Sentences with phrase «dangerous water levels»

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Since the kingdom is unable to grow alfalfa locally without reducing its water reserves to an even more dangerous level, it is buying land abroad to grow the plant.

The Environmental Protection Agency says the Michigan incident showed that, unlike other types of crude, bitumen can sink in water — the Kalamazoo will have to be dredged to contain damage — and might emit dangerous levels of benzene, a carcinogenic substance, when it breaks out.

Matt Manning said their water was a toxic stew of dangerous chemicals — with unacceptable levels of methane, arsenic, lithium, aluminum, manganese, barium and iron.

The state Department of Health has been aware that there were dangerous levels of PFOA in the water in the municipal water supply for Hoosick Falls since at least 2014, and that it was above the recommended federal level of 400 parts per trillion put in place in 2009.

The New York crisis follows last year's water crisis in Flint, Mich., over dangerous levels of lead in the city's drinking water.

The area's top official at the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday said New York state officials failed to inform residents of Hoosick Falls of the dangerous levels of PFOA in their municipal drinking water.

In November, Paul Francis, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's deputy secretary for health and human services, requested a call with EPA officials who had raised concerns that the water pollution was at a dangerous level, the newly obtained records show.

But the crisis in Flint, where dangerous levels of lead were found in drinking water in February 2015, has raised serious questions about water quality in cities like Buffalo that have older infrastructure.

The Cuomo administration resisted sounding a public alarm even though federal regulators warned senior health department officials that people in Hoosick Falls should be alerted they were drinking water that contained dangerous levels of a chemical linked to cancer and other serious health problems, according to documents recently obtained by POLITICO New York through a Freedom of Information Request.

It was in the municipal water supply at dangerous levels in Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh, where residents were not publicly warned for some time about its presence.

As POLITICO New York reported in June, the Cuomo administration resisted sounding a public alarm over the water pollution crisis in Hoosick Falls, even though federal regulators warned senior DOH officials that residents of the town should be alerted that they were drinking water that contained dangerous levels of PFOA, a chemical that has been linked to cancer and other serious health problems.

The town of Petersburgh nearby also had dangerous levels of PFOA in its municipal water supply.

Indeed, the lead situation in Syracuse has similarities to the ongoing situation in Flint, Michigan, where a change in the source of drinking water and a lack of preventative measures resulted in a dangerous increase in blood lead levels for residents.

But adjacent beaches owned by two popular waterfront bars remained open to patrons because the businesses lack permits that require testing of the water and closure when fecal matter and other bacteria are detected at dangerous levels.

After public pressure, local officials decided to test the water for PFOA anyway, finding that some of the village's municipal wells contained water with dangerous levels of the compound.

Marc Edwards — Dr. Edwards was recognized by AAAS for his efforts to apply his engineering expertise to revealing dangerous levels of lead contamination in water supplies in Flint, Michigan.

A ban on drinking tap water in Toledo was lifted early Monday after new tests showed that toxins were no longer at dangerous levels from algae on Lake Erie, the mayor's office said.

In April 2007 Calabrian authorities had temporarily halted fishing in waters off Cetraro (where the Cunski lies, according to a turncoat from the» Ndrangheta mafia) because of dangerous levels of heavy metals in marine sediment.

Water temperatures off Australia rose to levels dangerous to corals starting in 2014 as a result of global warming and El Niño.

For someone whose body temperature has reached dangerous levels, full - body immersion into an ice bath or a cold body of water is the most effective method of bringing it down quickly, says Bergeron.

Drinking lots of water during a very long race in the heat, for example — this can even lead to a dangerous condition called hyponatremia, where blood sodium levels drop too low.

Since your skin absorbs both water and chemicals — as illustrated in the study on swimming pool contamination and cancer risk mentioned above — you could still be exposing yourself to dangerous levels of contaminants when you:

No doubt, many more water samples showed levels of lead that were also dangerous, but since they were below the EPA's action level, the water utility did not have to report them.

To put that number in perspective, even the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says lead levels in water exceeding 15 ppb are very dangerous and must be acted upon.

In some levels, the Yoshis have to knock the Bucket into a body of water or lava, then jump into the bucket and ride it across the dangerous segment until reaching land.

Expect a climb up some scaffolding that'll ensure there's a vertiginous test of your platforming skills; look out for a dangerous trip into a pitch black forest involving red eyed arachnids and glowing orbs of light; a race against a rapidly rising water level and a roof top scramble with nothing to help you except an unpredictable, twisting, growing vine.

However, this in itself is not enough to define what level of warming is «dangerous,» especially since the projections of actual impacts for any level of warming are highly uncertain, and depend on further factors such as how quickly these levels are reached (so how long ecosystems and society have had to respond), and what other changes are associated with them (eg: carbon dioxide concentration, since this affects plant photosynthesis and water use efficiency, and ocean acidification).

One of the studies in question determined that the water tested downstream from a dumping ground had excessively high levels of dangerous chemicals.

Reefs: Natural temperature - limiting processes may prevent ocean surface waters from warming past levels dangerous to corals, at least in some important regions, according to a study being published in Geophysical Research Letters on Saturday.

In early 2016, Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder declared a state of emergency in the majority black city of Flint over the dangerous levels of lead in the drinking water — more than a year after concerns about the water were initially raised.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power cautions that carbon - based fossil fuel emissions have reached «dangerous levels» with possible impacts to Los Angeles including rising tides; violent storms and floods; hotter, dryer days; increased frequency of wildfires; and reduced water and energy reliabiWater and Power cautions that carbon - based fossil fuel emissions have reached «dangerous levels» with possible impacts to Los Angeles including rising tides; violent storms and floods; hotter, dryer days; increased frequency of wildfires; and reduced water and energy reliabiwater and energy reliability.

I think the Netherlands (f.e.) can live on with even 2 meters plus water levels, but a dangerous natural disaster could even overcome the high dikes.

As if sweltering heat weren't bad enough, Europeans also suffered through a higher - than - normal number of days with dangerous smog levels that year.6 Smog — with ground - level ozone as the main component — forms when sunlight reacts with chemicals such as volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and water vapor.

It is my contention (and that of many others) that in fact this is the default null hypothesis and until proponents of the anthropogenic global warming hyothesis come up with some better evidence to back up their claims of imminent dangerous warming driven by co2 and a water vapour feedback to its increasing levels, the null hypothesis is the best one we have.

LONDON, 24 December, 2017 — When the mercury climbs to extreme levels, it's the dangerous humidity produced by heat reacting with water - sodden air that can spell death, not just the heat alone.

Some of the highlights of the first day were the intervention of Lewis Pugh, UN Patron of the Oceans, live from the Antarctica who analysed the unprecedented speed of climate change in the polar regions, pollution of the waters and the dangerous sea level rise.

When well water has dangerous levels of arsenic it may be from excessive withdrawals that are raising deep naturally arsenic containing waters toward the well point.

In addition to increasing poverty in underdeveloped countries, the ruination of the environment is dangerous for the world at large: greenhouse gases, water pollution, and rising sea levels are just a few of the monsters that are growing with total disregard to national borders.

In addition to dangerous lead levels, the Flint River also may have had more pollution than Lake Huron: Soon after the switch, E. coli bacteria were found, prompting advisories to boil the water.

And then, exacerbating the situation is a once - in - a-century drought that has not only created crisis - level water shortages in many sectors of the country, but driven an already dangerous (official) unemployment rate to its worst levels in 13 years.