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Health

Around 2 billion people don’t have access to clean drinking water

An international pledge to ensure that all the world’s population has access to safe drinking water by 2030 is woefully off track, according to a major UN report

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Against a shimmery gray background, roughly a dozen illustrated translucent balls and sticks are arranged in the formation of the 3D molecular structure of perfluorobutanoic acid

Environment

US military to test destroying toxic PFAS with superheated water

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2ND5P9N WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This video screenshot released by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) shows the site of a derailed freight train in East Palestine, Ohio, the United States. About 50 Norfolk Southern freight train cars derailed on the night of Feb. 3 in East Palestine, a town of 4,800 residents near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, due to a mechanical problem on an axle of one of the vehicles. There were a total of 20 hazardous material cars in the train consist, 10 of which derailed, according to the NTSB, a U.S. government agency responsible f

Life

Ohio train derailment killed more than 40,000 aquatic animals

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An aerial view of the derailment in Ohio on 8 February

Environment

Ohio train derailment: What we know about the toxic chemical spill

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Loofahs are used as sponges

Chemistry

Loofah-inspired gel purifies contaminated water with warmth of the sun

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Three smokestacks from a coal-burning power plant send up plumes of white smoke into a blue sky

Environment

US megadrought has led to more air pollution from power plants

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Part of the setup for creating medium density amorphous ice

Physics

Entirely new type of ice made using extremely cold steel balls

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A water engineer uses copper divining rods to trace the course of an underground pipe

Environment

Two of the UK’s water companies are still using dowsing to find leaks

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Google data centre

Technology

Google has finally revealed how much water its data centres use

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A vehicle travels along a flooded street after "atmospheric river" rainstorms slammed northern California, in the town of Aptos, U.S., January 5, 2023. REUTERS/Carlos Barria - RC2NKY9IYPEG

Environment

How California can capture stormwater to fight off the drought

With atmospheric rivers drenching the US west coast, researchers are testing methods to capture as much stormwater as possible to replenish depleted aquifers

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Chemistry

Trapping powder quickly removes all microplastics from water

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Environment

Mussel numbers in the river Thames have dropped by up to 99 per cent

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Environment

When water runs short, how do you get people to use their fair share?

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Environment

8 things you can do right now to cut back your water use

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