Sentences with phrase «of their water supply from»

«We anticipate that the average cost per unit of a town district will contrast favorably with the cost of a water supply from the village.»

Not exact matches

From Coca - Cola's portable water purification system to the Toronto - based startup that's pioneering new ways to ship emergency supplies to remote corners of the globe, the world of business is building a brighter future — for everyone.

The Pacific nation of Vanuatu is preparing to permanently evacuate the entire population of one of its islands as thick ash spewing from a volcano kills crops, dirties water supplies and fouls the air.

The cost to developers of connecting a subdivision or development to water supply infrastructure will be reduced by nearly 50 per cent from next month.

Yesterday at the International CES, for example, home improvement giant Lowe's announced a new wave of products and services associated with Iris, the company's tool that allows you to customize and monitor your internet - connected home devices — like, say, a water shut - off valve that cuts supply when a leak is detected — from a single app on your smartphone or computer.

Protest group Climate Direct Action said the move was in support of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which has protested the construction of a separate $ 3.7 billion pipeline carrying oil from North Dakota to the U.S. Gulf Coast over fears of potential damage to sacred land and water supplies.

Flint, Michigan hit the headlines early this year when President Obama declared a state of emergency after the area's water supply was rendered undrinkable due to lead contamination from old pipes.

Supply chain aficionados might want to geek out on how much water it takes to manufacture boxes, but most consumers will run from an avalanche of info.

It is estimated that 25 - percent of bottled water is accessed from a municipal water supply.

Now a thriving local startup, Pipeguard, which was founded by a small team of MIT students, could keep as much as 20 percent of the world's drinking water supply from getting lost — and prevent global crises like the catastrophic water shortage in South Africa.

That means making sure prices cover not only the direct costs of supplying energy but also the environmental externalities associated with production and use of fossil fuels — the waste water (which increases a variety of risks), and the broader side effects from vehicle use — congested roads, traffic deaths, and so on.

«It is a full - fledged boom,» says Dale Redman, chief executive of Propetro, a Midland, Texas, firm that supplies heavyduty horsepower to drill sites, where energy companies coax crude from the ground with sand and water.

In the face of blistering criticism from both Florida senators that the federal government was cutting off food and water supplies to Puerto Rico, federal management officials said Wednesday that they will continue...

A week ago, there were still towns in the interior of the island that hadn't received food and water supplies from the federal government.

In - kind donations of pet supplies included items such as food and water bowls, kitty litter, pet beds, collars and leashes, all trucked into neighborhoods hit particularly hard by Harvey and Irma, with help from animal welfare agency Rescue Bank.

Nearly two years ago, Flint city officials, under the guidance of a state - appointed emergency fiscal manager, switched their city's water supply from Lake Huron to the nearby polluted Flint River.

Rising sea - levels — particularly when combined with storm events — are just one of several factors that could endanger the integrity of the Delta's 1,100 miles of earthen levees, which protect the state's water supply and the region's agricultural, transportation, and energy systems from flooding and saltwater intrusion.35 Earthquakes, land subsidence, and floods present serious threats to the aging levees as well.

There still isn't one good excuse about where the water came from or went to and the idea that they had a year's supply of fresh meat for all the carnivores is laugh - out - loud funny.

1) «If I have an endless supply of water, but I refuse to allow a person dying from dehydration to drink, I believe we would both consider that immoral.»

We now know that nature can not take care of itself, that human beings can degrade it not only locally but globally, that the species God created and saved from the flood are threatened by human expansion into their habitats, destruction of their food supplies, pollution of their air and water, and excessive hunting and fishing.

As it stood, the pipeline would be only a mile from their reservation, so if it leaks, which pipelines often do, it would threaten their supply of drinking water, and could possibly disrupt their sacred burial grounds.

However — aside from the fact that, according to the World Health Organization, 80 per cent of all disease in the world is related to water supplies and that some diseases are significantly increased by irrigation — the technology of irrigation is itself a tricky business.

It is wise to carry three or more days of food, water, and other supplies (see «emergency kits» below) in your car in case you have to evacuate directly from work or school.

We do not know so much about the baths and the common meals from documents, but the remains of the monastery make it plain that the Qumran community did have a common dining hall and an elaborate water supply for purifications.

But today the Jordanian government diverts water from the Yarmouk into the King Abdullah Canal to supply the people and farms of the Jordan Valley.

