Sentences with phrase «about contaminated water»

Because Bo and Maria spoke about the contaminated water in their communities» wells, the streams running black with dead fish near their homes, the toxic air coming in and out of their lungs, and the grave health risks of living near mountaintop removal mining sites.

In Signs, Bo is perpetually paranoid about contaminated water which later on — as it does in The Last Airbender — literally becomes weaponized.

99 % Contaminant Removal - One of the privileges of living in a developed country is not having to worry about contaminated water.

Nixon has tried to make it clear she's not just a celebrity candidate, visiting public housing residents in Brooklyn and meeting with residents upstate in Hoosick Falls about contaminated water.

Not exact matches

In Silt, Colorado, a woman named Laura Amos no longer talks about the adrenal - gland tumor and other health complications she developed after her water was contaminated by a gas well drilled less than 1,000 feet from her home.

You don't have to worry about us funding private prisons, fracking, oil drilling, contaminated water pipes, or supporting idiotic political candidates.

My Holistic practitioner is fanatical about food and food that has been grown with contaminated water and thus she gets all her food tested.

She is betting on the fact that her supporters don't know about the waterbirth deaths, don't understand that the water is contaminated with dangerous microorganisms and aren't aware of the pronouncements of the AAP.

Most health care providers are not very concerned about sterilizing bottles, unless you use well water or your city is known to have a contaminated water supply, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).

A fact sheet from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), indicates that about 90 % of exposure for humans is due to eating contaminated food, since dioxins and furans typically accumulate in the fatty tissues of fish and animals that are exposed when these by - products are released into the water and air during manufacturing.2 Dioxin is not metabolized in our bodies, and is passed to our children through the placenta and breastfeeding.3 Sodium Polyacrylate - Super Absorbent Polymers While actual contact with disposable diapers does not contribute to dioxin accumulation in your baby, your baby's bottom does come in contact with chemicals used to increase the absorbency of the diapers.

And how about birth without marinating TWO of your children in nasty contaminated birth pool water?

In fact, it was about illegal marketing practices, about the fact that infants in the third world die on watered down formula (because it's too expensive to mix properly), badly mixed formula (because parents can't read the directions), and formula made with contaminated water.

For instance, official correspondence about autopsy results revealed damage limitation attempts about the fact that several prisoners in a Kenyan camp were beaten to death, and did not die by drinking contaminated water as initially claimed.

We talked about the issues from the campaign trail, including contaminated water, a potential legislative pay raise and the age of the candidates.

The state's action came about 16 months after a village resident, Michael Hickey, alerted local government officials that PFOA had contaminated the public water supply.

Children from Hoosick Falls, N.Y., protested last year in Albany about the drinking water in their town, where water wells, at right, were contaminated with high levels of perfluorooctanoic acid.

She is worried about what contaminates would be present in the water in the future.

In the past week, some state lawmakers, including Marchione and Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, have called for legislative hearings to determine whether health agencies acted swiftly enough in notifying the public about the potential dangers of consuming the contaminated water.

In a paradox worth pondering, does anybody find it curious that a county administration whose repeatedly stated goal has been to create «the healthiest county in the state» has had lead - contaminated water in about half its buildings, including its headquarters in the county office building?

Gov. Andrew Cuomo met privately at the state Capitol with school and government leaders from Hoosick Falls about ongoing efforts to deal with the discovery of a toxic chemical that contaminated public and private water supplies in the Rensselaer County community

Hoosick Falls village officials secretly hired a Glens Falls public relations firm last month to help develop «an overall communications program» as criticism mounted about their decision to not warn residents to stop drinking water contaminated with a toxic chemical.

Washington Lake, the drinking water source for about 30,000 residents, was contaminated with perfluorooctanesulfonic acid, or PFOS.

The state's $ 20 million settlement with Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics will bring municipal water to about 200 homes with wells contaminated with PFOA.

Fallout from the discovery of the toxic chemical in the water supply of Hoosick Falls later erupted into a war of finger - pointing between local, state and federal agencies after questions emerged in late 2015 about why it took at least 14 months before residents were warned to stop drinking from the village's contaminated wells.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand met Friday with Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh residents, hearing from them about the impact of their water being contaminated with a hazardous man - made chemical, and pressing for medical monitoring similar to that provided to 9/11 first responders.

In all, a personal observation showed that about 96 water bodies combined in Ashanti, Brong Ahafo, Central, Eastern and Western Regions have been contaminated with lead, mercury and cyanide chemicals which are being used for illegal gold mining operations in 2013/2014 periods.

