Sentences with phrase «about lead in drinking water»

Not just in Flint, Michigan, but all over the country people are concerned about lead in drinking water.

Basic Information About Lead in Drinking Water.

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In Prince Rupert and many other communities throughout British Columbia, there are widespread concerns about high lead levels in schools and local drinking wateIn Prince Rupert and many other communities throughout British Columbia, there are widespread concerns about high lead levels in schools and local drinking watein schools and local drinking water.

Fourthly, whereas taxes on unhealthy foods may be problematic because of concern about unintended substitution effects (for example, a tax on foods high in saturated fat may lead to a shift towards salty foods), 13 the potential substitutes for sugar sweetened drinks (diet drinks, fruit juice, milk, water) are probably less harmful for health.

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Concerned about children's exposure to lead found in drinking water, lawmakers met with reporters today at the state capitol in Albany to discuss a last - minute push to require lead testing in all public schools.

Madonna has become so nuts for coconut water that she recently invested about $ 1.5 million in one of the leading makers of the drink, which has taken Hollywood and The...

There are about 15,000 lead water service lines in Syracuse, the same kind of pipes that leached poisonous lead into the drinking water in Flint, Mich..

In the latest episode of Investigative Postcast, environmental reporter Dan Telvock talks to Virginia Tech professor Marc Edwards about the risks posed by lead in drinking water, and why it's a bigger problem than local governments want to acknowledgIn the latest episode of Investigative Postcast, environmental reporter Dan Telvock talks to Virginia Tech professor Marc Edwards about the risks posed by lead in drinking water, and why it's a bigger problem than local governments want to acknowledgin drinking water, and why it's a bigger problem than local governments want to acknowledge.

But the crisis in Flint, where dangerous levels of lead were found in drinking water in February 2015, has raised serious questions about water quality in cities like Buffalo that have older infrastructure.

«When the news broke about lead contamination in the drinking water in some of our schools, Senator Tom O'Mara went to work.

In addition, water providers and health officials often tell people who are concerned about lead in tap water to run the water between 30 seconds and two minutes before using it for cooking or drinkinIn addition, water providers and health officials often tell people who are concerned about lead in tap water to run the water between 30 seconds and two minutes before using it for cooking or drinkinin tap water to run the water between 30 seconds and two minutes before using it for cooking or drinking.

Lead paint is considered the culprit, but the crisis in Flint, Michigan, has raised questions about the safety of the drinking water in cities like Buffalo.

Dr. Mona Hanna - Attisha, a pediatrician, director of a pediatric residency program in Flint, Mich. and the first person to raise public concerns about elevated lead levels in the blood of Flint area children, talked about the consequences of sounding the alarm over her research that found Flint's water system was leaching lead into drinking water and making her young patients sick.

The success of the personal filtration system led Vestergaard Frandsen to introduce earlier this month its LifeStraw Family device, an instant microbiological purifier that provides about 2.6 gallons (10 liters) of safe drinking water in an hour and about 4,000 gallons (15,000 liters) over its life span for a family of six.

Psychologist Ullrich Ecker of the University of Western Australia and his colleagues collected data last year showing that deceptive headlines, such as «Fears of Fluoride in Drinking Water» (which topped an article emphasizing the safety of fluoride in water), can provoke biased inferences about the story, leading to misconceptWater» (which topped an article emphasizing the safety of fluoride in water), can provoke biased inferences about the story, leading to misconceptwater), can provoke biased inferences about the story, leading to misconceptions.

Recent reports about water in Washington, D.C. indicate that drinking water rarely leads to lead poisoning.

In early 2016, Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder declared a state of emergency in the majority black city of Flint over the dangerous levels of lead in the drinking water — more than a year after concerns about the water were initially raiseIn early 2016, Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder declared a state of emergency in the majority black city of Flint over the dangerous levels of lead in the drinking water — more than a year after concerns about the water were initially raisein the majority black city of Flint over the dangerous levels of lead in the drinking water — more than a year after concerns about the water were initially raisein the drinking water — more than a year after concerns about the water were initially raised.