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They have seen the reports and photos of the havoc wreaked by flooding across Central and Eastern Europe over the past week and remember all too well the major floods in their region in 1997 and 2010. 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institutions cannot go any lower The good news is that there is a way to restore democracy — our country’s most important uniting principle — and it begins in the classroom not only a place where young people acquire knowledge but also where they learn how to use that knowledge It is a place where students are shown how to hone in their critical-thinking skills taught to form and strengthen arguments using history as a guide and encouraged to engage in constructive self-reflection and dialogue Students learn how to think with each other how to make sense of divergent philosophies the classroom is learning laboratory for democracy Here at The New American Academy Charter School we have made teaching democracy and civics a core part of the curriculum we teach children about the importance of debating ideas and the power of voting by allowing students to vote on issues ranging from things as minor as what they want for snack and which play the third-fifth grade theater class will perform to more serious issues like dealing with the water crisis in Flint These intense discussions matter greatly because not only do students learn about the issues at hand but they also learn about the power of democracy itself The New American Academy Charter School created this curriculum to help students feel empowered by their support system — their educators and parents our students are reminded that change is possible through democracy and government works best when there is great compromise something that seems to be missing right now Our current political climate grabs our attention with a never-ending circulation of systemic issues in our society we must always remember to prioritize the empowerment and education of our youth serves as the foundation for providing our children with the fundamental tools to become active citizens and leaders in our communities we have the responsibility to ensure that our students have access to tools that they can use in their roles as the leaders of tomorrow The future of democracy is at stake unless we begin to equip our students with leadership-centered ideas and values in our classrooms We must work towards creating curriculums and environments that can foster leadership opportunities for our children and our communities we must help our children develop their voices so that they can contribute to society allowing them to become vocal figures of leadership in their schools If we can help our youth to become positive and engaged members of society especially in Black and Brown communities like ours not only to encourage participation in democracy through initiatives like voter turnout and community engagement but also to allow them to grow into strong leaders of tomorrow Olawa Gibson is a 5th grade master teacher at The New American Academy Charter School in Brooklyn.  in the presence of the executive of the National Water Management Authority and the representatives of the main contractor an official ribbon-cutting ceremony took place to mark the completion of works related to the construction of the Racibórz Dolny flood protection reservoir for the upper Oder River June saw the finishing touches put in place for this reservoir in Racibórz which is a dry area that only fills with water in the event of flooding The polder will contain the water in the event of a flood event protecting an area of approximately 600 km² The project is intended to protect about 2.5 million residents from flood The spillway structure is equipped with six main gate valves which can be operated mechanically or automatically The Racibórz Dolny Reservoir has a total area of 26.3 km² and a capacity of 185 million cubic metres of water enough to fill 226 Palaces of Science and Culture in Warsaw The capacity will be gradually increased to 300 million m³ due to the aggregate to be extracted from the reservoir area The net value of the construction works performed by Budimex is PLN 672 million The construction works commenced in November 2017 and lasted almost 30 months Redevelopment of the reservoir in Racibórz Dolny was commissioned by the Regional Water Management Authority in Gliwice The budget for the project originated from the funds of the World Bank National Budget and the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management Budimex has extensive experience in carrying out hydro-engineering investments As the general contractor it has reconstructed: ports in Świnoujście and Szczecin Płonie Channel close to Martwa Wisła in Gdańsk Budimex is modernizing ports in Gdańsk and improving access to the ports in Gdynia and Świnoujście HEAD OF EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION AND INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA RELATIONS HEAD OF US CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS AND BRAND The Asturias Water Consortium has awarded Cadagua the operation maintenance and conservation service for sanitation and purification systems Lot 2 8211 San Claudio river basin File CAA 2021 368 for.. 