Sentences with phrase «of school drinking water»

Clean water advocates in upstate New York have set their sights on keeping lead out of school drinking water.

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«A person would have to drink well over 1,000 liters of water a day, every day, to achieve the threshold toxicity levels seen in animals,» Ian Musgrave, a senior lecturer in the medical school at the University of Adelaide in Australia, said in February.

«In terms of how much is present in water reservoirs that have been sprayed with pyriproxyfen to control mosquito larvae, a person would have to drink well over 1,000 liters of water a day, every day, to achieve the threshold toxicity levels seen in animals,» Ian Musgrave, a senior lecturer in the medical school at the University of Adelaide in Australia, said in a statement.

A handful of citizen volunteers digging up the correct information and piping it through blogs, social media, letters to the editor and conversations at coffee shops and on door steps to protect what we value — drinking water, schools, parks, key natural habitat and recreational areas.

In his recent budget speech, the Finance Minister pointed out that 40 per cent of our villages do not have proper roads, that 1.8 lakh villages do not have primary schools, that 4.5 lakh villages have drinking water and sanitation problems, that there is a shortage of 140 lakh rural dwellings.

We woefully underestimate the power of business leaders if we think they are engaged in private enterprise, for their decisions have huge public impacts not only on their stockholders but on the jobs we need, the neighborhoods in which we live, the water we drink, the air we breathe and the schools in which we learn.

Under the voluntary guidelines, 100 percent juice, low - fat milk and bottled water are allowed in elementary and middle schools, with the addition of diet beverages and calorie - capped sports drinks, flavored waters and teas in high schools.

Of course, you can toss it into some water and drink it old school, or you can get a little more creative.

In secondary schools — where soft drinks are available for sale — they are sold in non-branded vending machines and a full selection of drinks is available including waters, juices and no and low calorie products alongside regular varieties.

My younger two take a bottle of water to school each day, but it very rarely comes home empty while my eldest insists on drinking from water fountain at school, but I'm not convinced he ever does.

In January, Amarillo's school board voted to fill some of its soda machines with water and other non-soda drinks, in response to concerns raised by local dentists.

One of the less talked about mandates of the 2010 Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, the federal legislation overhauling school food, is a provision requiring schools to provide children with free, potable drinking water wherever school meals are... [Continue reading]

In it, she reports on the possibility of using a little - noticed provision in the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act to require schools to test their drinking water for dangerous contaminants such as lead.

In addition, schools would be encouraged to offer filtered drinking water and to make use of open space for gardens and compost piles.

On the one hand, you have administrators and parents supporting the inclusion of milk in school cafeterias, «amid concerns that dairy consumption is waning among older children who have more beverage choices, from flavored water to energy drinks.

One of the less talked about mandates of the 2010 Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, the federal legislation overhauling school food, is a provision requiring schools to provide children with free, potable drinking water wherever school meals are served.

Ensure tap water is widely available at all times, make it the drink of choice across the school and encourage all children to keep well hydrated.

My feeling about milk in schools, as shared by many TLT readers (judging from this morning's discussion on the Facebook page and in comments on the blog), is that milk does have a place on lunch trays, but not to the exclusion of other beverages like water (which, as it turns out, is not so easy to get into cafeterias) and plant - based milks for those who drink them.

In Muscogee County, home of Columbus, a school district spokesperson said the district doesn't test the drinking water for lead «because none of our schools are fed with lead pipes for water.»

I would prefer my children to have more access to drinking water than offer them milk of any sort at school.

the lack of access to drinking water in school cafeterias and the degree to which the new requirement to provide water is an unfunded mandate many schools will have trouble meeting;

A thirsty kid just wants a drink of water with his or her school lunch.

OF COURSE kids should be able to get as much free, chilled, good tasting water as they like with their meals — but there are costs associated with that, and when we refuse to have that conversation, we just set the schools up to once again be the bad guys who refuse to give thirsty kids something to drink.

This recent article by San Francisco school food reformer Dana Woldow describes the struggles of some districts in California to meet not just the new federal mandate to have drinking water available, but also a California state law requiring the same thing.

Schools can help by making sure there is cold, clean, free drinking water readily available to students, in the form of drinking fountains or bottle - fillers.

