was confirmed that regulators will not reduce water allocations to concessionaires in Metro Manila and nearby areas, but Maynilad announced that it may extend water service interruptions. Maynilad said some areas will have no water for up to 20 hours a day. Currently, 900 barangays in Metro Manila and Cavite have seven-hour water cuts from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. daily. Maynilad […]
MANILA, Philippines, August 20 (Eagle News) — Senator Loren Legarda, Senate Committee on Climate Change chairman, encouraged the public to conserve water in the face of the severe drought brought about by the El Niño phenomenon, which may last till the early part of 2016. Legarda added that the government can also try other measures like cloud-seeding if needed. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/8q_dBaoPR3c
