european capital, particularly london, around 1560 and tea arrives around the same time. this is important partially because it changed the diets of europeans who have basically been drinking alcohol all day long. they would drink beer through breakfast and all throughout the day. the reason was undrinkable. it was the healthy choice. had to do something to kill the germs in water. exactly. you would do it by brewing or fermentation. exactly. and with coffee, you boil with the leaves. suddenly the population shifts from drinking a depress ant all day long to drinking a suppressant. what also happened was a space developed, a semipublic space. london went crazy. by the end of the 1600s, hundreds of these coffee houses
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the men have little food but water is abundant. thousands of gallons of greasy murky water is stored in the mine to keep machine engines cool. it s drinkable, which is critical at 100 degrees fahrenheit and 100% humidity. jorge galleguillos has high blood pressure and lung problems caused by years of mining. the heat is making it worse. your entire body is sweating and you get an ache in your foot. the boot. you want to cut it to let it breathe. miner alex vega is also suffering. the 31-year-old machine mechanic says his ulcer is paralyzing him with pain. so you had three pills yet. translator: i had to divide three pills into four parts and take a piece per day.
water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink. and while you may remember that the ancient mariner in the english poem was surrounded by undrinkable salt water, some residents of detroit are finding they can personally relate to that century s old line, considering the city is literally surrounded by great lakes filled with fresh water. and yet, water has been shut off for thousands of detroit residents, leaving people unable to drink a glass of water or bathe or cook. not on a remote desert island or on a developing country, but here in the united states of america in 2014. the city s battle with more than 100,000 residents who have unpaid water bills has captured the nation s attention. and now after shutting off water to more than 15,000 detroit residents, the associated press reports detroit s water system cited 79 customers for illegal water use in one recent three-day period and levied
against these utilities has started. i think this is a progressive step forward that is typically unusual of denr. could this leak at the dan river plant have been prevented? was it was this the sort of thing that was foreseen, that people were worried about with those lawsuits they were filing? yes. this was absolutely 100% preventable, rachel. what we know is that these coal ash ponds, anytime they re storing toxic coal ash in an unlined hole in the ground adjacent to our surface waters, that there s a risk to the public. there s a risk to our drinking water, the public s right for swimmable, drinkable, fishable water to utilize for their recreation and for their personal benefit. and even though this spill is the outward sign, we saw the outward sign of the spill in kingston, tennessee in 2008, and this is the outward sign of a catastrophic failure here at the dan river, these plants, all 14 plants in north carolina are