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However, the country’s water authority later said that mercury levels were still unconfirmed, according to a report from Reuters “The cause of the fish deaths on the Oder remains unclear even after the first test results are available It is becoming apparent that a still unknown highly toxic substance is flowing through the Oder,” said the recent German statement The source and identity of the deadly substance are still mysterious according to both German and Polish officials “We are most likely dealing with a crime where a substance was introduced into the water that causes the death of fish and other organisms,” said Poland’s deputy climate and environment minister Jacek Ozdoba Environmental authorities said they are continuing to investigate The result of further water and chemical analysis are expected sometime today which has also ordered the analysis of the dead fish communication between the two countries didn’t go as planned hampering reporting and the speed of investigation “It must be said that the reporting chains between the Polish and German sides did not work in this case…We have therefore contacted the Polish authorities and are asking for clarification immediately,” said Axel Vogel Though not the main cause, drought in the region is believed to be worsening the river’s condition and the extent of the fish die-offs. With less water flowing in Europe’s rivers overall any toxins that find their way into rivers and streams are more concentrated the conservation policy director at WWF Poland said it appears that a toxic chemical was released into the water by an industry and the low water levels caused by the drought has made conditions far more dangerous for the fish ' + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.webview_notification_text + ' " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_title + " " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_text + " Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information Employees check washing machine units for quality control on the production line at the Electrolux AB plant in Olawa soaring raw material costs and the collapse of retailer Sears The Stockholm-based maker of refrigerators, stoves and other household goods will close a new plantBloomberg Terminal in Memphis and move refrigeration equipment out of a factory in Santiago Chile as part of a more than 1 billion krona ($111 million) manufacturing redesign Aug 15, 2022 | Energy & Climate The plight of the poisoned Oder – Poland’s second longest river much of which forms the border with Germany – has dominated the news since early last week But while the scale of the disaster is enormous – with tonnes of dead fish now reported along most of the river’s length – the public remains in the dark as to the causes and possible long-term impact While details are murky, the tragic end result is crystal clear: the Oder has suffered a major environmental disaster, resulting in over 80 tonnes of dead fish being hauled out of the water and the authorities issuing a ban on entering the river and using its water for any purpose The rebuilding of the ecosystem will take years For more on the apparent poisoning of the Oder river in Poland, which has left thousands of fish dead, see our report:https://t.co/iWnH8QVgMw — Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) August 12, 2022 Around 27 July, local anglers in the town of Oława observed dead fish in a lock on the Oder and linked their presence to earlier reports – from around mid-July – of similar sightings not far up the river, near the junction of the Oder and the Gliwice Canal an artificial waterway linking the industrial region of Upper Silesia with the now-poisoned river the regional environmental inspectorate in Katowice and the regional Gliwice branch of Wody Polskie – the state manager of Poland’s waters – have denied that the incident in the canal and the fish die-off in the Oława had the same underlying cause what began to look clearly like a toxic wave continued to flow downstream with reports of dead fish multiplying from ever more locations a town early on the section of the river that Poland shares with Germany A map showing where thousands of dead fish have been found in the Oder river in Poland over the last two weeks with suspicions that hazardous waste has entered the water It is a “catastrophe” that will have a wider impact on the environment, say experts https://t.co/BmW6Q29sJ7 — Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) August 11, 2022 which only heightened the worries of environmentalists as the region is a particularly valuable area in the river’s valley (more on that below) The authorities have since put up barriers to stop dead fish from going further downstream This is the key question to which there is as yet no answer, despite the disaster having unfolded for nearly three weeks now. Early water samples did point to mesitylene poisoning but that is yet to be confirmed or ruled out definitively There are still no other details of the water samples taken by the Polish authorities (they are expected on Tuesday at the earliest Poland has denied earlier claims reported by the German media that the samples taken by the German environmental services contained mercury “We received official water test results from the German side Analyses on both sides of the border point to high salinity Comprehensive toxicological studies are underway in Poland,” Poland’s climate and environment minister Anna Moskwa tweeted on 13 August Otrzymaliśmy oficjalnie od strony niemieckiej aktualne wyniki badań wody Analizy po obu stronach granicy wykazują wysokie zasolenie W Polsce trwają kompleksowe badania toksykologiczne — Anna Moskwa (@moskwa_anna) August 13, 2022 Axel Vogel, the environment minister of the German state of Brandenburg, offered more nuance on 15 August, as he reportedly told a press briefing in the town of Lebus that “mercury accumulates slowly and was not introduced into the Oder in such a dimension that it could have triggered these deaths immediately” The abnormal salinity – which measurements from the German monitoring station in Frankfurt (Oder) point to – is an environment in which toxic cyanobacteria could flourish “If the problem began downstream from the Gliwice Canal – which runs through some of Poland’s most heavily industrialised areas – then it could have originated after somebody – an industrial company or