Sentences with phrase «potable water source»

In Union County, New Jersey, the Olmsted brothers (sons of Frederick Law Olmsted of Central Park fame) designed a 124 - acre park for a county that «sought to make provisions for open spaces and to protect the Rahway River, the key potable water source in the area.»

Not exact matches

Portable potable test One of the reasons that the U.N. relies on improved sources as a measure of drinking water access rather than actual safety is that the latter is much more difficult to assess than counting wells and spigots.

But other water sources require more than UV radiation and chlorine to make them potable.

Good, sustainable farming supports regional communities by working with groups like Fair for Life fair trade funds and partnering with the farmers and members of a community to jointly develop programs that address needs in local communities such as medical support, improving critical local infrastructure, supporting local schools, establishing sources of potable water, nutrition education, to name a few.

Small numbers of cysts may occasionally be present in the potable water supply but the risk of this being a major source of infection is small.

I'd like to spend part of this year finding and drawing attention to people who are the Douglas Martin equivalents trying to develop ways to bring illumination and cleaner, cheap sources of cooking energy to the billions who lack these core assets; devising scaleable means of providing potable water and sanitation (not easy) in poor places; closing the huge «yield gap» between African farmers and their * counterparts in many other regions; boosting environmental literacy and engagement with science...

The systems can produce clean potable water for drinking or cooking from any surface water source, well, cistern or tank.

The project pulls together existing and emerging technologies to clean waste water, provide a source of food, provide potable water, wind, wave and solar energy and aquaculture in an integrated system.

By collecting and treating non-traditional sources of water - such as rainwater, stormwater, blackwater, graywater and foundation drainage - the amount of potable water used has fallen by up to 50 % for residential buildings and 95 % for commercial buildings.

Some people build - in RV tanks but I think most simply rely on a water source like a potable water hose from the property they park the house on.

The people who shouldn't have to are the poorest billion or two who live on a dollar or two a day, hardly use any ff anyway, and mostly have uncertain access to reliable sources of food and potable water.