Phosphorus decline could be good for water supplies

Isotopic Fingerprint for Phosphorus in Drinking Water Supplies.

Phosphate dosing of drinking water supplies, coupled with leakage from distribution networks, represents a significant input of phosphorus to the environment. The oxygen isotope composition of phosphate (δ(18)OPO4), a novel stable isotope tracer for phosphorus, offers new opportunities to understand the importance of phosphorus derived from sources such as drinking water. We report the first as...

Fears over phosphorus supplies

" By 2030 demand for food will increase by 30 per cent and for water by 30 per cent, " said Guthrie. The report says that many countries were now using water unsustainably, by turning to desalination, which demands large amounts of energy, and by drawing on 'fossil' groundwater laid down millions of years ago. Libya, Algeria, and Saudi Arabia are taking vast quantities of fossil water from deep...

Investment in health could be good for Europe's economies.

Hydroxyurea Could Be a Good Clinically Relevant Iron Chelator

Our previous study showed a reduction in serum ferritin of β-thalassemia patients on hydroxyurea therapy. Here we aimed to evaluate the efficacy of hydroxyurea alone and in combination with most widely used iron chelators like deferiprone and deferasirox for reducing iron from experimentally iron overloaded mice. 70 BALB/c mice received intraperitonial injections of iron-sucrose. The mice were ...

What could be more practical than a good interpretation ?

Quantum mechanics is more than the derivation of straightforward theorems about vector spaces, Hilbert spaces and functional analysis. In order to be applicable to experiment and technology, those theorems need interpretation and meaning. Interpretation is to the formalism what a scaffolding in architecture and building construction is to the completed