Sentences with phrase «of contaminated water supplies»

Advocates for the environment and victims of contaminated water supplies disagree.

«In a civilized, first world society, even the thought of contaminated water supplies or the environmental implications of waste and sewage spilling into the ground are unfathomable.

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environmental issues directly associated with animal agriculture (such as air pollution and contaminated drainage from factory farming into water supplies) and to help lessen our over consumption of resources including land, water, and fossil fuels

Faced with limited financial resources and, in many cases, a contaminated water supply, babies were soon being fed with diluted bottles of disease - laced formula.

Most health care providers are not very concerned about sterilizing bottles, unless you use well water or your city is known to have a contaminated water supply, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).

Most reported cases have been ascribed to the use of contaminated well water for preparation of infant formula.1 — 3 Fifteen million families in the United States obtain their drinking water from unregulated wells.4 In a survey of 5500 private water supplies from 9 Midwestern states, 13 % of the wells were found to have nitrate concentrations > 10 mg / L or 10 ppm nitrate nitrogen, 5 the federal maximum contaminant level.6 It is estimated that 2 million families drink water from private wells that fail to meet the federal drinking - water standard for nitrate, and 40000 infants younger than 6 months live in homes that have nitrate - contaminated water supplies.4 In urban areas, municipal wastewater - treatment discharges (a source of nutrients) on surrounding farmland aggravate the problem.7

It was launched in Pakistan in 1999, following a series of seminars organised by Nestlé PR company that suggested urban water supplies were contaminated and other bottled water tainted.

OPPONENT But pumping a cocktail of chemicals into the Earth can't be good - surely this will contaminate water supplies.

In addition to sexual harassment issues, Gillibrand touted her work securing health care for first responders to the Sept. 11 attacks, prohibiting insider trading by members of Congress, and winning a Superfund designation for Hoosick Falls, a Rensselaer County village whose water supply was contaminated by a factory that produced nonstick coatings.

The agency also released a letter Tuesday that it signed last week with five other states calling on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to undertake a multi-state health study using data from a multitude of communities where perfluorinated chemicals have contaminated drinking water supplies.

«The contaminated groundwater plume could clearly impact many Long Islanders» drinking water supply and, if not addressed immediately, has the potential to have far - reaching consequences to the residents of Bethpage,» Seggos wrote.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo met privately at the state Capitol with school and government leaders from Hoosick Falls about ongoing efforts to deal with the discovery of a toxic chemical that contaminated public and private water supplies in the Rensselaer County community

Three New York lawmakers — Schumer, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney — are calling on the federal Environmental Protection Agency to immediately test the city of Newburgh's water supply, which has been found to be contaminated with a toxic chemical.

HOOSICK FALLS — Members of the village board here decided to table a proposed agreement with companies held responsible for contaminating the village water supply after residents voice their objections Thursday night.

Or, for that matter, by ensuring that we're protecting our water through the Department of Environmental and Planning and its environmental planning and its environmental compliance division to ensure that people are not contaminating our water supplies by putting what would be considered harmful chemicals into the water.

Fallout from the discovery of the toxic chemical in the water supply of Hoosick Falls later erupted into a war of finger - pointing between local, state and federal agencies after questions emerged in late 2015 about why it took at least 14 months before residents were warned to stop drinking from the village's contaminated wells.

Last November, we took you to the small and rural village of Hoosick Falls, which was grappling with a report of contaminated water after elevated levels of the chemical perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA was detected in the water supply.

The Rensselaer County village of Hoosick Falls, which has been grappling with a chemically - tainted water supply, can now begin flushing contaminated water lines after the installation of a temporary filtration system.

He said such pollution can lead to unclean drinking water, an unhealthy food supply through fish consumption and the flow of contaminated water into smaller waterways.

Did you know that 663 million people live without safe water supply close to their homes, making them spend countless hours queuing or trekking to distant sources, and coping with the health impacts of using contaminated water?

According to Avella, Cuomo's office has not shed enough light on the medical and scientific sides of the hydrofracking debate, with opponents arguing that water supplies might become contaminated or ruined due to harmful chemicals used in the process.

