Sentences with phrase «protection of water supplies»

Last month, the International Committee of the Red Cross launched a campaign to improve the protection of water supplies and water engineers during war.

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The Environmental Protection Authority has recommended approval of the second stage of Water Corporation's groundwater replenishment scheme, which will boost Perth's drinking water suppWater Corporation's groundwater replenishment scheme, which will boost Perth's drinking water suppwater supplies.

Crop insurance provides growers with protection against crop production losses caused by drought, hail, excessive moisture, earthquake, fire, wildlife, failure of irrigation water supply or insects and plant disease (unless control measures have been insufficiently or improperly applied).

Referring to New York City's population of nearly 9 million, Bonacic said, «The DEP (New York City Department of Environmental Protection) is a 900 - pound gorilla that sees this region as their water supply.

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.

Three New York lawmakers — Schumer, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney — are calling on the federal Environmental Protection Agency to immediately test the city of Newburgh's water supply, which has been found to be contaminated with a toxic chemical.

«The Clean Water Infrastructure Act of 2017 commits historic levels of funding and takes aggressive actions to preserve our water supply while creating a national model for the protection of drinking water,» said New York State Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Howard ZuWater Infrastructure Act of 2017 commits historic levels of funding and takes aggressive actions to preserve our water supply while creating a national model for the protection of drinking water,» said New York State Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zuwater supply while creating a national model for the protection of drinking water,» said New York State Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zuwater,» said New York State Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker.

The Environmental Protection Agency recently set a guideline of 70 parts per trillion for PFOS and PFOA in drinking water supplies.

New York Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney Thursday announced the Environmental Protection Agency will invest $ 12 million for the first phase of a project to supply clean drinking water to a certain locale in Dutchess County.

Newburgh's municipal water supply has tested at twice the Environmental Protection Agency's recommended safety level of PFOS, or perfluorooctanesulfonic acid.

A spokesman for the health department, Jim Plastiras, says it was a staff person in the Department of Health's Bureau of Water Supply Protection who knew about the possible water contamination and who was trying to help Rensselaer County» understand the EPA protocols regarding unregulated contaminant», not the commissiWater Supply Protection who knew about the possible water contamination and who was trying to help Rensselaer County» understand the EPA protocols regarding unregulated contaminant», not the commissiwater contamination and who was trying to help Rensselaer County» understand the EPA protocols regarding unregulated contaminant», not the commissioner.

It was 16 months, remember, from August 2014 — when state officials first learned of high levels of perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, in Hoosick Falls» public drinking water supply and private wells — to the time the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency stepped in and told residents not to drink or cook with their tap water, in December 2015.

International environmental consultant and former New York City Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Al Appleton wrote the report for the Rockland Water Coalition, a grassroots group that asked Appleton to look at the issue of alternatives to United Water New York's proposed desalination plant, or the Haverstraw Water Supply Project.

The state's normal strategy for water management calls for keeping the reservoirs low in winter, to provide protection against floods, and keeping them as high as possible in summer, to ensure an adequate supply for the giant farming operations in the Central Valley (one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world) and for arid southern California.

Whether this effluent should be processed is contentious; the Supreme Court is set to hear a consolidation of cases about the Environmental Protection Agency's requirements that power plants retrofit their systems to minimize impact on local water supplies and aquatic life.

The researchers separate six key strategy areas for reducing water stress into «hard path» measures, involving building more reservoirs and increasing desalination efforts of sea water, and «soft path» measures that focus on reducing water demand rather than increasing water supply thanks to community - scale efforts and decision - making, combining efficient technology and environmental protection.

Sustainable management of water resources (including provision of safe and reliable supplies for drinking water and irrigation, adequate sanitation, protection of aquatic ecosystems, and flood protection) poses enormous challenges in many parts of the world.

Policies and protocols must be in place to ensure food protection, sanitation, safe water supply, healthy air quality, good lighting, safe playgrounds, and emergency evacuation, among other issues that relate to the physical environment of schools.

Martens noted the low price of natural gas, the high local cost of industry oversight and the large areas that would be off - limits to shale gas development because of setback requirements, water supply protections, and local prohibitions.

Such measures can range from «working with nature» (e.g., placing a greater emphasis on coastal resource management, or protecting mangrove and natural reef ecosystems), to a concerted «climate - proofing» of infrastructure, including storm - drainage systems, water supply and treatment plants, as well as protection or relocation of energy or solid waste management facilities.

Democrats are committed to closing the Halliburton loophole that stripped the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of its ability to regulate hydraulic fracturing, and ensuring tough safeguards are in place, including Safe Drinking Water Act provisions, to protect local water suppWater Act provisions, to protect local water suppwater supplies.

At his direction, funds from the Michael J. Connell Memorial Fund are to be used by the Bren School «as it may determine, with some preference to be given to utilizing such distributions in the area of watershed protection and productivity and protection of forest lands as being critical to our water supply.»

As such, water rights activists call for the preservation and protection of freshwater sources so that all people may enjoy access to safe, clean, and free drinking water supplies.

«The numbers of coal ash ponds and landfills that are contaminating water supplies continues to grow, yet nearby communities still do not have effective federal protection,» said Earthjustice attorney Lisa Evans.

No first aid kit or supply of drinking water can replace the protection of home insurance.