Driver's body recovered from Waikato

Edit Otago Daily Times 08 May 2016
Police divers have recovered the body of a man whose car plunged into the Waikato River yesterday ... Emergency services were called to Riverbank Rd in Mercer, near Roose Rd in northern Waikato, about 1.30pm yesterday after the car went into the river ... say what caused the car to crash into the river....

Bean sprout farm agrees to settle environmental lawsuit

Edit Boston Herald 08 May 2016
The suit alleged that Chang Farms, in Whately, violated the terms of its federal Clean Water Act permit by discharging industrial wastewater into the river....

Hold mining companies responsible for cleanups

Edit Denver Post 08 May 2016
Researchers who studied a river in Colorado after a massive mine spill say runoff from fall storms kicked up the levels of some contaminants in the water but not others ... Three million gallons of polluted water laden with arsenic, lead and other harmful contaminants spilled out of the inactive gold mine last August, flowing directly into the Animas River, the lifeblood of Colorado's La Plata County....

Floating parade marks centennial of MIT's Cambridge move

Edit Boston Herald 08 May 2016
The roughly 90-minute "Crossing the Charles" procession begins on the Boston side of the Charles River and is meant to commemorate the moment when MIT's ......

Hope springs eternal: project to save Alexander Pope’s secret grotto

Edit The Guardian 08 May 2016
Yet Alexander Pope’s great folly, a network of caves and tunnels built below his home on the banks of the River Thames at Twickenham, is largely forgotten. Related ... Pope recorded his feelings about it in 1741 in his Verses on a Grotto by the River Thames at Twickenham, composed of Marbles, Spars and Mineralscorrect. ... The river was wider at the time and visiting luminaries would arrive by boat and moor at the bottom of his garden ... ....

Jason Groome beaten by Toms River North in OCT semi

Edit Asbury Park Press 08 May 2016
High School Baseball. Jason Groome gave up seven runs, four earned, to Toms River North in OCT semifinal.        .   ... ....

Manfredo pulls no punches — boxing's what he knows

Edit The Providence Journal 08 May 2016
Peter Manfredo will fight on Friday night against Vladine Biosse at Twin River.That's the news.But it's not the story.Not even close.For Manfredo's story is about blood and [...]> ... ....

Japanese win provisional AC World Series race in New York

Edit The News Tribune 08 May 2016
With light wind affecting the schedule, SoftBank Team Japan won a provisional race Saturday at the America's Cup World Series regatta on the Hudson River ... ....

Associate Professor Miroslav Sedláček is in the finals for the European Prize Inventor of the year 2016 (Ceské vysoké ucení technické v Praze)

Edit Public Technologies 08 May 2016
(Source. Ceské vysoké ucení technické v Praze) ... Doc ... The device may also generate energy from slow-flowing streams, rivers or sea tides, which represent a revolutionary alternative and supplement to conventional hydropower energy generation ... Assoc. prof ... Sedláček. Contact person. doc. Miroslav Sedláček ... (noodl. 33447443) ....

America's Cup racing postponed for today

Edit NJ dot com 08 May 2016
While hundreds of eager watchers lined the railings along the water at Liberty State Park, today's America's Cup racing action just didn't happen ... An hour later, racing was officially cancelled.   ... "The river is running the opposite way, and the tide is going out," he said, pointing to flags that were not moving because there wasn't any wind.AA  ... ....

NBC 'Dateline' A runaway teen girl is beaten to death with blunt force

Edit The Examiner 08 May 2016
"Dateline" (NBC) had a Friday evening special which began at 9.30/8.30 p.m. It aired in Albuquerque, NM at 8.30 p.m. (central time) on KOB 4. Last night's episode on May 6, 2016 was called, "The girl with the red shoe." In the overnight TV ratings it garnered 4.66 million TV viewers overall ... A jogger called 911 emergency who said he found blood droplets near a river ... ....

Only 15% consumers have water meters!

Edit The Times of India 08 May 2016
HYDERABAD ... A mere 1.24 lakh have `working meters' (around 15%) while another 1.4 lakh connections belong to slum-dwellers who do not need to install meters, as per official data ... Currently the entire supply of water is being drawn from Godavari (170 km away) and Krishna (120 km away) rivers instead of the Manjeera, Osmansagar, Singur and Himayatsagar, which have dried up ... "We are getting water supply only once in four to five days ... ....

Footscray’s many shades of blue (Victoria University)

Edit Public Technologies 08 May 2016
(Source. Victoria University). Fri 6 May 2016 ... Entrants are invited to explore the theme of 'blue' while capturing the character and personality of Footscray - whether it is through the blue crabs in Little Saigon's market, the Maribyrnong River, a fabric in a shop window, or anything else that evokes the idea of BluScray ... The resulting artwork will focus on how blue threads through Footscray's diverse landscapes ... See all media releases....
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