Sentences with phrase «into underground water supplies»

In California, state officials have admitted to allowing oil companies to drill injection wells into protected aquifers and dispose of oil waste fluid into underground water supplies across the state.

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Rainforests act as natural water filters, keeping pollution and debris from flowing into water supplies; they also slow down rainwater, sending it into underground reserves.

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.

«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.

Half of the near - distilled - quality reclaimed water is injected into a saltwater barrier — an underground supply of freshwater that prevents brine from creeping inland from the sea and contaminating fresh reserves.

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.

The underground tunnel system is what actually brings the water into New York City while the electricity is supplied by a distant hydroelectric plant in a Canadian forest.

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.

In America's Magic City, the rising seawater is leaking into, and contaminating, fresh water supplies above and underground.

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