Poor village gets water, soccer equipment
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TWAILA, Iraq - APM Terminals of Portsmouth, Va., joined forces with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers here recently in donating soccer balls, uniforms and nets to a needy school in this northern Iraqi village. Col. Dan Anninos, USACE Gulf Region District commander, oversaw the delivery of the equipment to the school located near a water treatment project site where USACE is currently working. Twaila, a poor, rural Sunni Arab village in Kirkuk province, Iraq, recently received a soccer equipment donation for the kids and is currently having its water treatment unit repaired by the Gulf Region District, U.S. Army...
Published on Monday 8th of March 2010 03:39:57 AM
Thousands benefit from water filtration plant
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COL NASIR WA SALAM – Civil affairs Soldiers and leaders of the 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, joined Iraqi Ministry of Water officials to celebrate the opening of a refurbished water filtration plant near the village of Aqur Quf, Feb. 28. Prominent shaykhs, Iraqi Security Forces and U.S. Soldiers gather at the ribbon-cutting ceremony of a water filtration plant, Feb. 28, in the Zydon region of Iraq. The plant will provide more than 4,000 Iraqi people with clean drinking water. Photo by Spc. Daniel Schneider, 366th Mobile PA Det. The Soldiers, from Company B, 422nd Civil Affairs...
Published on Monday 8th of March 2010 03:39:57 AM
Calif. couple who removed lawn plead not guilty
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ORANGE, Calif. – A California man who tried to save water and money by removing his front lawn is being taken to court. Quan Ha pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to a misdemeanor count for violating Orange city code. He faces up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. Ha and his wife replaced their grass with wood chips in 2008. They said they'd just had a baby and began to think about her future....
Published on Monday 8th of March 2010 03:39:57 AM
Tap water contaminant 'castrates' frogs
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An herbicide that contaminates the tap water consumed by millions of Americans has been found to produce gender-bending effects in male frogs, "chemically castrating" some and turning others into females, a study shows. Frogs in the experiment were exposed to amounts of the weedkiller atrazine that are comparable to the levels allowed in drinking water by the Environmental Protection Agency, says lead researcher Tyrone Hayes of the University of California-Berkeley. The study was released Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In Hayes' earlier studies, atrazine caused male frogs to begin growing eggs in their testes. In...
Published on Monday 8th of March 2010 03:39:57 AM
Scientists find huge quantities of water, ice on the moon
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There may be more than 600 million metric tons of water ice sitting in craters at the moon’s north pole. The discovery, made by an Indian spacecraft, could mean big things for human colonization of our nearest neighbor. BBC: A radar experiment aboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 lunar spacecraft has identified thick deposits of water ice near the Moon’s north pole. The US space agency’s (Nasa) Mini-Sar experiment found more than 40 small craters containing water ice. Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8544635.stm
Published on Monday 8th of March 2010 03:39:57 AM
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