Sentences with phrase «protect drinking water»

However, the Texas - based oil giant is not getting a much warmer reception in Chilliwack, where community organizers are rallying support to protect drinking water and fish habitat from the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion.

We have been left no choice but to boycott his dangerous and inadequate regulatory process, and ask all Marylanders to join us in demanding the Governor protect our drinking water.»

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the Administration has provided resources to rebuild the affected area to be more resilient than before, including support for more climate - resilient roads and infrastructure, and projects that protect drinking water and buffer communities from flooding.

Moving septic systems further away from private wells and limiting development near wells could also help protect drinking water from contamination.

The current regulatory framework for wastewater disposal wells was designed to protect drinking water sources from contamination and does not address earthquake safety.

The Greenland Survey, Asiaq, is already using SETSM to protect drinking water resources, where remote sensing specialist Eva Mätzler said it «strengthens the understanding of importance in reliable geographic data for the Greenlandic government and people.»

Officials said the change is needed to protect drinking water supplies from cryptosporidium, a parasite found in animal waste, and other disease - causing microorganisms.

«Voters have approved hundreds of millions of dollars to protect their drinking water and Suffolk government raided it,» Mr. Amper said during his press event.

Failing infrastructure pipes and protect drinking water at its source.

«This year's budget provides an unprecedented $ 2.5 billion investment in our state's infrastructure to protect our drinking water and ensure our families can live healthy lives.

[53] He also worked to protect the drinking water of millions of New Yorkers through the Catskill Watershed Agreement.

With more than 100,000 Hudson Valley residents dependent on the Hudson River for drinking water, Riverkeeper has urged community leaders in Dutchess County, Poughkeepsie, Hyde Park, Rhinebeck, Highland and Port Ewen to understand the risks posed by crude oil transport on the Hudson River, and actions they can take to protect their drinking water supplies.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed $ 2 billion in his budget to be used over five years to upgrade and protect drinking water but some estimates for the total cost of water infrastructure needs in the coming decades are 40 times that amount.

«These critical upgrades will protect drinking water quality in the region for years to come.»

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

«New York is once again stepping up as the federal government continues to ignore its duty to provide clear guidance to protect drinking water quality,» Cuomo said.

Martens says «if» fracking moves forward in New York, it will do so «with the strictest standards in the nation» to protect drinking water and the state's other natural resources, and he says he expects «additional improvements» to be made in the final report.

Deeply cut the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF), whose dollars go toward protecting our drinking water, open space and recycling; Close state parks and campgrounds and slash staffing levels at our environmental enforcement agencies; and Steal from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Fund, which was set up to invest in our clean - energy economy, not serve as a piggy bank for politicians.»

«Oftentimes, we fail to appreciate how important these wetlands are to protecting our drinking water.»

«Protecting the air that we breathe and protecting our drinking water,» are among the most important issues for Long Island, he said.

They want Congress to continue its bipartisan support on issues such as cleaning up pollution and protecting drinking water.

It was concluded that fireworks nearby were the source of the contamination, so the state's Department of Environmental Protection set guidelines about protecting drinking water and the disposal of duds (a big source of the chemicals).

It's past time for MDE and Governor Hogan to acknowledge the serious and potentially - devastating impacts of the Potomac Pipeline and use its authority to stop the pipeline, thereby protecting the drinking water of millions.»

For more than a decade the energy industry has steadfastly argued before courts, Congress and the public that the federal law protecting drinking water should not be applied to hydraulic fracturing [2], the industrial process that is essential to extracting the nation's vast natural gas reserves.

Not exact matches

Similarly, there's a chance that the pipeline's multiple water crossings could also contravene Ontario's Clean Water Act, which is designed to protect the sources of drinking water for the province's communiwater crossings could also contravene Ontario's Clean Water Act, which is designed to protect the sources of drinking water for the province's communiWater Act, which is designed to protect the sources of drinking water for the province's communiwater for the province's communities.

A handful of citizen volunteers digging up the correct information and piping it through blogs, social media, letters to the editor and conversations at coffee shops and on door steps to protect what we value — drinking water, schools, parks, key natural habitat and recreational areas.

