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...Thames said the collaboration was designed to “co-ordinate an industry-wide standard....
...In today’s newsletter: Britain’s biggest water utility circles the drain Elliott’s stuck in an AC Milan fight Byju’s investors try to oust its founder Britain’s biggest water utility circles the drain...
...It still flows powerfully beneath the metropolis but was co-opted for use as a sewer by the Victorians. Chivers has form investigating London....
...The measures follow two years of turmoil that saw citywide protests against the government during 2019....
...On Thursday afternoon, authorities shut some of the drains leading into the nearby Bohai Bay....
...A research paper he co-authored last year found that concentrations of NDM-1 in the relatively clean waters of the upper Ganges multiplied greatly when Hindu pilgrims from India’s big cities visited holy...
...Chances are it included some marketing puff for “drain insurance”, telling you how smelly blocked drains are and how expensive sewer surveys can be – but conveniently forgetting to tell you that your water...
...“From this foul drain,” de Tocqueville wrote, “the greatest stream of human industry flows out to fertilise the whole world. From this filthy sewer pure gold flows.”...
...Sinopec’s pipeline sprang a leak in the early hours of November 22, and the leaking crude flowed into the storm drains and from there into the bay....
...New urban development – much of it in floodplains – has also overloaded sewers, which are often inadequately maintained....
...Instead of seeping through walls, water now drains to a sump, where a pump sends it to the sewers....
...“If you can’t catch a fish,” her husband says, “you drain the sea.”...
...Insituform, a US-based company, has developed trenchless sewer repair technology that allows utilities to repair pipes without digging up roads....
...In the winter, flooded drains overflow to form reeking pools of black muck....
...Arquilla says that Americans are equally gluttonous across the country, though those who live in communities with older sewer systems experience the worst drain back-ups....
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