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New software in waste water treatment plants is sure to increase energy efficiency and reduce the amount of waste that is produced from these companies. Currently these plants are running at fifty percent efficiency in the U.K. Not only will this improve the quality but it is believed that it will save the average citizen […]
Customers of four water companies in England and Wales registered more complaints about their service in 2015-16 than in previous years. Over 60 percent of these complaints are about billing and charges. Southern Water received the most complaints: 77 per 10,000 customers. Wessex Water and Portsmouth Water received fewer complaints in 2015-16. These companies were […]
Rivers across the world are polluted with deadly pathogens, threatening the health of over 300 million people worldwide. Diseases such as cholera and and typhoid are found in rivers that are also polluted with runoff from agricultural chemicals and industrial waste. The most polluted rivers are found in Asia. In Russia, the Daldykan river has […]
According to the UN children’s agency, fierce air strikes have prevented repairs to a damaged pumping station that is supplying rebel-held districts of the city. According to Unicef, the answer in retaliation to this has been the switching off of a nearby station pumping water to the rest of Aleppo. The most recent air strikes […]
The State of Nature 2016 report was published by a group leading experts in the wildlife field and found 56 percent of the species studied in the United Kingdom have declined since 1976. Without a change in government funding and human impact on the environment these species are at great risk of disappearing. More than […]
This article from The Guardian describes how the Environmental Protection Agency is reportedly losing the battle against the contamination of American drinking water by a heavy metal known to cause cancer in humans and animals known as hexavalent chromium, or chromium-6. Data from a nationwide test found that 12,000 Americans are at risk of getting […]
Recently over 4500 swimmers participated in London’s Serpentine event. The swimmers must swim one mile, and start in 18 waves. This year Guy Davis was the winner for the men, and Lara Langston was the winner for the women. Though this is the first year for the event, organizers hope it will become one of […]
Drought, climate change, and lack of water infrastructure mean that Londoners face a one in five probability of queuing in the streets in line for water in upcoming years. London is especially threatened as there are steady rainfall decreases and water supply infrastructure is failing to keep up with the demand. Increased drought could see […]
The economic costs of such a drought would amount to as much as £1.3bn a day in the most severe case, according to the report, published on Tuesday by Water UK, the trade association for water utilities. Avoiding such a probability would cost an extra £3bn to £5bn, added to customers’ bills on top of […]
Though the investigation stopped short of definitively linking the symptoms to the water source, it found based on water tests and surveys of medical diagnoses that resident concerns were valid. The investigation by federal and state agencies, including the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as the US and Michigan departments of […]
