The greatest potential hazard from a leaking UST is that its contents (petroleum or other hazardous substances) can seep into the soil and contaminate groundwater, the source of
drinking water for nearly half of all Americans.
Taft's environmental and litigation lawyers championed the residents» rights to safe, clean
drinking water for over 17 years.
Clicklaw Blog A Draft Submission from the Environmental Law Centre Society Access to safe
drinking water for First Nations communities has been a hot - button issue in Canada.
Coldwater Indian Band argued that the effects of the project on its reserve aquifer (which is the sole source of
drinking water for 90 % of its residents) were never assessed or understood.
Successfully represented a group of property and casualty insurers in a coverage and bad faith lawsuit in Houston, Texas, in which the insureds sought more than $ 100 million for alleged business interruption losses, costs associated with defense of toxic tort suits, Superfund project costs, and bad faith damages, all arising from the insureds» operation of a California landfill deemed to have polluted a key source of
drinking water for the Los Angeles area.
The author also discusses the blood quantum rule, cultural appropriation, Indigenous use of intellectual property laws, Two - Spirit identities (Indigenous transgender individuals), the landmark Delgamuukw and Tsilhqot» in cases (recognition of Aboriginal title), non-benign myths about Indigenous peoples, the six - volume Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) final report on the residential school system where at least 6,000 Indigenous children died, Canada's Stolen Generations (between 1960 and 1990, 70 - 90 % of Indigenous children in Canada were removed from their homes and placed into non-Indigenous homes), Inuit relocations, the issue of access to safe
drinking water for First Nations communities, the five - volume report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Indigenous lands, education, treaties, and treaty - making.
And the contamination of watersheds that provide
drinking water for millions of people in cities hundreds of miles away from any natural gas drills poses a significant threat as well.
It checks
drinking water for iodine and silver which are to used kill unwanted microbes.
A few years ago, we reported on the PlayPump, a design that incorporates the power of kids at play to pump and store
drinking water for communities in Rural Africa.
You could even use the naturally filtered runoff water as
drinking water for your dog.
The Ganges river delta is the main source of
drinking water for hundreds of millions of people.
The only available outside communication is electricity, meaning that
drinking water for example or black water has to come and go somewhere and do no harm to environment.
They provide
drinking water for villages and cities, irrigation water for farms, and fuel for hydropower plants.
In the wake of the Flint, Michigan public water crisis, the Hood River County citizen - initiative highlights the need to protect community access to safe
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The pipeline could potentially affect
the drinking water for 6 million people in the region.
In the wake of the Flint, Mich. public water crisis, the Hood River County case highlights the need to protect community access to safe
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And that's because the original route from Canada into the United States was planned through an area in Nebraska that supplies
some drinking water for nearly 2 million Americans, and irrigation for a good portion of America's croplands.
Temperatures dropping Opponents of the 1,900 - kilometre pipeline being developed by Texas - based Energy Transfer Partners say it threatens the Missouri River, a source of
drinking water for several American states.
But he has since backtracked, saying in September that he'll «refocus the EPA on its core mission of ensuring clean air, and clean, safe
drinking water for all Americans.»
Drinking water for over 15 million people will be endangered.
It makes sense: small streams lead to larger streams and rivers that provide
the drinking water for 117 million Americans.
In the U.S., the company paid out $ 105 million to settle a class - action lawsuit for contaminating
the drinking water for over 50 million citizens with its «gender - bending» herbicide Atrazine.
The Carmichael mine would require 12 billion litres of water each year from local rivers and underground aquifers, enough
drinking water for every Queenslander for three years.
Among Pruitt's other «achievements» are gutting a critical program to curb industrial and agricultural pollution in streams, which an EWG analysis found could imperil
the drinking water for up to 117 million Americans.
The Ogallala Aquifer spans eight states, provides
drinking water for two million people, and supports $ 20 billion in agriculture.
In addition, tropical forests are crucial sources of food, medicine, and clean
drinking water for people in developing countries.
Find out why Lake Mead appears to have a bathtub ring around its shoreline and how less snow in the mountains means less
drinking water for California.
In the past few decades, more than 2,000 miles of streams and headwaters that provide
drinking water for millions of Americans have been permanently buried and destroyed by mountaintop removal mining.
-- I have listed the «catastrophic results» that are projected to occur, according to IPCC AR4 WG1 SPM, pp. 8 and 13: temperature increase of up to 6.4 °C, heat waves, floods, droughts, increased intense tropical cyclones, extreme high sea level, as well as some of the secondary impacts, which IPCC projects in WG2, WG3: crop failures, disappearing glaciers now supplying
drinking water for millions, spread of vector diseases, etc..
The Aberdares Forest is the source of
drinking water for millions of Kenyans, including the population of Nairobi.
A special focus of all three projects is the provision of clean
drinking water for the local population — an aspect which is very important for Carlson Rezidor.
The solar - powered sculpture that could desalinate 1.5 billion gallons of
drinking water for California.
Helping to restore natural forested watershed will increase the amount of clean
drinking water for cities across the country.
The Himalayas... provide more than half of
the drinking water for 40 % of the world's population... Within the next half - century, that 40 % of the world's people may well face a very serious drinking water shortage, unless the world acts boldly and quickly to mitigate global warming.»
The 1,700 - mile pipeline would pass through five states including Montana and cross through thousands of rivers that supply
drinking water for millions of people.
I respond: It is amazing that the majority of people are more interested in making money in the present than in doing — or, in this instance, not doing — the things that must be done to ensure that the planet is capable of providing enough food and clean
drinking water for their children and grandchildren to survive.
I believe India, Pakistan, Kashmir, Nepal, China will feel the full effect of lost glacier melt runoff that feeds major rivers in their part of the world and provide irrigation and
drinking water for tens of millions of people.
The Silent Valley Reservoir in Northern Ireland collects H20 from the Moune Mountains and distributes it as the main source of
drinking water for the bulk of County Down and Belfast.
There are games like this one that a student invented to help her and her peers to spend less time on their phones as well as this app developed by the UNICEF Tap Project that donates money to provide water for a child without access to clean
drinking water for every ten minutes you don't touch your phone.
A new cheap, lightweight sponge - like gel can quickly and efficiently disinfect
drinking water for disaster victims.
Over the approximately 11 - year life of a washer, that's enough water to fill up three backyard swimming pools or provide a lifetime of
drinking water for six people!
Proceeds from the auction will go towards Water For People, providing clean
drinking water for those in need.
So carafes of
drinking water for customers on the beach, and reusable cups for divers needing a drink in their surface interval.
UV lamps purify the water throughout the hotel, offering clean
drinking water for guests from any tap.
Our porters carry tents and supplies, cook meals, boil
drinking water for us and take care of everything around camp.
[162] Drivers were told to bring spare fan belts, radiator hoses, and additional
drinking water for the journey traversing the desert.
For bicyclists it's advisable though to bring sufficient
drinking water for the whole day: there are not always restaurants, supermarkets of shops nearby.
Yes, there is potable water in the Scorpion Ranch campground on Santa Cruz Island and the Water Canyon campground on Santa Rosa Island, but we recommend that you bring enough
drinking water for the whole day.
Prevent it: Take clean
drinking water for your dog when you go on hikes and favor dog parks where owners are responsible about cleaning up feces, Dr. DeBess recommends.
All the cat needed was to be taken off dry food completely and given some apple cider vinegar and a little cranberry powder in
his drinking water for a few weeks.