Sentences with phrase «one's drinking water supply»

The funding wasn't allocated until last fall — after the blue - green algae toxins were detected in drinking water supplies.

The budget also includes additional state funding for the purchase of land from «willing sellers» in order to help protect drinking water supplies.

Since inception, the project has provided approximately 50 % of all clean drinking water supplies across the entire project community zone, and this figure continues to grow.

Drinking water supplies undergo additional treatment to remove dissolved toxins and make the water safe for consumption.

As such, water rights activists call for the preservation and protection of freshwater sources so that all people may enjoy access to safe, clean, and free drinking water supplies.

This ability is important for maintaining water quality, both in surface waters and in drinking water supplies.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg praised the plan, saying the governor and Commissioner 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.»

This, if it happens, would be a sea change from the previous administration's EPA, which effectively wrote loopholes and exemptions into that law that allowed mining companies to evade longstanding regulations, sidestep basic Clean Water Act protections and dump their mountaintop removal mining waste directly into Appalachia's waters, contaminating drinking water supplies for communities and burying important streams.

Impoundments are notoriously leaky, contaminating drinking water supplies in many communities, and are also known to fail completely.

In Bangladesh, for example, a country which the report says could have more internal climate migrants than other types of internal migrants by 2050, saltwater entering into drinking water supplies due, in part, to sea level rise is already affecting the health of 20 million people in coastal Bangladesh.

As 14 Rensselaer County residents and several county legislators watched, County Executive Kathleen Jimino signed a local law to protect drinking water supplies from blasting.

On the heels of the EPA announcement, an in - depth article in the New York Times, «Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering,» offers new insights into public drinking water supply contamination.

(Witness the 1 - in -100-year drought in the southeastern US, which has been threatening drinking water supplies in Georgia and other states.)

November 1, 2013 - A number of lawsuits have been filed against DuPont Co. alleging the chemical giant knowingly contaminated drinking water supplies with C8 used in its West Virginia plant.

Certain harmful algal blooms, or HABs, have the potential to produce dangerous toxins that can contaminate local drinking water supplies, sicken people, harm aquatic life, and interfere with lake recreation activities.

«A reversal of the current flow could put Lake Michigan and the Chicago drinking water supply at risk so that is not a viable option.

The blood testing regimen was put in place after the public learned in May 2016 of PFOS contamination in Washington Lake, Newburgh's main drinking water supply.

The move, says the Associated Press, «affects drinking water supplies for 25 million people and irrigation for 1 million acres of farmland.»

The process, known as hydrofracking, is controversial because the chemicals could enter drinking water supplies.

«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.

A national cross-sectional study with large representative samples was carried out on the effects of providing fluoride - safe drinking water supply for the prevention and control of endemic fluorosis in China.

The process is called «valley fill» and has buried more than a thousand miles of streams, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — posing immediate health and safety risks to local residents, threatening downstream drinking water supplies, and degrading or destroying some of the most ecologically significant forest and aquatic habitats on the planet.

According to the company, the only maintenance or financial input required by the SOURCE is a new air filter every year, and a new mineral cartridge every 5 years, which means that after the initial purchase and install, the owner can essentially own their own drinking water supply with minimal inputs.

Basil Seggos, DEC commissioner, said the money acquired through the settlement with Akzo Nobel will play a significant role in safeguarding drinking water supplies in this county of a little more than 65,000 residents.

Restoring the drainage divide ridge and returning the Chicago and Calumet Rivers to their original flow direction into Lake Michigan could be a way to stop the flying Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes, but could create an even greater problem — putting the Chicago drinking water supply at risk.

In one very large observational study in England, researchers looked at the 2012 levels of fluoride in the community drinking water supplies throughout the country.

into drinking water supplies due, in part, to sea level rise is already affecting the health of 20 million people in coastal Bangladesh.

One of the harshest charges against fracking, often leveled with apocalyptic intensity by its foes, is that it indiscriminately contaminates vital drinking water supplies.

In flood - prone locations, flush toilets back up and pit latrines overflow contaminating the environment and potentially drinking water supplies — with dire consequences to the public health through water - borne diseases like cholera.

As part of the Project, Collie Water will make available potable water to secure drinking water supplies to the Great Southern Towns and the town of Collie.

I'll give you this: You didn't allow Chesapeake and the other gas industry thugs to roll you entirely; among other things, the plan limits fracking to five counties in the southern tier of the state and places restrictions on drilling near drinking water supplies.

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.

The state Health Department, in turn, issued a news release Tuesday announcing their agency has set up an online portal to continue gathering similar health - survey information from residents in Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh, where drinking water supplies were found to be contaminated with the chemical PFOA, or perfluorooctanoic acid.

«I have lead the coordinated effort amongst the town, its consultants and state agencies, to meet the town's drinking water supply needs with an approved project, managed our finance department's restructuring to implement best accounting practices, and re-envisioned our police force capabilities making foundational changes to increase its effectiveness.

Among the other restrictions, there would be no permits for drilling «within 500 feet of a private water well or domestic - use spring,» or within 2,000 feet of a public reservoir or drinking water supply without further study.

An $ 850,000 settlement agreement between the village of Hoosick Falls and two companies blamed for polluting the community's drinking water supplies includes a clause that would prohibit the village from filing future claims against the manufacturers over the contamination.

As part of Governor Cuomo's Water Quality Rapid Response Task Force, DEC and DOH are working to evaluate potential threats to drinking water supplies statewide and assist communities with testing and technical assistance.

Again, assuming that the government decided to for the unit cost of PURC 2016 proposed borehole project estimates of ghc60, 000 per one mechanized borehole, * which the npp in opposition said it's unreasonable and expensive *, government would have been able to provide 58 mechanized boreholes perhaps in 58 rural communities which do not have potable drinking water supply with a change of ghc20, 000.

A new study on managing wastewater produced by hydraulic fracturing finds the biggest risk of contamination to drinking water supplies occurs during the disposal process.

The complaint alleges that exposure to the chemical PFOA, which was discovered in the village drinking water supply and private wells, has caused Donavan's ulcerative colitis and other illnesses.

46 million Number of Americans whose drinking water supplies are known to contain at least trace amounts of pharmaceuticals, according to an Associated Press investigation released last year.

Caves are home to some of the planet's most unusual creatures and important drinking water supplies.

Arsenic is one of the most common environmental pollutants, finding its way into drinking water supplies through natural or humanmade sources and affecting millions of people worldwide.

«This is a huge improvement in terms of sensitivity, and our technique has tremendous potential for analysis of global drinking water supplies, particularly in developing nations and following natural disasters, where sophisticated laboratory equipment may not be available.»

The PVC piping system developed by Brian Barkdoll, left, and Mohammad Alizadeh Fard, offers a low - tech, affordable internal piping method for drinking water supply managers to circulate water within large municipal water supply tanks to prevent against waterborne illness following large drawdowns of the tanks.

Today fluoride is still added to about 74 % of U.S public drinking water supplies despite it being classified 2 years ago, along with mercury and lead, as a neurotoxin «that injures the developing brain» by The Lancet — one of the world's oldest and best peer - reviewed medical journals.

Last year perchlorate was detected in eleven of Massachusetts drinking water supplies, including three public wells.

Those backyard sewage disposal devices send pollutants into the ground, where they can leach into waterways and sometimes drinking water supplies.

Citing mining waste as well as chemical dumping and emissions from industry as key polluters, the article provides an excellent examination of the many factors, including the shortfalls in the regulatory systems, contributing to the degradation of US drinking water supplies.