Sentences with phrase «from tainted waters»

Researchers have found that E. coli can recover uranium from tainted waters when working alongside inositol phosphate.

From the news that E. coli can be used to recover uranium from tainted waters and clean up nuclear waste to the first «living» building grown in Germany, a lot happened this week in green.

Obtained a favorable jury verdict in a case brought against a fast food franchise by customer who claimed he lost his sense of taste from tainted water at the restaurant.

Not exact matches

But perusing newspapers from towns where fracking is going on reveals how the issue refuses to die, with headlines like «Fears of Tainted Water Well Up in Colorado,» «Collateral Damage: Residents Fear Murky Effects of Energy Boom,» and «Worker Believes Cancer Caused by Fracking Fluids» appearing regularly.

The fact sheet was published as the state revealed his week that those consuming tainted water from Hoosick Falls» municipal water supply had PFOA blood levels more than 30 times higher than the national average.

The EPA had the authority and information to issue an emergency order protecting residents of Flint, Mich., from lead - tainted water a full seven months before it did so, an EPA internal investigation has concluded.

In its work for General Electric Co. through the years, the public relations firm owned by Mark Behan became entangled in a legal battle between GE and several river communities that filed federal lawsuits against the company when their water supplies were tainted by the PCBs dumped into the river from its plants in Fort Edward and Hudson Falls.

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.

Reproductions of maps of the Dakotas from 1886 may remind visitors of ongoing controversies with the Dakota Access Pipeline, proposed to run near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, and maps from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency mark sites in Flint, Mich., with lead - tainted water.

To keep more water from seeping into the ground and being tainted, more than 90 percent of the site has been paved.

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.

The tainted steaks theory could not be easily dismissed because DEHP can be absorbed by food and water from their packaging.

Cholera, which is carried by faeces - tainted water, is endemic in Nepal: there was an outbreak in Kathmandu, the country's capital, just before the peacekeepers flew in from there between 9 and 16 October.

Although solid wastes from all sorts of experiments have been sealed in a landfill, certain liquids, mostly chlorinated solvents, still taint the water that runs under the site.

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.

wouldn't there be chemical taint from industrial manufacturing and made with city water.

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.

As I wrote a few months ago, 2.6 billion people face this problem every day, and more than 1.5 million people, mainly children, die prematurely from exposure to water tainted with human waste.

I had a particularly fascinating time interviewing Richard Wilson, a professor emeritus of physics at Harvard who has lately been studying risks associated with everything from nuclear power to Bangladesh's arsenic - tainted water supply.

This is the last paragraph Dr. Wilson writes in the web page you can get to from «nuclear power to Bangladesh's arsenic - tainted water supply.»

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.

Our wastewater systems combine stormwater, greywater, and even clean water (such as when we inadvertently let potable water run right down the drain without using it for some purpose) with the sewage from our toilets, when we could actually design and implement systems that would segregate the slightly tainted water (greywater and stormwater) from that which comes from toilets.

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.

Gold mining is an industry fraught with environmental peril, however - tainting of water resources, and the use of cyanide and mercury to extract gold from crushed ore are two of the worst offenses.

The firm also gets the nod in highly contentious matters, with Ontario's attorney general having retained senior partner Brian Brock to manage insurance claims flowing from the Walkerton, Ont., tainted water scandal.