The New Jersey lottery is owned and administered by the government of New Jersey (NJ) and is one of the oldest lotteries in the United States.
Three Million Gallons of Contaminated Water Turns River Orange in Colorado. The Animas River in Colorado has turned orange as a toxic spill continues to flow downstream and through to other states. A team of workers with the Environmental Protection Agency accidentally released 3 million gallons of waste water from the Gold King Mine in Silverton, Colorado, on Aug. 5, the agency said.
This resulted in an outbreak of balantidiasis, an intestinal protozoan. A cyclone and flooding in Mauritius in 1980 led to an outbreak of typhoid fever. The only epidemic-prone infection directly from contaminated water is leptospirosis, a zoonotic bacterial disease. Transmission occurs through contact with water, damp soil or vegetation, or mud contaminated with rodent urine. 1 Vector-borne diseases-Floods may lead to an increase in vector-borne diseases through the expansion of vector habitats.