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Water flowing from a tap

Environment

UK toilets and showers will need water efficiency labels by 2025

Water-efficiency labels will be introduced in the UK for new toilets, taps, showers, dishwashers, washing machines and washer-dryers in the hope of creating water and energy bill savings

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Close up of a model's hands washing dishes in steaming hot water with dark blue rubber gloves with anit-drip cuffs

Technology

Superheated steam dishwasher could kill bacteria in just 25 seconds

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A wide angle view shows piping laid along ten vegetable crop rows to irrigate with slow drips. Small green plants have sprouted along the rows.

Environment

Half of newly irrigated land is in water-stressed areas

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The surface of Mars

Space

NASA's InSight Mars lander found surprisingly little underground ice

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People sitting on parched grass in Greenwich Park, London

Environment

With drought in England more frequent, how can it keep water flowing?

Analysis

A 3d-printed model enters the water

Physics

Physicists calculate highest dives most humans can safely withstand

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Drone with fish-inspired suction disc

Technology

Robot can fly, swim or hitch a ride by sticking to other objects

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Aerial view of river delta for River film

Video

River: New film shows Earth's waterways from stunning perspectives

Video

DNA computer

Technology

DNA computer could tell you if your drinking water is contaminated

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The Evenlode is a 75 kilometre-long river in the Cotswolds, England, plagued with water pollution in recent years. Aerial view of the Evenlode.

Environment

How a Cotswolds river may show the way to clean up England's waterways

The Evenlode in Oxfordshire, UK, has been plagued by pollution, but farmers, the water industry and local volunteers are working together to clean it up

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Space

Mysterious origin of Earth's water may be explained by solar wind

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Health

Legal lead levels in US tap water may harm people with kidney disease

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Environment

60 per cent of world’s rivers stop flowing for at least one day a year

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Environment

Switching beef for chicken could reduce water footprint of US diets

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