Sentences with phrase «local water supply»

The tourist information pamphlet handed to passengers when disembarking in Auckland carried warnings about the local water supply, advising passengers to drink bottled water and not to order ice in their drinks (bwahahahaha, hotbed of infectious water, New Zealand).

Unfortunately, the local water supply is being depleted quickly enough that it may not be sustainable in the long term.

In many countries, the local water supply is simply not as clean as it is in more developed countries.

Kiley fought and helped win a substantial award against two major corporations for families who had developed leukemia as a result of a polluted local water supply.

You can't start charging a hundred dollars for a litre of water after an earthquake renders your local water supply inoperable, or ten times standard price on a toll road when the only alternative is covered by a landslip for months.

Most of us are directly tied into the local water supply, which is great when it works well, and horrible when it doesn't (as evidenced by the recent and ongoing travesties in communities such as Flint, Michigan), and although some homes may capture rainwater for irrigation, or have their own well, there aren't a lot of alternative choices for getting clean drinking water, other than purchasing bottled water.

These projects would have destroyed the corridor's wildlife habitat, threaten the local water supply, and limit public beach access while ignoring the reality that other similar developments in Puerto Rico had failed to bring the economic opportunities that had been promised.

Romanovsky says that the combination of erosion and the melting of permafrost, which are related, may have helped mobilize sequestered anthrax into the local water supply.

As part of the same pipeline network, the Dakota Access Pipeline had been deemed too hazardous to locate near the local water supply of Bismarck, North Dakota, and so was rerouted beneath the Missouri River upstream from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.

Usually, there is no hot water but the local water supply is tepid.

Depending upon the mineral content in your local water supply, staining around the face may occur.

Ernest keeps the family fed by transporting supplies up a mountain to a camp that controls the local water supply.

John tries to find evidence to sue a factory for dumping waste in the local water supply.

If you are drinking tap water from your local water supply, it will typically be your local water district or your local utility district that is charged with monitoring your drinking water quality, including its magnesium content.

Furthermore, an analysis of different parts of the UK found that the rates of hypothyroidism were statistically matched to the rates of fluoride in the local water supply.

Last but not least, paying premium prices for bottled water, thinking it's more pure than your local water supply, has also been proven to be a complete fallacy.

In 1984, DuPont became aware that PFOA was present in the local water supply, and unsurprisingly, they didn't tell anyone.

«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.

Here are some other top successes: destroying stockpiles of chemical weapons globally as well as local stores of DDT in Tanzania; new cooking stoves to eliminate indoor air pollution in Ghana; separating copper mine tailings from the local water supply in Chile; alternative fuels to reduce air pollution in New Delhi as well as treating arsenic in well water in West Bengal; removing lead - contaminated soil in the Dominican Republic and Russia; reducing mercury vapors from artisanal gold mining in Indonesia; and new sewage systems to clean up contaminated Suzhou Creek in Shanghai.

A hypothetical example of sharing: A local water supply is contaminated with a pathogenic E. coli strain that is not antibiotic - resistant.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

If you're unsure, check with your local water supplier to find out exactly what's in your tap water.

The Food Safety Agency has issued guidance to support safe preparation of formula milk in response to flooding and contamination of 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Despite concerns that fracking could seriously deplete or contaminate local water supplies, in 2010 Pennsylvania issued more than 3,300 natural gas permits in the Marcellus Shale.

«While hydraulic fracturing consumes only a small fraction of the water used in other extraction methods, our analysis highlights the fact that it can still pose serious risks to local water supplies, especially in drought - prone regions such as the Barnett formation in Texas, where exploration and development is rapidly intensifying,» Kondash said.

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.

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.

Unfortunately, the answer is yes, and while most countries in the European Union do not add fluoride to local water supplies, most communities in the United States continue to be fluoridated.

These substances eventually find their way into the soil where they can contaminate the local water supplies.

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

In the process of organizing his community against a waste dump that would have polluted local water supplies, he taught himself about water ecology and became an environmental leader in his region.

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.