The Permanent White House Staff Is, Understandably, on Edge About the 2016 Presidential Race
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32.9 percent of the 2,103 underground wells tested in China received grade 4 for water quality -- meaning they're only fit for industrial use and are not safe for drinking water.
Another 47.3 percent received a grade 5 for water quality.
The sources of pollution are widespread and include a lot of
agricultures. I think that would be the main source of pollution," Dabo
Guan, professor at the University of East Anglia in Britain, told the
New York Times.
"From my point of view, this shows how water is the biggest environmental issue in China.
People in the cities, they see air pollution every day, so it creates
huge pressure from the public.
But in the cities, people don't see how
bad the water pollution is," said Guan.
According to statistics from the
country's Ministry of Water Resources,
70 percent of lakes used as a water source, 60 percent of underground
water, and 11 percent of water in reservoirs did not meet the country's
safety standards.
Even though the study measured water sources close to
the surface, the results are shocking and depict the adverse effects air
pollution has in China currently and in years to come.
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Some believe that it is the air supply system fans or electric generators for military underground tunnels and bases that is making the strange hum that people are hearing around the world...
It’s not clear when
the Hum first began, or when people started noticing it, but it started drawing
After receiving several
isolated reports, the British tabloid the Sunday Mirror asked, in 1977,
“Have You Heard the Hum?”
Hundreds of letters came flooding in.
For the most
part, the reports were consistent: a low, distant rumbling, like an idling
diesel engine, mostly audible at night, mostly noticeable indoors.
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Jason De León, an anthropologist and National Geographic Emerging Explorer,
grew up in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.
His father is Mexican, his
mother is from the Philippines, and he spent his childhood speaking
Spanish.
For his book, The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail,
he traveled up and down the border, interviewing would-be migrants and
the relatives of those who died making the crossing.
Their often
harrowing stories give a human face to these desperate journeys—and
overturn many of the negative stereotypes used to discredit them.
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