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With public anger at AI data centers boiling over, all it takes is one bad neighbor to get every data center in town locked out. That’s the story unfolding in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where local officials are revoking waste-dumping privileges for every data center campus connected to municipal water services. As Cowboy State Daily reported, the …
High virus levels detected in wastewater WastewaterSCAN, run by Stanford and Emory, reports elevated national levels for HMPV, rotavirus, influenza B, RSV, norovirus, and COVID. From February to early April, HMPV rose 11% and rotavirus 29%, while COVID dropped 46% overall but the Cicada variant increased 4%. Influenza A fell sharply into medium range, but …
by Michael All over the United States, the streets of our major cities are covered in poop. So exactly what does that say about us? It isn’t as if this is a new problem. As long as human societies have existed, human and animal waste has been a problem. Civilized societies have always found ways …
The failure in a section of a 72-inch sewer pipe in MD, has release of close to a billion gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac river just inside the Beltway It’s now considered the LARGEST spill of wastewater in U.S. history MD & VA Dems haven’t said a word. https://t.co/2WKcgDMUWi pic.twitter.com/xZME5lBira — NOVA Campaigns …
The Maricopa County Department of Public Health issued the following news release: https://www.maricopa.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=3177 As part of routine wastewater surveillance in Maricopa County, Maricopa County Department of Public Health (MCDPH) is reporting the detection of an influenza subtype associated with avian flu in local wastewater. No human cases of avian flu have been detected in Maricopa …
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has begun discharging its second round of treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean. Japan plans to discharge 7,800 tons of the wastewater over the next 17 days. The wrecked nuclear plant, which contains 1.34 million tons of radioactive wastewater, will continue releasing the water for decades. Japan’s wrecked Fukushima …
‘Wastewater Detection: A U.S. wastewater sample that was collected as part of routine monitoring in the National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) has preliminarily indicated the presence of the BA.2.86 variant. Scientists are investigating this sample and will continue to closely monitor wastewater for further or more widespread evidence of BA.2.86.’ https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/whats-new/covid-19-variant.html Variant BS.24/7 h/t A …