Sydney Water is on a mission to convince locals of the merits of drinking recycled sewage and has enlisted an Aussie social media star to help the bid. Building a purified recycled water facility (PRW) in the next decade to reduce Greater Sydney’s 85 per cent reliance on rainwater is one proposal mooted by Sydney … Read more
For example, two winters’ worth of snow followed by intense heat created a flood risk in 2023. State officials decided to release water from Lake Oroville and other reservoirs across Southern California and the Central Valley. Although this helped prevent flooding and sent water downstream, many Californians were upset that the fresh water was being … Read more
Fresh water is becoming increasingly scarce in many countries, but not in Greenland. Its ice sheet contains around 6.5 percent of the world’s fresh water, and over 350 trillion liters are estimated to run into the ocean annually. And with climate change accelerating Arctic melting, more and more of Greenland’s water is set to flow … Read more
If you stood on the banks of the Cache la Poudre River in Colorado after the 2020 Cameron Peak Fire, the rumbling water may have appeared black. This slurry of ash and charred soil cascaded toward the reservoirs that supply drinking water for the downstream city of Fort Collins, home to around 170,000 people. Although … Read more
Dr Shaadi Manouchehri, a London based dentist, has said there’s one thing everyone can do to give themselves ‘whiter teeth, avoid bad breath and reduce their risk of getting cavities’. The simple method she recommends to keep your teeth fresh and clean throughout the day, especially after eating, is to drink water. She urges people … Read more
After 30 days, the algae in the middle were still unicellular. As the scientists put algae from thicker and thicker rings under the microscope, however, they found larger clumps of cells. The very largest were wads of hundreds. But what interested Simpson the most were mobile clusters of four to 16 cells, arranged so that … Read more
It was questionable how much credit they could take. They had arrived in Texas right at the start of the rainy season, and the precipitation that fell before the experiment had been forecast by the US Weather Bureau. As for Powers’ notion that rain came after battles—well, battles tended to start in dry weather, so … Read more
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When Pradhanang found a trash mix that could be fashioned into a platform and resist breaking down with age, she began talking to her colleagues in Nepal. By 2021, they had secured $78,000 in funding from the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research, a research and policy funder, to operate a study across Nepal, India, … Read more
This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Minnesota’s century-old Rapidan Dam captured the national spotlight last week when its partial failure destroyed a home and prompted county officials to demolish an adjacent store. Yet it’s just one of hundreds of dams across the Upper Midwest in … Read more
Most hangovers go away on their own, but the worst can last up to 24 hours. Most people will just power through the awful after effects of the night before, but health experts say there is a ‘little known’ drink that could help ease hangover symptoms. If you’re planning on having a big night but … Read more
