Sentences with phrase «drink tainted water»

State and local officials have defended their handling of the toxic pollution, including waiting more than 15 months to warn residents in Hoosick Falls to stop drinking the tainted water.

Ciaravino also has asked the state health department to conduct blood tests for Newburgh residents who drank the tainted water.

It is the first comprehensive look at the PFOA blood levels among those people who live or had lived in the Rensselaer County village and drank tainted water over an unknown period.

A host of environmental problems have this characteristic — from the erosion of biological diversity to the daily death toll in developing countries from drinking tainted water or inhaling smoke from unvented cooking fires.

Not exact matches

Four more officials in Flint, Michigan were criminally charged in the state attorney general's ongoing investigation in the city's lead - tainted water that currently is still unsafe to drink.

----------------------------- Governor Cuomo & the State Legislature will begin the 2018 session tackling social issues & terrorism threats, tainted drinking water & the heroin epidemic, Cuomo commented about those issues during the State of the State address:

ALBANY — Hoosick Falls residents who drank from the tainted municipal water supply have, on average, more than 30 times the national level of a toxic chemical in their blood, according to state health department data obtained by POLITICO.

ALBANY — The company suspected of tainting Hoosick Falls» drinking water supply with toxic chemicals should immediately disclose the full extent of the pollution it caused, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer said Monday.

The median number, 23 parts per billion, may be skewed by the inclusion of town residents with private wells who did not drink the town's tainted water.

Solar stills can make tainted water or seawater fit to drink.

When they consume BMAA - tainted food or drink — be it bat stew, shellfish, or contaminated water — the molecule is not discarded; instead, it is taken up and deposited in the brain, forming what Cox calls a «toxic reservoir.»

When Flint, Mich., started using its own river as a water supply, the city's drinking water became tainted with lead.

Tests are also being done to determine the best way to feed the natural antibiotic to the animals — as a food supplement or in their drinking water — and whether or not the allicin might taint their milk.

Groundwater from deep «tube wells» has been widely used for drinking water in Bangladesh since the 1970s, but it has emerged more recently that naturally occurring arsenic taints the water in many of the country's 10 million wells.

Tap water in Charleston, West Virginia, and nearby communities will remain unsafe in the coming days, an official said on Saturday as residents spent a third day unable to bathe, shower or drink from the faucet due to a chemical spill tainting the Elk River.

In 2014, the city switched its water source from Detroit to the Flint River, which led to tainted drinking water that contained lead and other toxins.

Recent news about tainted water in Flint, Michigan, and other parts of the country have called into question the safety of the nation's drinking water supply.

Changing climate patterns are threatening lakes and rivers, and key sources that we tap for drinking water are being overdrawn or tainted with pollution.

That could taint the flavor of water if you want to hydrate more after drinking your shake.

Two former bases just north of Philadelphia have become the first Navy sites linked to drinking water tainted by these chemicals.

In rural Cambodia, safe drinking water is not something people can take for granted; arsenic has tainted many water sources, and poisoning has become common in many communities.

And the father drank some water from a spring tainted by a fallen meteor, and now he can move objects with his mind.

They may drink from the dog bowl too, but cats are very finicky about the taste of their water, and dog slobber could taint it enough to prevent them from drinking.

Dead zones threaten wildlife and fisheries, taint drinking water, and impact communities.

The voices of the thousands of Appalachians living with contaminated drinking water have finally been amplified over the past several days with a long - overdue announcement about halting mountaintop removal permits from the EPA and a widely - discussed New York Times story on Sunday about the devastating effects of coal - tainted water.

Our tap drinking water continues to be tainted with chlorine, the same stuff we put into our swimming pools to kill every bug and algae that may come in contact with it.

Let's say the soda is tainted and causes each of you to contract pneumonia (all the more reason to drink water).