Sentences with phrase «people from surface water»
Moving people from surface water collection to a new, protected well is much easier to see as progress than repairing a old well's housing.
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The virus, which causes symptoms similar to those caused by E. coli, can be contracted from an infected person or from contaminated food, water or surfaces.
People believed that spring water — surfacing from underground, where it was purified by sand and rocks, to meet the light of day — was the cleanest source.
Roberts says that in the absence of laws recognizing that groundwater and surface water are pulling from the same source, people will continue to do what benefits them most, which is tap into the ground for water where they know they'll find it.
Recent estimates show that forests in the Southeast deliver surface drinking water to an estimated 48.7 million people, with streams from the mountainous Southern Appalachian region alone providing water supplies to 10 million people, many of them living in major cities such as Atlanta, Georgia.
Millions of tubewells drilled during 1970s and 80s saved people from water - borne diseases contracted from drinking surface water.
Increasingly, Chan said, chemicals from PPCPs for people and pets are being found at low levels in groundwater and surface water; anti-inflammatories, antidepressants, antibiotics, estrogens, insect repellant, antimicrobials and sunscreen compounds are among what's being detected.
► A man and a woman steal a Medevac helicopter and fly to stop creatures from destroying a city: they see a giant wolf jump into the air and bite three helicopters in half while the wolf and a giant gorilla destroy buildings and vehicles into rubble and smoke; something swims fast under the surface of a river, it rises high in the water to reveal a prehistoric spiny crocodile with an armored tail and a spiked ball at its end, many huge teeth that include side tusks, and wings behind its ears; it upsets a large touring craft full of people who fall into the water, screaming, and it roars at the sky before joining the other two creatures in destroying buildings.
Whereas five types of surface (cultivated areas, pastures, forests, fisheries and built environment), planet Earth has approximately 13.4 billion global hectares (gha) of biologically productive land and water according to 2010 data from the Global Footprint Network and humanity's ecological footprint reached the milestone of 2.7 global hectares (gha) per person in 2007 for a world population of 6.7 billion people on the same date (according to the UN)[See Article A terra no limite (Earth in the limit) by José Eustáquio Diniz Alves available on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/terra-limite-humanidade-recursos-naturais-planeta-situacao-sustentavel-637804.shtml >].
There was an open area on the rocky surface at the water level, which was completely packed with people, waiting in line to be able to jump into the cenote from a platform above the water and another line to climb down one of the four wooden ladders into the water.
When approached from the first floor, visitors are confronted with a surreal scene: people, fully clothed, can be seen standing, walking, and breathing beneath the surface of the water.
The ever - changing light cast from the sky reflects patterns onto the earth's surfaces — ripples on the surface of water, buildings and windows, and people's bodies as they bask in the sunshine.
The point of the observations that you have gathered from the people who study, as opposed to merely post speculations, is the water near the bottom of the Arctic Ocean is isolated from the ice on its surface.
«This unbelievable tripe won't be killed until people understand that you can't heat water from above due to surface tension.
These areas were encouraged to stop drinking surface water years ago because it was contaminated by various pathogens, so people started drinking water from wells.
People can drown, fall on wet concrete or other surfaces, contract infectious illnesses from unclean water, sustain brain or neck injuries from diving, break their bones, and more.