Sentences with phrase «lead in the drinking water supplied»
Dan Telvock discusses his report on how the Erie County Water Authority cut corners in its testing program for lead in the drinking water supplied to most local suburbs, and the agency's response to the report.
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Burstein also reiterated her belief that the chief cause of lead exposure to children is lead paint in homes built before 1978 and not the drinking water supply.
Federal officials have extended an emergency declaration for Flint that has provided supplies of bottled water, filters and test kits to the Michigan city suffering from lead contamination in drinking water, the state governor said on Friday.
«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.
«If any results are found above the EPA's action level for lead in water we will be prepared to supply schools with alternative drinking water and hand washing stations,» Dobard wrote.
Which forms the basis for the IPCC claim of high climate sensitivity (mean value of 3.2 C), resulting in significant global warming (up to 6.4 C warming by 2100), «extreme high sea levels», increased «heat waves», increased «heavy rains» and floods, increased «droughts», increased «intense tropical cyclones» — which, in turn, lead to crop failures, disappearance of glaciers now supplying drinking water to millions, increased vector borne diseases, etc. (for short, potentially catastrophic AGW — or «CAGW»).
Officials cite environmental and climate concerns, but studies show safe hydraulic fracturing doesn't threaten drinking water supplies, and cleaner - burning natural gas is the leading reason U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation are at their lowest levels in nearly 30 years.