Thames users 'at risk from untreated sewage'
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Warnings could be introduced after analysis confirms high levels of bacteria and viruses.
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LONDON -- Swollen rivers from torrential rain forced thousands of people from their homes, and forecasters warned Monday that water levels could rise to critical levels.
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London Mayor Ken Livingstone on Tuesday launched a blitz against bottled mineral water, urging restaurant customers in the capital to ask for tap water to help the environment.
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Australians mopping up their flood  damaged homes in the Hunter Valley and Central Coast north of  Sydney were warned on Tuesday to protect themselves from  disease in the sewage-contaminated floodwaters.
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Homes and businesses in England could be put at risk because flood defences need more work, a watchdog warns.
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The Environmental Protection Agency is close to issuing new guidelines making it easier for sewage authorities to dump partially treated wastewater during heavy rainfalls, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.
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Millions of people will be at risk of disease unless there is immediate action to provide clean water in communities hit by tidal waves in South Asia, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned.
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Sir, I hope that all city councillors saw the Country Calendar programme, Saturday January 27. The programme graphically showed the importance of wetlands. Such areas were prolific around our estuaries in 1961. The destruction of our wetlands around Tahunanui, Annesbrook and Stoke horrifies me.
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Milwaukee officials warn that a court order to line a deep tunnel with concrete could cause sewage to dump into the city's rivers and Lake Michigan.
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Â· Thames and Severn rivers set to rise further Â· Battle to protect power supplies
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The public must be alerted about the risk that not managing water properly could lead to shortages, MPs warn.
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By Scott Harper, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Mar. 10--RICHMOND -- The Lynnhaven River in Virginia Beach was officially declared a "no discharge zone" for boat sewage on Friday, a move intended to curb bacteria pollution that plagues the city waterway.
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Few tourists are adventurous enough to  wander this far down the meandering, muddy Thames.
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By Zane Wilson, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Dec. 15--Customers of the Browns Ferry Water District in central Georgetown County were advised late Thursday to boil their water before drinking it or use bottled water because E. coli was found in the water.
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Just whose waste is fouling the most star-studded stretch of the Southern California coast? Los Angeles County officials intend to find out, and if the evidence leads back to the toilets of some of Hollywood's rich and famous, the sewage could really hit the fan. "This is going to get messy," predicts Mark Pestrella, the public works official assigned to the project.
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A tenth of the world&#39;s irrigated crops - everything from lettuce and tomatoes to mangoes and coconuts - are watered by sewage. And much of that sewage is raw and untreated, gushing direct from sewer pipes into fields at the fringes of the developing ...
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The escalator handrail or a public phone may have more bacteria than a public toilet.