Sentences with phrase «community water systems»

According to the Center for Disease Control's 2014 analysis on fluoridation, 74.4 percent of the US population getting their water through community water systems was receiving fluoridated water.

«This lack of oversight means the state's 2,700 small community water systems — including the Village of Hoosick Falls — as well as thousands of non-municipal entities, including businesses and schools, with their own water systems are not tested for unregulated contaminants.»

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Operation Agua Bringing water purification systems to Puerto Rican families and communities who need them.

Atlantic Sand Assessment Project — To help coastal communities recover from Hurricane Sandy, promote resilient coastal systems, and help build a national offshore sand inventory, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) sponsored offshore surveys to identify new sources of sand in federal waters from Miami, Florida to Massachusetts in 2015 and several site specific surveys in 2016 and 2017.

The charity also supported local partners to rebuild schools, repair damaged water systems, help communities restore their means of making a living and prepare for future disasters.

This wastewater treatment system in this video, constructed for a Rainforest Alliance CertifiedTM coffee cooperative by our agricultural trainer in Rwanda, demonstrates how responsible water practices support the health and well - being of surrounding communities.

The local engagement officers will work flexibly across several catchments and state borders so that water management and community engagement within a region is on a whole - of - system basis.

The online software system used by the Alliance will be enhanced so the wine community can more easily manage information on resource conservation practices to participate in greenhouse gas and water quality trading opportunities, energy and water use reduction incentive programs, and alternative compliance with new regulatory programs addressing air and water quality.

Natural disasters devastate communities and the environment, leaving public water systems compromised in the aftermath, unsafe by both state and federal health standards.

In the Mallowa system, 204 ha of wetlands were inundated with Water for the environment during 2015 - 16, promoting the growth of native vegetation communities.

In the Mallowa system, 204 ha of wetlands were inundated with Commonwealth environmental water during 2015 - 16, promoting the growth of native vegetation communities

The Coca - Cola Company and its global bottling partners (the Coca - Cola system) have met their goal to replenish, or in other words balance, the equivalent amount of water used in their global sales volume back to nature and communities.

Environmental water is needed because the Basin's river system is often placed under pressure because the natural movement, distribution, and quality of water is altered due to river regulation and infrastructure that was built to support burgeoning communities and agricultural production.

An environmentally friendly and cost - efficient waste water treatment system is being engineered by Australian company CST Wastewater Solutions for smaller, remote and ecologically sensitive community, municipal, agribusiness and industrial applications throughout the Asia - Pacific.

A small - town water system has also been provided the community to provide them with potable water.

He said more than 1,000 under - served communities in the Region had been connected to the national electricity grid and 300,000 people had also been supplied with potable drinking water under the Small Town Water sywater under the Small Town Water syWater system.

Last month, she donated an ambulance to the Ga South Municipal Hospital, after giving the same health facility a water storage system to aid in child delivery as well as the construction of bridges, boreholes and connecting some communities in the constituency to the national water pipelines among others.

However, the presence of any potentially disease - causing organisms in drinking water supplies is of concern, particularly to upstate communities that receive water from that part of the Catskill / Delaware system that has not been treated by the City's UV disinfection facility in Westchester County.

High schoolers in Hoosick Falls say they are tired of the slow response by the adults in the community, and government, to the toxic substance PFOA which has infiltrated the village water system and made it unsafe to drink.

«We have made major investments in water quality improvement and upstate transportation systems and are building on efforts to combat poverty in communities everywhere.

«As the end of the job approaches, we thank local elected officials and community members for their patience, which will be rewarded with a more reliable water supply and sewer system, and reconstructed roadways that will serve the public for years to come.»

In communities with elevated levels of PFOA and / or PFOS, the state is actively working with local officials to install filtration systems to remove contaminants, identify alternative water sources and / or take other appropriate actions to reduce exposure.

«It is shameful that as communities across the state struggle to find the funding to repair crumbling sewage systems and drinking water supplies, we learn that the Cuomo Administration was working in secret for more than a year to divert more than a half a billion dollars from clean water funds to pay for a new bridge,» said Peter Iwanowicz, the executive director of Environmental Advocates of New York.

The administration of H.E John Dramani Mahama has really brought us hope with the many infrastructural projects dotted across the length and breadth of the kingdom such as the various Community Day Senior High School projects at various stages of completion such the Sapeliga SHS, Binduri SHS and Garu SHS, the Tamme Irrigation Dam, the Garu District Hospital, the Bawku Town Water system, the massive rural Electrification Expansion projects etc We are also glad that the Eastern Corridor Fiber Optic Cable which extends to the Bawku was successfully laid awaiting the next phase.