We went back to South Africa in 1998, this time to Driefontein Mine, located about 40 miles southwest of Johannesburg, and took water samples, which are easier to work with than rock and less likely to be contaminated.

The more than 6,000 active gas wells in Pennsylvania generate scores of complaints each week, many about terrible odors and contaminated water

In all four, the trenches are full to the brim with contaminated water, and threaten to overflow, potentially emptying into the sea about 50 metres away.

Scientists are worried about contaminating the lake, and plans to install equipment to monitor the lake water are not expected for another 5 years.

In a 2000 case that wasn't caused by injection but brought important lessons about how fluids could move underground, hydrogeologists concluded that bacteria - polluted water migrated horizontally underground for several thousand feet in just 26 hours, contaminating a drinking water well in Walkerton, Ontario, and sickening thousands of residents.

Through December 31, 2016, the Defense Department had spent about $ 200 million to assess contaminated sites, test water systems, and provide filters and bottled water in response to PFOA and PFOS.

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When news broke about water contamination in West Virginia, I wondered if a Berkey water filter would have been able to filter the contaminates out.

Direct Abundance and Caribbean S.E.A. are partnering together to offer educational programs about coral reef and mangrove conservation, safe water and sewage discharge solutions. The need for these programs is essential for the San Mateo area as their homes are located in a swamp highly contaminated by human waste.

My current projects include an installation and book about the transformation of the Mojave Desert during the Cold War, and several projects concerning water contaminated by radioactive isotopes and the subsequent effects on the human genome.

Now, a year after Sandy submerged hundreds of galleries and thousands of artworks in Brooklyn, Chelsea, and lower Manhattan in the cold, contaminated waters of the Hudson and East Rivers, everything about the experience looks and feels a bit different; but the devastation caused by the storm surge and the ways in which it transformed the New York art scene have not been forgotten.

But we're not always clear about which people are most exposed and impacted.The harm that comes with rising seas and contaminated water systems isn't evenly distributed.

In the weeks following the rupture of the Exxon Mobil Pegasus pipeline that spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil (or tar sands diluted bitumen) into a Mayflower, Arkansas neighborhood and lake, the news about the spill was just one depressing story after the next as we learned that wildlife had been oiled, local residents, including children, were becoming sick, contaminated water was pumped into the lake, the media was being intimidated to reduce access and coverage and that Exxon may have known about the spill earlier than they are letting on.

Environmentalists are worried, though, about contaminated drinking water, and earth tremors - but perhaps those are the least of the dangers.

The study, which was featured in the August 9, 2010 issue of Nature magazine and later published in the peer - reviewed journal Environmental Science and Technology, raises serious doubts about the industry's contention that there is no need for tighter water - quality standards to keep mountaintop removal from contaminating drinking water relied on by communities downstream of the mines.

They were allowed to return within 12 hours of the leak, but there are still questions about how much natural gas escaped, and whether nearby soil and water were contaminated.

The voices of the thousands of Appalachians living with contaminated drinking water have finally been amplified over the past several days with a long - overdue announcement about halting mountaintop removal permits from the EPA and a widely - discussed New York Times story on Sunday about the devastating effects of coal - tainted water.

Unserviceable wells, contaminated water, noise, citizens concerned about their health, wind farm issues are increasingly being blamed in southwestern Ontario, and many communities are mobilizing to oppose the development of their homes.

Concerns about the proposed Letcher site stem from an alarming set of tests on the property that have already shown the water system that would supply the prison is contaminated by high levels of fecal coliform bacteria and hepatitis A.

What wasn't known at the time was that the ground water was naturally contaminated by arsenic («about six times the world recommended [safe] maximum amount of arsenic»).

Typically a contaminate to worry about, a group of engineers from Stanford University have figured out how to turn the problem of nitrates in the water in to a possible solution for energy generation.

A study was recently released about water wells in southeast Asia contaminated with arsenic.

Maria also spoke about the recent coal - related chemical spill that contaminated the drinking water of over 300,000 West Virginians, saying «there is no safe water in the state of West Virginia.»

«Defendants caused a public health crisis by exposing (Flint residents) to contaminated water» and «exacerbated the crisis by concealing and misrepresenting its scope, failing to take effective remedial action to eliminate it, and then lying about it to cover up their misconduct,» it continued.