Sentences with phrase «into drinking water supplies»

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

«The next question was whether contaminants in household wastewater, once they enter the groundwater, make their way into drinking water supplies,» says Dr. Laurel Schaider, a research scientist at Silent Spring and lead author of the new study.

Arsenic is one of the most common environmental pollutants, finding its way into drinking water supplies through natural or humanmade sources and affecting millions of people worldwide.

«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,» Capital New York's Scott Waldman wrote.

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.

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.

This year the Earth Day Network is focusing on plastic pollution, especially looking at how microplastic pollution gets into our drinking water supply.

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While the EPA did not find any clear evidence that fracking, properly executed, caused chemicals to seep through rock fissures into the water supply, it did document well failures and above - ground spills affecting drinking water.

The proceeds from this mining will be converted into fiat currency and donated to UNICEF Australia to supply vulnerable children worldwide with supplies like vaccines, food, and safe drinking water.

Water was often not safe to drink... you often had sewage running into water suppWater was often not safe to drink... you often had sewage running into water suppwater 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.

He said such pollution can lead to unclean drinking water, an unhealthy food supply through fish consumption and the flow of contaminated water into smaller waterways.

Puerto Rican scientists are still taking stock of the magnitude of the wreckage nearly two weeks after the hurricane made landfall on Sept. 20 as Category 4 winds propelled trees into buildings, knocked out power systems, left residents without fuel for generators and transportation and diminished access to drinking water and food supplies.

This pollution also finds its way into underground aquifers that supply our drinking water, so reducing it is a human health measure and could also save municipalities millions of dollars a year in drinking water treatment facilities and operational expenses.

«If we can identify the mechanisms for water - use efficiency, we could move this trait into agronomic plants, supply non-potable water as irrigation to those plants and save the clean water for drinking.»

IDR reintroduces treated wastewater into groundwater supplies, where it re-enters the drinking water system.

The reservoirs beneath us contain several feet of sand through which the seawater filters before making its way to a vast metal hangar, where it is transformed into enough drinking water to supply 1.5 million people.

Recent news about tainted water in Flint, Michigan, and other parts of the country have called into question the safety of the nation's drinking water supply.

In South Florida, 20 of the nation's most stringently regulated disposal wells failed in the early 1990s, releasing partly treated sewage into aquifers that may one day be needed to supply Miami's drinking water.

The vessel, which is 7.3 meters long but only 1.09 meters wide, also has a sphere - shaped pressurized cockpit that collected evaporated moisture from Cameron's breath and sweat into a plastic bag, which would supply him with extra drinking water if necessary.

Drinking water free of chemicals like sodium fluoride and chlorine is essential because water will help flush the waste away, but the chemicals dumped into most western public water supplies will kill off good intestinal flora, and therefore should be avoided.

According to Tom Pelton of the Baltimore Sun, streams, underground water supplies and drinking wells are contaminated when rain washes through ash dumps, flushing contaminants into the environment.

This «turn - key» mobile unit integrates a solar panel and battery storage with a filtration and purification system into a utility wagon that can be easily transported to the water source, supplying up to 4320 gallons of safe drinking water per day.

Those backyard sewage disposal devices send pollutants into the ground, where they can leach into waterways and sometimes drinking water supplies.

Hydrologists concerned with sustainable groundwater supplies and drinking water contamination, have been in the forefront of analyzing the volume and ages of the world's groundwater, providing greater insight into deep aquifer effects.

«This equipment, a lot of it is filled with known carcinogens... if it ends up in the landfill it will seep down into the water supply and it becomes part of what you're going to be drinking out of the tap, becomes what you start to breathe,» said Paul Brundage, senior vice president of sales at AnythingIT.

From communities that are dealing with waterways that are contaminated with toxic chemicals from coal ash waste seeping into their waters to communities that are having drinking water supplies contaminated by fracking, our reliance on dirty energy sources is having a huge impact on water quality and quantity.

On the heels of the EPA announcement, an in - depth article in the New York Times, «Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering,» offers new insights into public drinking water supply contaminaWater Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering,» offers new insights into public drinking water supply contaminawater supply contamination.

Scientists and municipal planners say the rising seas will likely turn underground aquifers into salty water, contaminating the drinking supply for millions of Floridians.

Rising salt water is creeping through the porous rock underlying much of the state and into freshwater aquifers, threatening the drinking supply for millions of Americans.

By Mike Hudema Greenpeace Canada Thursday, March 28, 2013 Read this blog post on the originating site Yesterday night Suncor admitted that for 10 - hrs on Monday, March 25th its pipe gushed, releasing toxic, chemically treated water into the environment and the Athabasca river, the drinking water supply for countless...

And that's because the original route from Canada into the United States was planned through an area in Nebraska that supplies some drinking water for nearly 2 million Americans, and irrigation for a good portion of America's croplands.

If the oil industry wants to pipe these dangerous tar sands oils over our water sheds and aquifers, putting our drinking supply and neighborhoods at risk, they should not only be required to pay into the cleanup fund, they should be paying far more than the 8 cents per barrel they pay for conventional oil since these tar sands oils are not just worse for the environment, but potentially pose a greater risk of spills and are even harder to clean up.

In fact, he says, the oil sands, combined with Alberta's growing mania for extracting natural gas from coal seams by injecting toxic chemicals into the ground — thereby poisoning some of the dwindling supply of drinking water — threaten to create a parched, deforested, polluted wasteland.

Officials in Rio claimed that Sao Paulo violated national water and energy plans when it tried to withhold water that feeds into the Paraiba do Sul, which supplies Rio with drinking water and hydropower.

Most of us are directly tied into the local water supply, which is great when it works well, and horrible when it doesn't (as evidenced by the recent and ongoing travesties in communities such as Flint, Michigan), and although some homes may capture rainwater for irrigation, or have their own well, there aren't a lot of alternative choices for getting clean drinking water, other than purchasing bottled water.

However, there are some up - and - coming water innovations that could be put into play at homes and businesses that would allow people to have more control over their own drinking water supply.

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.

This stream feeds into a lake, which supplies the local town with drinking water.

Hence the difficulty of trying to raise architecture into a political priority: it has none of the unambiguous advantages of clean drinking water or a safe food supply.