For example, the water from the Sea of Galilee has been diverted for Israeli agricultural use in the Negev while West Bank residents now rely for some 60 per cent of their water on supplies controlled by Israel, which has prevented the digging or repairing of wells by residents in the occupied territories.

Just want to share some valuable info (http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/california-targets-wrong-water-wasters/Content?oid=4222724) since I'm writing from Los Angeles — almond crops are currently responsible for making the current extreme draught conditions even worse because they are such a water - intensive crop in an area that does not naturally have sufficient water supply, so please consider using other nuts and seeds instead, as CA is currently the only major source of almonds in the world (if you're able to find a small, local / non-CA supplier, wonderful!).

The Aranui departs from the Tahitian capital of Papeete but spends most of her voyage plying the far less touristy waters of the Marquesas and Tuamotus, where it is one of the few regular supply links that distant islanders have to the rest of the world.

A handful of salt was added, water, a few slices of plantain, eddoes, calalue, and red capsicum — all of which ingredients were supplied from the cutacoos.

Where we used to get magnesium from our soil and water supplies, we've now depleted our soil and scoured our water supply clean of trace minerals.

Organic agriculture protects the health of people and the planet by reducing overall exposure to toxic chemicals from synthetic pesticides that can end up in the ground, air, water and food supply, and that are associated with health consequences, from asthma to cancer.

For suppliers of agricultural commodities, that can include a range of practices from agroforestry, planting trees and maintaining forest buffer zones to reducing pesticide use, conserving water and soil and protecting wildlife.

KaTom offers hundreds of innovative restaurant supplies online and eco-friendly product lines that range from ENERGY STAR - rated commercial appliances to water - conserving faucets, and kitchen utensils made from food - safe recycled materials.

«Given the preference for Kinley and the limited distribution of Bonaqua, it made sense for HCCB to use the same bottle design for both the packaged water brands from a supply - chain optimisation perspective,» the spokesperson explained.

In the face of formidable threats — deforestation, soil erosion, and water pollution from toxic agrochemicals — the government and private sector have turned to the Rainforest Alliance to help safeguard the future of Ceylon tea, which accounts for 19 percent of the global tea supply.

By way of illustration, the NSW Office of Water says the cost of applying for water supply works approval ranges from $ 2257 to $ Water says the cost of applying for water supply works approval ranges from $ 2257 to $ water supply works approval ranges from $ 2257 to $ 5889.

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

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

Information for the submission was drawn from Baby Milk Action (marketing of breastmilk substitutes, water pumping in São Lourenço, Brazil), International Labor Rights Forum (child slavery and labour in the cocoa supply chain, Labour rights abuses in Colombia), Union of Filipro Employees (Labour rights abuses in the Philippines), Corporate Accountability International (Conflicts with communities over water resources), Attac Switzerland (Spying on campaign organisations), with additional information drawn from Food Inc. published by the UK Food Group (reference in the submission, treatment of dairy and coffee farmers).

For those using tap water from public water supplies, there is little danger as the water supply is constantly monitored and warnings are issued if there is a risk of contamination.

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

Another advantage of a baby bath tub is that you can fill it and place it inside your home tub, just to keep the water from the floor and to be in a convenient place to access bathing supplies.

We do not have concerns about purchased or hired pools that are filled from domestic hot water supplies at the onset of labour, provided that any pumps are used solely for pool emptying.

The village of Hoosick Falls has received a $ 220,000 grant from the state Environmental Facilities Corp. to help cover engineering and other expenses that followed the discovery three years ago of a toxic chemical in the community's water supplies.

Legislation from Sen. Kathy Marchione and Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin would permit the village to issue serial bonds for «extraordinary expenses incurred by the village as a direct result of the discovery of the contamination of the village's municipal water supply,» according to the bill memorandum.

The increase in demand for electricity, reduction in the quantity of water at the Akosombo Dam, irregular gas supply from the West Africa Gas Pipeline Company in Nigeria, irregular maintenance programmes and late procurement of crude oil to power generation plants, have conspired to plunge the country in the current power crisis.

Cuomo is celebrating the installation of treatment systems that aim to prevent algal toxins from entering the drinking water supplies for the city of Auburn and town of Owasco.

However, the presence of any potentially disease - causing organisms in drinking water supplies is of concern, particularly to upstate communities that receive water from that part of the Catskill / Delaware system that has not been treated by the City's UV disinfection facility in Westchester County.

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.

Issues arising from water supplies also came under the scrutiny of the committee.