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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 end of the session that year included agreements for lead testing in school drinking water, backed by Sen. Tom O'Mara, and the enactment of mixed - martial arts legalization, which the Senate had repeatedly passed.

Senate Republican spokesman Scott Reif in a statement knocked Cronin, noting the amount of support backed by Hannon for water quality in the budget, as well as legislation to test for lead in school drinking water.

We engage in this reckless spending at the expense of ordinary Ghanaians who have no portable water to drink, school children without classroom blocks and desks.

The marathon 20 hours of wheeling and dealing behind closed doors produced votes to approve a last - minute ethics bill, a mandate to test school drinking water supplies for lead, money for SUNY and CUNY, more money and operating flexibility for charter schools, $ 570 million for «supportive housing» for the homeless, and continued state control of the New York Racing Association until October 2017.

And I think of the people on the other side of the world who wouldn't have had clean drinking water, the chance to go to school, or even be alive, were it not for our decision to keep our aid promises to the poorest people and the poorest countries in our world.

High schoolers in Hoosick Falls say they are tired of the slow response by the adults in the community, and government, to the toxic substance PFOA which has infiltrated the village water system and made it unsafe to drink.

In light of lead concerns at two elementary schools, the Ithaca City School System has turned off drinking water sources in all of its sSchool System has turned off drinking water sources in all of its schoolschool.

Cuomo made the announcement on the mayoral control extension as part of a broader agreement on a range of issues, including an extension of state control of the New York Racing Association, testing for lead in school drinking water and new flexibility for charter schools to allow them to switch to the Board of Trustees of State University of New York for oversight.

At 11 a.m., amid a growing flood of reports of lead in school drinking water around the state and the country, a coalition of New York public health, environment, and healthy schools advocacy groups will call on state government leaders to take action, LCA Press Room (130), Legislative Office Building, Albany.

While that may be true due to Buffalo's old housing stock, the school district did find high amounts of lead in drinking water at schools in October.

Every one of the state's 728 public school districts must run lead tests on the water coming from drinking fountains and most of the sinks in every school building.

Officials say results show that about 19 percent of drinking water fixtures showed lead levels above an EPA threshold for schools and child care centers.

«When the news broke about lead contamination in the drinking water in some of our schools, Senator Tom O'Mara went to work.

He won bipartisan approval of a law setting testing and safety standards for drinking water in every public school — the first law of its kind in the United States.

Joseph Cammareri, head custodian at Howard B. Mattlin Middle School in Plainview, runs the water at one of the school's drinking fountains on Thursday, June 16,School in Plainview, runs the water at one of the school's drinking fountains on Thursday, June 16,school's drinking fountains on Thursday, June 16, 2016.

Just one such issue is the quality of drinking water supplies — particularly those found in New York's schools.

The bill, which according to unofficial results passed the Senate 62 - 0, comes as a number of schools nationwide have found lead in their drinking water.

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer is urging the Environmental Protection Agency to send inspectors to the City of Ithaca to test drinking water sources in all Ithaca City Schools.

Enck said that in her final speech to her staff at EPA, before she resigned to become the visiting scholar at Pace University Law school, she urged them to be respectful — but to «fight back internally» if they are asked to not enforce environmental laws or «turn a blind eye» to evidence of drinking water pollution, and then decide what they should do if their efforts don't succeed.

Fed up with the seeming inaction of their local and state government, or in this case the adults, the students of Hoosick Falls High School held an emergency meeting to demand that Governor Cuomo help them find a reliable safe source of drinking water, that did not come in a plastic bottle.

Enck says in her final speech to her staff at EPA, before she resigned to become the visiting scholar at Pace University Law School, she urged them to be respectful, but to «fight back internally,» if they are asked to not enforce environmental laws or «turn a blind eye» to evidence of drinking water pollution, and then decide what they should do if their efforts don't succeed.

On Monday, he touted a $ 500 million second phase of the «Buffalo Billion» initiative, a $ 2 billion investment in drinking water infrastructure statewide and a far smaller $ 35 million investment in a pilot program to provide after - school services to children in 16 cities.

He brings a civil engineer's understanding to it, fighting for lead testing in schools and now looking to establish a source of emergency funding to help schools resolve drinking water issues quickly.