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Emergency Management
If you’re worried about the Zika virus, spending a day by a lake or river isn’t too risky — the mosquitoes that spread Zika would be found in smaller pools of water closer to home — but some mosquito experts believe that Texas could see mosquitoes transmitting the virus locally by the end of the summer.
If a mosquito in Austin bites an infected person and then bites other people, that mosquito could spread the virus in a cycle called local transmission, said Phil Huang, medical director and health authority for Austin/Travis, Texas County Health and Human Services.
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Government Technology
There is another actor waiting in the wings, watching as the smart city struts around on the stage, bathed in a national spotlight.
Such is the existence of the smart state: following the smart city movement, helping where it can and all the while working to build itself an identity. Smart states today seem to have a dual role.
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FRONTLINE
Along the East Coast and Gulf region, communities have been facing an increasing threat of inundation from storms. The stakes are high. Flooding is the most costly natural disaster in the United States, costing an average of $8 billion in damages annually — and now it’s also the most deadly. Floodwaters killed more people than any other kind of natural disaster last year.
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Governing
The National Hurricane Center will launch storm surge inundation maps for the first time this summer, predicting where and how deep flooding will hit here and elsewhere.
Two years ago the maps were tested on the Outer Banks. Data from hundreds of hurricane forecast scenarios was fed into a supercomputer.
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Claims Journal
For forecasters trying to better pinpoint the havoc of storms, the future begins next year.
That’s when the test phase for the new GOES-R satellite should be complete, providing the National Weather Service with an improved tool to track lightning, tornadoes and hurricanes.
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Wolters Kluwer Health via ScienceDaily
The crisis of lead-contaminated drinking water in Flint, Michigan continues to make headlines, but it's just the most prominent example of an "ongoing and needless tragedy of childhood lead poisoning," according to a noted authority on childhood lead poisoning prevention.
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The Huffington Post
Workplace safety is an issue worldwide, with 6,300 people dying daily across the globe. If you are not compliant with workplace standards, you are going to experience legal problems, regulatory problems, and the fact that your employees are putting themselves in danger every single time they come to work.
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Voice of America
A new device can reveal in a matter of seconds whether that drink of water you desperately need is contaminated with disease-causing microorganisms or ready to drink.
The device, called Duo Fluor, can in about 30 seconds test for organic material like decaying plants and animals, and bacteria, including pathogens that cause cholera and dysentery.
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