a mine – discharged vast amounts of highly salinated water That could have led to the flourishing of cyanobacteria,” says Szklarek The expert adds that reports of skin irritation – a typical symptom of coming into contact with cyanobacteria – in people working in the Oder to clean it of dead fish make the hypothesis even more likely although not to the extent that would match the public outrage about the disaster as well as some local residents along the Oder accuse the government and its agencies of sitting waiting far too long after the first reports of fish dying between the Gliwice Canal and Oława in late July The agencies involved – mainly the General Environmental Protection Inspectorate (GIOŚ) and Wody Polskie – have sought to refute the accusations by publishing documents or statements claiming they took action already in late July the facts are that – whatever caused it – the toxic wave flowed for much of the Oder’s length and reached the valuable Lower Oder region the Oder’s estuary into the Szczecin Lagoon (Zalew Szczeciński) and the city of Szczecin On Thursday, a botched press briefing by Jacek Ozdoba and Grzegorz Witkowski – deputy environment and infrastructure ministers respectively – saw angry locals shout down the officials who tried to convince them that the situation was under control @GWitkowski82 wszedł pan w końcu do tej Odry? pic.twitter.com/zir0sbZDf6 — Dominik Szczepanski (@deszczep) August 12, 2022 “We want to find those guilty of this scandal and punish them as severely as possible!” Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki wrote on Facebook on 12 August He then fired the head of Wody Polskie saying that the response to the disaster “could have been faster” The government also said that a reward of one million złoty (€215,000) is on offer for tipping authorities off about who is responsible for the disaster Police in Poland have offered a one million zloty (€215,000) reward for information that helps identify the cause of contamination of the Oder river, which has resulted in thousands of fish dying and raised fears of a larger environmental catastrophe https://t.co/MQ2JNssQ1n — Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) August 13, 2022 the government of the German state of Brandenburg accused Poland of failing to trigger communication protocols and inform the German side of an ongoing crisis on the Oder Moskwa has met with her German counterpart Steffi Lemke to discuss the situation and ways of remedying it “We have agreed to ensure a close exchange of information between the Polish and German sides. We agree that the priority now is to limit the damage, protect the population and identify the cause and the potential perpetrator. This environmental crime must be solved,” Lemke said after meeting Moskwa on 13 August Ich werde mich gemeinsam mit @Vogel_Axel für die Aufklärung dieses Verbrechens einsetzen die mit Hochdruck an der Aufklärung und Begrenzung dieser Katastrophe arbeiten — SteffiLemke (@SteffiLemke) August 12, 2022 That said, Lemke told RBB24, a German broadcaster, on the following day that “you shouldn’t try to turn rivers into waterways or sewers”, a swipe at Poland’s plans to make the Oder navigable for goods transport “It is certain that German-Polish cooperation did not work in this case The German side was informed much too late,” Lemke added valuable as a whole – with Natura 2000 and other forms of nature protection covering much of its length in the Czech Republic (where the river originates) Of particular value is the Lower Oder, an area extending from the towns of Cedynia and Schwedt down to the river’s discharge into the Szczecin Lagoon. It is covered by Germany’s Unteres Odertal (Lower Oder) National Park and by Poland’s Landscape Park of the Lower Oder (Park Krajobrazowy Doliny Dolnej Odry) The Lower Oder is where the river separates into two concurrent streams between which there lies a maze of old canals, oxbows, polders, and wetlands – all home to rare species of birds and other fauna Historic bridge on Polish-German border reopens as bike and foot path entering the mostly still water of the Lower Oder system would devastate it Activists say that the disaster on the Oder is not just a single case of some industrial plant possibly discharging toxic waste into the river It is the result of years of disregard for the river’s environment no matter how much we’d like to pinpoint a single culprit,” says Marta Jermaczek-Sitek a biologist who has recently moved to a house near the Oder east of the city of Zielona Góra “Water parameters in the Oder have been improving lately…yet people regularly raised alarm over illegal discharge of industrial wastewater The discharges would typically become diluted but the Oder is very low this year,” she adds Prosecutors to re-examine industrial sewage pouring into Polish river after TV report Indeed, a hydrological map of Poland by meteorological service IMGW – which publishes data from water level-measuring stations – shows the Oder’s course dotted with black triangles indicating low water levels Jermaczek-Sitek adds that any works in the river that might have stirred up sediment could have added to the deadly pollution “We don’t know all the details but we can sum the whole situation up: the river simply broke down,” says the biologist “The river’s capacity for self-regulation and self-cleaning reached its limit and an ecological bomb was set off.” Water level of rivers in Poland drastically low The government is meeting on Tuesday to discuss harsher penalties for polluting rivers another town on the Oder that was affected by the disaster But the opposition was 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currently 395 cm Ślęza - Ślęza water level gauge: currently 393 cm Widawa - water level gauge Krzyżanowice: 142 cm The data can also be checked on the public IMGW portal https://hydro.imgw.pl/ (not