environmental water management Articles
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Water Scarcity & the Whisky Industry
Water resources underpin every aspect of modern society and without them everything would eventually grind to a halt… including whisky distilling! In fact, the industry is very water intensive, with water one of the three essentials necessary to facilitate the process, alongside malted barley and yeast. The word ‘whisky’ actually comes from the Gaelic uisge beatha, which means ...
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Case study: URS - Identifying remediation locations saved hundreds of thousands
One of the biggest threats to public health today is unsafe water. A billion people across the world don’t have access to clean drinking water, in part because many subsurface aquifers have been poisoned. Perhaps the most famous example of this was the Love Canal crisis of 1978. The Niagara Falls neighborhood experienced high rates of cancer, birth defects and other sicknesses due to ...
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