Sentences with phrase «u.s. public water systems»

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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.

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.

Felix Rohatyn, the Lazard banker, is still at it: he is telling financially - strapped U.S. cities, to drop their traditional unwillingness to sell off public assets (water and sewer systems, parks, properties, ports, airports, etc.) to «private foreign investors» — Rohatyn's euphemism for international funny money — and allow himself and cronies to grab it up.

• The readiness of the nation to predict and avoid public and occupational health problems caused by heat waves and severe storms • Characterization and quantification of relationships between climate variability, health outcomes, and the main determinants of vulnerability within and between populations • Development of reliable methods to connect climate - related changes in food systems and water supplies to health under different conditions • Prediction of future risks in response to climate change scenarios and of reductions in the baseline level of morbidity, mortality, or vulnerability • Identification of the available resources, limitations of, and potential actions by the current U.S. health care system to prevent, prepare for, and respond to climate - related health hazards and to build adaptive capacity among vulnerable segments of the U.S. population

The China - U.S. Partnership for Sustainable Development is currently working to transform several urban cores into living systems that will process waste water, leverage opportunities for renewable energy, and create new green spaces for public use.