Sentences with phrase «protecting drinking water resources»

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.»

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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.

The CWSRF, funded largely through federal grants with some matching state money, is meant to improve or protect recreational and drinking water resources, aquatic wildlife, and estuaries.

«We want to continue to protect and preserve our most important element resource which is our water, it's an inalienable right and we have a responsibility to ensure that our citizens are drinking clean water,» said Assemblyman Frank Skartados.

«Governor Cuomo and Commissioner Joseph Martens deserve an enormous amount of credit for protecting the unfiltered drinking water supplies of more than nine million New Yorkers, while increasing our ability to harness the benefits of New York's natural gas resources,» he said in a statement.

«Our drinking water sources must be protected and preserved for the precious resources they are, not sacrificed as a garbage dump for the oil and gas industry.»

«The bottom line is: these rules fail to protect the nation's public lands — home to our last wild places, and sources of drinking water for millions of people — from the risks of fracking,» said Amy Mall, a senior policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a statement.

Today, corporations have too much power over our essential resources and the officials who enact and enforce the policies we need to protect our access to safe food and clean 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.

The fund amounts to only a fraction of 1 percent of the state's budget, but the EPF provides communities much - needed resources for protecting farmland, improving drinking water and creating parks.

So we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of where their food comes from, keep clean, affordable, public tap water flowing freely to our homes, protect the environmental quality of oceans, force government to do its job protecting citizens, and educate about the importance of keeping shared resources under public control.