Sentences with phrase «many public water systems»

Damn the investors for making money on such lunacy, damn the paranoiacs who think the added fluoride in our public water systems is a mind - control drug, damn the Times for running a massive photo of a startup founder who thinks water «expires» and is described as «sitting naked and cross-legged on a hot spring, his long brown hair flowing over his chest.»

Natural disasters devastate communities and the environment, leaving public water systems compromised in the aftermath, unsafe by both state and federal health standards.

«In the present state of our knowledge it appears not to be a danger to public water systems.»

Flooding can contaminate the public water system due to rain waters overrunning the sewage system, and worse — septic tanks overflowing!

Others including Coca - Cola are also accused of undermining public water systems.

In their letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos and DOH Commissioner Howard Zucker note that public water systems that serve less than 10,000 people are exempt from the agency's Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule program.

And why should people who live in areas served by public water systems below this threshold be treated as second class citizens — does their health and safety not warrant the same protection as everyone else?»

The state asked the federal Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the amount of colorless contaminant 1,4 - dioxane found in public water systems and the state would set its own limit if the feds fail to do so, in a letter that will be sent to the EPA, Cuomo announced.

Data on lead in tap water from public water systems may be available on the Internet from your local water authority.

Elevated levels of PFOA were found in the village's public water system in 2014.

The budget includes a $ 2.5 billion clean water borrowing program, and testing must be done on all public water systems once every three years with state aid to smaller municipal water systems.

There are water pressure problems, there are water quality problems, there are an economic development failure by not having a public water system.

Officials in Vermont, New Hampshire and New York are expanding their efforts to find out how much of a potentially toxic chemical ended up in drinking water, from private wells to public water systems.

New York's two U.S. senators are pushing for safety standards for perfluorinated compounds and other unregulated industrial chemicals that have been found in public water systems.

No other state that I'm aware of has required all public water systems, regardless of size, to undertake testing for emerging contaminants,» said Hutton.

TICONDEROGA — The planned uniform charge schedule for the public water system in Ticonderoga will probably have to wait until the first quarter of 2017.

«There's a «Q and A» where it says are health effects expected given the PFOA levels found in Hoosick Falls» public water system and the answer to that sentence is a one - word sentence: «No,» Gottfried said.

• Many public water systems draw all or part of their supply from groundwater, so protecting the resource protects the public water supply and impacts treatment costs.

The Oswego County town of Volney will receive about $ 2 million in federal grants and loans to help build new water lines for about 100 homes and get them on the public water system.

With regard to public water systems, many cities can not afford to upgrade or maintain water infrastructure systems.

Should you drink from a private drinking water well instead of a local public water system, ensure that you have your water safety frequently checked.

Under the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act, public water systems that provide you with tap water, have to submit annual quality reports that reveal sources and levels of regulated contaminants, and their potential health effects.

The health guideline of 0.02 ppb were exceeded manifold in a number of public water systems, first and foremost in California and Arizona.

State's aging public water systems need updating, panel told.

The Virginia Department of Health, Office of Drinking Water (VDH - ODW) indicates that school facilities that are served by a public water system are not required by state law or regulation to test water at an individual school, unless the school is served by a community waterworks that has identified the school as one of their test sites, or the school is served by its own independent water system (typically a well water system) that is regulated by the state as a waterworks.

Because they don't have a well and live outside any public water system, they haul water each week for their holding tank and gather rainwater for their animals and garden.

No public water system could provide that volume of water at the rate needed — some 4,200 gallons (16,000 liters) per minute.

«I believe that bottled water is a symptom of a larger set of issues: the long - term decay of our public water systems, inequitable access to safe water around the world, our susceptibility to advertising and marketing, and a society trained from birth the buy, consume, and throw away,» writes Gleick.

Either way, it's a refreshing sign, and should be a nice kick in the wallet to the bottled water marketing cartel.It also could be a boon to public water systems, which face a $ 22 billion annual shortfall while consumers load up on bottled water at grocery stores and cities waste millions on the bottles, says Corporate Accountability International.

A generator provides electricity and there's no central plumbing (to collect water from the local river and have it filtered and chlorinated, Wiren had to become a federally certified public water system operator).

If you are among those that have a private well, you might feel like your water is better than that of those who are connected to the public water system, but is that really the case?

Not exact matches

«But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh - water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?»

Land is still its largest component — and some 80 percent of «capital» gains in the U.S. economy are land - price gains Site values are increased by public investment in streets, water and sewer facilities and transportation hubs, in school systems, by zoning restrictions, by the general level of prosperity, and most of all, by whatever bankers will lend.

With only 20 percent of the system working a month later, public utility companies can not restore regular water, internet, and phone service.

Our mission is to support the growth of public banking in Massachusetts, initially focusing on an infrastructure bank to help cities and towns with the costs of upgrading buildings, roads, and water systems, with environmental remediation and adaption to a changing climate, and with improving city services.

The California public water agency signed a deal with Tesla's energy storage deployment partner, Advanced Microgrid Solutions, to install Powerpack systems at 11 of its facilities back in 2016.

«No solid evidence has come to light that suggests privatizing the city's water and sewer systems would be in the public's best interest,» watchdog group Public Citizen concluded at thepublic's best interest,» watchdog group Public Citizen concluded at thePublic Citizen concluded at the time.

His accomplishments in his island paradise service to the crown (1846 - 54) range from establishing the postal system, creating the first library and public education system on the island, to having piped water delivered to Port of Spain, the capital.

Georgia Health News surveyed the state's 20 largest public school systems about their lead testing policies and found many differences in how school systems evaluated their water quality.

David Mau, the village's director of public works, said the study conducted by Strand Associates will include creating a computerized, hydraulic model of Glencoe's main water system and making recommendations that could help officials determine the future of the village's 85 - year - old, beachfront water plant.

County Executive Steve Bellone has declared nitrogen to be «public water enemy» number one and is his top environmental concern as he seeks to expand sewer lines and approve advanced septic systems for single - family homes.

Progressive leaders and Democratic state lawmakers on Tuesday said they wanted a measure overhauling campaign finance that included a public system of funding for campaigns, saying they wouldn't accept any «watered down» compromises.

«Public water supplies and sanitary sewer systems are essential to urban and suburban living.

«Residents of Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh have a right to know timely information about the condition of water in their public systems and private wells.

As various proposals for a broader public financing system are floated, members of the mainline Democratic conference in the Senate, as well as advocates that have pushed the measure over the years, are telegraphing they won't support any agreement they deem watered - down.

The steps were taken to address recent problems plaguing the public housing system, including a lead paint scandal and problems with boilers and heating systems that left 300,000 people without heat and hot water during the winter.

Following the devastation in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria, and months without sufficient electricity, water and supplies, the public school system on the island now faces potential manmade devastation: closures of almost 350 public schools.

The Board's concerns include that «large holders of Puerto Rico debt will seek to raise their stakes and collateralize their debt with the island's public infrastructure: roads, bridges, sewers, water systems, and other public assets.»

Riverkeeper is teaming up with partners in public health to promote routine maintenance of private septic systems, an important way homeowners can protect water quality.

The Times Union reported Sunday that the state Health Department was informed in August 2014 that the toxic chemical had contaminated the village water system, but it took months before the public was formally notified, and more than a year for the state to adopt the EPA's position that water should not be consumed.