Specific policies include researching methods to improve indoor air quality; instituting a Clean Water Act to ensure Albertans have safe drinking water; protecting provincial parks and ecological reserves; requiring government to meet high environmental standards in their operations; requiring Ecological Assessments for all large projects in the province; and establishing an Alberta environmental ombudsman and elected Ecological Impact Assessment Review Panels to monitor environmental impacts and halt projWater Act to ensure Albertans have safe drinking water; protecting provincial parks and ecological reserves; requiring government to meet high environmental standards in their operations; requiring Ecological Assessments for all large projects in the province; and establishing an Alberta environmental ombudsman and elected Ecological Impact Assessment Review Panels to monitor environmental impacts and halt projwater; protecting provincial parks and ecological reserves; requiring government to meet high environmental standards in their operations; requiring Ecological Assessments for all large projects in the province; and establishing an Alberta environmental ombudsman and elected Ecological Impact Assessment Review Panels to monitor environmental impacts and halt projects.

It's time to clean up the mess and protect the clean, safe, drinking water of the people of Shawnigan Lake.»

When used in reference to shepherding people, a pastor leads people to green pastures where they can be fed, shows them where the calm and clean waters are from which they can drink, and protects them from dangerous predators and thieves who only want to kill, steal, and destroy.

While these contain no added sugar they do have dried fruit in them, so it's a good idea to have them with a glass of milk and drink water after to protect your teeth!

The UN works on many water entities such as distributing drinking water during disasters, protecting ecosystems, making sure that water is of sufficient quality, ensuring that our cities have enough water infrastructure, measuring progress of access to sanitation, looking at how we will have enough water to make food.

If your drinking water is not fluoridated, talk to a dentist or physician about the best way to protect your child's teeth.

after each breast feeding, make your little one drink water or wipe their teeth with washcloth to protect their teeth from building of plaques from milk

Fluoride from drinking water and toothpaste can also get incorporated into the tooth enamel itself as it grows, thereby protecting it from future decay.

When we drink water, it helps by washing some acids out of our mouths and it also supplies fluoride, which protects against decay.»

In addition to protecting critical habitat for native species, Mass Audubon's land conservation efforts provide many quality - of - life benefits, including clean drinking water, locally grown food, and places to learn about and enjoy nature.

I want to say, «If you REALLY want to protect your child, then take the red soda and cheese puffs out of their mouth, and teach them to drink water and eat fruits and vegetables!!»

In an email to its members, the NYLCV touted Avella's «tireless work» on some of the organization's key agenda items, like getting toxic chemicals out of children's products, promoting clean energy and protecting clean drinking water.

Considering you live in NYC and Bloomberg insisted on having YOUR drinking water protected from fracking, you should zip your lips.

«The federal government should provide actionable guidance on best practices for removing 1,4 - dioxane from drinking water, invest in cutting - edge treatment technologies, and set a MCL to protect public health.»

I will prioritize addressing the opiate epidemic through prevention, education, rehabilitation and enforcement, eradicating gangs and violent crimes, protecting our environment and drinking water, and being fiscally responsible while finding sustainable ways to balance our county finances.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today says two water main breaks in Rotterdam and a sewer break in Amsterdam underscore the continued urgent need for a new state program to repair and maintain vital local drinking water, sewer, storm water management and gas line infrastructure to protect lives, secure the viability of roads and bridges aboveground, and save tax dollars.

Your donations to Riverkeeper make possible our work protecting the Hudson River and the drinking water supply of 9 million New Yorkers.

They get their drinking water from the Hudson and want to ensure their source is protected.

In 1997, New York State, New York City, United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), upstate communities and environmental organizations, including Riverkeeper, joined together to sign an agreement to protect the unfiltered drinking water supply that more than nine million residents of New York City and upstate communities use daily.

A boil water notice is issued to protect consumers from potentially contaminated drinking water.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin (R,C,I - Schaghticoke) and Assemblyman Phil Palmesano (R,C,I - Corning) are joining with several local Capital Region officials in seeking a new state program to repair and maintain vital local drinking water, sewer, storm water management and gas line infrastructure to protect lives, secure the viability of roads and bridges aboveground and save tax dollars.

David Calone, chair of the Suffolk County Planning Commission, recognized that some balk at the cost of building more sewers, but said «failing to protect the quality of our drinking water would be far more costly.»

«We are so proud of the city to be the first in New York state to partner with the Nature Conservancy in their Working Woodlands program, so that we can protect the woodlands that surround the Alcove Reservoir that provides us with drinking water here in the city of Albany.

«I urge you to move beyond accusatory letters and, rather, work cooperatively with EPA Region 2 and the residents of Hoosick Falls on the important work of cleaning up the contamination in the Village and protecting the public drinking water supply,» she wrote.