Anyone who's dropped a cellphone in the bath knows that water and microelectronics don't usually mix well. But at IBM's Swiss lab in Zurich, marrying the two is becoming almost commonplace: microprocessors with water coursing through microchannels carved deep inside them are already crunching data in SuperMUC, an IBM supercomputer - with the heat that the water carries away used to warm nearby buildings.
A British parliamentary inquiry has heard that more than $650m ( £420m) worth of European Union aid to Africa may have been badly spent. In some cases, not enough local people were trained in how to maintain the necessary equipment - so after a few years it just stopped being used. But the biggest problem was finance - or getting long-term agreement from the communities and governments of poorer countries on how the water supply would be funded
Nestled in the peaceful, natural setting of southwestern Virginia s Blue Ridge Mountains, The Coves offers a carefully planned community designed to combine the best of waterfront living with the rare scenic beauty of Smith Mountain Lake. The Coves offers the right balance between world class amenities and environmental stewardship.
The water is locked up in a mineral called ringwoodite about 660km (400 miles) beneath the crust of the Earth, researchers say. Geophysicist Steve Jacobsen from Northwestern University in the US co-authored the study published in the journal Science and said the discovery suggested Earth’s water may have come from within, driven to the surface by geological activity, rather than being deposited by icy comets hitting the forming planet as held by the prevailing theories.
Norman Koren. Reminds me of Tenacatita, a beach that was largely humanless in the early-to-mid-1970s and 1980s. Folks would camp there in palm frond "palapas," or campers, buses, VW vans, whatever they drove in to get to this Pacific Coast Mexican beach
– Det finns en stor potential för att minska risken för konflikter som är baserade på tillgången till vatten, det säger UNESCO:s biträdande chef för vetenskap, Gretchen Kalonji. – Om en månad hoppas vi kunna få tillgång till vattnet och första prioritet är invånarna i regionen, säger miljöminister Judi Wakhungu. Enligt UNESCO saknar idag omkring 17 av Kenyas 41 miljoner invånare tillgång till rent dricksvatten.
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