Sentences with phrase «of drinking water resources»

It was also tasked to uncover any «potential for hydraulic fracturing to change the quality or quantity of drinking water resources... [and to identify] factors affecting the frequency or severity of any potential changes.»

Not exact matches

«The agency should include and explain the... investigations conducted in Dimock, Pennsylvania; Pavillion, Wyoming; and Parker County, Texas where hydraulic fracturing activities are perceived by many members of the public to have caused significant local impacts to drinking water resources,» states the advisory body's review.

This massive undertaking will help scientists better understand how much liquid water is contained within snow and how viable snow is as a resource of liquid water on our planet for drinking, agriculture, and hydropower.

«Labatt is one of Canada's founding businesses and oldest brewers and we're grateful to be able to give back to this country by leveraging our strengths and resources to get safe drinking water to Canadians in need,» said Angelakos.

For adoptive families it is a drink of water that helps slake a desperate thirst for resources that are both honest and practical.

A country with this kind of resources should not have any problem providing enough drinking water and food for its citizens.

As government struggles to deal with the age - old menace of illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, various reports from the Water Resources Commission and the Water Research Institute show the practice may soon leave Ghanaians without proper sources of drinking wWater Resources Commission and the Water Research Institute show the practice may soon leave Ghanaians without proper sources of drinking wWater Research Institute show the practice may soon leave Ghanaians without proper sources of drinking waterwater.

This administration has proposed cuts to funding for human services, starved our infrastructure of the resources it needs and paid millions of dollars in fines for being unable to provide clean drinking water but can spend several million dollars taking care of the law firms that employ his campaign donors,» said Brian Hegt, spokesman for the BoL Democratic Caucus.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation has purchased a 38 - acre parcel in the pine barrens that expands public lands and recreational green space while helping to preserve Long Island's drinking water resources, officials announced Wednesday.

The EPA study is entitled «Study of Hydraulic Fracturing and Its Potential Impact on Drinking Water Resources.»

«The Senate's budget plan takes bold and necessary steps toward providing the resources our state desperately needs to ensure the long - term safety of our drinking water and wastewater infrastructure,» Flanagan said in a statement issued Sunday.

Last year, McLaughlin was thrust into the middle of a fight for state resources for Hoosick Falls, a mill village close to the Vermont border, after a chemical was found to be contaminating the drinking water there.

«We need to make sure residents in the City of Newburgh have water that is safe for their families and children to drink, and the EPA has the expertise and resources when it comes to testing for PFOS pollution and devising clean - up plans,» Schumer said in a statement.

«Governor Cuomo and Commissioner Joseph Martens deserve an enormous amount of credit for protecting the unfiltered drinking water supplies of more than nine million New Yorkers, while increasing our ability to harness the benefits of New York's natural gas resources,» he said in a statement.

The freshwater bodies on 38 percent of Earth's land area (not including Antarctica) are overly enriched with phosphorus, leading to potentially toxic algal blooms and less available drinking water, researchers report January 24 in Water Resources Resewater, researchers report January 24 in Water Resources ReseWater Resources Research.

The Greenland Survey, Asiaq, is already using SETSM to protect drinking water resources, where remote sensing specialist Eva Mätzler said it «strengthens the understanding of importance in reliable geographic data for the Greenlandic government and people.»

The state's Division of Oil and Gas and Geothermal Resources on July 7 issued cease and desist orders to seven energy companies warning that they may be injecting their waste into aquifers that could be a source of drinking water, and stating that their waste disposal «poses danger to life, health, property, and natural resourceResources on July 7 issued cease and desist orders to seven energy companies warning that they may be injecting their waste into aquifers that could be a source of drinking water, and stating that their waste disposal «poses danger to life, health, property, and natural resourcesresources.»

Worsening drought has led to over 80 percent of water resources in Pakistan's southern Tharparker district becoming unfit for people to drink, a new study says

These water resources supply more than 60 % of drinking water to the nearby city of Cuenca, the third largest city in Ecuador.

The results could have far - reaching consequences for Andean water resources as the lakes provide 60 per cent of the drinking water for Cuenca, the third largest city in Ecuador.

«The bottom line is: these rules fail to protect the nation's public lands — home to our last wild places, and sources of drinking water for millions of people — from the risks of fracking,» said Amy Mall, a senior policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a statement.

Sustainable management of water resources (including provision of safe and reliable supplies for drinking water and irrigation, adequate sanitation, protection of aquatic ecosystems, and flood protection) poses enormous challenges in many parts of the world.

OW is responsible for implementing the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, and portions of the Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Ocean Dumping Ban Act, Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act, Shore Protection Act, Marine Plastics Pollution Research and Control Act, London Dumping Convention, the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships and several other statutes.

Opening the black box of spring water microbiology from alpine karst aquifers to support proactive drinking water resource management — Domenico Savio — Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: water microbiology from alpine karst aquifers to support proactive drinking water resource management — Domenico Savio — Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: water resource management — Domenico Savio — Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: WaterWater

Along with being a vital resource that every living thing needs, healthy levels of water intake can help energize muscles, revitalize skin, and promote weight loss (better water than high - calorie soft drinks!).

