Sentences with phrase «local water systems in»

«This government is a total enabler of Canadian mining companies destroying local water systems in Latin America and other places,» she said in a press release.

The Adirondack Council said fixes to local water systems in the Adirondack Park alone may exceed $ 100 million.

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Author Elizabeth Royte writes in her book, «Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought it,» that 92 % of the nation's 53,000 local water systems meet or exceed federal safety standards and are at least as clean and often cleaner than bottled wWater Went on Sale and Why We Bought it,» that 92 % of the nation's 53,000 local water systems meet or exceed federal safety standards and are at least as clean and often cleaner than bottled wwater systems meet or exceed federal safety standards and are at least as clean and often cleaner than bottled waterwater.

Oxen are still used for plowing, water may have to be carried from the tank, and pujahs are still said at the local shrine, but the oxen are tied with nylon rope, not hemp; the water is carried in plastic, not earthenware or brass, pots; and the donations for pujah are broadcast on a PA system.

Giant pumps can now reverse the flow of rivers and move water uphill to arid land farms that have become key cogs in our nation's not - so - local industrial food system.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder works closely with local waterway managers to ascertain whether providing environmental flows are likely to have a significant effect — the volumes and flows required to disperse blooms or dilute hypoxic blackwater events are often beyond what the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder holds or what can be delivered in regulated systems.

The decision to forgo a local water rate increase comes after Miner spent the past few months prodding leaders in Washington and Albany for extra money to repair the city's aging drinking water system.

Data on lead in tap water from public water systems may be available on the Internet from your local water authority.

Cuomo, wearing a blue blazer and surrounded by state and local officials in windbreakers, said initial tests of a temporary water filtration system had turned up no PFOA in treated water.

The goal of the «Reclaim Our Water» initiative is to encourage homeowners to replace old systems that contribute to nitrogen pollution in local waters.

«I would bring local control back to town government, take advantage of our local resources, especially our water system, fight for the taxpayer at every level, especially state and federal, and get water and sewer projects back on track to be in the best interests of the town, not just a cost burden directed by others.»

«The Environmental Facilities Corp. is pleased to assist New York City and 17 other local governments in their efforts to provide safe and reliable clean water systems, improving the environment and water quality, protecting public health, and creating jobs throughout the state,» said EFC President and CEO Matthew J. Driscoll.

In communities with elevated levels of PFOA and / or PFOS, the state is actively working with local officials to install filtration systems to remove contaminants, identify alternative water sources and / or take other appropriate actions to reduce exposure.

Southold Town Supervisor Scott Russell said that because Suffolk County has not addressed the matter in a meaningful way, and since a sweeping water quality bill stalled in the Legislature last year, funding from Albany is needed to give local municipalities more power to introduce modern septic systems to their own towns.

Local governments are seeing millions of dollars in revenue flushed away because of water loss, inaccurate meters or improper billing, a new comptroller's report on municipal water systems shows.

Mayor David Borge said the flushing would «move any residual PFOA - contaminated water in the system to the local sanitary sewer system.»

The comptroller's office said a series of upcoming audits will examine the cybersecurity of computer - based systems used to «monitor, modify, regulate or manage municipal water facilities» in the wake of recent cyberattacks that have disrupted a number of local governments, including a municipal - owned dam in the Hudson Valley.

In terms of statewide initiatives, Cuomo's $ 2 billion investment in drinking water infrastructure would include improvements to local wastewater treatment systems, and development and implementation of local community recommendations for water source protection to be funded by the Environmental Protection FunIn terms of statewide initiatives, Cuomo's $ 2 billion investment in drinking water infrastructure would include improvements to local wastewater treatment systems, and development and implementation of local community recommendations for water source protection to be funded by the Environmental Protection Funin drinking water infrastructure would include improvements to local wastewater treatment systems, and development and implementation of local community recommendations for water source protection to be funded by the Environmental Protection Fund.

The PSC found that the company was only entitled to increase revenues to cover increases in local property taxes and required investments in the water system plus small increases in labor and other operating expenses.

Since discovery of the contamination, Saint - Gobain has been paying for bottled water for the town — stacked high in the aisles of a local supermarket — as well as a new carbon - filtration system for the village, at an estimated cost of more than $ 3 million.

The Niagara Falls Water Board said it detected a water main break on the Goodyear chemical plant property in the City of Niagara Falls late Thursday night, which resulted in a loss of system pressure affecting local residential and commercial water customers in the service Water Board said it detected a water main break on the Goodyear chemical plant property in the City of Niagara Falls late Thursday night, which resulted in a loss of system pressure affecting local residential and commercial water customers in the service water main break on the Goodyear chemical plant property in the City of Niagara Falls late Thursday night, which resulted in a loss of system pressure affecting local residential and commercial water customers in the service water customers in the service area.

Meanwhile, the construction of an irrigation system in Ethiopia's Liban district to enable farmers to water year - round has enabled local communities to survive the current drought without food aid.

The students wondered whether it was possible to detect human - originated compounds in the water systems, and decided to find out by testing for cooking spices in local waters.

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.

In an essay in BioScience magazine, the Wildlife Conservation Society's Douglas Sheil and co-authors discuss the «biotic pump» hypothesis of Russian researchers Anatassia Makarieva and Victor Gorshov, which contends that rainforests attract water vapor, leading to rain, lower local atmospheric pressure and a feedback loop that keeps the whole system goinIn an essay in BioScience magazine, the Wildlife Conservation Society's Douglas Sheil and co-authors discuss the «biotic pump» hypothesis of Russian researchers Anatassia Makarieva and Victor Gorshov, which contends that rainforests attract water vapor, leading to rain, lower local atmospheric pressure and a feedback loop that keeps the whole system goinin BioScience magazine, the Wildlife Conservation Society's Douglas Sheil and co-authors discuss the «biotic pump» hypothesis of Russian researchers Anatassia Makarieva and Victor Gorshov, which contends that rainforests attract water vapor, leading to rain, lower local atmospheric pressure and a feedback loop that keeps the whole system going.

