TOKYO--Officials at Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant have acknowledged they neglected to investigate the cause of faulty exhaust filters that are key to preventing radioactive pollution, after being forced to replace them twice. Representatives of the operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, made the revelation Monday during a regular review of the Fukushima Daiichi plant at a meeting with Japanese regulatory authorities.... He promised to improve safety management. Japanes

BEDSHEETS which filter out farts are helping to save marriages after going on sale last week. The odour-busting bedding promises to catch then neutralise escaped gas thanks to a carbon coating.... This is because when you’re lying down the gas in your body ‘pools’ inside your colon rather than coming out a little at a time as it does in the day.... OPENING HER HEART I hit 30, quit my marriage and got addicted to exercise, says Adele BEHIND THE SCENES Inside Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan's

PETALING JAYA: Water filters are sought after these days as consumers are wiling to fork out extra money for the assurance that they will be getting quality drinking water at home. Content strategist Diana Abdullah, 34, often finds herself reminiscing about drinking straight from her New York apartment tap when she was a graduate student in the United States some years ago. Diana, who is now working in Kuala Lumpur, rents a water filter for RM65 a month, but says that the quality is nowhere near

KOTA KINABALU: Folks in Penampang and around the city rush to fill containers with water and buy bottled water to prepare for a last-minute 10-day water disruption. The Sabah Water Department issued a notice on March 6, announcing the expected water disruption from March 7 to March 16. Sunita Rahman, who resides in Penampang, started filling up a small pool outside her house, which can be used for washing or other necessities if the need arises." It's such a hassle to do all these, especially wh

Groundwater storage projects, which replenish underground aquifers that aren't vulnerable to evaporation, would also get funding.... Many states and cities already have or are developing programs that recycle storm water runoff and wastewater.... Some Arizona farmers will be among those to feel the effects next year. DESALINATIONThe bill would add$ 250 billion for studies and projects to make sea water and brackish water usable for agricultural, industrial and municipal use....

The water is collected, filtered and stored in around 1, 000 tanks, which will reach their capacity in early 2024. Large amounts of fatally radioactive melted nuclear fuel remain inside the reactors.... Groups in South Korea and China have also raised concerns, turning it into a political and diplomatic issue. Matsumoto said the key to gaining understanding is to patiently explain the situation by providing scientific evidence.... " If we describe( the water release) in one word, it's safe.”"

The water is collected, filtered and stored in around 1, 000 tanks, which will reach their capacity in early 2024. Massive amounts of fatally radioactive melted nuclear fuel remain inside the reactors.... Groups in South Korea and China have also raised concerns, turning it into a political and diplomatic issue. Matsumoto said the key to gaining understanding is to patiently explain the situation by providing scientific evidence, rather than just stressing safety.... " If you describe( the wat

" Many people already knew that a lot of our water was bad anyway.... So I always grew up not even drinking from water fountains when I went to school and stuff like that.... So it was like that distrust." MORE: Newark gets$ 120 million to speed up replacing lead pipes amid water crisis After major signs of contaminated water appeared in 2016, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection required Newark to monitor lead levels....

arrow-right Officials at D.C. Water said water service was temporarily off Wednesday in some impacted areas after the problem happened and then restored.... Run cold water for 2 minutes if known sources of lead are present before boiling.... Bring water to a rolling boil for 1 minute and let it cool....

BENTON HARBOR, Mich.— Shortly after sunrise on a recent Saturday in Benton Harbor, Mich., residents began lining up for free bottled water so they could drink and cook without fear of the high levels of lead in the city’s tap water.... Free water distribution sites are a fixture of life in the majority Black city, where almost half of the nearly 10, 000 residents live below the poverty line.... For three years, tests of its public water system revealed elevated levels of lead....