Sentences with phrase «more lead in the water»

New Orleans school officials abandoned plans to test water fountains and faucets for lead after the Sewerage and Water Board argued they should allow more lead in the water before taking action, according to documents obtained by The Lens.

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(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.)

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

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

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 mMore 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 moremore.

Hypothesis Traces First Protocells Back to Emergence of Cell Membrane Bioenergetics Dec. 20, 2012 — A coherent pathway - which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells - has been traced for the first time in a major hypothesis paper in Cell this week.

Four more officials in Flint, Michigan were criminally charged in the state attorney general's ongoing investigation in the city's lead - tainted water that currently is still unsafe to drink.

Origin of Life: Hypothesis Traces First Protocells Back to Emergence of Cell Membrane Bioenergetics Dec. 20, 2012 — A coherent pathway — which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells — has been traced for the first time in a major hypothesis paper in Cell this week.

ORIGIN OF LIFE: Hypothesis Traces First Protocells Back to Emergence of Cell Membrane Bioenergetics Dec. 20, 2012 — A coherent pathway — which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells — has been traced for the first time in a major hypothesis paper in Cell this week.

Dec. 20, 2012 — A coherent pathway — which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells — has been traced for the first time in a major hypothesis paper in Cell this week.

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It was two years before he realized that other people were doing the same thing — that, in fact, kiteboarding had been more or less invented in the mid -»80s in France by Bruno and Dominique Legaignoux, brothers who made the first water - launchable kite with inflatable spars and leading edges.

In the EPA's study of lead levels in Chicago homes, 88 percent of homes had one or more water sample where the lead value was over 7 parts per billioIn the EPA's study of lead levels in Chicago homes, 88 percent of homes had one or more water sample where the lead value was over 7 parts per billioin Chicago homes, 88 percent of homes had one or more water sample where the lead value was over 7 parts per billion.

Anyone who lives in a home with lead pipes may be at risk, and since more than 80 percent of the city's housing stock was built before they were banned, lead is potentially leaching into the drinking water of thousands of children.

Dolphins had long been known to show special interest in pregnant women, and their presence in the water during childbirth was found to aid a birthing mother's relaxation and lead to a more pleasurable experience.

Babies get all of the water they need from properly mixed formula or breast milk, and giving your little one more than that can lead to water intoxication, according to a 2008 article published in «Scientific American.»

Students in a Brooklyn elementary - school classroom drank from a fountain whose water was more contaminated than Flint, Mich.'s — laden with 1,000 times the amount of lead permitted by federal safety regulations, a December test revealed.

The group pointed to the revelations that NYCHA submitted false certifications for lead paint inspections in recent years and that 80 percent of NYCHA tenants, or more than 323,000 residents, went without heat or hot water at some point this winter as examples of how NYCHA has allegedly failed to protect the health and safety of its tenants.

· Use only cold tap water to cook, drink or make a baby's formula, because lead dissolves more easily in hot water

Lead has been discovered in water in the Ithaca City School District, and more recently in some sinks at the Jordan - Elbridge Central School District.

Young children in Western New York suffer from the highest rate of lead poisoning in the upstate region — a rate that's more than three times higher than that in Flint, Mich., where a cost - driven switch to an alternate water system left 4 percent of children tested with signs of lead exposure.

Elevated levels of lead caused officials in New Jersey's largest school district, Newark Public Schools, to shut off water fountains at 30 school buildings until more tests could be conducted.

The City of Buffalo says testing of water sources in common use areas of the City's 27 community centers, prioritized by where young children attend daycare and spend time after school and on weekends, is nearing completion, while the analysis for lead and copper at more than 150 city - owned buildings by the end of the year is on track.

The crisis of lead in the municipal water in Flint, Michigan, earlier this year was cited when advocates for the New York bill released a list of 67 of the state's more than 700 school districts that have been the subject of news reports noting concerns over lead in water.

The John Mahama - led NDC Government has, through the PURC, presented the long - suffering people of Ghana with yet another wicked and insensitive present just when Ghanaians are bracing themselves for probably the worst Christmas in a generation: a more than 60 % increase in the price of electricity and water.

U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko has beaten the drum for improved drinking water infrastructure for a year or more, leading tours to emphasize how much of the Capital Region's aging pipeline system dates back to the 1800s, when Rutherford B. Hayes was in the White House.

More water comes in contact with the media which leads to more effective filterMore water comes in contact with the media which leads to more effective filtermore effective filtering.

