Sentences with phrase «about water crises»

But news stories about water crises can definitely make you wonder, and most people who use wells to provide water to their homes will notice minerals like iron and sulfur that affect the taste, smell, and appearance of their water.

She was heading to the nation's capital to hear Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder testify before Congress about the water crisis in her hometown of Flint, Michigan.

Taking a peer - to - peer approach in disseminating information about the water crisis, members of the senior class officers and the editorial board of the school paper explained the nature of the water crisis.

Variety Cher has dropped out of her expected return to acting with Flint, a TV movie about the water crisis in Michigan citing «serious family issues» (sending her good vibes) Coming Soon Joseph Gordon - Levitt & Channing Tatum will team - up for an R rated jukebox musical called Wingmen about two pilots who crash land in Vegas Variety Lola Albright film actress of the 1940s and 1950s and know for TV's Peter Gunn has died at 92

For example, in Social Studies, they are creating a fictional school for students in Pakistan, while in Language Arts they are learning about the water crisis in Sudan.

Matt Damon The talented Mr. Damon has been a good shepherd for the earth, narrating the documentary Running the Sahara and participating in the related awareness campaign about the water crisis in Africa.

The writer of the column offers an example of how a resident of Flint with high «emotional granularity» might choose to direct their frustration about the water crisis towards organizing for change, while someone with «lower» emotional granularity might fall into despair.

Not exact matches

In 2009, back at HBS for her five - year reunion, Kauss attended a panel about the global clean - water crisis.

You knew there was a water crisis in our world and you did something about it.

In 1984, he enlisted a small group of farmers to dig wide, shallow wells (about 26 ft. / 8 m in diameter) for each other in his home province of Uva, which has suffered a prolonged and severe water crisis since the British Empire ordered its soldiers to destroy all its reservoirs — as well as chop down every fruit - bearing tree and kill all men aged 18 and over — in retaliation for the Uva — Wellassa Uprising of 1817 — 1818.

Professor Amamoo - Otchere made the remarks on the Citi Breakfast Show when concerns about a looming water crisis came up for discussion.

With local water contamination crises rocking our state in recent months, the last thing our residents should have to worry about is clean drinking water,» said McLaughlin.

State health officials do not seem especially eager to field questions about the ongoing water contamination crisis in Hoosick Falls and other upstate towns.

HOOSICK FALLS — Gov. Andrew Cuomo made his first visit to Hoosick Falls on Sunday, about 100 days after the polluted town water supply blew up into one of the most serious public health crises his administration has experienced.

Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, has been criticized for what some saw as a lax response to the crisis, visiting the village only months after the water was confirmed to be poisoned; lawmakers in Albany, meanwhile, were also initially noncommittal about hearings on the contamination, before eventually assenting.

It's now clear why Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie doesn't want to hold hearings on the Hoosick Falls water crisis: They'd spotlight the Cuomo administration's reckless failure to warn residents about...

Certainly, lawmakers will question state and federal officials about the slow response to the crisis in Hoosick Falls, and why the state Department of Health assured residents they could drink their water for a year before reversing that position.

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.

«The recent public health crisis in Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh is a critical reminder of the need to be vigilant about protecting our public health and safety,» the mailer states, «and making smart investments in water quality and environmental protection.»

«As the federal official who alerted the public about the risk of drinking the toxic water in Hoosick Falls, I continue to be concerned that the state of New York has not learned the lessons from their water crisis,» she said in a statement provided to the Times Union late Tuesday.

On Monday and Tuesday, in the state Capitol, there was little desire to talk about the Hoosick Falls water crisis, or what steps could be put in place to protect other communities around the state from a similar situation.

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.

Ari Adler, a spokesman for Snyder, said the governor has supported the probe «because the people of Flint and across Michigan are owed straight answers about how the Flint water crisis happened.»

But the availability of fresh water has already reached crisis proportions in many parts of the world, and some experts warn we should be more worried about «peak freshwater» than «peak oil.»

The crisis reopened questions about how to deal with the flood of radioactive water accumulating at Fukushima.

«New information about the Flint water crisis.»

