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Water intoxication, also known as water poisoning, hyperhydration, overhydration or water toxemia is a potentially fatal disturbance in brain functions that can result when the normal balance of electrolytes in the body is pushed outside safe limits by excessive water intake. Under normal circumstances, accidentally consuming too much water is ...
On Tuesday, January 14, the company revealed that the tank, which leaked about 7,500 gallons into the ground by the Elk River, had also contained a mixture of glycol ethers known as PPH, with a similar function as MCHM. The chemical spill was the third chemical accident to occur in the Kanawha River Valley within the last five years.
Hadid has undeniably been the queen of wardrobe mishaps so far this year, with three major moments to date -- and counting! The 20-year-old international model made headlines at the 2017 Cannes ...
The Camelford water pollution incident involved the accidental contamination of the drinking water supply to the town of Camelford, Cornwall, in July 1988. Twenty tonnes of aluminium sulphate was inadvertently added to the water supply, raising the concentration to 3,000 times the admissible level. As the aluminium sulphate broke down it ...
In what's now become a viral trend, dozens of people online are posting videos of times when their various athletic endeavors have gone awry, joking it's “Why I didn’t make it to the Olympics ...
James Beard award-winning Portland chef and restaurateur Naomi Pomeroy has drowned in an inner tube accident. The frequent "Top Chef" guest was 49. Portland chef Naomi Pomeroy’s body found after ...
The 2000 Baia Mare Cyanide spill was a leak of cyanide near Baia Mare, Romania, into the Someș River by the gold mining company Aurul, a joint-venture of the Australian company Esmeralda Exploration and the Romanian government. The polluted waters eventually reached the Tisza River and then the Danube, killing large numbers of fish in Hungary ...
A copy of Standard Operating Procedures for Camp Delta –the protocol of the U.S. Army at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp – was released on the WikiLeaks website on 7 November 2007. [6] The document was written under the authority of Geoffrey D. Miller when he was the officer in charge of Joint Task Force Guantanamo.