The researchers found another subtlety in the Amazon's response to rainfall, which has led to new insights on a question under debate: Are seasonal changes in plant growth more limited by lack of sunlight or lack of water?

«Understanding which factors lead to more or less [precipitation] and how this happens is critical to developing infrastructure to capture more water, reduce flooding, et cetera,» Kimberly Prather, a study author who holds appointments at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the department of chemistry and biochemistry at UC San Diego, wrote in an email.

Higher sea surface temperatures led to a huge patch of warm water, dubbed «The Blob,» that appeared in the northern Pacific Ocean more than two years ago.

According to a 2013 study of California farmers, factors like exposure to extreme weather events and perceived changes in water availability made farmers more likely to believe in climate change, while negative experiences with environmental policies can make farmers less likely to believe that climate change is occurring, said Meredith Niles, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard's Sustainability Science Program and lead author of the study.

The team suspects it has to do with photosynthesis, which leads to more water vapor in the air.

In a more practical test in which lead - contaminated water flowed through the foam, it scrubbed the water of up to 67 percent of the lead ionIn a more practical test in which lead - contaminated water flowed through the foam, it scrubbed the water of up to 67 percent of the lead ionin which lead - contaminated water flowed through the foam, it scrubbed the water of up to 67 percent of the lead ions.

We had a really nice theoretical model in the nineties and some of the data seemed to support it, but the more data we got, the muddier the waters became, says Luisa Rebull of NASA's Spitzer Science Center in Pasadena, Calif., lead author of the paper that appeared in The Astrophysical Journal July 20.

Also, coniferous species are generally more conservative in their water use, which could lead to warming through a decrease in [evapotranspiration],» said Naudts.

The devices using lead titanate exhibited the best performance in aqueous solution, allowing a switch away from solvents to a water - based solution that could help drive down costs while being more environmentally friendly.

However, some oil and gas fields in the U.S., especially Oklahoma, use «very large amounts of water» in their operations, leading to much more wastewater disposal than in Canadian operations, said Gail M. Atkinson of Western University.

And climate change has led to more water vapor in the atmosphere, which increases rainfall totals.

Drinking Lead «There is no subject of more importance, especially in cities possessing the inestimable blessing of waterworks, than the corrosion of lead in water piLead «There is no subject of more importance, especially in cities possessing the inestimable blessing of waterworks, than the corrosion of lead in water pilead in water pipes.

«As the climate gets warmer, the thawing permafrost not only enables the release of more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, but our study shows that it also allows much more mineral - laden and nutrient - rich water to be transported to rivers, groundwater and eventually the Arctic Ocean,» explained Ryan Toohey, a researcher at the Interior Department's Alaska Climate Science Center in Anchorage and the lead author of the study.

As sea waters in the South Atlantic warm, the amount of krill available for seals drops, leading to a smaller yet more genetically varied population

In 2006 Lake Erie didn't freeze for the first time in history, which led to «lake effect» snowfalls as more evaporating water was available for precipitatioIn 2006 Lake Erie didn't freeze for the first time in history, which led to «lake effect» snowfalls as more evaporating water was available for precipitatioin history, which led to «lake effect» snowfalls as more evaporating water was available for precipitation.

This, in turn, may lead to even more water - conscious decision making.

More carbon dioxide emissions lead to more CO2 dissolving in the oceans, which turns the water aciMore carbon dioxide emissions lead to more CO2 dissolving in the oceans, which turns the water acimore CO2 dissolving in the oceans, which turns the water acidic.

DGPS signal disruption, particularly when ships are navigating through narrow inshore waters, could result in inaccurate positional information, leading to more maritime accidents.

A landmark 30 - year - long UNSW Sydney study of wetlands in eastern Australia has found that construction of dams and diversion of water from the Murray - Darling Basin have led to a more than 70 per cent decline in waterbird numbers.

The study, led by Brown University geologist Brandon Johnson and published in Geophysical Research Letters, finds a high likelihood that there's more than 100 kilometers of liquid water beneath Pluto's surface.

Although more water could lead to about an 18 per cent recovery in waterbird numbers, the team found this could be reduced to only a 1 per cent increase as a result of long - term climate change, which is not adequately considered in the plan for the Basin.

A new study led by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science reveals that land use in the watersheds from which this «dissolved organic matter» originates has important implications for Bay water quality, with the organic carbon in runoff from urbanized or heavily farmed landscapes more likely to persist as it is carried downstream, thus contributing energy to fuel low - oxygen «dead zones» in coastal waters.