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Forever chemicals – also known as per and poly fluoralkyl substances (PFAS) – are a family of different compounds so called because of how they persist in the environment, with many (such as perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid) associated with adverse effects in both animals and people. PFAS enjoy widespread use in a range of different industries, featuring in ...
The high sediment loads in the incoming water supply caused pinhole leaks throughout different sections of pipe. ...
Flushing toilets and hand-washing can aerosolize bacteria-laden stagnant water and cause lung disease. This vector of disease is active even if a water supply is chlorinated because disinfectants in water dissipate over time. Keeping Water Moving The United States (including some individual states), Canada, ...
Making provisions for emergency safety equipment can be challenging, especially if a site does not readily have access to a clean potable water supply, or a power supply to ensure the water remains at the required tempered level. ...
(BLGO) makes life better by delivering sustainable technology-based products that help solve some of the most widespread problems threatening the world's supply of water, food, agriculture, healthcare and energy. More information can be found about the company and its subsidiaries at www.BioLargo.com. Its subsidiary BioLargo Water, Inc. ...
First, a device applies heat along the back of the neck to send a signal to the body’s natural thermostat, which responds by increasing blood flow on-demand to the body’s compact physiological heat exchangers – the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet. Then, water circulating tubes supply either heat or cold to polymeric cooling pads, ...
Groundwater from the site will not harm people’s health. The water flows away from residential areas and is not being used as a public water supply. ...
In Ebola-affected countries, like Sierra Leone, the lack of running water can make hand hygiene a challenge. Hand hygiene is so important in public health that 5 May every year is marked as Hand Hygiene Day. ...
Manufactured for over 50 years at DuPont's Washington Works plant near Parkersburg, the then-untested chemical, also known as C8, was released into the Ohio River for decades, where it entered local drinking water supplies, triggering the class action over possible adverse health effects settled in 2005 . ...
The giant wildfire burning at the edge of Yosemite National Park has not only destroyed buildings and threatened water supplies, electricity and sequoias, it has also unleashed a smoky haze that has worsened air quality more than 100 miles away in Nevada. ...
It is also found in some medical devices and water supply pipes. For most people, the primary source of exposure to BPA is through their diet. According to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, “Bisphenol A can leach into food from the protective internal epoxy resin coatings of canned foods and from consumer products such as ...
Commissioned by Sri Lanka's ministry of water supply and drainage and a local NGO, Centre for Environmental Justice, the CSE study ruled out arsenic or heavy metals such as cadmium, lead and chromium in food and water as the cause of CKD, and pointed, instead, to poor water quality. ...
Menstrual hygiene is a much neglected issue within the water and sanitation sector and there are critical gaps in the body of evidence on menstrual hygiene, including a lack of systematic studies analyzing best practices in Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM). To address this gap, WaterAid is currently developing MHM guidelines for practitioners from the WASH sector, and other related sectors such ...
Atrazine and its byproducts are known to be relatively persistent in the environment, potentially finding their way into water supplies. The research, which is available online and will be featured on the cover of Reproductive Toxicology (Volume 30; Issue 4), found that the incidence of prostate inflammation went from 48 percent in the control group to 81 ...
Rising flood waters across West Africa are intensifying health risks for millions of people, and adding to the impact of the food price crisis. ...
Their prototype could also be used to develop portable devices that can identify pathogens and pollution in water supplies. What sets the OptoLabCard prototype apart from other devices is its cost-effectiveness. ...
Barnard, Ph.D., P.E., of Black &, Veatch Corporation (2007), water-quality engineer Philip C. Singer, Ph.D., P.E., of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2006), water-quality engineer Menachem Elimelech, Ph.D., of Yale University (2005), water-quality engineer Vernon L. ...
Because manganese is monitored in public water supplies, high levels of this naturally occurring metal are especially found in wells and private water supplies. ...