Sentences with phrase «from local water suppliers»

Here are some other top successes: destroying stockpiles of chemical weapons globally as well as local stores of DDT in Tanzania; new cooking stoves to eliminate indoor air pollution in Ghana; separating copper mine tailings from the local water supply in Chile; alternative fuels to reduce air pollution in New Delhi as well as treating arsenic in well water in West Bengal; removing lead - contaminated soil in the Dominican Republic and Russia; reducing mercury vapors from artisanal gold mining in Indonesia; and new sewage systems to clean up contaminated Suzhou Creek in Shanghai.

If you are drinking tap water from your local water supply, it will typically be your local water district or your local utility district that is charged with monitoring your drinking water quality, including its magnesium content.

Not exact matches

In northwest Louisiana, as the production rush began in the Haynesville Shale in 2009, the state water agency ordered oil and gas companies to stop pulling groundwater from the local aquifer that also supplied homes and businesses, and use surface water instead.

Now a thriving local startup, Pipeguard, which was founded by a small team of MIT students, could keep as much as 20 percent of the world's drinking water supply from getting lost — and prevent global crises like the catastrophic water shortage in South Africa.

Just want to share some valuable info (http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/california-targets-wrong-water-wasters/Content?oid=4222724) since I'm writing from Los Angeles — almond crops are currently responsible for making the current extreme draught conditions even worse because they are such a water - intensive crop in an area that does not naturally have sufficient water supply, so please consider using other nuts and seeds instead, as CA is currently the only major source of almonds in the world (if you're able to find a small, local / non-CA supplier, wonderful!).

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».

Discuss this with your baby's doctor and consider getting a report from your local water company if in doubt about your water supply.

Late last year the federal EPA told local residents to stop drinking and cooking with water from the town water supply.

Water is supplied from wells, the City of New York's local reservoirs and controlled lakes, or from the Hudson River.

The mailer features testimonies from a Hoosick Falls resident named Margaret Restino, who says McLaughlin worked «around the clock» to get answers and clean water in the wake of the discovery of PFOA in the local water supply.

One year after the Village of Hoosick Falls tabled a controversial settlement agreement, the Rensselaer County community has agreed to accept payments from companies blamed for polluting local water supplies.

Fallout from the discovery of the toxic chemical in the water supply of Hoosick Falls later erupted into a war of finger - pointing between local, state and federal agencies after questions emerged in late 2015 about why it took at least 14 months before residents were warned to stop drinking from the village's contaminated wells.

«On arrival at the community, we interacted with the locals and samples were taken from their water sources and food supply.

Municipalities are already fighting over water supplies with the booming biofuels industry: citizens in the Illinois towns of Champaign and Urbana recently opposed a local ethanol plant's petition to withdraw two million gallons a day from the local aquifer to produce 100 million gallons of ethanol a year.

The sensors will be used for anything from constantly monitoring the traffic on a local road, or the water level in a river to the temperature at the beach or the supply of food in a refrigerator.

Very poor reliability with the following faults occurring during the first 2 years: Excessive noise from door mirrors - poor aerodynamics Chipped front offside window after repair Cracked door trim Loose door seal Passenger front seat stuck - unable to adjust Warped lower front windscreen mouldings - had to be replaced Faulty electric motor connection on drivers window Recall - emergency braking sensors Faulty front sensors - triggered by water ingress Add to this poor customer service from local dealer who supplied the car, delays to repairs and incorrect diagnostics.

For properties with community water supplies, testing documentation from the local health authority can suffice.

This pool is naturally made cause of big spring come out from the land and formerly used as a water resources for daily life supply by the local communities who leaving surrounding area.

As part of the same pipeline network, the Dakota Access Pipeline had been deemed too hazardous to locate near the local water supply of Bismarck, North Dakota, and so was rerouted beneath the Missouri River upstream from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.

RE # 37, GW actions have many many other immediate & future benefits: they prevent / reduce many other environmental harms (local air pollution, acid rain, ground & water pollution, etc.), they are good for the health (e.g., cycling & walking), they reduce crime (cycling, walking), they reduce our implication in foreign conflicts & tax money to protect oil supplies, they save money without lowering productivity (even increasing it), they save businesses from folding & households from going into hock.

If young and fresh H5N1 contaminated water from low local wells, cisterns, tanks, rain barrels or rice fields is used for water supply the water temperature for infection may be higher (at 24 °C the virulence of influenza viruses amount to 2 days) as in temperate climates (for «older» water from central water supplies cold water is decisive to virulence of viruses: at 7 °C the virulence of influenza viruses amount to 14 days).

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local vaWATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local vawater consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local vawater to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

We are working with stakeholders, including federal, state and local officials, water management agencies, irrigators and conservationists, on innovative water - sharing and trading schemes that would allow water to move more freely from place to place and user to user, depending on need and supply in any given year.

Doing so can help determine whether to measure your direct operations only or also to include your indirect, supply chain water use, and help you reevaluate how and where you withdraw from the local watershed.

Apart from relying upon imported freshwater and local yield as well as seawater (for flushing) to meet its demand needs, Hong Kong has been exploiting reclaimed water, recycled grey water (including rainwater) and desalinated water in order to enhance the sources of its water supply infrastructure.

They'll also let local officials and their customers understand the risks of water supply shortages from longer and more severe droughts and improve the information sent to both customers and the state during droughts.

Range begins planning to fill each impoundment months before a frack; it typically takes 90 days to purchase the water from local suppliers or withdraw it from local waterways.

«Losses or gains in forest cover shape many important aspects of an ecosystem including, climate regulation, carbon storage, biodiversity and water supplies, but until now there has not been a way to get detailed, accurate, satellite - based and readily available data on forest cover change from local to global scales.»

From property taxes that supply revenue for schools, to state and local taxes that fund road and bridge improvements, water and sewer projects, local housing initiatives and environmental programs, to even royalty payments that can sustain family farms and businesses — oil and natural gas development generates local economic benefits well beyond producing affordable, reliable energy.

His research claims that siphoning off a third of the water from the Han River's Danjiangkou reservoir, as the plan calls for, will raise the risk of floods, increase sediment and worsen water quality — hurting navigation and irrigation for local residents, and limiting supplies for industrial and municipal use.

The town board was responding to residents who had concerns that contaminants from the landfill, which can include toxic metals like arsenic, mercury, and chromium, and a long list of other substances, were leaching into local supplies of drinking water.

And in Fresno, California, students from Duke University had the opportunity to tour Fresno's Water, Energy and Technology (WET) Center where they learned about California's water supply and historic drought, and later installed solar for a local faWater, Energy and Technology (WET) Center where they learned about California's water supply and historic drought, and later installed solar for a local fawater supply and historic drought, and later installed solar for a local family.

And now, right on cue, comes this article from Isabel Hilton on Guardian Environment http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/jan/20/real-scandal-himalayas in which she states, among other things, that: «Kyrgyzstan, scientists predict, will lose 80 % of its water supply» [from glacier depletion] which provokes the following comment from the excellent MrEugenides: «This figure comes from an article Isabel herself wrote on 6 October 2009, quoting a local bureaucrat as saying that water supplies were under pressure from a variety of factors from river diversion and increased water usage to climate change.

We know that climate change is deeply affecting water supply and water policy, and our attorneys keep a close eye on the evolving regulatory and legislative initiatives emerging from local, state, and federal efforts to address 21st century water supply challenges.

As always, request applicable certificates and obtain warranties from the seller that the water supply is in accordance with all federal, provincial and local regulations.

All water is recycled, much of the power is solar, beauty products are supplied by local specialist Nectarome and salt comes from the mountain mine.