A 2003 study by the nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) found that due to a combination of pollution and deteriorating equipment and pipes, the public water supplies in 19 of America's largest cities delivered drinking water that contained contaminant levels exceeding EPA limits (either legal limits or unenforceable suggested limits) and may pose health risks to some residents.

Here is an incredibly informative resource that I found which discusses the subject in more depth and also gives solid information on the many reasons (such as estrogens in the plastic bottles of the water that you drink from * and even shampoos!)

Still in the depths of the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Maria, GLOBE students dove in and researched the question of «Improving the Drinking Water after Hurricane Maria Using Natural Resources.»

Because of lack of resources classrooms are overcrowded, school facilities unsanitary and run down, and students lack clean drinking water.

Like the sailors in Samuel Coleridge's poem «The Rime of the Ancient Mariner» who see «water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink,» teachers often feel awash in a resource that is of little help.

In addition, carriers are required to provide adequate food and drinking water no later than two hours after the aircraft leaves the gate (in the case of a departure) or touches down (in the case of an arrival), and ensure that they have sufficient resources to implement their plan.

The result of this is that food bowls, litter boxes, water sources and resting places need to be distributed throughout the house in a way that enables all of the cats to access the appropriate resource without running the gauntlet of another cat if they should need to eat, rest, drink or use the litter box at the same time.

Addressing the challenge of managing global water resources and providing everyone with access to clean drinking water is important to Radisson Hotel Group.

It is a first - person survival game where you have to gather resources, build buildings for protection, fire for warmth, drink water and eat food, and try to stay alive in a crazy world full of dinosaurs.

Small actions can turn into big solutions, and we believe the 24 million people in the United States who rely on this beautiful, massive resource for their drinking water, jobs and livelihoods want to be part of that wave of change.

Prosaic problems like malaria and contaminated drinking water could be solved worldwide if they received a fraction of the attention and resources as AGW.

After my single, not - so - great generation finishes the «missions» (ie, fools» errands) the leading, self - proclaimed «masters of the universe» among us have set before the human community, what resources will be left for our children to consume; how many more billions of people will have to share what remains of Earth's depleted and debased resources; where will they find clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, adequate soil for planting?

It creates a vicious cycle which aggravates the situation even more and which will affect the availability of essential resources like drinking water, energy and agricultural production in the hottest areas, and will result in the extinction of a part of the planet's biodiversity.

From a global perspective, we are faced with daunting challenges as documented in World Resources, 1996 - 97: the accelerating confluence of population expansion, increased demand for energy, food, clean drinking water, adequate housing, the destructive environmental effects of pollution from fossil fuels and nuclear waste, plus the growing divergence between the haves and have - nots and the potential for ensuing conflicts.

The prevalence of industry best practices nationwide, combined with strong state regulatory frameworks is the reason why the EPA Draft Assessment found no widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources from hydraulic fracturing.

As EPA nears the release of its finalized hydraulic fracturing / water report, the weight of scientific study and analysis backs the agency's preliminary conclusion that there's no evidence that fracking has led to «widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources in the United States.»

Of particular concern in this regard is the high level conclusion statement on page ES - 6 that «We did not find evidence that these mechanisms have led to widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources in the United States.»

The SAB finds that the EPA did not support quantitatively its conclusion about lack of evidence for widespread, systemic impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources, and did not clearly describe the system (s) of interest (e.g., groundwater, surface water), the scale of impacts (i.e., local or regional), nor the definitions of «systemic» and «widespread.»

The Asian region also faces a range of climate impacts, including extreme heat, imperiled drinking water resources, and accelerated sea - level rise, which can lead to widespread population displacement, food insecurity, and costly damage to coastal cities and towns.

In its conclusion the EPA says, «This report describes how activities in the hydraulic fracturing water cycle can impact — and have impacted — drinking water resources and the factors that influence the frequency and severity of those impacts.»

After being barraged by plaintiff attorneys and Hollywood celebrities, the EPA in its final report substituted its determination of no «widespread, systemic impact» with the hypothetical that fracking «can impact drinking water resources under some circumstances» and that «impacts can range in frequency and severity» depending on the circumstances.

While scientists continue to work on creative uses of wastewater to stretch our resources farther — such as substitution, regeneration and reduction — a prevailing shift in attitude that values water over profits will ultimately be required to ensure the world's population will have access to safe drinking water.

The revised statement is more sensible, but I would suggest you critically examine your concept of «distorting markets» particularly as regards what economists term «unowned resources,» such as a breathable atmosphere, fields or forests held in common (as in the original «Tragedy of the Commons»), stocks of fish in the ocean, or drinking water from lakes and rivers.

«The science clearly indicates that, with an emphasis on prevention... energy production can and is being done right, and that hydraulic fracturing is not leading to widespread, systemic effects to drinking water resources,» Stephanie Wissman, an Executive Director with the American Petroleum Institute, stated at a recent meeting of the Delaware River Basin Commission.

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the Administration has provided resources to rebuild the affected area to be more resilient than before, including support for more climate - resilient roads and infrastructure, and projects that protect drinking water and buffer communities from flooding.