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Matt Damon plays Aquaman, bringing water to Africa :good:
Ever plan your day around getting water? Probably not. Most Americans have easy access to clean water and can drink as much of it as they'd like. But for 750 million people around the world, purified water is a luxury. Women and young girls in low-income countries walk about 3.7 miles each day to collect water – a total of 40 billion hours a year. Every year poor children miss nearly 440 million school days because of water scarcity. That’s why Matt Damon and Gary White co-founded Water.org, a nonprofit dedicated to providing clean water to impoverished families and individuals living in Africa and Asia.
“Every 20 seconds a kid under the age of five dies because they lack access to clean water and sanitation,” says Damon in an interview with The Daily Ticker at this year’s Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills.
Damon and White are not building new wells and water pipelines to get clean water to these villages – they’re providing individuals with small loans so that they can tap into the existing water infrastructure.
Municipalities are “piping water under their feet but they cannot access it,” explains Damon, and residents “have to walk to a communal access point and wait in line to get water. It’s incredibly inefficient.”
More than 1.5 million people so far have applied for small loans through Water.org. The two-year loan program (“WaterCredit”) is $180 to $200 and 98% of borrowers have paid back their loans, says Damon. Poor families use the money to buy a toilet or to pay for local water utility fees. Direct water access allows these individuals to spend more hours at work or at school.
“These people were scavenging for water every day and holding the economy back,” notes White, who also counsels organizations such as the PepsiCo Foundation and the IKEA Foundation on responses to the global water crisis. “Now they’re out there getting jobs.”
These loans are also helping to change a common perception of indigent villagers. “There was an aversion to poor people…utilities overlooked the poor and didn’t see them as customers,” explains Damon. “We’re trying to bring new customers to these utilities. It’s about looking at the world’s poor in a different way,” he adds, “rather than as recipients of charity. These are potential customers with a voice.”
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/blogs/...llions-of-lives-through-water--165557647.html
Ever plan your day around getting water? Probably not. Most Americans have easy access to clean water and can drink as much of it as they'd like. But for 750 million people around the world, purified water is a luxury. Women and young girls in low-income countries walk about 3.7 miles each day to collect water – a total of 40 billion hours a year. Every year poor children miss nearly 440 million school days because of water scarcity. That’s why Matt Damon and Gary White co-founded Water.org, a nonprofit dedicated to providing clean water to impoverished families and individuals living in Africa and Asia.
“Every 20 seconds a kid under the age of five dies because they lack access to clean water and sanitation,” says Damon in an interview with The Daily Ticker at this year’s Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills.
Damon and White are not building new wells and water pipelines to get clean water to these villages – they’re providing individuals with small loans so that they can tap into the existing water infrastructure.
Municipalities are “piping water under their feet but they cannot access it,” explains Damon, and residents “have to walk to a communal access point and wait in line to get water. It’s incredibly inefficient.”
More than 1.5 million people so far have applied for small loans through Water.org. The two-year loan program (“WaterCredit”) is $180 to $200 and 98% of borrowers have paid back their loans, says Damon. Poor families use the money to buy a toilet or to pay for local water utility fees. Direct water access allows these individuals to spend more hours at work or at school.
“These people were scavenging for water every day and holding the economy back,” notes White, who also counsels organizations such as the PepsiCo Foundation and the IKEA Foundation on responses to the global water crisis. “Now they’re out there getting jobs.”
These loans are also helping to change a common perception of indigent villagers. “There was an aversion to poor people…utilities overlooked the poor and didn’t see them as customers,” explains Damon. “We’re trying to bring new customers to these utilities. It’s about looking at the world’s poor in a different way,” he adds, “rather than as recipients of charity. These are potential customers with a voice.”
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/blogs/...llions-of-lives-through-water--165557647.html
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Cocaine traces found in Britain’s drinking water
COCAINE use in Britain is now so high it has contaminated the drinking water, scientific tests have revealed.
Experts from the Drinking Water Inspectorate experts found traces of the party drug, in a form that has been passed through the body, in treated tap water — despite intensive water purification treatments.
Steve Rolles, from the drug policy think tank Transform, told that the findings reveal how widely used cocaine is.
“We have the near highest level of cocaine use in western Europe,” he said. “It has also been getting cheaper and cheaper at the same time as its use has been going up.”
About 700,000 people aged 16 to 59 are estimated to take cocaine every year in Britain.
As well as benzoylecgonine or metabolised cocaine, scientists also found traces of ibuprofen, caffeine and carbamazepine, a drug for treating epilepsy, in tap water.
However health officials stressed that the traces of drugs found in the water supply were very low and unlikely to represent a danger to the public.
“Estimated exposures for most of the detected compounds are at least thousands of times below doses seen to produce adverse effects in animals and hundreds of thousands below human therapeutic doses,” the report said.
COCAINE use in Britain is now so high it has contaminated the drinking water, scientific tests have revealed.
Experts from the Drinking Water Inspectorate experts found traces of the party drug, in a form that has been passed through the body, in treated tap water — despite intensive water purification treatments.
Steve Rolles, from the drug policy think tank Transform, told that the findings reveal how widely used cocaine is.
“We have the near highest level of cocaine use in western Europe,” he said. “It has also been getting cheaper and cheaper at the same time as its use has been going up.”
