Sentences with phrase «other contaminated water»

Pups tend to contract the parasite by drinking from mud puddles or other contaminated water sources.

And that is an underestimate of the amount of brine, fracking fluid and other contaminated water that flows back up a well along with the natural gas or oil, because it is based on incomplete data from state governments gathered in 2007.

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Water from the contaminated side will start to flow across the membrane, diluting the salt solution on the other side.

It separates two containers with a membrane — on one side is the contaminated water, and on the other side is water with a very high concentration of some kind of solute, usually salt.

In Silt, Colorado, a woman named Laura Amos no longer talks about the adrenal - gland tumor and other health complications she developed after her water was contaminated by a gas well drilled less than 1,000 feet from her home.

In Puerto Rico and the USVI, the outages have led to ongoing health and environmental crises as idled sanitation systems have forced some to drink from contaminated wells and other water sources.

Creed filmmaker Ryan Coogler, Selma director Ava DuVerney, comedian Hannibal Buress, musicians Stevie Wonder and Janelle Monáe and several others hosted an event in Flint to raise money for the community that has been effected by a horrific crisis, in which thousands of residents — including large numbers of children — have been exposed to contaminated city water.

Mining dries up an average of 100 wells a year and contaminates water in others.

Choose dense items like milk, juice, meat, and water bottles to freeze first (make sure you put meat on the bottom of the freezer in case it thaws, so you don't risk contaminating your other foods).

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.

He pointed to similar cases in other states where water supplies were contaminated or ruined due to harmful chemicals used in the process and said arguments that hydrofracking might create jobs were not completely valid.

The panel's work included examining the levels of PFOA in the blood of those who consumed the contaminated water or were exposed to PFOA in other ways, and also researching their health issues in connection with how much tainted water they may have consumed over time.

There are several Gas Pipelines, which will transport Hydrofracked Gas from the Marcellus Shale region and other states, despite the fact that many of the wells especially in PA are already showing signs of being exhausted, and that is why there is much attention on the Southern Tier and Lower Western portion of NYS; the Delaware Valley and Catskill region south to New Jersey, where the «Industry» is slated to construct 100,000 new wells; an estimated 8.9 % of which will leak and contaminate our water resources according to the «Solutions Project» led by Dr. Mark Jacobson of Stanford University and other noted scholars from other institutions, (Cornell University and Pepacton Institute).

«Never ever in a million years did we think our water was contaminated, or our water would cause cancer or thyroid disease or a host of other diseases,» Baker said.

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.

U.S. Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney, Assemblyman Frank Skartados, Newburgh City Manager Michael Ciaravino and Riverkeeper are calling on the Department of Defense to stop the discharge of PFOS contaminated water from outfalls at the base to Silver Stream and other tributaries to Washington Lake, the city's main drinking water source.

Hoosick Falls resident Ashlynn Sagendorf, 10, was featured in an advertisement — more than a year after she and other people in the area first learned they had been drinking water contaminated with the chemical PFOA.

The bill would extend the current statute of limitations law, to allow a three year window between when New Yorkers find that their water has been contaminated with toxins linked to cancer and other disease, and a Superfund site has been declared, and when they can file a lawsuit.

She says there is a solution, though — find other water sources that have not yet been contaminated by chemicals.

In addition to the services provided to the member municipalities, the District also provides disposal of septage, contaminated water from groundwater remediation sites and landfill leachate from other locations within Oneida County - The Department is also responsible for insuring compliance with Federal pretreatment regulations that apply to all significant industrial users (SIU's) of the WPCP.

Officials at the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant near Oswego are investigating why fuel rods in the reactor's core are leaking radiation and while not considered an emergency, it could potentially spread contaminated water to other parts of the plant.

According to a statement on the village website, if approved, the village can not sue the companies for their role in contaminating three wells with PFOA, but the village can still seek damages and pursue other claims associated with contamination in alternate water sources, and if chemicals other than PFOA are found.

