Sentences with phrase «detect lead in water»

That same newspaper reported, «Cities across the country are manipulating the results of tests used to detect lead in water, violating federal law, and putting millions of Americans at risk.»

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Knightscope recently made headlines when one of its security bots was found drowned in a shopping mall pond — slippery surfaces had prevented the K5 from detecting stairs leading to the recessed water.
When the frightened creatures froze in place and covered the cavity leading to the gills with their tentacles, the voltage in the water nearby dropped by about 80 %, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Subsequent lab tests on two types of sharks revealed that the tactic works beautifully: When the researchers generated voltages to simulate the presence of a resting cuttlefish, the sharks could detect the electronic equipment from a distance of 20 centimeters and struck at it 62 % of the time.
While Ahuna Mons may have erupted liquid water in the past, Dawn has detected water in the present, as described in a study led by Jean - Philippe Combe of the Bear Fight Institute, Winthrop, Washington.
«This is the first time water vapor has been unequivocally detected on Ceres or any other object in the asteroid belt and provides proof that Ceres has an icy surface and an atmosphere,» said Michael Küppers of ESA in Spain, lead author of a paper in the journal Nature.
After the city detected elevated lead in the Walters family's water, and she was refused help by MDEQ, Mrs. Walters took her case to EPA Region 5 employee Miguel Del Toral, who collaborated with our lab to sample her tap water.
The researchers, led by Giovanna Tinetti based at the Institut d'Astrophysique in Paris, France, say their new analysis is more reliable because the observations were taken in infrared light, which is far better at detecting light - absorption patterns unique to water.
The only case in which he didn't anticipate a problem is if neither his company nor the water agency detected lead.
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