Latest world news on water pollution

House approves Florida water pollution rules
MiamiHerald.com
Legislation that would clear the path for a pair of state water pollution rules supported by business, agriculture and utility interests won approval Friday from the Florida House. Some environmental groups, though, say the rules are too weak and ...

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WBIR-TV

Haslam administration fires TDEC's solid waste, water pollution chiefs; parks ...
The Republic
The fired officials are Mike Apple, head of the department's solid waste management division, and Paul E. Davis, who was in charge of water pollution control. Meanwhile, Mike Carlton is retiring as director of Tennessee state parks.
Haslam administration shakes up TDECWBIR-TV

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Los Angeles Times

Fla. congressman filing water pollution bill
MiamiHerald.com
Steve Southerland says he will file a bill in Congress that would put pressure on the Environmental Protection Agency to adopt state rather than federal water pollution rules for Florida. The Panama City Republican announced his plans Monday on the ...
EPA OKs $9.8M in grants for beach water testingFlorida Today
EPA beach pollution rules allow 1 in 28 to get sickLos Angeles Times
Southerland says clean water rules cost jobsTallahassee Democrat (blog)
MarineLink
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AFP

Cadmium pollution cleanup effective: experts
China Daily
By 6 am Saturday, the water quality of the Liujiang River, a source of drinking water for local residents, is up to national standard, according to data released by the emergency headquarters handling the incident. Neutralizers designed to gather the ...
Cadmium Spill Threatens Water SupplyWall Street Journal
Chinese police detain 8 executives for cadmium pollutionReuters India
China river pollution cleanup to last monthEconomic Times
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Fire damages building at Cedar Rapids water plant
Chicago Tribune
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa— A fire has damaged a building at the water pollution control plant in Cedar Rapids. The city Fire Department says firetrucks were dispatched around 7:20 am Friday. No injuries have been reported. The department says the blaze ...
No environmental issues expected after fire at Cedar Rapids wastewater ...Eastern Iowa News Now
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HCC projects increase water pollution three-fold in Bandipora: NIT report
GreaterKashmir.com
This startling fact was revealed during tests conducted in the laboratory of National Institute of Technology Srinagar on water samples collected by District Development Commissioner Bandipora after massive protest by the locals against the pollution ...

Telegraph.co.uk

China detains seven as water pollution fears widen
Vancouver Sun
SHANGHAI - China said on Tuesday that it had detained seven company executives after tonnes of industrial waste including a toxic metal polluted a river, threatening water supplies for millions of people. A 300-kilometre (190-mile) stretch of the ...
River pollution triggers water panic buying in ChinaReuters
River pollution won't cut water supplies in downstream cityChina Daily
China detains seven over river pollution scandalTelegraph.co.uk

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Oneida County accepting bids for sewer manhole rehabilitation work
WKTV
By WKTV News UTICA, NY - The Oneida County Department of Water Quality and Water Pollution Control is accepting bids for sanitary sewer manhole rehabilitation. The construction work will occur across the municipalities that are served by the Sauquoit ...

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DEP Awards 73 Grants to Protect, Improve Watersheds in 36 Counties
Sacramento Bee
The US Environmental Protection Agency's Section 319 Nonpoint Source Management Program, which was created through the federal Clean Water Act to help reduce water pollution from nonpoint sources, is funding 15 additional projects, which would total ...

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IBM SmartCamp startups attempt to solve world problems
RF DesignLine
SAN FRANCISCO-- With tech start-ups taking the world by storm, industry heavyweight IBM is plowing venture capital into seedling companies it believes can best solve the analytical challenges and public infrastructure problems of what it's calling the ...

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Is Climate Change Likely to Increase Conflict?
The American Prospect
Research to date shows little evidence for systematic relationship between increased global warming, water shortages, etc., and violent conflict. Climate change is the world's first truly global manmade environmental problem and a firm warning that ...

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Wall Street Journal

It's Too Easy Being Green
Wall Street Journal
My car's a problem? Tell me what to drive instead. Wrong water heater? I'll switch. Kitchen counters not green? I'll replace them. The challenge arises when consumption itself is at issue. The world faces a long list of environmental challenges, ...

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Boston.com

State election has big implications for all India
Boston.com
A re-election victory for the chief minister in the seven-stage election starting Wednesday could turn her caste-based Bahujan Samaj Party from a regional oddity -- even if the state it controls is the most populous in the world -- into a national ...

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Warship Freedom again breaks down at sea
U-T San Diego
The LCS was designed to rapidly perform a wide variety of missions in shallow waters throughout the world. The ship was commissioned in November 2008 and has suffered a string of problems that have raised questions in Congress about the vessel's design ...

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Glacier Peak students working with tiny organisms to solve big problems
HeraldNet
She and the others are working on solving some major world problems. Juniors, Dan Miller (left) James McFarland and Kyle Christenson (holding water up for gravity feed) watch a water sample pass through a laser in a flow cytometer at Glacier Peak High ...

More Than 400 Collegiate Entrepreneurs and 150 World Leaders Coalesce At ...
PR Web (press release)
The two-day event will focus on creating innovations and business models that address key global issues, including clean water, the global financial crisis, energy consumption, natural disasters, personalized medicine and healthcare and diplomacy.

UCSF Today

Combined Approach to Global Health Can Save Lives at Lower Cost
UCSF Today
The analysis looked at the cost effectiveness of simultaneously confronting the problems of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and diarrhea caused by waterborne pathogens. The researchers used the results of the campaign to build an analysis of the impact such efforts ...

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Globe and Mail

Oilsands monitoring won't cleanup Canada's reputation: experts
GlobalNews.ca
“It really doesn't get to the root cause of the problem, which is we have an industry that is excessively dirty, it's polluting water, it's fueling climate change and it's growing quite rapidly,” she said. The oilsands are poised for explosive growth ...
Alberta, Ottawa beef up oil sands monitoringCTV.ca

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Bangalore Water Summit brainstorms on sustenance
indiablooms
Speaking at the summit on the issues in water management in an urbanizing world, Dr Glen T Daigger, President, International Water Association said," We have enough water to sustain ourselves however, water management is the key.

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