Sentences with phrase «contamination events»

The hearings will review state and federal oversight issues as well as assess how to prevent future contamination events.

An international project has developed a response programme for rapidly restoring the use of drinking water networks following a deliberate contamination event.

These types of contamination events, Yakovlev explains, might be mitigated or even avoided if samples from water systems are more thoroughly analyzed so that they can provide a better picture of what is in the water.

Indeed, the damage resulting from impairment of drinking water services would seriously impact the quality of life of many people not only by directly harming them but also making water systems unusable for a long period of time with a risk of societal disorder (similar situation as with any accidental contamination events or natural disasters).»

In other words, finding trace amounts of contaminants such as fecal matter in water systems can help sound the alarm for a serious contamination event because these trace amounts likely originate from a larger source in the water system, he notes.

Two of the original Porton Down researchers, Martin Pearce and Caroline Redmond, collaborated on this new study to confirm that indeed, a likely contamination event threw off their results.

In conjunction with the 100 % consensus sequence identity shared among cell line and prostate cancer - associated XMRV genomes (Fig. 6), these findings suggest a high likelihood that a viral contamination event had occurred.

Alongside the release of Last Stand, the development team will also release Update 1.6 which will expand the game map, add new special Contamination events, introduce Exotic weapons and add a new Legendary mode.

Hang uncovered hundreds of unresolved cases of spills and accidents related to drilling in New York state, contrary to the Mineral Resources Divison's claim that the state's record was characterized by «a lack of contamination events» from natural gas development.

Congress enacted legislation in the 2008 Farm Bill to provide the USDA Secretary with added authority to ensure that GE contamination was minimized or prevented after rice producers lost an estimated $ 1.25 billion as a result of a contamination event.

It has developed a toolbox that can be implemented by a major European city in response to a contamination event, which includes:

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.

The chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing fluid are considered proprietary, and the magnitude and frequency of water - contamination events are not well - documented.