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.

It does so through regulations spelled out in the Clean Water Act, which include providing tax incentives for selling or giving wetlands to land trusts or other conservation groups, via cooperative efforts with state and local entities, and by acquiring wetlands outright to add acreage to public lands systems.

According to the Center for Disease Control, the most common sources of contamination in the US water system are related to local land uses and manufacturing processes.

Finally, I would expect that there will be a further representation of the human system in Earth system models (ESMs) and that integrated assessment models (IAMs) will try to be more geographically explicit — in order to better represent local processes, such as water management and presence of renewable energy.

The facility has an 18,000 gal recirculating seawater system which supplies tanks in both indoor and semi-enclosed outdoor spaces with a constant supply of clean water at local environmental temperatures.

BPA has been found to leach into substances it contacts, including the food and beverages stored in containers made with the chemical, as well as into local food and water systems.

Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

The company is currently testing the waters in New York, where its e-readers are undergoing tests in the local school system to evaluate the viability of the device.

We commend Batu Karang's environmental policies using low impact energy, water and waste systems as well as training and empowering locals through school programmes — it's great to see fancy resorts participating in such practices.

From its very inception, the hotel was planned to minimize the impact on this fragile environment, with very advanced water recycling systems, and the building itself, made from local stone, seems perfectly integrated in its surroundings.

Richard Hassell speaks of this eco-friendly project...» We are very pleased that Alila Hotels have embraced the Environmentally Sustainable Design (ESD) principles, and we are using many ESD measures including local materials, water conservation with soaks and rain gardens and recycling with grey water systems, using local plants from the special Bali Savannah ecosystem on the Bukit, which are being raised in a nursery on site to encourage local bird and animal life, heat pumps for water heating, salt water pools — among many others.

Over two million people reside in the coastal communities encompassed by the Mesoamerican Reef System; the waters are therefore invaluable to local fishermen, who regularly reel in spiny lobster, shrimp, grouper, snapper, and queen conches.

And you can cool off in the fresh water cenotes and caves that locals have explored and mapped, all 750 kms making it the longest fresh water cave system in the world.

Save enough money and you can install automated systems to keep your crops watered and animals fed (or, if you prefer, you can snag yourself a husband or wife, who can take some of the burden) allowing you to focus on other hobbies and interests, such as brewing craft beer, beekeeping, crab - catching, playing on the arcade machine in the local bar, or cooking the various recipes you learn from watching the food channel on your TV.

The short film Resilient: Soil, Water and the New Stewards of the American West is intended, at least in part, to spur discussion and awareness about food, water, and farming issues, and while the film is viewable in its entirety below, hosting a screening of it in your town could be a great addition to discussions about resiliency, local food, or food systems in genWater and the New Stewards of the American West is intended, at least in part, to spur discussion and awareness about food, water, and farming issues, and while the film is viewable in its entirety below, hosting a screening of it in your town could be a great addition to discussions about resiliency, local food, or food systems in genwater, and farming issues, and while the film is viewable in its entirety below, hosting a screening of it in your town could be a great addition to discussions about resiliency, local food, or food systems in general.

He's also in some hot water for refusing to connect to the local sewer system.

The effect of a putative CO2 / water photonic IR recycling system is going to depend on local Tmax / Tmin, the IR albedo and the amount of water vapor in the air.

If you are interested in installing a solar water heating system, one thing you should do is talk to any local businesses that do this kind of work, and see if they will work with you on providing a kit of parts at a good price.

They've invested for years in revitalizing inner cities (Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland) as well as used the west coast operations to focus on environmental investments and services (ex: septic system renewal loans to preserve local water quality).

And through conversations with others in the growing climate justice movement, I began to see all kinds of ways that climate change could become a catalyzing force for positive change — how it could be the best argument progressives have ever had to demand the rebuilding and reviving of local economies; to reclaim our democracies from corrosive corporate influence; to block harmful new free trade deals and rewrite old ones; to invest in starving public infrastructure like mass transit and affordable housing; to take back ownership of essential services like energy and water; to remake our sick agricultural system into something much healthier; to open borders to migrants whose displacement is linked to climate impacts; to finally respect Indigenous land rights — all of which would help to end grotesque levels of inequality within our nations and between them.

In this age of «going local,» they keep the organic matter at home (unlike a sewer system) without polluting the ground water (unlike many septic tanks).

Indeed, as I argue in this article, I think it will be absolutely essential that we shift much of our current wasteful fossil fuel use (e.g., shipping the same goods back and forth across the ocean, driving gas - powered private automobiles, and producing disposable consumer goods) toward building new infrastructure for long - term resilience (e.g., local food economies, low - energy housing, greenspace, water catchment and storage, clean energy systems, trains, and, yes, wind - powered sea vessels!).

The Rocket Dome qualifies for a 30 % federal tax credit in addition to other state and local incentives Solar Thermal Hot Water System The Rocket Dome is different from anything else on the market.

Currents that move through the upper ocean then dive down to depth may move some of the surface heat to the deeper waters, especially where the currents have dived not just from cooling water (hot water would tend to go up, cold water would tend to go down) but because it is driven in «conveyor» systems which may run counter to expectations of where water should go when considering only local conditions, and especially, if the water is dropping because of an increase in salinity.