Sentences with phrase «contaminating drinking water supplies»

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

A group of coalfield citizens traveled to Washington, D.C., during the March on Blair Mountain to renew their call for the end of mountaintop removal mining, a devastating coal mining practice that is destroying their communities, contaminating their drinking water supplies, and threatening the health and lives of many Appalachians.

Carbon dioxide emissions from power plants could be put to good use, preventing fracking chemicals from contaminating drinking water supplies.

«The Washington, D.C. City Council yesterday passed a resolution opposing hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling for natural gas in the George Washington National Forest due to concerns that such development might contaminate drinking water supplies.

The agency also released a letter Tuesday that it signed last week with five other states calling on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to undertake a multi-state health study using data from a multitude of communities where perfluorinated chemicals have contaminated drinking water supplies.

«In addition, no one should flush medications down the toilet, thereby contaminating our drinking water supply, or leave them in their medicine cabinet where they could be stolen.

Opposition to fracking has arisen mostly out of fear that the technique could potentially contaminate drinking water supplies.

-LSB-...] Toxic substances in the waste - including arsenic, mercury, chromium, and cadmium - can contaminate drinking water supplies and damage vital human organs and the nervous system.»

November 1, 2013 - A number of lawsuits have been filed against DuPont Co. alleging the chemical giant knowingly contaminated drinking water supplies with C8 used in its West Virginia plant.

Even without epic storms, Horton said climate - related sea level increases can cause massive problems for coastal areas because it increases frequent flooding, which causes erosion, contaminates drinking water supplies and aquifers, damages farmland and decreases habitat for fisheries, wildlife and plants.

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On ships, there was little storage room, and water / drink is heavy, so Rum, meads, brews would keep better than water, and last for months, where water supplies would contaminate during the same time.

Most reported cases have been ascribed to the use of contaminated well water for preparation of infant formula.1 — 3 Fifteen million families in the United States obtain their drinking water from unregulated wells.4 In a survey of 5500 private water supplies from 9 Midwestern states, 13 % of the wells were found to have nitrate concentrations > 10 mg / L or 10 ppm nitrate nitrogen, 5 the federal maximum contaminant level.6 It is estimated that 2 million families drink water from private wells that fail to meet the federal drinking - water standard for nitrate, and 40000 infants younger than 6 months live in homes that have nitrate - contaminated water supplies.4 In urban areas, municipal wastewater - treatment discharges (a source of nutrients) on surrounding farmland aggravate the problem.7

«The contaminated groundwater plume could clearly impact many Long Islanders» drinking water supply and, if not addressed immediately, has the potential to have far - reaching consequences to the residents of Bethpage,» Seggos wrote.

«This major investment will ensure that Auburn and Owasco residents continue to have access to clean drinking water and will prevent harmful algal toxins from contaminating the water supply,» Cuomo said.

Certain harmful algal blooms, or HABs, have the potential to produce dangerous toxins that can contaminate local drinking water supplies, sicken people, harm aquatic life, and interfere with lake recreation activities.

Fallout from the discovery of the toxic chemical in the water supply of Hoosick Falls later erupted into a war of finger - pointing between local, state and federal agencies after questions emerged in late 2015 about why it took at least 14 months before residents were warned to stop drinking from the village's contaminated wells.

The Democrat on Thursday proposed a $ 65 million plan to study, treat and prevent the blooms, which can contaminate local drinking water supplies, sicken people and animals in the water and interfere with recreation.

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.

He said such pollution can lead to unclean drinking water, an unhealthy food supply through fish consumption and the flow of contaminated water into smaller waterways.

Professor Bill Keevil, Director of Environmental Healthcare at the University of Southampton, says: «If a contamination event (accidental or deliberate) occurs in a drinking water network, it is essential to identify the sources of contamination and to determine the area which is likely to be contaminated, in order to isolate and decontaminate the affected area only, as well as keep supplying drinking water in non-affected areas.

In a long - awaited move designed to protect people from cancer, California on Thursday proposed a new health goal for chromium 6 in drinking water that is thousands of times lower than the amount contaminating some water 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.

In places where the available water supply is contaminated with disease - causing bacteria, boiling water and allowing it to cool before drinking it is a valuable health measure.

Don't forget that choosing organic also helps to protect the environment from chemical fertilizer and pesticide pollution that can harm ecosystems, disrupt soil microbiology, and potentially even contaminate your own drinking water supply.

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.

According to Tom Pelton of the Baltimore Sun, streams, underground water supplies and drinking wells are contaminated when rain washes through ash dumps, flushing contaminants into the environment.

In flood - prone locations, flush toilets back up and pit latrines overflow contaminating the environment and potentially drinking water supplies — with dire consequences to the public health through water - borne diseases like cholera.

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.

Scientists and municipal planners say the rising seas will likely turn underground aquifers into salty water, contaminating the drinking supply for millions of Floridians.

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

People are also more aware than ever that industrial pollutants and pesticides from farm fields can contaminate water supplies, to the point where drinking bottled water and using water filtration systems in homes is commonplace.