Sentences with phrase «into local water supplies»

FIn 2011, the pharmaceutical company Pfizer temporarily suspended use of the poultry drug Roxarsone after FDA reports showing that the arsenical compounds in the drug may break down into inorganic arsenic, a toxin that can produce skin lesions, respiratory irritation, and several types of cancer in exposed persons, Fand may leach into local water supplies or remain in chicken tissue after slaughter.

Nonetheless, landfill is a cheap method of waste disposal, and despite some of the problems it has encountered - such as concerns about the leaching of contaminants into local water supplies - it remains more acceptable to the public than alternatives such as incineration.

Secretly injecting heavy sodium into the local water supply of a south Louisiana parish, these psychiatrists are able to alter social behavior drastically.

The chemical, which was used for years by local factories manufacturing non-stick goods, made its way into the local water supply.

Respectively, these symptoms spread the microbe into our exhaled breath, into the local water supply via our feces, and onto the skin of those who touch us, explaining why a microbe might want to induce unpleasant symptoms in its victims.

Romanovsky says that the combination of erosion and the melting of permafrost, which are related, may have helped mobilize sequestered anthrax into the local water supply.

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.

Not exact matches

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

Officials with the State of Vermont will update Bennington - area residents on the ongoing investigation into PFOA contamination of local water 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.

Environmentalists and residents of Parker County, Texas, were dismayed last year when the EPA dropped an investigation into complaints that fracking by Range Resources was contaminating local water supplies with methane.

RE # 37, GW actions have many many other immediate & future benefits: they prevent / reduce many other environmental harms (local air pollution, acid rain, ground & water pollution, etc.), they are good for the health (e.g., cycling & walking), they reduce crime (cycling, walking), they reduce our implication in foreign conflicts & tax money to protect oil supplies, they save money without lowering productivity (even increasing it), they save businesses from folding & households from going into hock.

These substances eventually find their way into the soil where they can contaminate the local water supplies.

As water supplies become more vulnerable due to drought and the effects of climate change, it is critical that we diversify our water supplies to add more local sources into our water portfolio.

When ecology teacher Paul Ritter at the Pontiac Township High School in Pontiac, Illinois realized the U.S. is beginning to experience increasing amounts of unused or pharmaceuticals in the water supply he swung into action by working with his students to organize a local program to keep drugs out of the environment that may well serve as a model for others across the country.

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.

445 (1) The City can not enter into a contract with a local municipality of a regional municipality to supply water to the local municipality for its own use or for resale to the inhabitants of the local municipality.

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