Sentences with phrase «household sources of lead»

Tests of possible household sources of lead identified the tainted spices.

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The research team, led by Joseph Graziano, PhD, professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, assessed 272 children in grades 3 - 5, who were, on average, 10 years old, from three school districts in Maine where household wells are the predominant source for drinking water and cooking.

Through 100 % household waste collection with at least 90 % participation in source separation, these programs will lead to immediate reductions in Tacloban, Malabon, Batangas and San Fernando in the Philippines, as well as villages that are part of Bandung City, Indonesia.

Our basic activities (cooking our food, heating our homes) lead to tens of thousands of pounds of carbon - dioxide emissions per household every year, but many of us can not currently opt to buy renewable energy from our utility, because such energy sources are limited.

As we've noted previously 20 % of Australian homes now have a rainwater tank, and South Australia leads the pack with almost half of all its households sourcing some water from tanks.

The WJP Rule of Law Index is the world's leading source for original data on the rule of law, relying on over 110,000 household and expert surveys to measure how the rule of law is experienced and perceived by the general public worldwide.

Source: «Married Folks Now Outnumbered: Census Data Shows Them Leading Less Than Half of U.S. Households,» Associated Press (May 28, 2011)