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An electric-powered irrigation well pumping groundwater to rice fields during the dry season in north west Bangladesh

Environment

Farmers in Bangladesh pump so much water it may help reduce floods

Thanks to millions of farmers’ irrigation systems in Bangladesh, there is more space for monsoon water to go straight into aquifers, possibly mitigating flooding

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Water flowing from a tap

Environment

UK toilets and showers will need water efficiency labels by 2025

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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

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DNA computer

Technology

DNA computer could tell you if your drinking water is contaminated

A simple test for water pollution involving engineered strands of DNA can report levels of contamination, and this biological system can carry out logical operations like those done by computers

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Environment

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

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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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