Sentences with phrase «into drinking water»

The toxic chemicals get into drinking water, not to mention rivers and oceans.

Maybe they'd like to explore the technology which is turning sewage into drinking water?

A new recycling system turns pee into drinking water and energy, a small step toward really long - term space travel.

Some genius figured out that if you poured a little wine into the drinking water, you didn't go quite so often.

For dogs who can not eat solid food, this can be mixed directly into their drinking water.

In an effort to raise awareness about the lack of access to clean water, this team of engineers built a machine that converts sweat into drinking water.

A new system not only would turn pee into drinking water but also produce energy.

At the end of 2014, Gov. Andrew Cuomo banned fracking in New York, citing health risks, like the possibility of chemicals seeping into drinking water supplies and respiratory problems from gases released into the air.

It seeps into drinking water by leaks and discharges from industrial facilities.

In a study in the journal Nature Geoscience, M.I.T. researchers identify what they believe is the sequence of events whereby arsenic trapped in the sediment of the Ganges Delta is finding its way into the drinking water supply of Bangladesh.

Even then if potty dumping is repeatedly piled up in one spot, some germs may get leached into a drinking water supply system in some porous soil areas.

however, i know i'm not putting poop in a landfill that will leak into my drinking water supply and i'm not filling up that landfill!

Anyone who lives in a home with lead pipes may be at risk, and since more than 80 percent of the city's housing stock was built before they were banned, lead is potentially leaching into the drinking water of thousands of children.

All three are known to leach out of existing e-waste dumps into drinking water supplies.

There are about 15,000 lead water service lines in Syracuse, the same kind of pipes that leached poisonous lead into the drinking water in Flint, Mich..

They have no more «right» to pollute the atmosphere with CO2 emissions than they do to dump toxic chemicals into our drinking water supply (which, of course, they also do).

Desal Pro sells and provides maintenance to electricity & water plants that purify salt water into drinking water via a desalination process.

«Graphene sieve turns seawater into drinking water.»

From the oxygen - generating algae that help us breathe, to the hormone - altering chemicals that leach from plastics into drinking water and mutate male sperm, our existence is threatened if we continue to use plastics as widely as we do.

The wastewater can get into drinking water by being disposed of at sewage treatment plants, the EPA wrote.

All you have to do is add two drops into their drinking water and it works for animals who have a fear of thunder or fireworks, or in general have been through a traumatic situation.

Since then, we have all learned a lot about the risks of fracking — about how the toxic chemicals used can migrate into drinking water, about how methane can leak out of well casements, about the danger of disposing of billions of gallons of polluted wastewater the process produces.

The Department of Environmental Conservation and Department of Health on Tuesday announced the filtration system will be installed by Taconic Plastics, the company deemed to be responsbile for the chemical seeping into the drinking water in Petersburgh.

California officials have ordered an emergency shut - down of 11 oil and gas waste injection sites and a review more than 100 others in the state's drought - wracked Central Valley out of fear that companies may have been pumping fracking fluids and other toxic waste into drinking water aquifers there.

In the early study draft, author Paul Heisig noted that gas «drilling, extraction, transport via pipelines, and underground storage» could inadvertently introduce methane into drinking water supplies.

California officials have ordered an emergency shut - down of 11 oil waste injection sites and a review of over 100 others in the Central Valley for fear that companies may have been pumping fracking fluids into drinking water aquifers.

At the intersection of research, education, water conservation and advertising comes this interesting project in Lima, Peru: it's a billboard that converts the region's moist air into drinking water.

Once the icebergs reach South Africa, they would then be chopped into a slurry and melted into drinking water for locals.

A July 2012 study by researchers at Duke University and California State Polytechnic University at Pomona found that salty water from deep underground could make its way into drinking water near the surface.

San Diego County is building the largest seawater desalination plant in the Western hemisphere, while Orange County plans to turn more wastewater into drinking water.

Not once, but twice, this newspaper has wagged its finger at Suffolk County government for dipping into its Drinking Water Protection Program without just cause, using the voter - approved preservation dollars to balance its general fund books.

A number of state legislators once eager to hold hearings into drinking water contamination by a cancer - causing chemical in the small town of Hoosick Falls now seem loathe to even discuss the matter.

Recognizing this, Orange County's water and sanitation districts have begun recycling sewage into drinking water at the world's largest plant of its kind, the $ 487 million Groundwater Replenishment System.

«From a design point of view, I've always found it somewhat magical that you can essentially use something that looks like screen door mesh to translate fog into drinking water,» said Brook Kennedy, associate professor of industrial design in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies and one of the study's co-authors.

«Leaky pipes can allow contaminants into our drinking water.»

«Water treatment involves many steps between commode and faucet,» says Mike Markus, an environmental engineer at the Orange County Water District in California, which has been processing liquid sewage into drinking water since 2008.

The new Water Recovery System on the International Space Station recycles 93 percent of astronauts» perspiration and urine, turning it back into drinking water.

Mold is more likely to grow on iron pipes than it is on PVC pipes, but PVC piping isn't great either — it can leach plasticizers into drinking water.

One CEO I know — the first American engineer to graduate from Tokyo University — had been working in Africa and other poor nations to bring clean water («Water of Life») and process it safely into drinking water.

The Environmental Protection Agency provides grants to states to deposit into their Drinking Water State Revolving Funds, or DWSRFs.

Underdeveloped countries are not going to have problems with toxics and drugs escaping into drinking water, but your composting potty idea is not going to work very well where people live in squalid conditions of 500 persons on up per square mile, Unfortunately, many more people live under such crowded conditions than those, who can make a composting potty to dump out in some isolated spot where a few hundred people or less people live on a square mile.

Batteries contain heavy metals which may leach from landfill sites into drinking water supplies, says the report.

Corn farming substantially tops all crops in total application of pesticides, according to the US Department of Agriculture, and is the crop most likely to leach pesticides into drinking water.

In Bangladesh, for example, a country which the report says could have more internal climate migrants than other types of internal migrants by 2050, saltwater entering into drinking water supplies due, in part, to sea level rise is already affecting the health of 20 million people in coastal Bangladesh.

A new system for turning astronaut urine into drinking water also makes good use of the waste urea as fuel.

Dropping iodine into drinking water may solve the flow issue, but leaves an unappetizing taste.

Liquid chlorine is mixed into drinking water and swimming pools to destroy bacteria.