Sentences with phrase «river water protection»

If you haven't done so already you should definitely endorse the Hood River Water Protection Measure.

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Laws related to drinking water, elections, financial transparency, matrimonial property, land surrenders and the removal of protections for lakes and rivers were passed in spite of strong opposition by First Nations.

He may have despised the simple catechism of his German congregation, just as we «moderns» take offense at the minimalistic theology of many of the folk who inhabit our standard - brand churches, but he knew also that they had a great deal to teach the young pastor by virtue of having surveyed the land «across the river» and having dared to cross the chilly waters of Jordan with a sense of divine protection.

A total of 367 GL of Commonwealth environmental water was released from Hume Dam to support in - channel, wetland and low elevation floodplain habitat throughout the River Murray for improving the condition, movement and recruitment of native fish — both silver (critically endangered under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999) and golden perch were detected spawning in the Mid Murray in response to flow variability; improve riparian and wetland vegetation condition; and contribute to the managed export of salt from the River Murray system.

The Environmental Protection Agency advises not to flush them down the drain (unless directed) because wastewater treatment plants can't remove drugs from sewer system water and they end up in our rivers and streams.

Seven communities along the Hudson River are banding together to enhance water quality protections.

Westcountry Rivers Trust The Westcountry Rivers Trust is an environmental charity (Charity no. 1135007, Company no. 06545646) established in 1995 to secure the preservation, protection, development and improvement of the rivers, streams, watercourses and water impoundments in the Westcountry and to advance the education of the public in the management of water.

There was a $ 100,000 state assistance grant provided to the Water Task Force for the Ramapo / Mahwah River Protection Plan.

This website is updated with support from the Hudson River Estuary Program, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, with support from the New York State Environmental Protection Fund, in cooperation with the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission.

Its protection ensures ongoing timber resource protection, safeguards water quality of the Salmon River and allows for continued public access to state sanctioned snowmobile trails and other outdoor recreation,» according to Conservation Fund press release.

A study carried out by the Regional Service for Plant Protection in Rennes found that tomato plants watered from the River Seiche in central Brittany suffered from wrinkled leaves, bent stems, slow growth and deformed or unusually small fruit.

That region's rivers provide an average of 132,000 gallons of water per person per year — scarcely enough for household use, even if Bolivians are thriftier than US families, who can use up to 400 gallons a day, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Adriaan Slob, Senior Researcher, TNO Strategy and Policy Tara Geerdink, Senior Researcher, TNO Strategy and Policy Piotr Magnuszewski, Scientific Director, Centre for Systems Solutions Dejan Komatina, Secretary, International Sava River Basin Commission Fred Heuer, Former Director General in the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Water and infrastructure Philippe Pypaert, Programme Specialist, UNESCO Venice Office Samo Grošelj, Deputy Secretary for Protection of Waters and Aquatic Eco-system, International Sava River Basin Commission

[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

Protection of natural water bodies, including rivers and lakes, that indigenous communities rely on

I suspect that the EPA under Pruitt's direction will be more focused on real environmental protection, so that disasters such as the Flint Water Crisis and the Animas River Spill, won't be repeated.

The Clean Water Protection Act is a bill in the US House of Representatives which will sharply reduce mountaintop removal coal mining by protecting our headwater streams, where our rivers, like the Mississippi and the Ohio, are born.

Speaking of water, he's working to repeal the clean water rule that ensures protection for wetlands, rivers and streams that provide drinking water to a third of all Americans.

Healthy rivers are our «natural defense» against global warming impacts: We need healthy rivers and the clean water and natural flood protection benefits they provide, in order to be resilient against the droughts, floods, and waterborne diseases that will increase with global warming.

Republican President Theodore Roosevelt, for instance, launched the conservation movement early in the last century, and, responding to cough - inducing smog and rivers catching on fire, President Richard Nixon signed the landmark Clean Air and Clean Water Acts and established the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The World Commission on Dams reports that large dams are the «main physical threat» to the «degradation of watershed ecosystems» and destroy or restrict rivers» capacities to perform crucial ecosystem services such as providing habitat for fish reproduction, nutrient recycling, water purification, soil replenishment, flood control, and mangroves and wet - lands protection.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is launching a new strategy to promote the use of green infrastructure by cities and towns to reduce stormwater runoff that pollutes our nation's streams, creeks, rivers, lakes and coastal waters.

Despite becoming the focus of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency form 1970 to 1976 for its unusually high incidence of childhood cancers caused by toxic leaks at a former area chemical plant, Toms River not only has the most stringent drinking water testing in the nation, it is consistently ranked as one of the safest U.S. cities over the last three years.

The Indigenous Nations of the Murray - Darling River Basin possess distinct cultural and customary rights and responsibilities including: a spiritual connection to the lands, waters and natural resources of the Basin; management of significant sites located along the river banks, on the river beds, and sites and stories associated with the water and natural resources located in the rivers and their tributaries; protection of Indigenous cultural heritage and knowledge; accessing cultural activities such as hunting and fishing, and cereRiver Basin possess distinct cultural and customary rights and responsibilities including: a spiritual connection to the lands, waters and natural resources of the Basin; management of significant sites located along the river banks, on the river beds, and sites and stories associated with the water and natural resources located in the rivers and their tributaries; protection of Indigenous cultural heritage and knowledge; accessing cultural activities such as hunting and fishing, and cereriver banks, on the river beds, and sites and stories associated with the water and natural resources located in the rivers and their tributaries; protection of Indigenous cultural heritage and knowledge; accessing cultural activities such as hunting and fishing, and cereriver beds, and sites and stories associated with the water and natural resources located in the rivers and their tributaries; protection of Indigenous cultural heritage and knowledge; accessing cultural activities such as hunting and fishing, and ceremony.

The Commission is of the view that the Water Amendment Bill 2008 does not provide adequate protection of the rights and interests of the Indigenous peoples» of the Murray - Darling River Basin.

The Indigenous peoples of the Archer, Lockhart and Stewart River Basins possess distinct cultural and customary rights and responsibilities including: a spiritual connection to the lands, waters and natural resources of the rivers; management of significant sites located along the river banks, on and in the river beds, and sites and stories associated with the water and natural resources located in the rivers and their tributaries; protection of Indigenous cultural heritage and knowledge; accessing cultural activities such as hunting and fishing, and cereRiver Basins possess distinct cultural and customary rights and responsibilities including: a spiritual connection to the lands, waters and natural resources of the rivers; management of significant sites located along the river banks, on and in the river beds, and sites and stories associated with the water and natural resources located in the rivers and their tributaries; protection of Indigenous cultural heritage and knowledge; accessing cultural activities such as hunting and fishing, and cereriver banks, on and in the river beds, and sites and stories associated with the water and natural resources located in the rivers and their tributaries; protection of Indigenous cultural heritage and knowledge; accessing cultural activities such as hunting and fishing, and cereriver beds, and sites and stories associated with the water and natural resources located in the rivers and their tributaries; protection of Indigenous cultural heritage and knowledge; accessing cultural activities such as hunting and fishing, and ceremony.