A report entitled "Getting a Grip on Cruise Pollution" released today by the Friends of the Earth (FOE) organization concludes that the billions of dollars earned by the cruise industry each year comes at a significant cost to our nation’s air and water.The...
"There have been cruise ships dumping offshore of Jacksonville for years", says Tony Orsini, Director of cruise ship and ferry operations for the Jaxport. as reported in the shorelines by drew dixon. Does the cruise ship director know something the general public doesn't...
Group celebrates transformation, reclamation of resource area"Not so long ago, the Las Vegas Wash carved its way through a southeast valley wasteland of illegal dump sites, homeless encampments and tangled forests...
In a context totally unrelated to sewage a boss of mine once advised me early in my career not to 'shit where I eat'. This was wise business advice but it's also true in a literal sense. The question...
created by mtippett | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 465 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
Biofuels turned from being the solution of
world’s rising carbon emissions to the cause of a global food crisis
which seems to be worsening day by day. Record demand and subsidies
amounting for billions of dollars made the farmers dump the traditional
food crops and...
created by mridul | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 286 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
In what could be a breakthrough for researching long term drug use patterns for cities across the globe. Oregon State University researchers have developed a way to more effectively drug test...
created by phrolen | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 769 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
This is just great. One big urine test."WASHINGTON (AP) - Researchers have figured out how to give an entire community a drug test using just a teaspoon of wastewater from a city's sewer plant.
The test wouldn't...
created by gmony714 | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 495 views | 24 recommendations | 5 comments
'' An interesting article citing the new Australian labour party policy to encourage the use of and fund recycling of water initiatives as well as focussing on promoting the use of water tanks especially in the eastern states of Australia''"Rivers and WaterRainwater tanks,...
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"Scientists in Italy are reporting development of a method for more accurate estimates of the amount of illicit drug use in a community. Sara Castiglioni and colleagues note that current estimates of community-wide illicit drug use are based on indirect methods--such as...