Sentences with phrase «impacting public drinking»

These include major explosions, groundwater contamination impacting public drinking water, tank truck accidents, major tank farm failures, and governmental civil and criminal investigations.

Not exact matches

«The agency should include and explain the... investigations conducted in Dimock, Pennsylvania; Pavillion, Wyoming; and Parker County, Texas where hydraulic fracturing activities are perceived by many members of the public to have caused significant local impacts to drinking water resources,» states the advisory body's review.

We woefully underestimate the power of business leaders if we think they are engaged in private enterprise, for their decisions have huge public impacts not only on their stockholders but on the jobs we need, the neighborhoods in which we live, the water we drink, the air we breathe and the schools in which we learn.

Global examples have shown that soft drink taxes fail to have a meaningful impact on obesity rates and ultimately serve as a Band - Aid solution to a complex public health issue, which first and foremost requires access to adequate nutrition education and health care.

Speaking from Food Matters Live 2016, Tim Harford shares his views on the sugar tax on soft drinks together with the impact of the tax on public health.

In a move aimed at dampening the impact of «broken windows» policing, the New York City Council passed bills to create a civil process for some of the most common low - level infractions observed by police officers, including public drinking and public urination.

Nadaeu says her group and others are seeking greater protections for drinking water and public health before fracking could occur, and to that end, have been pressing the legislature to authorize a health impact study on fracking.

Riverkeeper is actively involoved in litigation, advocacy, and public education surrounding the issue of shale gas extraction and related infrastructure, particularly because of the potential impacts on New York State's drinking water supplies.

The issue revolves around high levels of lead in drinking water and a 2007 paper in Environmental Health Perspectives that claimed «no identifiable public health impact» had resulted.

«Using the Public Health Index model, we found hypertension, physical inactivity, insufficient blood pressure screening, high cholesterol, smoking and binge drinking to be the leading burdens that have the highest impact on public health in Brazil,» SimoesPublic Health Index model, we found hypertension, physical inactivity, insufficient blood pressure screening, high cholesterol, smoking and binge drinking to be the leading burdens that have the highest impact on public health in Brazil,» Simoespublic health in Brazil,» Simoes said.

The UK soft drinks industry levy, due to be introduced in April 2018, is estimated to have significant health benefits, especially among children, according to the first study to estimate its health impact, published in The Lancet Public Health.

Meanwhile, EPA is also scheduled to release for public comment by year's end a long - awaited study on fracking's impact on drinking - water supplies.

The impacts of harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the Great Lakes are being assessed using a range of economic metrics capturing the loss of services provided by the lakes (e.g. increased drinking water treatment costs, property value losses, beach closures), as well as the direct effects of toxic microcystin on public health (Bingham et al 2015, IJC 2013)-- such events are expected to increase in frequency and severity in a changing climate (Michalak et al 2013).

But in more positive news, Guangzhou (capital city of southeastern Guangdong province) received the «Compromiso Mexico» water prize, which rewards «the best local public policies that have had a positive impact on the drinking water, sewerage and sanitation services in the communities they interact with.»

Further on in the judgment, the Court answered the question whether under article 6 (4) of directive 92/43 irrigation and supply of drinking water constitute imperative reasons of overriding public interest that can justify the project impact on the integrity of the sites concerned.