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Drinking Water Quality at Home
2015-10-28 00:21:32| PortlandOnline
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Climate change means plants are growing better, but they are drinking more water
2015-10-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is making plants in Australia's semi-arid and subtropical regions bigger and greener. It's also making them a hell of a lot thirstier. It is a peculiar paradox that sees plants "greening" and growing better as a result of climate change, while water supply across Australia's grazing and annual cropping land is suffering. "What we are seeing is very much consistent with [the effect of] increasing carbon dioxide, the main ingredient of photosynthesis. So higher...
Binge drinking costs US $249 billion a year
2015-10-16 14:59:00| Biotech - Topix.net
Binge drinking cost the U.S. economy a staggering $249 billion in 2010, according to a study released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hangovers in the workplace cost the U.S. a whopping $77 billion in lost productivity, while another $29 billion comes from treating people for drinking-related health problems.
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El Nio could leave 4 million people in Pacific without food or drinking water
2015-10-11 19:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Two dozen people have already died from hunger and drinking contaminated water in drought-stricken Papua New Guinea, but the looming El Nio crisis could leave more than four million people across the Pacific without enough food or clean water. The El Nio weather pattern when waters in the eastern tropical Pacific ocean become warmer, driving extreme weather conditions may be as severe as in 1997-98, when an estimated 23,000 people died, forecasters believe. In Papua New Guineas Chimbu...
Anheuser-Busch Sends Drinking Water To Flood Victims
2015-10-09 23:11:22| Beverages - Topix.net
Anheuser-Busch has provided 8,624 cases of emergency drinking water - or 206,976 cans - for use by South Carolina residents affected by flooding. Four trucks loaded with water were sent from the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Cartersville, Georgia, to assist residents of Columbia, Charleston and Myrtle Beach, and military families at Fort Jackson.
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