Sentences with phrase «by tainted water»

This one is caused by tainted water, and can have unfortunate symptoms (like diarrhea) lasting for up to three weeks.

«A much more concrete problem is also visible: the fact that so much — yet not enough — is known about who is affected by tainted water, where the problems lie, and how extensive the problem is,» noted Rosner, who is also Ronald H. Lauterstein professor of Sociomedical Sciences and co-author of the 2013 book Lead Wars.

Not exact matches

But perusing newspapers from towns where fracking is going on reveals how the issue refuses to die, with headlines like «Fears of Tainted Water Well Up in Colorado,» «Collateral Damage: Residents Fear Murky Effects of Energy Boom,» and «Worker Believes Cancer Caused by Fracking Fluids» appearing regularly.

It was launched in Pakistan in 1999, following a series of seminars organised by Nestlé PR company that suggested urban water supplies were contaminated and other bottled water tainted.

ALBANY — Officials in the state Department of Health were aware of concerns that the water in the upstate village of Petersburgh could be tainted with a toxic chemical in late 2014, but did not take action to protect residents until a few days ago, according to emails obtained by POLITICO New York.

In its work for General Electric Co. through the years, the public relations firm owned by Mark Behan became entangled in a legal battle between GE and several river communities that filed federal lawsuits against the company when their water supplies were tainted by the PCBs dumped into the river from its plants in Fort Edward and Hudson Falls.

ALBANY — Hoosick Falls residents who drank from the tainted municipal water supply have, on average, more than 30 times the national level of a toxic chemical in their blood, according to state health department data obtained by POLITICO.

The median number, 23 parts per billion, may be skewed by the inclusion of town residents with private wells who did not drink the town's tainted water.

Charon, with its weaker gravity, has lost the substances that can turn to vapour and escape more easily, and is mostly water - ice tainted by ammonia.

The tainted steaks theory could not be easily dismissed because DEHP can be absorbed by food and water from their packaging.

Cholera, which is carried by faeces - tainted water, is endemic in Nepal: there was an outbreak in Kathmandu, the country's capital, just before the peacekeepers flew in from there between 9 and 16 October.

You'll also find them in meats, tap water that's been tainted by industrial waste, and in the pesticides sprayed on conventional fruits and vegetables.

Bottled water, which is often tainted with chemicals, is becoming a less popular option due to the waste generated by the plastic containers.

Two former bases just north of Philadelphia have become the first Navy sites linked to drinking water tainted by these chemicals.

And the father drank some water from a spring tainted by a fallen meteor, and now he can move objects with his mind.

The stone and mortar towers climb up the side of the hill in dark brown tones, tainted by the heavy rain and water trickling down the inclined streets.

Tainted water pours into a containment pond in a Unity field processing facility in what is now South Sudan, where there are concerns about the environmental damage being caused by the oil industry.

Obtained a favorable jury verdict in a case brought against a fast food franchise by customer who claimed he lost his sense of taste from tainted water at the restaurant.

First, it contends that the trial judge's finding on causation — that the waste deposit materially contributed to the unpalatability of the well water — was tainted by palpable and overriding errors and was unreasonable.

If the water supply itself is tainted or toxic, you can't change the quality of the water by changing how it's delivered.