A Heretic's View: Blaming Food For Obesity Is Like Blaming Water For Drowning Authored by Edward Archer via RealClearScience, There is a politically expedient but problematic fiction that ‘consensus’ matters in science. Since a million matching opinions do not constitute a fact, a consensus — either real or apparent — is not a statement about evidence but an exercise in groupthink in which the status quo is made explicit. Thus, scientific progress requires conservative and...
Sometimes a teenage boy watches Clint Eastwood movies and temporarily adopts it as his whole personality. Sometimes that boy never grows out of it, and grows up to become a U.S. senator.
The Millinocket Fire Department was called to 3 Station Road at about 7:49 a.m. where they found a barn fully ablaze with fire spreading to the nearby home.
This came after Cabinet minister Atishi asked the LG to suspend the CEO of the Delhi Jal Board for failing to ensure adequate water supply across the city.
Buenos Aires police in riot gear clashed with demonstrators upset with President Javier Milei's recent elimination of 15,000 state jobs. Police used water cannons to disperse the angry protesters after they were attacked with stones Wednesday morning. Two cops and a news outlet worker were injured and at least 11 people were arrested
Consumers may have to pay more for water that is not used for household purposes or drinking to discourage excessive use, water company Vitens has told the Telegraaf. Vitens, which has six million customers, said it is looking into ways of making “luxury use”, such as watering gardens and filling up swimming pools more expensive. “We are looking into introducing a basic rate for water that is used for cooking, drinking, showering and flushing the toilet. Everything else will cost
Caroline County residents are being asked to boil all tap water as a safety precaution following a water main break.
The company faced 30 charges relating to waste water treatment works, sewage pumping stations and sewer network at locations across Cornwall and Plymouth between 2015 and 2021.
A water conservation order will go into effect for Village of Fredonia water customers beginning at midnight, Saturday, April 13 until further notice. The conservation order includes those who live in the town of Pomfret. The Chautauqua County Health Department reports the Village of Fredonia will begin water treatment plant maintenance on Monday, April 15. […]
SILVERTON, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) - The Texas Water Development Board announced on Thursday that it approved more than $14.9 million in financial assistance for the City of Silverton for the planning, design and construction of a water system improvement project. The financial aid comes from the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, according to the TWDB, and []
Bengaluru water crisis: The residents' protest took place after the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) announced a 10 percent cut in water supply to those facilities and societies that use between 40 lakh and 2 crore litres per day.
GONZALES - In a step to address infrastructure issues in Ascension Parish, the parish government has finalized the sale of its sewer assets and maintenance of those assets to National Water Infrastructure. The sale of the assets was voted on in April 2021 and was later sanctioned in July of that same year. Phase 1 of the transfer to NWI's maintenance of the system will see 3.5 million gallons of sewer discharge to be removed from the parish's waterways per day. Officials say the...