When we talk about water, it is never only about water. Beyond its elemental role in sustaining life, water is the literal and metaphorical lifeblood of every aspect of humanity and nature. Water ...

A GROUP of businesspeople have launched a project to help tackle the problem of water pollution. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The News, you can get unlimited access to the website ...

An international team of researchers based at McMaster has figured out a way to adapt the good old litmus test so it can detect bacteria such as E. coli. The team, which is connected through the ...

The economic viability for foreign investors of China's 'Go West' programme will soon be put to the test by the nation's first build, operate and transfer (BOT) water treatment plant just completed in ...

Litmus tests are useless for assessing people, even though they work fine for water samples. Let’s say you are an unusually self-aware and articulate water sample, and you have been withdrawn from a ...

A litmus test is an idiom for a challenge. But why? In a 2024 New York Times piece exploring the controversy over married couples in Japan using separate surnames, the Times headline read: "A Litmus ...