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The two greatest public health advances in human history are regulations/ technologies to protect the safety of #water and #food, and the discovery and roll out of #vaccines.
It boggles the mind that Trump, RFK Jr., and the GOP want to eliminate them.
If successful, a lot of people, mostly children, are going to die.

You'd have thought, given the trouble they're in, Thames water might have tried to do a better job this year on sewage spillages into waterways.... well, you'd be wrong - it seems they are up by 40%.

OFWAT, asleep at the wheel & TW more worried about avoiding investors having to stomach losses & nationalisation than dealing with the actual problem(s) that lie behind their current travails!

Privatisation of water has demonstrably a complete disaster!

#water #sewage
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4zkl

A pipe discharging water into a river
BBC NewsThames Water: Sewage spills soar as debts swellThames Water saw a 40% increase in pollution incidents in the first half of the year as its debts continued to swell.

Every time you use #ChatGPT, half a litre of #water goes to waste
#GenerativeAI already uses as much energy as a small country and is predicted to rival that of Japan within a year. Such searches use 10 times the energy of a normal web search. “We’re wasting a lot of water with these systems, and very few people realise that it’s a major problem. That’s why I think personally the No.1 priority for the sector should be #sustainability. Not the #AI race.”
smh.com.au/technology/every-ti

The Sydney Morning Herald · Every time you use ChatGPT, half a litre of water goes to wasteBy David Swan

We call it Earth, but only because we're land dwellers. And we rarely see this picture but it shows how massive the Pacific Ocean is, covering about a third of the Earth's surface.
This is a cloudless satellite image of the Earth, centered on the Pacific Ocean. To get a single cloudless image, NOAA satellites took photos over eleven ten-day periods and merged them.
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