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TopicWastewater

Topic: Wastewater

How to detect early signs of disease outbreak? Govt’s plan is to expand wastewater surveillance

Sumi Sukanya Dutta -
Wastewater surveillance works as an early detection system for outbreaks, allowing public health officials to better understand and respond to public health threats.

How Japan is treating radioactive water from Fukushima plant before releasing it into Pacific Ocean

Akanksha Mishra -
China has termed move 'selfish', while North Korea called it crime against humanity & Hong Kong said release of treated radioactive water into Pacific Ocean risks food safety.

This US company is brewing beer out of recycled wastewater

Johnny Wood -
2,000 gallons of recycled greywater from the Fifteen Fifty luxury apartment building in San Francisco was converted into beer.

A Bengaluru group is knee-deep in wastewater—looking for secrets on future diseases

+TFP Sandhya Ramesh -
Ecologist Farah Ishtiaq and her team are tracking viruses and diseases through Bangalore's underbelly. Their wastewater-based epidemiology project is catching attention.

Urine from your toilet can be recycled in this simple way

Prithvi Simha -
Recycling urine collected from toilets can make a big difference to local food security and environment.

Indian scientists find Covid gene in wastewater — a breakthrough in tracking virus outbreak

Shakoor Rather -
The study conducted on Ahmedabad's wastewater paves the way for using wastewater-based epidemiology for real-time surveillance of Covid-19 in India.

World Water Day: How ‘yuck’ factor stands in the way of India’s wastewater treatment

Pia Krishnankutty -
The social stigma attached to drinking recycled water is why sewage treatment in India has been reduced largely to agricultural purposes.

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Opinion

Period pain is real. Blanket menstrual leave policy isn’t a fix

Stela Dey -
The Supreme Court is right to point out the 'mindset of employers', who, because of this policy, may deduce that 'women are inferior.'

9.2% jump in arms transfer shows this is era of war—SIPRI reveals the temper we live in

Trump either ends Iran conflict quickly, or sky-high energy costs will force him to do so

Economy

Red carpet for industry honchos as AAP kicks off Punjab investors summit. Rs 10,000 cr pledged on Day 1

Chitleen K Sethi -
At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Shekhar Gupta -
Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.

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