water toxicity Articles
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Need a swifter, safer way to mop up toxic waste? Blue goo may do.
Scouring radioactive waste usually means just that. Scrub with soap and water, pails and brushes. Repeat. If it sounds messy, it is—and dangerous too for those exposed to dust and contaminated wastewater. Hawaii-based CBI Polymers says it's come up with a better way to clean up nuclear waste. The firm's blue goo may not look high-tech; all you do is pour it. But as the superabsorbent goo ...
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Open Government Partnership: It’s Time for Deeper Engagement with the Environment Sector
The Open Government Partnership (OGP)—which held its most recent summit about three weeks ago—has made tremendous progress in its two years of existence. The OGP, a voluntary partnership between governments and civil society, aims to make governments more open, accountable, and responsive to citizens. Discussions at the summit made it clear that the partnership is already ...
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Bioboom - The containment and remediation solution for oil spills
OIL SPILL CONTAINMENT AND REMEDIATION BIOBOOMS® act by containing a spreading spill while the PRP® inside captures hydrocarbons and ultimately facilitating natural microbes consuming it and eliminating it entirely. Whether the spill is in open water, a marina, a holding pond or a river, BIOBOOM® hold the spill in place while the PRP® works, facilitating the degradation of the oil ...
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Toxicity Monitoring of Waste Waters from Tanneries with Microbiotests
Abstract : Waste waters from tanneries pose one of the most difficult problems for the treatment and subsequent discharge of such industrial effluents in surface waters. The biological breakdown of these wastes must be preceded by flocculation to prevent biomass inhibition from exposure to the toxicants present. Residual toxicity, however, persists in the supernatant after the chemical treatment, ...
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iTOXcontrol safeguards intake Romanian drinking water (Toxcontrol)
The Romanian water supply company Apavital has installed a monitoring station to safeguard the intake of water from the river Prut. The monitoring station is part of an integrated monitoring that signals sudden changes in the water quality of the rivers, enabling Apavital to take appropriate measures, in the worst case a stop of the intake. The iTOXcontrol is developed by the Dutch company ...
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The role of respirometry in maximising aerobic treatment plant efficiency
Wastewater treatment plants are coming under increasing pressure to increase their efficiency of operation. There are two objectives in this. The first is to reduce the cost of treatment. The second is a response to new legislation aimed at reducing the carryover of toxic materials to receiving waters. In order to achieve this, it is necessary to focus on the pivotal role of bacterial respiration ...
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How we can vanquish pollution within our lifetimes
Simply spreading the message could change the world The following is excerpted The Brown Agenda: My Mission To Clean up The World’s Most Life-Threatening Pollution by Richard Fuller, and is published here with permission from the author. Pollution is the leading cause of death in low- and middle-income countries. The top 10 pollution problems threatening planet Earth pose daunting, and in ...
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