Sentences with phrase «local water supplies»

The loss of glaciers can, in turn, put pressure on local water supplies.

It followed a two - year drought that severely threatened local water supplies.

That practice was only necessary in the past, when local water supplies were not as reliably clean as they are now.

The office has expanded its focus in recent years to include issues regarding local water supplies.

All relied on the same local water supply contaminated with toxic metals injected into the ground by nearby coal mining operations.

The Departments of Environmental Conservation and Health recently announced that Honeywell, one of the companies that's been deemed responsible for the contamination of local water supplies with the chemical PFOA, would conduct a soil vapor intrusion investigation near the company's former facility on John Street.

State and local officials as well as contracted engineers will hold a public meeting at Bennington College at 5:30 for residents affected by the PFOA contamination found in local water supplies.

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.

The Rensselaer County village of Hoosick Falls is considering a new draft of a proposed settlement between the companies deemed responsible for polluting local water supplies and village government.

Researchers recruited 1,300 three - month old infants from families across the UK taking part in the EAT study and gathered data on levels of calcium carbonate (i.e. water hardness) and chlorine in their household water from local water suppliers.

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.

«The key for Los Angeles to potentially reach water independence would be to simultaneously increase local water supply while bringing down local demand for water,» said Katie Mika, a postdoctoral scholar at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and one of the study's lead researchers.

After a series of incidents where coal mines poisoned local water supplies, the rule was written to force mining companies not to begin new projects without first developing a plan to restore affected streams after the coal is hauled out of the earth.

As they grow, local communities are increasingly concerned about development proposals on valuable natural resources as well as how to meet local water supply permitting and stormwater management regulations.

Seasonal variation is likely to increase as well, leading to wetter winters and drier summers that could disrupt local water supplies.

Commission a new study of the Los Angeles River to better understand the flows needed to create and support a healthy ecosystem, support the river's other beneficial uses and augment local water supplies.

Built in the 16th century as the brand new capital city of India, Fatehpur Sikri was abandoned after only 14 years of rule when local water supplies ran dry.

The Non-potable Water Programme is a climate change adaptation tool that generates additional local water supplies while also reducing the threat of flooding in the city.

Democrats are committed to closing the Halliburton loophole that stripped the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of its ability to regulate hydraulic fracturing, and ensuring tough safeguards are in place, including Safe Drinking Water Act provisions, to protect local water supplies.

The mines also rely on a controversial process called cyanide heap - leaching, which can result in one of the most toxic substances on Earth entering local water supplies.

Improperly treated sewage can also lead to increased nitrates in local water supplies, which is dangerous for infants, pregnant women and those with already compromised immune systems.

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.

One year after the Village of Hoosick Falls tabled a controversial settlement agreement, the Rensselaer County community has agreed to accept payments from companies blamed for polluting local water supplies.

Whether this effluent should be processed is contentious; the Supreme Court is set to hear a consolidation of cases about the Environmental Protection Agency's requirements that power plants retrofit their systems to minimize impact on local water supplies and aquatic life.

In the process, the mercury vaporizes, becomes airborne and eventually contaminates local water supplies.

After all, grizzled landowners who've ranched in the area for generations AND the newly minted, solar - powered, recycling Okotoks» crowd share one common concern — a secure, local water supply for themselves and their children.

In the case of fracking, there has been no incident of extensive contamination of a local water supply, and so the danger posed by drilling rigs in Allegany County to New York water is vanishingly small, not the least because that region is well west of the Catskill / Delaware watershed that provides water to New York City.

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

She cited water supply efforts such as a partnership with a water district in San Bernardino County in California to build a groundwater treatment project that is «expected to restore an additional 250 million gallons of available clean drinking water each year to the local water supply.»

The pediatrician deals with this question all the time, and probably knows a great deal about the local water supply.

Breast milk provides all the vitamins and minerals your baby needs, except for vitamin D and possibly fluoride if your local water supply does not add fluoride to drinking water.

Many communities in Canada add fluoride to the local water supply to help prevent tooth decay.

The Village of Hoosick Falls has postponed a meeting scheduled for today where officials were set to consider a settlement offer by the companies deemed responsible for the contamination of local water supplies.

The Cuomo administration continues to move far too slowly in its remediation of local water supplies.

The mailer features testimonies from a Hoosick Falls resident named Margaret Restino, who says McLaughlin worked «around the clock» to get answers and clean water in the wake of the discovery of PFOA in the local water supply.

Residents of Hoosick Falls in Rensselaer County are being encouraged to attend a public meeting Monday evening to discuss the latest findings related to the PFOA - contamination of local water supplies.

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

Vermont environmental officials will hold meetings Tuesday to provide the latest information to Bennington - area residents about the PFOA contamination of local water supplies and the ongoing response.

Since last November, the residents of the tiny upstate village of Hoosick Falls have been using bottled water for drinking and cooking after contamination was discovered in its local water supply.

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

In Ashland, the storms Lee and Irene made a mess of the local water supply, setting back plans to implement a new delivery system.

The problem was first uncovered in the summer of 2014 by a local citizen who conducted his own tests on the local water supply.

According to Orange County Water District officials, recycling trumps many other options for supplementing 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.

Selfa thought that had these communities been aware of ethanol production's impact on the local water supply, support for the plants may not have been as strong.