Sentences with phrase «lead in water in»

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner says the city will be testing for lead in water in each of the city's public schools to make sure no high lead levels are lurking that could harm children.

Following the discovery of high levels of lead in the water in Newark's schools, New York City is unveiling a website where parents can track the results of lead testing in its schools.

She has reported on controversies around discipline in charter schools, racial segregation in the New York City school system, and flaws in the city's method of testing for lead in water in schools.

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While trafficking routes have changed over time, in recent years narco subs and other vessels leaving southwest Colombia or northwest Ecuador laden with drug cargos often head out in the Pacific, even around the Galapagos Islands, before turning north in an effort to skirt law enforcement closer to home — which may include underwater sensors in Colombian waters — as well as US - led interdiction efforts.

The problem you address could be as targeted and serious as leaded water in Flint, Mich., which David Tarver is helping his community solve through an urban entrepreneurship initiative.

The company reached a high - water mark in 2011, leading the U.S. handbag market with a 29.2 % share, according to Euromonitor International.

(In India alone more than 600 million citizens don't have access to toilets or latrines, and open defecation leads to contaminated water and chronic — sometimes deadly — health issues, like diarrhea.)

«According to the most recent assessment, the steady oil price recovery since summer 2017 and renewed interest in growth opportunities has led to oil majors catching up in terms of exploration activity this year, both in the shale industry and offshore deep water,» OPEC said.

The man tasked by the EU to lead the bloc's discussions with the U.K. over «Brexit» has been rehearsing his Grinch imitation, pouring cold water over the brief uptick in optimism that followed a summit last week that formally blessed the advance of talks to a new, second stage.

Knightscope recently made headlines when one of its security bots was found drowned in a shopping mall pond — slippery surfaces had prevented the K5 from detecting stairs leading to the recessed water.

Water Street partnered with Mr. Walter in 2008 to merge two leading specialty distributors — Bound Tree Medical and Tri-anim Health Services — to create Sarnova.

Seth Kaufman is PepsiCo North America Beverages CMO, where he leads the holistic business, brand and consumer agenda across PepsiCo's vast beverage portfolio of carbonated soft drinks, waters, teas, energy and ready - to - drink coffee drinks in the U.S..

Mark Rubinstein, the lead author of the study, said «the vapor produced by e-cigarettes is not harmless water vapor, but actually contains some of the same toxic chemicals found in smoke from traditional cigarettes.»

The photo, which was posted to Twitter Tuesday, showed 24 - packs of bottled water selling for $ 42.96 and led to accusations the store was price gouging in the wake of extensive flooding and destruction wrought by the storm, CNBC reports.

Not only do warmer waters cause bleaching of the living coral polyps that make up the mass, by leading them to expel the algae that give them color, but they have also led to an explosion in the numbers of a creature called the crown - of - thorns starfish.

But we did note that the country's deteriorating highways and water mains had become a major concern (in fact, a 2015 infrastructure bill had been one of the few major legislative items that President Obama and a Republican - led Congress could agree on).

At one recent workshop I led, we discovered that one executive had been a ball boy for the U.S. Open tennis tournament in his youth, and one attorney is an avid and regular surfer in the waters of New York City.

Here are just a few: Jordan Peele became the first African American to win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Get Out, and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water won for Best Picture — a film featuring a female actor in the lead role hasn't won the category since Million Dollar Baby in 2004.

(A state investigation into the matter concluded that a drilling failure had likely led to intermingling between the gas and water strata in the ground.)

«The first stage of our project has resulted in the capacity to produce 2 cubic meters of drinking water in a 12 - day period,» said professor Darren Reynolds, who is leading the research team.

From the content your brand and your advocates share across social media, through the dark social waters, Smync can provide real numbers on a community, content and individual level as to not just real social metrics and deeper engagement, but what that meant in digital conversion — earned media, key content, lead generation, email signups and actual purchases.

Shared - living space provider CoLive, owned by CoLife Advisory Pvt. Ltd, has raised $ 1.8 million (Rs 11.7 crore) in a round of funding led by Ncubate Capital Partners, a venture capital arm of SAR Group that engages primarily in water purifiers, clean tech and automotive batteries, the startup said in a press statement.

Aqua Ferre joined forces with Harvey Water in developing an industry - led solution to the water quality problems in the Wellington Dam and the Myalup Irrigated Agricultural PrecWater in developing an industry - led solution to the water quality problems in the Wellington Dam and the Myalup Irrigated Agricultural Precwater quality problems in the Wellington Dam and the Myalup Irrigated Agricultural Precinct.

The New Energy Capital Cleantech Infrastructure Fund, a leading investor in clean infrastructure real assets, has invested in Natural Systems Utilities, an award - winning leader in the water and energy infrastructure industry.

China is leading an effort to water down the World Bank's most popular research report in a test of the development institution's new president, Jim Yong Kim.

Enormous investments in desalination of sea water technology and systems are expected in the years ahead as current desalination techniques are very energy demanding leading to significant CO2 emissions.

In Puerto Rico and the USVI, the outages have led to ongoing health and environmental crises as idled sanitation systems have forced some to drink from contaminated wells and other water sources.

What they do not explain is that Law's initial infusion of money led to a fluorescence of employment and prosperity, for the early effect of providing money is like watering plants that have been living in parched soil.

Vegetation across much of the drought - stricken west eagerly soaked up the surfeit of water from the wet winter, leading to a rapid, vast growth spurt in trees, grasses, and shrubs in the spring.

The typical desk contains about 25,000 germs per square inch, making it the highest concentration of germs in an office; however, the leading hotspot of workplace germs is closely followed by break room faucet handles, microwave handles, refrigerator door handles, water fountain buttons, and vending machine buttons.

