Sentences with phrase «contaminate the water supply by»

Or, for that matter, by ensuring that we're protecting our water through the Department of Environmental and Planning and its environmental planning and its environmental compliance division to ensure that people are not contaminating our water supplies by putting what would be considered harmful chemicals into the water.

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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.

Nitrates used in farming, and the excess not taken in by the crop itself, easily run - off and may seep into water tables, contaminating water supplies.

In addition to sexual harassment issues, Gillibrand touted her work securing health care for first responders to the Sept. 11 attacks, prohibiting insider trading by members of Congress, and winning a Superfund designation for Hoosick Falls, a Rensselaer County village whose water supply was contaminated by a factory that produced nonstick coatings.

The municipal water supply in Hoosick Falls, a village in Rensselaer County near the Vermont border, was found to have been contaminated with the chemical PFOA from a nearby plastics plant run by Saint - Gobain.

New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio warns that fracking could threaten drinking water and food supplies that might be contaminated by the gas drilling.

The muddying of coastal waters by climate change could drastically increase levels of neurotoxic mercury in sea life, contaminating food supplies.

Available water is so polluted that nearly 700 million Chinese citizens drink from supplies contaminated by human and animal excrement.

Twenty - five years after a toxic gas cloud from a pesticide factory killed thousands of people in Bhopal, India, groundwater at the accident site — a drinking water supply for 15 communities — remains contaminated, according to a report released today by an advocacy group and a medical clinic.

Environmentalists and residents of Parker County, Texas, were dismayed last year when the EPA dropped an investigation into complaints that fracking by Range Resources was contaminating local water supplies with methane.

PFOA entered the local water table near the DuPont plant and contaminated the potable water supply used by more than 100,000 people.

A small town finds itself under seige from the military when its water supply is contaminated by a biological weapon that turns its inhabitants into psychopathic killers.

Only 20 % of global wastewater is currently being treated, leaving low - income countries hardest hit by contaminated water supplies and disease, according to the UN-Water Analytical Brief on Wastewater Management.

From communities that are dealing with waterways that are contaminated with toxic chemicals from coal ash waste seeping into their waters to communities that are having drinking water supplies contaminated by fracking, our reliance on dirty energy sources is having a huge impact on water quality and quantity.

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.

One of the harshest charges against fracking, often leveled with apocalyptic intensity by its foes, is that it indiscriminately contaminates vital drinking water supplies.

Overall, ten of India's 29 states and 330 million people — a quarter of India's population — have been affected in 2016 by a combination of failed rains, contaminated supplies, and water mismanagement.

Polluted runoff from both rural and urban lands increases erosion and puts public health at risk by contaminating drinking water supplies.

(b) the provision of temporary or permanent alternate water supplies to replace those that the Director has reasonable and probable grounds to believe are or are likely to be contaminated or otherwise interfered with by a contaminant on, in or under the property to which the certificate of property use relates; and

(b) the provision of temporary or permanent alternate water supplies to replace those that the Director has reasonable and probable grounds to believe are or are likely to be contaminated or otherwise interfered with by the works to which the approval or order is related; and

Since that time he has represented hundreds of public entities seeking clean - up costs for water supplies contaminated by MTBE, Atrazine and TCP.