Sentences with phrase «public water systems from»

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«But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh - water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?»

His accomplishments in his island paradise service to the crown (1846 - 54) range from establishing the postal system, creating the first library and public education system on the island, to having piped water delivered to Port of Spain, the capital.

In their letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos and DOH Commissioner Howard Zucker note that public water systems that serve less than 10,000 people are exempt from the agency's Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule program.

Data on lead in tap water from public water systems may be available on the Internet from your local water authority.

Officials in Vermont, New Hampshire and New York are expanding their efforts to find out how much of a potentially toxic chemical ended up in drinking water, from private wells to public water systems.

«We will continue to advance the latest treatment technologies to ensure our public drinking water systems are safeguarded from these unregulated chemicals that threaten the health of citizens and the environment,» Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said in a news release announcing the approval of the Suffolk system.

«They also benefit from expensive city services, like fire and police protection; public works like snow removal, permitting and code inspections for construction projects; and access to our quality clean water system,» Miner said.

• Many public water systems draw all or part of their supply from groundwater, so protecting the resource protects the public water supply and impacts treatment costs.

New York State officials are continuing to test public and private wells in the Rensselaer County community of Hoosick Falls as the village is beginning to flush contaminants from its water system.

Should you drink from a private drinking water well instead of a local public water system, ensure that you have your water safety frequently checked.

Politicians, educators, and parents, long frustrated with the state of public education in New Orleans, suddenly had the opportunity, as the waters receded, to build, almost from scratch, a new school system.

Take, for example, his 2008 Public Art Fund commission The New York City Waterfall that absorbed water from the East River, escalated it ten stories above the surface and poured it back within a system built under the Brooklyn Bridge, inserting a man - made waterfall into the concrete jungle.

And through conversations with others in the growing climate justice movement, I began to see all kinds of ways that climate change could become a catalyzing force for positive change — how it could be the best argument progressives have ever had to demand the rebuilding and reviving of local economies; to reclaim our democracies from corrosive corporate influence; to block harmful new free trade deals and rewrite old ones; to invest in starving public infrastructure like mass transit and affordable housing; to take back ownership of essential services like energy and water; to remake our sick agricultural system into something much healthier; to open borders to migrants whose displacement is linked to climate impacts; to finally respect Indigenous land rights — all of which would help to end grotesque levels of inequality within our nations and between them.

From cafeteria refrigerators, to water coolers, to air conditioning systems for office buildings, to motor vehicle air conditioners, there are a wide range of products and appliances that public institutions consume that may contain HFCs.

«I believe that bottled water is a symptom of a larger set of issues: the long - term decay of our public water systems, inequitable access to safe water around the world, our susceptibility to advertising and marketing, and a society trained from birth the buy, consume, and throw away,» writes Gleick.

Gubernatorial candidates make a host of promises: pipelines from the Great Lakes; water desalination plants; return to public ownership of previously privatized water systems; bringing in experts from the US West, formation of water resources planning councils, and more.

Chris Spesia has also worked on closing the purchase of sewer and water systems from public and private entities and recently handled the purchase of a water system serving 44,000 residents.

In this case while Facebook attempted to throw water on this crisis by ceremonially banishing Cambridge Analytica from its system, the longstanding pattern of abuse remains, and is perhaps now, finally, awareness of that is reaching critical mass with the public:

A generator provides electricity and there's no central plumbing (to collect water from the local river and have it filtered and chlorinated, Wiren had to become a federally certified public water system operator).