That means warmer air and warmer water could lead to larger, more intense hurricanes, which in turn lead to more rainfall.

She also shares with Anthony Lacavera which countries are leading the industry in water technology innovation.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

There are significant parallels between water and electricity infrastructure in the 20th century and high bandwidth internet connectivity in the 21st century, with both exhibiting the type of network externality problems that lead to under - investment by the private sector.

Nevertheless, we remain optimistic about the firm's other business lines, which include consumer electronics, water filtration, healthcare, and separators in traditional lead - acid batteries.

Flint's former mayor and the city's former emergency manager testified that they were not aware of lead in the water until January 2015.

He has refused to limit the use of numerous pesticides; he has repealed regulations on methane flares; he has punted on the question of addressing lead in water, which we know is definitely not a problem in this country, insisting that the question demands at least six years of further study.

In Prince Rupert and many other communities throughout British Columbia, there are widespread concerns about high lead levels in schools and local drinking wateIn Prince Rupert and many other communities throughout British Columbia, there are widespread concerns about high lead levels in schools and local drinking watein schools and local drinking water.

In recent months, British Columbians were shocked to learn that lead had been discovered in the water at several B.C. schoolIn recent months, British Columbians were shocked to learn that lead had been discovered in the water at several B.C. schoolin the water at several B.C. schools.

VICTORIA — After the Christy Clark government refused to take the issue of lead in the drinking water of North Coast communities seriously, B.C. New Democrat MLA for the North Coast, Jennifer Rice, initiated water testing in three social housing units...

Since founding the company in 2009, Olgica has led Porifera, applying its unique, world - leading forward - osmosis technology to problems in ZLD, water reuse, and food and beverage processing around the world.

In short, we think the market became impatient with a lack of visible inventory draws four months into OPEC cuts and that Chinese macro concerns, a modest (and possibly transient) uptick in Libyan production and an unimpressive EIA report lead to length liquidation, self - reinforced stop losses and momentum from robots smelling blood in the water»In short, we think the market became impatient with a lack of visible inventory draws four months into OPEC cuts and that Chinese macro concerns, a modest (and possibly transient) uptick in Libyan production and an unimpressive EIA report lead to length liquidation, self - reinforced stop losses and momentum from robots smelling blood in the water»in Libyan production and an unimpressive EIA report lead to length liquidation, self - reinforced stop losses and momentum from robots smelling blood in the water»in the water».

Best Picture: «The Shape of Water» Lead Actor: Gary Oldman, «Darkest Hour» Lead Actress: Frances McDormand, «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» Supporting Actor: Sam Rockwell, «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» Supporting Actress: Allison Janney, «I, Tonya» Director: «The Shape of Water,» Guillermo del Toro Animated Feature: «Loving Vincent,» Animated Short: «Revolting Rhymes» Adapted Screenplay: «The Disaster Artist» Original Screenplay: «The Big Sick» Cinematography: «Blade Runner 2049» Roger Deakins Best Documentary Feature: «Last Men in Aleppo» Best Documentary Short Subject: «Traffic Stop» Best Live Action Short Film: «The Silent Child» Best Foreign Language Film: «The Insult» (Lebanon) Film Editing: «Baby Driver» Sound Editing: «Dunkirk» Sound Mixing: «Dunkirk» Production Design: «The Shape of Water» Original Score: «Star Wars: The Last Jedi Original Song: «This Is Me» from «The Greatest Showman» Makeup and Hair: «Darkest Hour» Costume Design: «Phantom Thread» Visual Effects: «Star Wars: The Last Jedi»

This limits the available ships that can transport food and clean water, and can thereby lead to food prices in Puerto Rico being double what they are in Florida, according to the Times.

In the utilities sector, we think American Water Works is well - positioned to improve US water systems.7 In our view, the lead water crisis in Flint, Michigan, underscores the need to invest in US municipal water systems to keep them operating safelIn the utilities sector, we think American Water Works is well - positioned to improve US water systems.7 In our view, the lead water crisis in Flint, Michigan, underscores the need to invest in US municipal water systems to keep them operating saWater Works is well - positioned to improve US water systems.7 In our view, the lead water crisis in Flint, Michigan, underscores the need to invest in US municipal water systems to keep them operating sawater systems.7 In our view, the lead water crisis in Flint, Michigan, underscores the need to invest in US municipal water systems to keep them operating safelIn our view, the lead water crisis in Flint, Michigan, underscores the need to invest in US municipal water systems to keep them operating sawater crisis in Flint, Michigan, underscores the need to invest in US municipal water systems to keep them operating safelin Flint, Michigan, underscores the need to invest in US municipal water systems to keep them operating safelin US municipal water systems to keep them operating sawater systems to keep them operating safely.

More than 350 leading college entrepreneurs and 150 world leaders gathered at the Kairos Global Summit in New York City earlier this year to collaborate and create innovations and business models that address key global issues, including clean water, the global financial crisis, energy consumption, natural disasters, healthcare and more.

It wasn't until a public servant took it upon themselves to test the water in Prince Rupert schools this year that it was revealed that children and staff are being exposed to elevated lead levels.

Think of lead contaminated water at Vancouver Island schools, asbestos exposure at a school in Abbotsford and delays in upgrading seismically unsound schools across the Lower Mainland.

«The results of the tests I initiated show that the drinking water in one of the social housing homes has lead concentration levels that are too high,» said Rice.

VICTORIA — After the Christy Clark government refused to take the issue of lead in the drinking water of North Coast communities seriously, B.C. New Democrat MLA for the North Coast, Jennifer Rice, initiated water testing in three social housing units in her community.