Nomadics has already devised a waterborne offshoot of Fido called Seapup, a self-propelled minisub.
Gosnell mainly uses his waterborne dragster to take friends out for day sails around Nantucket Island.
As ever after such events, an outbreak of waterborne diseases such as cholera is feared.
Acute water shortages cause death through waterborne diseases, and dwindling water supplies reduce crop yields.
If water resources continue to be poorly managed, food and energy production will decline, and waterborne disease will increase.
Waterborne viruses are responsible for the majority of disease in the developing world.
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The GreenHeart label means reduced packaging, recycled plastics, waterborne paints, and an electronic in-phone manual instead of a paper booklet.
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Second, any waterborne imports are going to come into these same terminals and through pipelines from the US Gulf Coast.
Outside the lab, rescue workers in the less-developed world might use portable gene machines to trace bacteria or viruses causing waterborne epidemics.
That waterborne sensibility is carried over to the time in the lodge.
The divergence between WTI prices in the Midcontinent and waterborne crude prices reflects a surge of production in Canada and North Dakota.
Living in cities certainly encouraged waterborne diseases like typhoid and cholera that had rarely been a problem in even the poorest villages.
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The United Nations has not yet received reports of waterborne diseases, but Edoumou said a real threat exists of diarrhea or, worse, cholera.
The 254-nanometer light kills the hardy waterborne polio virus, rotavirus (which causes vomiting, diarrhea and dehydration), the bacterium that causes cholera, the virus that gives rise to hepatitis A, and cysts of cryptosporidium (a nasty parasite).
Improving water resource management, increasing access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation and promoting hygiene can improve the quality of life of billions of individuals, as well as reduce child mortality, improve maternal health and cut the incidence of waterborne diseases.
Improving food safety begins before the products ever reach the consumer, at the slaughterhouse and in the fields, but "being careful in the kitchen is also very important, " said Dr. Robert Tauxe, deputy director of the CDC's Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases.
According to the World Health Organization, solid fuel use causes 1.6 million excess deaths per year globally, especially among women and children, while waterborne disease is one of the leading global killers, ending the lives of over 3 million annually again, many of them young children who lack access to clean and safe water supplies.
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