Sentences with phrase «feed into the water supply»

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That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

Our goal is to «rehydrate the landscape» by increasing the amount of rainfall that is absorbed into the ground to recharge water supplies and feed headwater streams.»

She can jump into as much cold water as she would like, and her milk supply should be just fine Your milk supply works by supply and demand, so as long as she is feeding or pumping milk from her breasts she will continue to produce milk.

The sinkhole is also where the freshwater supplying the subterranean estuary comes from — rainfall and salt water from the ocean feed into it to form the distinct water layers found there.

Groundwater contamination is rife — there's the chromium in the Erin Brokovitch case, there's MTBE in groundwater all across the state of California, and other areas have rocket fuel residues like perchlorate, commonly found in small amounts in much lettuce grown in the U.S. Agricultural drainage is also full of fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, which ends up in rivers and lakes that feed into municipal water supplies.

Officials in Rio claimed that Sao Paulo violated national water and energy plans when it tried to withhold water that feeds into the Paraiba do Sul, which supplies Rio with drinking water and hydropower.

With 67 % of the worlds fresh water supplies directed into agriculture, and with 7 billion mouths to feed, agriculture is under the gun.

This stream feeds into a lake, which supplies the local town with drinking water.