Her group and others are concerned that the gas drilling process could contaminate drinking water and cause air pollution.

She said there is a solution, though: Find other water sources that have not yet been contaminated by chemicals.

Lots of residents in mining communities suffer greatly from various kinds of cancer, skin infections and other related health problems as a result of the use of contaminated water for basic necessities.

«Too many places are dealing with water main breaks, leaks, contaminated drinking water and other problems that can result in public health threats, property damage or inconvenience for residents and businesses,» he said.

Also on hand were residents from Dimock, Pa., a community where drilling operations have been blamed for contaminating water wells and having other deleterious effects on the environment — claims that local drillers either deny or claim are overblown.

In Los Angeles, air quality, particularly from traffic, is one of the worst, but other areas have different problems — coal - fired power plants, chemical factories, contaminated water, hazardous waste.

Its opponents are concerned that this and other, more toxic pollutants might be seeping up from fracking sites far below ground and contaminating water supplies.

Otherwise, storm runoff gets contaminated with benzene and other harmful chemicals and can infiltrate into adjacent soil patches or form stormwater that may end up in natural bodies of water.»

A new study, to be presented at the meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology on the 5th of July, shows that fish can not smell a danger odor signal emitted by other fish in waters contaminated with copper.

The machines handle the decaying element's radiation better than human miners and can tolerate the radon gas released by the ore; early Navajo miners of uranium in the U.S. — and their families exposed to residual radioactive dust and debris as well as contaminated water — developed lung cancer and other ailments by the 1970s and 1980s.

The scientists estimated that the amount of contaminated water flowing into the ocean from this brackish groundwater source below the sandy beaches is as large as the input from two other known sources: ongoing releases and runoff from the nuclear power plant site itself, and outflow from rivers that continue to carry cesium from the fallout on land in 2011 to the ocean on river - borne particles.

In addition to contamination of drinking water, bacteria and other microbes can also contaminate rivers and lakes — for example, the algal blooms in Hong Kong.

Severe health effects have been observed in populations drinking arsenic - contaminated water over long periods, and research has established that drinking water contaminated with arsenic causes skin cancer and several internal cancers such as lung, bladder, and kidney cancer, as well as cardiovascular disease and other adverse outcomes.

The thin calcite deposits on cave art can be contaminated by new flows of uranium - containing water, dust, or other detritus, making the art seem older than it is, he and his colleagues argued.

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.

This «could result in a burst dam, contaminated water, a derailed train, a collapsed bridge, energy black - outs or other large - scale human disasters», Webster claimed.

Another perennial concern is that the water contaminated with radioactive particles still leaking from the stricken nuclear power plant site is poisoning Pacific Ocean fish and other seafood.

An insecticide used on corn and other U.S. crops poses health risks to workers who mix and apply it and also can contaminate drinking water, according to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report released this week.

By reducing pollution, digging basic latrines and other measures, contaminated water can be avoided in the first place.

But eventually the ore ran out, and the soil and surface water were heavily contaminated with lead, zinc and other heavy metals.

Because rice is grown underwater — often in water contaminated with arsenic in such hot spots as Bangladesh, India and China — it takes in 10 times more arsenic than do other cereal grains, such as wheat and oats.

Environmental mercury and other heavy metal exposure, contaminated water, pesticides, a greater reliance on antibiotics — and even extensive television viewing by very young children — may be factors in mounting autism rates.

Other raw meats, unpasteurized milk, and contaminated water can also transmit the bacteria to people.

Gastrointestinal illnesses are common among backpackers and other campers, in part because water found in the wilderness can be contaminated with bacteria or parasites.

But determining conclusively that the gully changes seen by MGS stem from liquid water is daunting, and will likely require an up - close visit - a challenge due to the risk of contaminating a gully site with Earth microbes or other material.

In addition, there are health risks linked to water contaminated with organic and inorganic matter, other viruses and bacteria, as well as other pollutants.

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.

Water systems are contaminated with lead and have been treated with fluoride, chlorine and many other chemicals.