About 700,000 people aged 16 to 59 are estimated to take cocaine every year in Britain.
As well as benzoylecgonine or metabolised cocaine, scientists also found traces of ibuprofen, caffeine and carbamazepine, a drug for treating epilepsy, in tap water.
However health officials stressed that the traces of drugs found in the water supply were very low and unlikely to represent a danger to the public.
“Estimated exposures for most of the detected compounds are at least thousands of times below doses seen to produce adverse effects in animals and hundreds of thousands below human therapeutic doses,” the report said.
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[h=1]Cocaine use in Britain so widespread it can be found in our DRINKING WATER[/h]
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2625659/Cocaine-use-Britain-widespread-DRINKING-WATER.html
- Traces of cocaine can be found in our drinking water, tests have shown
- Inspections of tap water discovered metabolised form of the illegal drug
- Researchers said the levels were so low they posed no danger to health
- But they demonstrate how widespread the use of cocaine has become
- Nearly 700,000 people aged 16 to 59 estimated to take drug every year
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2625659/Cocaine-use-Britain-widespread-DRINKING-WATER.html
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Air Canada's Dreamliner Touches Down in Toronto
TORONTO - Air Canada is showing off the newest addition to its fleet this week.
The airline's first Boeing 787 Dreamliner completed its first flight on Sunday landing at Toronto's Pearson airport.
The flight was carrying 100 of the airline's employees and was given a water cannon salute as it taxied to the terminal.
It is also giving the media tours of the jet later this week.
TORONTO - Air Canada is showing off the newest addition to its fleet this week.
The airline's first Boeing 787 Dreamliner completed its first flight on Sunday landing at Toronto's Pearson airport.
The flight was carrying 100 of the airline's employees and was given a water cannon salute as it taxied to the terminal.
It is also giving the media tours of the jet later this week.
Air Canada's Dreamliner Touches Down in Toronto
TORONTO - Air Canada is showing off the newest addition to its fleet this week.
The airline's first Boeing 787 Dreamliner completed its first flight on Sunday landing at Toronto's Pearson airport.
The flight was carrying 100 of the airline's employees and was given a water cannon salute as it taxied to the terminal.
It is also giving the media tours of the jet later this week.
It looks the same like all the other ones ;/Waving://
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[h=1]ScienceCasts: El Niño - Is 2014 the New 1997?[/h]
Google being bullies again.
Google algorithm change dings eBay traffic, could force it to buy more ads
May 22 2014, 14:35 ET
https://seekingalpha.com/news/17671...traffic-could-force-it-to-buy-more-ads?uprof=
Google algorithm change dings eBay traffic, could force it to buy more ads
May 22 2014, 14:35 ET
- An analysis done by SearchEngine Journal estimates eBay.com (EBAY -1.1%) has seen a 33% drop in search traffic thanks to Google's (GOOG +1.3%) new Panda 4.0algorithm update, and InterActiveCorp's (IACI -1.1%) Ask.com a 50% drop.
[*]Moreover, David Kim, the CEO of SEO firm Wordstream, has done an analysis that suggests eBay has "lost around 75%" of its keyword terms from Page 1 of Google's results, and 80% of its more specific (i.e. long-tail) keyword results.
[*]Kim blames the falloff on the fact eBay's search traffic tends to involve doorway pages with "very little content," rather than actual product pages. "I’m surprised that Google has allowed these shenanigans to go on for so long."
[*]He thinks Google's move has the effect of forcing eBay to buy Google's increasingly popular product listing ads (PLAs) to reach search users. eBay is already a PLA client, but (like Amazon) is less dependent on Google ads than many smaller e-commerce firms.
[*]The algorithm tweak follows changes to the display of Google's AdWords text search ads that lead them to blend in more with organic results, and thus potentially make them more likely to be clicked.
[*]eBay and IAC are underperforming amid Panda-related worried, but they're faring much better than RetailMeNot.
https://seekingalpha.com/news/17671...traffic-could-force-it-to-buy-more-ads?uprof=
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TORONTO - Toronto Police say they conducted more than 50 pre-dawn raids Wednesday as part of a crackdown on guns and gangs.
The raids throughout the city -- including Liberty Village, Regent Park and the Dufferin St.-Lawrence Ave. area -- began around 5 a.m.
Police said warrants were executed as part of Project RX and Project Battery. There were dozens of arrests, but police would not immediately elaborate.
This is believed to be a joint effort between Toronto Police, the OPP and police forces from Brantford and Windsor.
A press conference is expected to be held at Toronto Police headquarters at 11 a.m.
https://www.torontosun.com/2014/05/28/police-stage-early-morning-raids-across-toronto
The raids throughout the city -- including Liberty Village, Regent Park and the Dufferin St.-Lawrence Ave. area -- began around 5 a.m.
Police said warrants were executed as part of Project RX and Project Battery. There were dozens of arrests, but police would not immediately elaborate.
This is believed to be a joint effort between Toronto Police, the OPP and police forces from Brantford and Windsor.
A press conference is expected to be held at Toronto Police headquarters at 11 a.m.
https://www.torontosun.com/2014/05/28/police-stage-early-morning-raids-across-toronto
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