http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. NOAA deployed the seventh in a series of "smart buoys" to monitor weather conditions and water quality in the Chesapeake Bay today. The buoy, located at the mouth of Severn River near Annapolis, Md., will be used by commercial and recreational boaters to navigate safely and provide data for educators and scientists to monitor the Bay's changing conditions. http://www.physorg.com/news177157129.html Space & Earth Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:50:01 EST news177157129 A world first study by Monash University researchers into the health of families who drink rainwater has found that it is safe to drink. http://www.physorg.com/news176550503.html Medicine & Health Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:10:03 EST news176550503 Bacteria commonly used to indicate health risks in recreational waters might not be so reliable after all. Pathogenic E. coli were pervasive in stream-water samples with low concentrations of fecal indicator bacteria. http://www.physorg.com/news172853821.html Space & Earth Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:10:02 EST news172853821 (AP) -- David Overbey is no scientist, but he says a person doesn't have to be to see how much the Illinois River has improved in recent years. http://www.physorg.com/news172686674.html Space & Earth Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:40:01 EST news172686674 The long-term effects of pesticides on living organisms in rivers and on water quality can now be assessed more easily. Researchers from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) have developed a tool that can estimate the harmful effect of pesticides, such as those flushed into rivers and streams from agricultural land, within minutes. http://www.physorg.com/news171276501.html Space & Earth Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:50:02 EST news171276501 The Water Science and Technology Board, (WTSB), Division on Earth and Life Sciences of the National Research Council has released for publication its study for improving water quality in the Mississippi River Basin and Northern Gulf of Mexico. The purpose of the study was to create an action plan for reducing nutrient load in the effected areas causing low levels of oxygen and creating a condition called hypoxia. http://www.physorg.com/news167908025.html Space & Earth Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:30:33 EST news167908025 (AP) -- A dam-building spree in China poses the greatest threat to the future of the already beleaguered Mekong, one of the world's major rivers and a key source of water for the region, a U.N. report said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news162110042.html Space & Earth Thu, 21 May 2009 07:34:47 EST news162110042 One of the major sources of drinking water for south-east Queensland is now under the watchful eye of Australia's largest integrated intelligent wireless sensor network. http://www.physorg.com/news161427981.html Technology Wed, 13 May 2009 10:06:52 EST news161427981 (PhysOrg.com) -- Federal requirements to increase the production of ethanol has developed into a "drink-or-drive issue" in the Midwest as a result of biofuel production's impact on water supplies and water quality, says an environmental engineering researcher at Missouri University of Science and Technology in the latest issue of the journal Environmental Science & Technology. http://www.physorg.com/news160327223.html Space & Earth Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:21:01 EST news160327223 A yearlong federal study has determined levels of contaminated sediment found under obsolete, rotting government ships anchored in Suisun Bay, in central California, are no higher than those found elsewhere in local waters, according to documents released Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news156164307.html Space & Earth Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:23:47 EST news156164307 Signs were posted at several shorelines and parks in Richmond, Calif., warning that water might be contaminated with harmful bacteria after nearly 1 million gallons of runoff and raw sewage overflowed and spilled into San Francisco Bay. http://www.physorg.com/news154768320.html Space & Earth Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:12:43 EST news154768320 (PhysOrg.com) -- Cell phones have already revolutionized the way people around the world communicate and do business. Thanks to advances being made at UCLA, they are about to do the same thing for medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news149190128.html Technology Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:42:08 EST news149190128 A rise in carbon emissions is not the only threat to the planet. Changes to the nitrogen cycle, caused in large part by the widespread use of fertilizers, are also damaging both water quality and aquatic life. These concerns are highlighted by Professor Grace Brush, from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA, in her historical review of landscape changes around Chesapeake Bay, a large estuary on the Atlantic coast of the USA. Her findings are published online this week in Springer's journal Estuaries and Coasts. http://www.physorg.com/news143806375.html Space & Earth Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:12:55 EST news143806375 (PhysOrg.com) -- Chloride levels in central Ohio`s Big Darby Creek were three times higher in 2007 than the levels recorded in the late 1960s, and have more than doubled since 1992, according to an analysis conducted at Ohio State University. http://www.physorg.com/news143731471.html Space & Earth Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:24:31 EST news143731471 Long-range forecasts of beach bacterial contamination are inching closer to reality because of a new water quality prediction method scheduled for publication in the July 15 issue of the ACS' Environmental Science & Technology. http://www.physorg.com/news134053458.html Space & Earth Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:04:18 EST news134053458