Sentences with phrase «contaminated water gets»

Swimmers are also at risk, but only if contaminated water gets into an open cut or wound.

In addition, while toxicity has occurred from contaminated water getting into the food supply, human exposure to environmental cadmium is primarily the result of the burning of fossil fuels and municipal wastes.

Not exact matches

Flint, Michigan, which has endured a two - and - a-half-year struggle with lead - contaminated drinking water, would get access to a $ 170 million fund for infrastructure improvements and lead poisoning prevention under the bill.

The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday in a press release that some Puerto Ricans have been trying to get drinking water from contaminated Superfund sites on the island.

Mitt Romney's first job after College was to work for Monsanto and help them improve their Corporate image after getting cuaght dumping known cancer causing PCB's into the rivers and water ways around the Great Lakes... So did the families that came down with cancer from drinking water contaminated by those dumped PCB's chemicals commite a sin against God... or did Monsanto commite the sin by dumping them?

My Holistic practitioner is fanatical about food and food that has been grown with contaminated water and thus she gets all her food tested.

The state gives water to Nestle for pennies on the dollar, against almost everyone's wishes, and they'll get to turn around and sell it to the poor people of Flint at obscene profits, it still poisons them (recent tests show that bottled water is often contaminated with plastic particulates from the bottling process) and where all those plastic bottles end up is someone else's problem.

If waste is thrown in the landfill, it can get into, and contaminate, our drinking water.

According to the CDC, people usually get E. coli infections from «eating undercooked, contaminated ground beef,» however you can also become infected through «person to person contact in families and child care centers,» from drinking raw milk, after swimming in or drinking water that has been contaminated with sewage, and by having contact with infected farm animals.

Or he may have gotten food poisoning from contaminated food or water.

Or she may have gotten food poisoning from contaminated food or water.

The idea that mother's milk getting in the water of a swimming pool might contaminate it and endanger the health of swimmers is ridiculous.

Even with all of NY's cumbersome regulations, the water still got contaminated and NY State was oblivious to the hazards so it sounds more like the system isn't working so why not curtail some of those regulations?

In a long outage, one type of fuel could run out or become contaminated if, say, a quake ruptured a diesel tank, or flood waters got into it.

Otherwise, storm runoff gets contaminated with benzene and other harmful chemicals and can infiltrate into adjacent soil patches or form stormwater that may end up in natural bodies of water.»

G.W.'s Davis is part of a project researching the disease schistosomiasis (a.k.a. snail fever or swimmer's itch), a blood parasite transmitted to humans by snails; people can get it by swimming or wading in contaminated fresh water when infected snails release larvae that can penetrate the skin.

That's because the rising magma that produced the lavas probably mixed with upper mantle rocks, which have been contaminated with isotopically heavy surface water that got dragged down by subducting slabs of tectonic plates.

Everyday Einstein explains what contaminates our water, how it gets there, and what we can do to test it

Although the municipality had recently built her a dig house (until then, she set up a tent), her workers often got sick from drinking contaminated water.

«You have to have a pre-existing cut — or you have to eat raw, contaminated seafood or chug a whole lot of contaminated water — for it to get into your bloodstream; it can't break down healthy, intact skin.»

If it grows in certain waters, then this may mean that the spirulina can get contaminated with these potentially toxic substances.

For survival purposes, it all boils down to getting rid of the nasty organisms that have contaminated the ground water and even the public supply of drinking water.

Another possible way we used to get B - 12 was by drinking contaminated and untreated water, but that is also how we caught many of our worst diseases like cholera.

Simple, to ensure that you aren't getting any supplements that may have been bred in contaminated water because these may have harmful nitrate compounds.

It goes without saying that it's no good to get spirulina that's been grown in a contaminated water source (that can be filled with heavy metals).

► A woman carries a rifle down to a road on her farm where she sees a man wearing a biohazard - radiation suit and he shouts and cries for joy when he finds clean air; the woman follows the man to a pond beneath a waterfall and watches him, as he stands in it, bare from the waist up until he falls down, ill and jabbering nonsensically until she points a rifle at him, lowers it and he points a handgun at her and fires, missing her; the woman tells the man to get out of the radiation - contaminated water and he startles, climbs out and scans himself with a Geiger counter that clicks loud and fast as he spits water toward the camera followed by watery yellowish vomit and she helps him to his handcart on the road, where she administers an anti-radiation injection (please see the Substance Use category for more details).

If you did not get all of the oil out of the radiator before you started the vehicle, that oil is now contaminating the thermostat, water pump, and the engine cooling pockets.

Leptospirosis — If your pet drinks, swims, or wades through contaminated water, he and you can get infected.

Hookworms, roundworms, heartworms, and whipworms can get into her system in a number of ways: drinking unclean water, walking on contaminated soil, or being bitten by an infected mosquito.

Don't use a huge bowl filled with water as a way of only having to fill it once a week because the water will get stale, dirty and contaminated.

Additionally, a lot of water is used during cleaning and rinsing so they need a tube in their airway to protect them from getting contaminated water into their lungs which would lead to pneumonia.

Dogs usually get infected when they drink contaminated water or consume herbs or soil contaminated by the urine of infected animals.

If this products gets on your skin during application, remove contaminated clothing and rinse your skin with clean water for 20 minutes.

Unfortunately, these easily get dirty, even possibly contaminating the water of your pet.

Water bowls are not really suitable as they are easily tipped over and can get contaminated.

If your ferrets find it difficult to drink from a water bottle, you can provide a water bowl, but change them regularly to make sure they don't get tipped over or contaminated.

Water bowls are not really suitable as they can be tipped over and can get contaminated.

Water bowls are not really suitable as they may be tipped over and can get contaminated.

Therefore, if you feel your dog could have come in contact with contaminated water seven to ten days ago and they are beginning to show symptoms, get them to the vet right away.

You may also want to consider alternative methods of getting water for your animals, as water supplies can become contaminated.

If you provide water in a bowl, ensure that the water is kept clean and does not get contaminated with stool or food.

Always provide fresh water daily, and a sipper bottle is better than a bowl because it's less liable to get contaminated.

A lagoon overflow caused more than 20 million gallons of pig waste to get dumped into the New River in Onslow County, contaminating the drinking water and causing massive fish losses.

In real life, anti-fracking environmentalists claim that fracking is responsible for methane getting into groundwater while also pointing out that the contaminated water will burst into a ball of fire when a flame is applied to it.

But for many people around the world, getting clean water isn't nearly as simple, and the combined effects of contaminated drinking water and the lack of adequate sanitary facilities can take a huge toll on both individuals and communities.

Others are less so — for instance, you could get a stomach virus by drinking contaminated water near Orchard Lake.

Did you know that some of the choices we make at home and while on vacation can actually contaminate the very same waters we can't wait to get in?