Compare and contrast: Major incident in West Midlands after sodium cyanide spill into Walsall canal
The Guardian The risk is to people and pets who have direct contact with the canal water. According to the UK Health Security Agency sodium cyanide can cause headache, nausea, […]
Compare and contrast: Scientists achieve more than 98% efficiency removing nanoplastics from water
Science Daily The liquid-based solution uses a solvent to trap the plastic particles, leaving clean water behind. Click here to read the story.
Compare and contrast: Activists warn of ‘extreme anger’ if ministers fail to reform water regulator
The Guardian Campaigners say the watchdog, Ofwat, has been too lax on the water companies and prioritised low bills over spending on improving sewer systems. Click here to read […]
Compare and contrast: WHO to scrap weak PFAS drinking water guidelines after alleged corruption
The Guardian The move follows allegations that the process of developing the figures was corrupted by industry-linked researchers aiming to undercut strict new US PFAS limits and weaken standards in […]
Compare and contrast: Pantanal waterway project would destroy a ‘paradise on Earth’, scientists warn
The Guardian Dozens of scientists are sounding the alarm that carving a commercial waterway through the world’s largest wetlands could spell the “end of an entire biome”, and leave hundreds […]
Compare and contrast: Effective new catalyst brings hope for cleaner energy, wastewater treatment, and green chemistry
Science Daily A catalyst that significantly enhances ammonia conversion could improve wastewater treatment, green chemical and hydrogen production. Click here to read the story.
Compare and contrast: US landfills are major source of toxic PFAS pollution, study finds
The Guardian Toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” that leach from landfills into groundwater are among the major pollution sources in the US, and remain a problem for which officials have yet […]
Compare and contrast: Sicily’s population fed up of water shortages as rationing starts to bite
EuroNews Green Water restrictions began in February when the Italian island declared a state of emergency in the face of a drought. Residents in Sicily, Italy, have been described as […]
Compare and contrast: Arizona Residents Fear What the State’s Mining Boom Will Do to Their Water
Inside Climate News Nearly 80 percent of Arizona lacks any form of groundwater regulation, allowing big users like the copper mines supplying the energy transition to consume vast amounts of […]
Compare and contrast: Wildfires in Brazil’s Pantanal wetland fuelled ‘by climate disruption
The Guardian Devastation in Brazil wetlands was made at least four times more likely by fossil fuel use and deforestation, scientists say. Click here to read the story. Click […]
