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Zerodha’s Nithin Kamath shares disturbing video of drinking water pipes contaminated with grime and sewage
It is normal for water to have some impurities. However, the water flowing through those particular…
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A fight over sewage is preventing Long Island from solving its crippling housing crisis
Many residents in Suffolk County, Long Island, are waking up to groundwater contamination and a hou…
Eliza Relman
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Only 10% of sewage water is being treated before being dumped in Gomti river, says Minister of State for health Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh
The Minister also raised concern over continuous dumping of untreated sewage water into the rive…
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Scientists are trying to find a mystery person in Ohio who has a new kind of COVID and is shedding it into the sewage
A researcher found a "cryptic" COVID lineage — a version of the virus never seen before &mdas…
Leah Rosenbaum
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National Green Tribunal slaps Telangana with a ₹3,800 cr fine for waste management failure
"The total compensation comes to Rs 3825 crore, or say (rounded off as) Rs 3,800 crore, which ma…
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Here's how a city in Minnesota sent phishing scammers $1.2 million for a sewage project after being conned with lookalike company emails
In 2021, Cottage Grove, Minnesota city officials fell victim to a classic email phishing scam. It c…
Azmi Haroun
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Stop flushing your tampons — they can form huge 'fatbergs' that shut off sewage
In the best case, flushing your tampon could clog your toilet. Worse, it could contribute to sewage…
Anna Medaris Miller
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A trucker shortage means some water suppliers could get permission to dump partially treated sewage into UK rivers and the sea
The trade body Water UK told Insider that a shortage of truck drivers had disrupted the supply of f…
Grace Dean
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UK health officials find rare polio virus in London sewage, and warn it may have spread to a few people in the city
Health officials say several polioviruses were found in London in recent months, but say "the risk …
Hilary Brueck
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The Olympics' outdoor swimming venue 'smells like a toilet' and could contain dangerous bacteria
Olympic Triathlon competitors will compete in Tokyo Bay in less than two weeks but the water qualit…
Jackson Thompson
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Polio may be spreading in NYC, officials say after finding traces in the sewage. Here's what you need to know, from symptoms to risk of infection.
One in four people who get polio experience flu-like symptoms. The CDC said the virus could cause p…
Rebecca Cohen,Allana Akhtar
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A tropical storm heading for Tokyo could leak sewage water into the Olympic triathlon swimming course
Olympic officials are confident that there are enough measures in place to keep athletes safe from …
Scott Davis
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Large concentrations of coronavirus found in Stockholm's sewage system
Since the beginning of April samples have been taken from two treatment plants in Stockholm with t…
PTI
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Researchers at the University of Arizona say they stopped a coronavirus outbreak before it spread by testing students' poop
Researchers at the University of Arizona say they may have prevented an outbreak of COVID-19 using …
Susie Neilson
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Testing not enough, scientists examine sewage to gauge spread of coronavirus
Wastewater epidemiology is a valuable tool to monitor the spread of the novel coronavirus in com…
PTI
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Scarred by a deadly milk scandal and fearing cooking oil cut with raw sewage, China's middle class is skipping the supermarket and buying straight from the farm
Thousands in China looking to bypass supermarkets and chain stores buy their foods from rural farms…
Matthew Loh
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COVID-19 transmission risk via sewage "must not be neglected," scientists say
"It has recently been confirmed that the virus can also be found in human faeces -- up to 33 days …
PTI
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Experts developing protocol to test sewage for COVID-19 traces: Catalyst Group
The sewage testing-based approach is used routinely in the US to monitor community-wide use of illi…
PTI
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Brazilian President Bolsonaro suggested his people are naturally immune to the coronavirus, claiming they can swim in sewage and 'nothing happens'
"I don't think it will reach that point. Especially because Brazilians have to be studied," Bolsona…
Ashley Collman
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A wealthy California enclave has some of the purest tap water in the country, and it starts out as sewage
From about the 1930s to the 1970s, farmers over-pumped water through Orange County's underground aq…