asup-to-date as CZK receives ) or here: https://www.wroclaw.pl/dla-mieszkanca/stan-rzek-wroclaw-poziom-wody-na-odrze-imgw-olawa-bystrzyca-sleza-widawa As the forecasts for the Oder are lower than previously forecast the bypass for the Oder to Widawa will probably not be opened Oder is a system of interconnected vessels and the water is continuously monitored in water level measurement stations of the Meteorology and Water Management Institute where it can reduce its energy and decrease the height of the wave The flattening and prolongation of the wave is our main target We do not want the water to be cumulated in short but high peaks The total leasable area of ​​the building is 7,500 sqm and it has the capacity for around 20 stores The brands featured in the centre include Biedronka The 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Torus has announced its All.inn students’ residence concept that is soon to appear on ul Velis Real Estate Tech is officially changing its name to Singu adopting the title of its property management product the construction of the Panattoni Park Unterfranken has officially started Wirral's independent local news website The entrepreneur runs several successful businesses in Wirral Naz saw an opportunity to give back to the community she loves “We’ve knocked through to create Olawa Lounge next door There will also be cookery and baking lessons afternoon teas and even space for birthday parties.” Naz moved to Chester when she was three where her father ran a restaurant She moved to Bromborough aged 26 to be closer to work and made roots in Wirral Seven years ago Naz opened Elachi Indian Restaurant in Wallasey which last year won ‘Best Independent Hospitality Business’ at Liscard High Street Business Awards an award voted for by members of the public Naz clearly has a passion for keeping Wirral residents well fed and a chance visit saw her open Olawa Bakery in Liscard got interested in the business and ended up buying it “The thing I like about running a shop in Wirral the people are really nice I like the way the community just comes together there are a lot of things going on and a friendly atmosphere “I’m looking at bringing new things into Liscard It’s a lot of work but I’m grateful to be able to work with my husband and daughter I employ local people and offer training and work experience.” with plans to employ another six people in the near future Businesses like Naz’s are at the heart of Wirral’s communities they play a vital role in the local economy Supporting businesses in our communities helps them flourish which in turn helps creates more jobs locally.  “Small local businesses employ local people they buy from local businesses and use local tradesmen Local businesses have the interest of their community at heart and without them we wouldn’t survive “Supporting the community means growth for everyone.” Wirral Council is running a Shop Local campaign to support businesses like Naz’s. If you know any Wirral businesses that go above and beyond for their local community, you can nominate them by visiting wirral.gov.uk/yourhighstreet. Email us at news@birkenhead.news "The numerous killings had led to heightened fears in the Nigerian community in that city" Two more Nigerians have been killed in cold blood in Germiston exacerbating the pain and grief of losing five of their countrymen a month ago They have expressed deep sorrow over the tragic deaths of the two men under the auspices of Nigerian Union South Africa (NUSA) referred to the deceased simply as Olawa and Ite in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary Miller said that the thugs had reportedly killed five other Nigerians in the last month while two others are undergoing treatment for gunshot wounds He said the numerous killings had led to heightened fears in the Nigerian community in that city Ite’s demise occurred during a violent altercation with local residents in front of his business premises “It began when a group of South Africans attacked a Nigerian seeking refuge in Ite’s automobile repair centre to evade their assault prompting a brief retreat by the assailants upon Ite’s return to close his shop at the end of the business day having escorted the main target of the altercation to the hospital due to a head injury sustained during the brawl the thugs who had regrouped and returned to the location of the earlier altercation identified him as a participant and fatally shot him,’’ he said He noted that Olawa fell prey to the notorious thugs known for terrorizing Germiston shop owners with illicit levies and property seizures Witnesses recount that after Olawa paid one faction for his restaurant’s rent demanding payment and accusing him of defying their orders by supporting the rival group “The altercation escalated into gunfire “It is important to note that the video circulating is unrelated to the incident involving Ite and Olawa We urge our compatriots to refrain from spreading false information capable of exacerbating the situation “We vehemently condemn these senseless acts of violence and implore the relevant authorities to swiftly address these criminal gangs,” he said in the statement emailed to Persecondnews on Monday we urge the South African government to ensure the safety and security of all citizens the NUSA had advised Nigerians in South Africa to exercise caution and vigilance and steer clear of confrontations and precarious situations whenever possible He advised them to remain informed about their surroundings and seek assistance from authorities or trusted individuals if they felt threatened “NUSA will collaborate with the appropriate authorities to find a solution to the situation “Our hearts and prayers go out to the families and loved ones of Olawa and Ite By Joycelyn Ellakeche Adah In a decisive move to avert a looming.. 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