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Risk for Pregnant Women

...hlorine also reacts with organic matter, including sewage and animal waste from run-off, to form harmful CBPs. "Dirty source water going into the treatment plant means water contaminated with chlorination byproducts coming out of your tap," Jane Houlihan, EWG's research director, said in a statement. "The ...

Water borne diseases, need caution

...r purity, as water supplies were contaminated with sewage as well as human and animal excreta. The workshop was inaugurated by Dr C V Raghuveer, dean of Kasturba Medical College here on Saturday. He said due to increased industrial activity, the water sources were contaminated and that lead in water is a ...

Tsunami Survivors Face Pneumonia Threat

...catastrophe, as unclean drinking water and damaged sewage systems accumulate the bacteria that cause the disease. But although doctors had seen several hundred cases of diarrhoea in the affected countries, no one had reported a cholera outbreak as of Friday 7 January. The number of people suffering from di...

Benzene Slick In China Highlights Water Pollution

... WWF China said in a statement, adding: "Untreated sewage and industrial waste pollute some 70 percent of China's rivers." Some 75 percent of rivers are also over-enriched with nutrients flushed into them from agricultural land, according to government estimates. This year's annual government report on ...

Rise In Waterborne And Malaria Cases Anticipated In Britain

...tamination of water resources (more probability of sewage being washed off fields, into rivers and sea) during heavy rainfall could also lead to diarrhea, more so when people get inclined to recreational sea swimming. It is further believed that changes in migratory patterns could have a significant impa...

Medications Detected In Recycled Water In Los Angeles

...of the region's aggressive efforts to turn treated sewage into drinking water. About half a trillion gallons of sewage from three treatment plants supply drinking water for 4 million people. The sewage water from Sout...

Drinking water in America not all that safe: says report

...rinking water sources at risk from waste disposal, sewage discharges, oil spills, development projects and other polluting activities. Congress should stop this destructive policy and ensure that the EPA protects our drinking water sources to the fullest extent of the law." The statement released by the ag...

Despite Ban, Asbestos Produce Goes Unhindered

...used in the manufacture of pipes for water supply, sewage and drainage, packing material, brake linings in automobiles, heavy equipment and thermal plants. Studies reveal that the demand for asbestos in India is around 100,000 tonnes, a fifth of which is mined domestically. In addition, raw asbestos worth R...

Pharmaceuticals May not Pose Major Aquatic Environmental Risks

...nadian study of high-use drugs released from eight sewage treatment plants indicates that effects on inverte...tems, or receiving water without treatment. Though sewage treatment plants can remove or degrade some of the drug compounds, many drugs and by-products are no...

Yamuna Pollution Kills Thousands Of Fish

...al effluents into the river and to ensure that the sewage treatment plants run efficiently. During Friday's survey, one treatment plant was found closed. The Yamuna, which once flowed majestically along the Taj Mahal, provides a sad spectacle to all tourists now. It has been nearly reduced to a black drai...

Complaints Against US Federal lab Over-ruled by Panel

...c wasting disease before it was sent to the city's sewage treatment plant. A panel was set up at the request of the federal and city officials to study the issue at length. The eight-person panel investigated the complaints against the National Animal Disease Center. The panel met in Ames on Friday to rep...

Act Now To Cleanse Highly Polluted River Hindon, Says Study

... "Use of the river for disposal of untreated human sewage is a primary cause of poor water quality within th...don. The river receives large volumes of untreated sewage and municipal wastes from all population centers within the catchment." The river also receives a h...

Water Crisis Wreaks Havoc on Irish City

...rs, especially when the water is contaminated with sewage and animal wastes. Cryptosporidium is very resistant to disinfection, and even a well-operated water treatment system cannot ensure that drinking water will be completely free of this parasite, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has noted. ...

Sewage Swamps River in Scotland

...hird world whether it is infant mortality rates or sewage connection.// Only last fortnight it was reporte...her part of the United Kingdom, Scotland, that raw sewage has been pouring into the river Forth, posing a serious threat to public health. Engineers have be...

Bio-latrine Cleans Up Kenyan Slum and the Environment

...p Kibera clean cannot be understated. The smell of sewage wafts through the air and residents often relieve themselves on the streets because there is no toilet around or it is too expensive to use. The area is renowned for "flying toilets" - human waste-filled plastic bags flung above the rooftops of the...

Quack of Gurgaon Confesses of Aborting 250 Female Fetuses

...near here and discovered the dumped fetuses from a sewage tank on the premises. "The accused has confesse...e used to dump the undeveloped body parts into the sewage tank," Ramphal Singh told IANS. The quack said he became familiar with abortions while working as...

Hong Kong Choked by Growing Pollution Problem

...y -- cowboy stuff -- with no connections to proper sewage plants, because it was cheaper and easier just to connect them to the storm drains. Which means the sewage just flows straight into the bay," said Young. "The authorities are planning to build more treatment...

Take Precautions Before You Clean Out Your Medicine Cabinet

...ter because not all the medications get removed by sewage treatment systems, revealed Dr. Steven Sheaffer, Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. There is a concern about what this means for human and wildlife consumption of the water. It is also important...

Ecologists Desperate to Save Dal Lake in Kashmir

...t there is need to sensitize local people. Raw sewage and land encroachment are some of the major factor...he lake. People living around the lake allow large sewage to pollute the lake. Encroachment along the banks of the lake and in shallow waters adds to the p...

Research Throws Light on Adaptation of E.coli to Changing Conditions

...ine during colonization of a new host. With modern sewage handling (or mishandling), the bacteria may also experience exposure to the ocean, with a pH near 8.0, before infecting a new host. To assess how E. coli might adapt to different environmental conditions, the researchers observed four groups of bac...

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