#water-supply

#water-supply

Utility South Staffordshire Water has been forced to apologise to customers after bank details stolen in a Clop (aka Cl0p) ransomware attack on its systems were leaked on the dark web.The firm - which is operated by a parent company that also oversees Cambridge Water - has been working alongside forensic security experts on the investigation and said it has now discovered that although water supply was unaffected, the ransomware operatives did manage to access personal data.

Are we becoming ... California?Last week, wildfire smoke choked the region-and this week, an unusually dry spring prompted federal and state officials to begin daily drought monitoring of the DC area.The good news, according to weather prediction models, is that showers are coming soon, which means our current drought could recede before many Washingtonians even notice it.

The director general of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog said Monday he was en route to Ukraine to assess the situation at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant after a dam breach depleted water levels in the reservoir it uses to cool reactors and spent nuclear fuel.The director, Rafael Mariano Grossi, said he would meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and present a plan for assistance in the aftermath of floods unleashed by the destruction of the Kakhovka dam last week.

The early morning explosion that woke Oksana Alfiorova from her sleep seemed normal enough, at least for wartime Kherson.Ms. Alfiorova, who is 57, lived through nine months of Russian occupation really scary and since then, nearly as long under the constant shelling of the Russian forces that set up camp across the Dnipro River after they were driven out of the city.

This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows an overview of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine on Monday, June 5, 2023.AP KYIV, Ukraine Ukraine on Tuesday accused Russian forces of blowing up a major dam and hydroelectric power station in a part of southern Ukraine that Russia controls, sending water gushing from the breached facility and risking massive flooding.

Kyiv official says wet weather and the terrain in the Kherson region have made Ukrainian offensive there more difficult than a previous offensive in Kharkiv.Ukraine's counteroffensive against Russian forces in the southern Kherson region is proving more difficult than it was in the northeast because of wet weather and the terrain, Ukraine's defence minister has said.

Human remains that were discovered last summer at the Lake Mead National Recreational Area in Nevada have been identified as those of a Las Vegas man who had been missing for nearly 25 years, the authorities said.The man, Claude Russell Pensinger, was 52 when he disappeared on July, 14, 1998, the Clark County Coroner's Office said in a statement on Thursday.

Russian forces have struck critical infrastructure in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, and launched multiple strikes on energy infrastructure in Zaporizhzhia as Moscow stepped up its attacks in Ukraine's south and east.aporizhzhia city council secretary Anatolii Kurtiev said the city had been hit 17 times in one hour, which he said made it the most intense period of attacks since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in February 2022.

WAR IN UKRAINE Issued on: 07/11/2022 - 09:56Modified: 07/11/2022 - 09:58 This photograph taken on November 5, 2022, shows Iren Rozdobudko, a 60-year-old writer and university lecturer, cleaning dishes by candlelight during a power cut in a building in the north of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.Serguei Supinsky, AFP The Russian-occupied city of Kherson in southern Ukraine was cut off from water and electricity supplies on Sunday after a Ukrainian air strike, the city's Moscow-installed administration said.

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More than half of the world's large lakes and reservoirs have shrunk since the early 1990s chiefly because of the climate crisis and human consumption intensifying concerns about water supply for agriculture, hydropower and human consumption, a study has found.A team of international researchers reported that some of the world's most important freshwater sources from the Caspian Sea between Europe and Asia, to South America's Lake Titicaca lost water at a cumulative rate of about 22 gigatonnes a year for nearly three decades, equivalent to the total water use in the US for the entire year of 2015.

Mitchell Denahy was found guilty of the manslaughter of his own mother on March 3 (Image: Metropolitan Police) A man has been convicted of the tragic and distressing manslaughter of his own mother.Mitchell Denahy, 27, of Waverley Avenue, Waltham Forest, was found guilty at Snaresbrook Crown Court on March 3. His mother, Beverly Denahy, who was aged 61, was found dead by police with serious head and facial injuries on January 22, 2020.

Residents in North London have been left without water after a burst main (Image: PA) Homes and businesses across north London have been left without water today following a burst water main in Camden.The question residents and business owners have been eagerly waiting to be answered is when they will see their water return after thousands were impacted today (December 17).

A former cinema in Wood Green from the 1930s and a decaying Arts and Craft church in Stamford Hill are among the places included on the annual list.However, 19 sites have been removed with their futures now considered secure following works taking place.There are a total of 631 sites in the capital included on the register.

On a breezy evening in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 2022, moments before sunset, a tornado warning amid heavy rainfall was in effect.In the wedding catering world, even a 45-minute delay can signal Armageddon, but Moghul Catering, the Edison, New Jersey-based Indian catering company, took a more sanguine approach.

Ukraine has decided to continue fighting in Bakhmut because the battle is pinning down Russia's best units and degrading them ahead of a planned Ukrainian spring counter-offensive, an aide to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said.Mykhailo Podolyak's comments in an interview with Italy's La Stampa newspaper were the latest signal of a shift this week by Kyiv to continue the defence of the heavily contested eastern city, site of the war's bloodiest battle.

Ukraine restores power to 6 million people in 24 hours after Russian missile attacks on power infrastructure.Ukraine has restored power to almost six million people in the last 24 hours after a barrage of Russian missiles on Friday damaged critical energy infrastructure across the country, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

New guidance calls for lower lead levels in food for babies and children under 2. Lead exposure can be harmful to developing brains.Jeff Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty It's not possible to remove all traces of lead from the food supply, because the heavy metal is found throughout the environment and can be absorbed by plants.

Fifteen regions in Ukraine were struggling with water supply problems after repeated Russian strikes against civilian and energy infrastructure.Ukrenergo, which oversees Ukraine's national power grid, said only half of Ukraine's power demands were being met.In the capital, Kyiv, half of the households still had no electricity on Friday.

Traces of the Legionnaires' disease bug have been found in shower heads at a police training college.The discovery was made during routine testing at the Scottish Police College at Tulliallan in Fife on Wednesday.Police Scotland said that the shower heads are being replaced and contingency plans are in place.

Adding fluoride to water supplies offers only a modest benefit to the dental health of children, researchers have found.The scientists said water fluoridation can be seen as a cost-effective way to help reduce some of the 1.7 billion a year the NHS spends on dental caries.However, the team found that the benefits of fluoride in water appear to be smaller than previously seen  in studies from half a century ago, when fluoride toothpaste was less widely available in the UK.