Sentences with phrase «drinking water supplies through»

Arsenic is one of the most common environmental pollutants, finding its way into drinking water supplies through natural or humanmade sources and affecting millions of people worldwide.

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While the EPA did not find any clear evidence that fracking, properly executed, caused chemicals to seep through rock fissures into the water supply, it did document well failures and above - ground spills affecting drinking water.

He said such pollution can lead to unclean drinking water, an unhealthy food supply through fish consumption and the flow of contaminated water into smaller waterways.

Basil Seggos, DEC commissioner, said the money acquired through the settlement with Akzo Nobel will play a significant role in safeguarding drinking water supplies in this county of a little more than 65,000 residents.

The reservoirs beneath us contain several feet of sand through which the seawater filters before making its way to a vast metal hangar, where it is transformed into enough drinking water to supply 1.5 million people.

Sponsor a child through a charitable organization like Plan Canada so they can see how their money provides essentials like clean drinking water, school supplies and health care.

Our pets drink water that contains toxins of various types, depending on the supply; they walk on grass that has been sprayed with herbicides and then come in and lick their feet, allowing the toxins to enter the body through the gastrointestinal tract; and they are exposed to chemical flea products and heartworm medication.

The track passed through a small populated village where we were able to grab some drinks and snacks at hugely inflated prices (this was the last place we'd be able to top up our water supplies before we arrived at the campsite that evening), and then continued on to the ruins of the Inca hill fort, Huillca Raccay.

According to Tom Pelton of the Baltimore Sun, streams, underground water supplies and drinking wells are contaminated when rain washes through ash dumps, flushing contaminants into the environment.

In flood - prone locations, flush toilets back up and pit latrines overflow contaminating the environment and potentially drinking water supplies — with dire consequences to the public health through water - borne diseases like cholera.

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.

Rising salt water is creeping through the porous rock underlying much of the state and into freshwater aquifers, threatening the drinking supply for millions of Americans.

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.