The version of Clinton's stump speech that she delivered at Cohoes High School last night was touched with references for the regional and state audience — including a promise to work to improve water infrastructure so that communities like Hoosick Falls have systems that are «clean and pure.»

The town of Petersburgh in Rensselaer County will receive a carbon water filtration system as the community grapples with the chemical PFOA in its drinking water.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo visited Hoosick Falls for the first time since the community's water crisis began, and said the temporary filtration system in the village is now working and clear of PFOA.

Since Gov. Andrew Cuomo took office in 2011, there's been a succession of severe storms, including hurricanes Irene and Lee that brought massive flooding to upstate and Superstorm Sandy in 2012 that flooded beach front communities on Long Island and submerged portions of the New York City subway system in corrosive salt water.

In many communities in New York, storm water runs into the same system as sewage.

Peter Lopez speaks with a resident Canabon, Puerto Rico — a community with a damaged small drinking water system where the EPA and NGOs were providing help.

He supports the policy position of Paul Giardina, his running mate on the Republican ticket, of utilizing the federal Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Water State Revolving Fund to pay for water - quality remediation efforts including replacement of failing septic systems, rather than the community preservation Water State Revolving Fund to pay for water - quality remediation efforts including replacement of failing septic systems, rather than the community preservation water - quality remediation efforts including replacement of failing septic systems, rather than the community preservation fund.

«Because we have such a great infrastructure system, with water in particular here in Syracuse, we don't have to worry about what some communities are worried about right now.

State lawmakers representing communities along the south shore of Lake Ontario are lining up against a plan to regulate water levels in the lake, and in the St. Lawrence River system.

In terms of statewide initiatives, Cuomo's $ 2 billion investment in drinking water infrastructure would include improvements to local wastewater treatment systems, and development and implementation of local community recommendations for water source protection to be funded by the Environmental Protection Fund.

As Ashland continues working with FEMA over reimbursement for needed repairs to the new water supply system and existing water treatment facility, FEMA Spokesman Matthew Russell says the agency has made significant progress in helping affected communities.

All three communities have documented levels of PFOA, or the similar chemical PFOS, in their water systems.

New York State officials are continuing to test public and private wells in the Rensselaer County community of Hoosick Falls as the village is beginning to flush contaminants from its water system.

Town Supervisor James Quigley III said last week that altering the governance of the water system could lead to a legal conflict between the two communities.

On Wednesday, however, Dr. Zucker said that water filtration systems would be placed at schools and other community gathering places.

Craig Just's research interests vary widely from freshwater mussels and how they mitigate nitrogen contamination to water resources, food security and energy system design and implementation in resource - constrained communities.

To get the word out about the process and the high quality of the filtered water, the Orange County Groundwater Replenishment System's developers made more than 2,000 community presentations.

Meanwhile, the construction of an irrigation system in Ethiopia's Liban district to enable farmers to water year - round has enabled local communities to survive the current drought without food aid.

Throughout my career in Congress, I have helped provide funding for water system improvements for communities across Nevada.

The paper, «Simulated Effects of Winter Wheat Cover Crops on Cotton Production Systems of the Texas Rolling Plains,» is part of the «Crop Modeling and Decision Support for Optimizing Use of Limited Water» collection by the Natural Resources and Environmental Systems Community of ASABE at http://bit.ly/2izRZBY.

Production systems such as monocultures that cultivate crops (for example, palm oil and sugar cane) for global distribution may benefit local communities with employment and funding opportunities, but are often reliant on over-exploited water resources.

«Generally, the country's utilities deliver high - quality water, but every year, about 7 to 8 percent of community systems do not meet health - related standards.

Next the researchers hope to test the materials at a planned city water purification plant in Albuquerque, N.M., as well as in smaller water systems in rural communities.

Housing is tight and high - priced, sewer and water systems are straining, and some communities don't have enough restaurants or gas stations to serve the new residents.

Current research suggests that ancient coral reefs began as deep, dark communities that evolved into highly diverse systems by establishing communities in shallower water environments with more light.

Actinobacterial community structure in the Polar Frontal waters of the Southern Ocean of the Antarctica using Geographic Information System (GIS): A novel approach to study Ocean Microbiome — P. Sivasankar — Data in Brief