Sentences with phrase «over lead in drinking water»

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«Our research shows there has been a shift from sugar - sweetened towards non-sugar sweetened drinks over 15 years leading to a significant drop in the sugar contribution from water - based beverages, especially soft drinks.

State lawmakers have held three hearings on water issues over the last several weeks, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo this month signed legislation that would require all schools to test for lead in school drinking water.

The New York crisis follows last year's water crisis in Flint, Mich., over dangerous levels of lead in the city's drinking water.

His remarks come a little over a month after Investigative Post reported that disparity, «cheating» and potential conflicts plague Buffalo's sampling program for lead in drinking water.

Increased shale - gas production created a boom in some parts of the country but has also led to concerns over potential contamination of drinking water and possible human health impacts related to hydraulic fracturing.

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

Dr. Mona Hanna - Attisha, a pediatrician, director of a pediatric residency program in Flint, Mich. and the first person to raise public concerns about elevated lead levels in the blood of Flint area children, talked about the consequences of sounding the alarm over her research that found Flint's water system was leaching lead into drinking water and making her young patients sick.

The success of the personal filtration system led Vestergaard Frandsen to introduce earlier this month its LifeStraw Family device, an instant microbiological purifier that provides about 2.6 gallons (10 liters) of safe drinking water in an hour and about 4,000 gallons (15,000 liters) over its life span for a family of six.

«Arsenic contamination is one of the biggest problems in drinking water all over the world,» said Dr. Babur Mirza, a researcher at USU's Utah Water Research Lab and lead author on the swater all over the world,» said Dr. Babur Mirza, a researcher at USU's Utah Water Research Lab and lead author on the sWater Research Lab and lead author on the study.

Not just in Flint, Michigan, but all over the country people are concerned about lead in drinking water.

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