Professor Bill Keevil, Director of Environmental Healthcare at the University of Southampton, says: «If a contamination event (accidental or deliberate) occurs in a drinking water network, it is essential to identify the sources of contamination and to determine the area which is likely to be contaminated, in order to isolate and decontaminate the affected area only, as well as keep supplying drinking water in non-affected areas.

In a long - awaited move designed to protect people from cancer, California on Thursday proposed a new health goal for chromium 6 in drinking water that is thousands of times lower than the amount contaminating some water supplies.

Half of the near - distilled - quality reclaimed water is injected into a saltwater barrier — an underground supply of freshwater that prevents brine from creeping inland from the sea and contaminating fresh reserves.

These poisons, which periodically and fatally contaminate the water supplies of wild and domestic animals, can also harm humans.

The muddying of coastal waters by climate change could drastically increase levels of neurotoxic mercury in sea life, contaminating food supplies.

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

Before 10,000 gallons of an obscure coal - processing chemical spilled into the Elk River near Charleston, W.Va., in January and contaminated water supplies for more than 300,000 residents, few people knew crude MCHM existed.

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.

In 1970, city administrators realized arsenic from mountain mineral deposits was contaminating the city's water supply, with exposures of 500 to 800 ppb for the public at large.

Opposition to fracking has arisen mostly out of fear that the technique could potentially contaminate drinking water supplies.

Twenty - five years after a toxic gas cloud from a pesticide factory killed thousands of people in Bhopal, India, groundwater at the accident site — a drinking water supply for 15 communities — remains contaminated, according to a report released today by an advocacy group and a medical clinic.

News of the suspected attacks came as a study revealed that poor cybersecurity measures in the Netherlands water industry could let attackers contaminate water supplies or cut them off entirely, holding whole nations to ransom.

The increased salinity of the remaining waters killed off a once abundant supply of sturgeon and carp and contaminated the groundwater.

Emergency supplies of clean water, soap and water - purifying equipment contained the initial outbreak — the gut bacterium spreads via water contaminated with faeces.

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.

Fearing the water supply would become contaminated, there was panic buying of bottled water, until the shelves ran dry.

Unfortunately, we live in a world where the food supply is often depleted of nutrients due to over-farming, the water is often contaminated with chemicals, and even the air can contain compounds that cause havoc in the body.

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In many areas in the North America and other parts of the world the water that comes out of your tap is contaminated with harmful heavy metals, fluoride, xenoestrogens, petroleum chemicals, and even traces of prescription drugs that are in the water supply.

For survival purposes, it all boils down to getting rid of the nasty organisms that have contaminated the ground water and even the public supply of drinking water.

Because a large percentage of U.S. produce is irrigated with perchlorate - contaminated water, perchlorate is also prevalent in the U.S. food supply.

In addition, while toxicity has occurred from contaminated water getting into the food supply, human exposure to environmental cadmium is primarily the result of the burning of fossil fuels and municipal wastes.

In a small town a group of people must try to survive when a contaminated water supply drives most of the people insane.

The town of Black Creek, named for the oil that contaminates the water supply, has made Mikkelsen and his brother welcome, but the men who supposedly run it are under the thumb of a ruthless villain named Delarue (Morgan).

Only 20 % of global wastewater is currently being treated, leaving low - income countries hardest hit by contaminated water supplies and disease, according to the UN-Water Analytical Brief on Wastewater Management.

 Improperly disposed of dog wastes particularly in the quantities in this case can be harmful to humans and contaminate water supplies and food crops. It is something to look at if you want to close down a puppy mill.       Â

Animal sources of infection include endogenous microflora that are pathogenic to humans, such as Salmonella spp in chickens; environmental sources include contaminated walls, floors, counters, cages, bedding, equipment, supplies, feed, soil, and water.

You may also want to consider alternative methods of getting water for your animals, as water supplies can become contaminated.

According to Tom Pelton of the Baltimore Sun, streams, underground water supplies and drinking wells are contaminated when rain washes through ash dumps, flushing contaminants into the environment.