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  1. Drugs in the water

    By Peter Montague A new class of water pollutants has been discovered during the past six years. ... tranquillisers and chemotherapy chemicals given to cancer patients, are being measured in surface water, ground ... water and drinking water at the tap. Large quantities of drugs are excreted by humans and domestic ...

  2. Bad news on the Great Lakes

    to improve water quality in the lakes, with some success. Initially the concern was phosphorus, ... a fertiliser that can degrade water quality by causing excessive growth of algae and other plants, thus ... their joint Water Quality Agreement of 1978, the US and Canada defined a "toxic substance" as ...

  3. Mining still threatens Great Barrier Reef

    does not include areas classed as "inland waters". That means mining of shale oil deposits in ...

  4. Workers hit as garage sale of Thailand gears up

    micro-credit to the unemployed by B300 million; maintaining public works in water supply, irrigation and ... Thailand, Regional Airport Co, Metropolitan Water Authority and Provincial Water Authority. The big inroad ...

  5. US, Britain respond to pressure on Libyan sanctions

    against Qadhafi, provocative incursions into Libyan territorial waters and the bombing of Tripoli and ...

  6. Imperialist hostility, ethnic chauvinism fuel Congo imbroglio

    electricity supply. With Kinshasa in darkness, its water supply cut, shop shelves bare and well-armed ... had no access to clean water. Life expectancy was just above 51 years (down from 53 in 1990); infant ...

  7. Green candidate proud of 'activist' tag

    efficiency and water conservation. On the important issue of the closure of the BHP steelworks, Sutton said ...

  8. Theatre that proves a point

    moved in a liberal rather than a revolutionary direction as its politics were watered down. While one ...

  9. Write on: Letters to the editor

    treading water for quite a long time. Allen Myers Sydney Militant I arrived early to the August 28 ...

  10. 'Asian' crisis goes global: Was Marx right after all?

    heat when the patient's temperature drops and cool water when it rises, without being allowed to ...