Sentences with phrase «like water contamination»

But the court stated that the Owners only evidence for the alleged nuisance was the reduction in property values, not an objective condition like the water contamination.

Consequences like water contamination have been established, but often it is not clear if they were directly caused by fracking or the result of sloppy drilling practices.

That's not to say that fracking shouldn't be highly regulated and monitored for environmental concerns like water contamination and methane leaking.

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The public health implications of arsenic contamination in food and water, particularly foods like infant rice cereals and other commonly consumed rice products early in life, raise serious concerns.»

The report released by the Senate Health and Senate Environmental Conservation committees, comes more than a year after state officials responded to cases of chemical contamination of water in rural communities like Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh — the result of the area's industrial past.

The new debt authorization also includes $ 2.15 billion for drinking water improvements, which come on the heels of contamination problems in communities like Hoosick Falls and Newburgh.

After previously saying they weren't necessary, he announced a series of public oversight hearings in September that will examine water contamination in communities like Hoosick Falls, where the Cuomo administration's response to the crisis has been widely criticized.

But 500 days after the contamination was confirmed, village residents say they feel like they've been shunted aside, even as their crisis spurred a focus on clean drinking water problems throughout New York.

«Human - like nose can sniff out contamination in drinking water: New technology could be used to detect drugs at airports, test food quality and develop perfumes.»

This easily expands to water awareness, including contamination by things like bisphenol A, which was added to plastic in bottles and cans,» Swackhamer expects.

It provides a safe haven for organisms like Listeria, E. coli and legionella which can reproduce to levels where contamination of products passing through that water becomes inevitable.

Researchers have observed that cats in nature tend to avoid still water, like ponds and puddles — one theory for this is that cats may have learned to associate still water with contamination with bacteria and parasites.

Look for an oil that comes from clean waters (like Scandinavia, Iceland, or New Zealand) and is tested for heavy metal contamination.

Groundwater contamination is rife — there's the chromium in the Erin Brokovitch case, there's MTBE in groundwater all across the state of California, and other areas have rocket fuel residues like perchlorate, commonly found in small amounts in much lettuce grown in the U.S. Agricultural drainage is also full of fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, which ends up in rivers and lakes that feed into municipal water supplies.

Injecting fluids into the Earth at high pressure can have consequences: causing earthquakes; contamination of surface aquifers by the injected fluid; and by connecting together of shallow geological layers (like drinking water aquifers and shallow coals seams) by the numerous boreholes required, some of which will have faulting casing and cement jobs.

The guidelines include recommendations to consider air and water pollution and soil contamination, whether from a legacy source — pollution that first occurred some time ago — or an ongoing activity like agricultural pesticide application.

Drought and heavy rainfall events can make drinking water vulnerable to contamination and can ruin agriculture, leading to increases in incidents of water - borne infections and diseases like cholera, as well as malnutrition and hunger when damaged farms fail to provide enough crops for the people who rely on them.