By Anna Flávia Rochas and Roberto Samora SAO PAULO, Jan 9 (Reuters)- Southeastern Brazil is getting some rainfall a year after a record drought started, but not enough to eliminate worries about an energy crisis, water shortages or another season of damaged export crops, meteorologists said.

The University of Michigan's Paul Mohai, a leading researcher of issues related to environmental justice, talked about the Flint water crisis at a workshop sponsored by the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources, attended by Scientific American contributing editor Robin Lloyd.

To Christiana Zenner, Ph.D., an author and professor of water ethics at Fordham University, California's crisis speaks to the need for a new way of thinking about natural resources.

After our family's health crisis in 2008, I learned to ask questions about what's in our food, our water, and our air.

We are chatting about her passion for World Vision (and how she got into working for World Vision), the Global 6K for water and ending the world water crisis, and we also just talk about life and what living a life to serve others looks like.

As part of the school's focus on project - based learning, a group of middle schoolers were working on a project about the global water crisis, planning to help a village in Tanzania get access to clean water.

The Michigan Department of Education said that about $ 4,200 of that $ 20,166 was meant to address the water crisis.

In today's links, we have a article about the Flint Public Library archiving the stories of city residents and the poisoned water crisis.

«What's especially concerning about this current northern fur seal crisis is that this species has a particularly difficult time recovering from unfavorable ocean conditions, such as these warmer waters,» says Tenaya Norris, marine scientist at The Marine Mammal Center.

-LSB-...] E. Boyle talked about the Northern China's water crisis at a Beijing Energy & Environment Roundtable (BEER) last week on Jan -LSB-...]

Peter Gleick: Why California's Current Drought Is Different 8.23.2016 — Nearly 30 years after founding the Pacific Institute, a global water think tank, Peter Gleick talks about California's current drought, how it compares to past crises and how the state needs... Read More.

Scidevnet: The lack of rains in large, monsoon - dependent, agricultural areas of South Asia has compounded concerns expressed in a recent report about an impending global water crisis and its detrimental impact on agriculture.

This Week in Michigan Politics, Jack Lessenberry talks about Flint's role in the democratic race for president, and Governor Snyder volunteering to testify about the Flint water crisis in front of Congress.

Today, as oil began flowing through the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and new revelations about DAPL's parent company, Energy Transfer Partners, hiring a private mercenary firm to run a counterinsurgency operation against water protectors in North Dakota and elsewhere, Rising Tide North America will continue to stand in solidarity with movements and people directly affected by the climate crisis.

Nearly 30 years after founding the Pacific Institute, a global water think tank, Peter Gleick talks about California's current drought, how it compares to past crises and how the state needs to change water - use mentality.

The estimate for that is 5 kya which corresponds well with a paper by Amos Frumkin where Dead Sea rainfall reached a maximum about 3000 BCE and then «was followed by gradual drying during the 3rd millennium BCE culminating with extreme climatic crisis» (Frumkin 2009) and a drop of the dead sea in the middle bronze age of > 45m which he says is can be compared with the last century's drop (although anthropogenic due to water diversions in the Jordon River basin) of Dead Sea level.

In it, we answer some of the most common questions people ask about the impact of the climate crisis on how water moves around our world.

This resulted in a rapid temperature drop in bottom waters of about 5 °C and a major crisis in deep - sea faunas.

Of course I'm going to ask the question «why,» since I had no real clue about the global clean water crisis.

The project uses photography and science to boost awareness about the global fresh water crisis.

The campaign seeks to raise awareness about «the crisis - level water shortages, inspire personal action around water usage and advocate for improving local water situations.»

Portlanders inspired to do something about the growing water crisis are invited to participate in the fourth annual Walk for Water on Saturday, March 24, 2012 at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry along the banks of the Willamette Rwater crisis are invited to participate in the fourth annual Walk for Water on Saturday, March 24, 2012 at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry along the banks of the Willamette RWater on Saturday, March 24, 2012 at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry along the banks of the Willamette River.

A panel of experts gathered at the Clean Tech Forum this week to talk about technologies that will help with the impending water crisis.

For example, increased precipitation in already well - watered areas can increase concerns about drainage and water - logging (Parkinson and Mark, 2005), while reduced precipitation in areas already subject to water shortages could lead to infrastructure crises.