As Cape Town’s water runs out, the rich are drilling wells — and the poor are worrying about eating | Borehole Hammer

The experts then hope to dig a horizontal tunnel to the spot where they believe the boy is trapped in the borehole.

Circumcision in infancy also means that by the time the male becomes sexually active, he has partial protection against those STIs known to be more prevalent in uncircumcised men [9, 12, 18, 51, 52]. Meta-analyses of observational studies show MC protects against oncogenic human papillomavirus (HPV) [53, 54], genital herpes (HSV-2) [51], syphilis [51] and HIV [55]. The protective effect demonstrated by meta-analyses of the observational data [51, 55] has, with the curious exception of syphilis, been reinforced by randomized controlled trials (RCTs) [55–61]). The trials also demonstrated increased efficacy to prevent HIV infection the longer the follow-up period after surgery. The protective effect is greater when MC is performed prior to sexual debut [51]. In men who have sex with men (MSM), while MC offers little protection against STIs acquired from receptive anal intercourse, MC does appear to protect men who are insertive-only, and to a similar degree as for vaginal heterosexual intercourse [62–64].

The centerpiece of Chicago band the Jesus Lizard’s second album, Goat, is a masterclass in noise-rock majesty. It’s not a conventionally catchy or pretty song, necessarily, but by the standards of feedback-loving ’90s Marshall stack wreckers, it’s a goddamn symphony. The rhythm section of Mac McNeilly and David Sims creates a raw, pummeling, and ominous backdrop for what’s ultimately a showcase for both vocalist David Yow (formerly of Scratch Acid) and guitarist Duane Denison at their best. Denison shows his share of restraint in the song, playing a melancholy arpeggio riff that stands out among the band’s most melodic moments. That sense of relative calm is pierced with a blood-curdling scream around 1:08, and it’s right here that the song proves to be more than it initially appears, a blend of beauty and horror, menace and mastery, climaxing with some of the most intense yet strangely beautiful sounds Denison ever wrung from his guitar. Much has been made of how wild the Jesus Lizard’s live shows were, which isn’t wrong. But “Monkey Trick,” which even Yow said was the band’s best song, is proof of how much artistry went into those drunken, pants-dropping orgies of chaos.

Available as a 60in (TC-P60ZT60) version in the UK (the 65in version will not be available), the Panasonic ZT60 is designed to be the company’s most feature-packed television, producing the best image quality.

A majority of the vertices of the U.S. military are threatened, according to a report by the Pentagon due to the consequences of climate change. Two Thirdl of the 79 surveyed facilities were currently or in the future might be, endangered by frequent Flooding, said in the Friday report published by the U.S. Department of defense. More than half of the vertices are affected by periods of drought. In addition, forest fires, and the thawing of the duration of the threatened soil frost. Accordingly, the future dangers, in about 20 years.

Adults do not fit through the shaft and machinery has hit an obstruction of strong material that is about two-thirds down the vertical hole. It is not known if the boy is even alive.

Best signing: Faf de Klerk – the Springbok scrum-half may look like someone from Baywatch, with his long flowing blond locks, but he’ll be doing more than making sandcastles at Sale. His introduction could be the boost the Sharks need – fizzing around the breakdown and creating chances. He’s a proper player.

Pieter explains that the Northern Cape area presents some of the most challenging conditions in the world. “We drill into some of the hardest rock in the world, with compressive strengths above 500MPa under extreme surface and weather conditions; these drilling machines take a huge hammering. While most machines start to fall apart after only a short time of drilling, the Epiroc drill rigs give us up to 80% availability over many years of operation. Only machines of this exceptional quality will last for 30 000 hours plus.

Few, however, would disagree with Mr Gleick that the hard path alone is no longer enough and that it needs to be complemented with a “soft” one that seeks to improve the way water is used, rather than to find new sources of supply. That means spending on local facilities, efficient technologies and education and training.

Sportsmail’s verdict: 7th – one up from last term, but not quite breaking into the Champions Cup places this time. The fact that they are not in the relegation conversation is a positive in itself.

SOUTH JORDAN — Anyone visiting the unremarkable backyard of John Renouard is bound to notice a large, steel machine standing at the edge of the flower garden. The machine is painted blue and yellow and lacks any engines or electronic parts.

A huge expansion would also involve huge complications. “You start to get into really big challenges when you get to these big, large scales,” Glen Peters, a research director at the Cicero Center for International Climate Research in Oslo, told me. “If you can do one carbon-capture facility, where Carbon Engineering or Climeworks can build a big plant, great. You need to do that 5,000 times. And to capture a million tons of CO₂ with direct air capture, you need a small power plant just to run that facility. So if you’re going to build one direct-air-capture facility every day for the next 30 years to get to some of these scenarios, then in addition, we have to build a new mini power plant every day as well.” It’s also the case that you have to address two extraordinary problems at the same time, Peters added. “To reach 1.5 degrees, we need to halve emissions every decade,” he said. That would mean persuading entire nations, like China and the United States, to switch from burning coal to using renewables at precisely the same time that we make immense investments in negative-emission technologies. And Peters pointed out that this would need to be done even as governments choose among competing priorities: health care, education and so on.