However, this study highlights the need for improved surveillance systems and targeted investigations of water - related outbreaks in order to determine the direct link
between water contamination and drug - resistant infection.
Not exact matches
«Bath toys pose an interesting link
between flexible plastic materials, potable
water, external microbial and nutrient
contamination, and potentially vulnerable end - users.
The meeting was scheduled to discuss the $ 850,000 financial settlement
between the village and the Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics and Honeywell International over perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)
contamination of village
water.
Regardless of the reality of the current correlations
between HHF and
water contamination (leading to illnesses of people, pets and farm animals), having regulations and oversight is enough to justify their moving forward to frack the Marcellus Shale.
In fact, he adds, they are extremely interesting for researchers, as they represent «the junction
between potable
water, plastic materials, external
contamination and vulnerable end - users.»
Most geologists see
contamination of aquifers as unlikely because of the great difference
between the depths at which fracking is carried out and the shallow aquifers from which we get our
water.
The aim is to bring academic discipline to the unresolved national debate, which pits an industry that denies any link
between fracking and environmental
contamination against those who assert that fracking poisons air and
water with natural and man - made chemicals that can cause cancer, birth defects and other illnesses.
Studies from Arkansas [pdf] and Wyoming are similarly inconclusive about the link
between fracking and
water contamination.
The report «Fact - Based Regulation for Environmental Protection in Shale Gas Development» was released in February during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Vancouver, British Columbia, and suggested there is little or no evidence of a direct connection
between groundwater
contamination and hydraulic fracturing, which involves the injection of
water, sand and chemicals to release natural gas from shale formations deep underground.