Sentences with phrase «public water utilities»

There are now more than 150,000 public water utilities in the United States.

RALEIGH, N.C. — A public water utility studied what it was serving to its 200,000 North Carolina customers and found it contained multiple unregulated industrial chemicals with uncertain health effects, including some substances that university researchers didn't know existed, legislators learned Thursday.

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Advocacy group Food & Water Watch says private companies charge 59 percent more than public utilities, or $ 185 more per year, per household.

«Those pushing for net neutrality think the world would work better if the Internet was somehow magically transformed into a public utility, like a water or electricity company, with the FCC and state regulators setting rates, overseeing investment, and micromanaging relationships between providers and customers,» Downes says, adding the result would be devastating to the smooth functioning of ISP networks.

It, in essence, treats the internet as a public utility — that is, something everyone in America needs, like electricity or running water.

If utilities such as Water Corporation can't fulfill their primary responsibility to the public, maybe an alternative ownership model would be a better option.

The angry protestors are gathered outside of the office of Nevada's Public Utilities Commission, the regulatory body that sets rules for the state's electricity, gas, and water uUtilities Commission, the regulatory body that sets rules for the state's electricity, gas, and water utilitiesutilities.

Water Corporation is included in 2 lists - State Government Businesses and Utilities and Public Infrastructure.

With only 20 percent of the system working a month later, public utility companies can not restore regular water, internet, and phone service.

The Public Utilities and Regulatory Commission (PURC) last December announced hikes in tariffs of electricity and water by 59.2 % and 67.2 %, respectively.

One legislative leader is calling on the Erie County Water Authority to eliminate language that makes it possible for politically connected people with no public utility management credentials to serve as the agency's executive director.

Julio Rhymer, the executive director of the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority, quibbles with that, saying the public utility had long - established plans to bring in hundreds of utility workers after the storms but needed to phase in their arrival on the islands in an orderly fashion.

Article 316 bis second: Crimes of thefts from used materials and tools or those provided for use in the telecommunications, power generating and connecting, water, or sanitary drainage utilities that are established by the government, public authorities or organizations, or the public sector units, or those licensed or establishment as a public utility, shall be punished for with the penalty of imprisonment, if no aggravating condition of those prescribed in Articles 313 to 316 is fulfilled.

The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission's announcement of an increase in electricity and water tariffs by 59.2 % and 67.2 % respectively, forced the meeting between government and organized labor which demanded a reduction.

A water and sanitation expert, Patrick Apoya, has cautioned the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), against spearheading a planned project to construct 500 boreholes in various parts of the country.

Milwaukee County could avoid as much as $ 1.37 million in repair and replacement costs related to its water utility on the County Grounds by transferring a portion to the city of Wauwatosa, according to a Public Policy Forum report.

A coalition of groups including the New York Public Interest Research Group and Food & Water Watch announced Wednesday the launch of a campaign aimed at blocking a planned surcharge on utility bills that was a key component of the state's new Clean Energy Standard regulations.

According to a statement by the state's Commissioner for Public Utilities, Mr Deji Adesua, at the celebration of World Water Day on Wednesday in Ado Ekiti, the state capital.

Labour is effectively saying that Britain's civil servants will be able to renationalise the railways, water utilities, the National Grid, Royal Mail, create regional public energy companies, a National Education Service and a National Care Service, create a large National Investment Bank and regional development banks, build a million homes and abolish tuition fees - to name just a few - at the same time as managing Brexit negotiations and their fallout.

The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has increased electricity and water tariffs by 59.2 % and 67.2 % respectively ahead of the Christmas season.

«The problems may not simply be with who runs the [Water Authority] but may require a larger public policy discussion about the utility of an authority at all.

By Sean Ryan Public wastewater utilities argue they can not afford projects to satisfy new phosphorous rules for water quality that environmental groups are demanding.

Legislator Thomas Loughran of Amherst responded by calling on the Water Authority to eliminate job - description language that makes it possible for politically connected people with no public utility or business management credentials to get hired.

Good government and public policy advocates have taken withering looks at the water authority and other public utilities that have become frequent stops for political patronage appointees.

He wants to become executive director of the public utility, which supplies water to more than...

Erie County 5th District Legislator and Minority Leader Thomas A. Loughran (D - Amherst) has submitted a resolution calling on the Erie County Water Authority to eliminate language that makes it possible for people with no public utility management credentials to serve as the agency's executive director.

David Roberts oversees water rights and policy for the Salt River Project, one of the state's largest public water and power utilities, which is suing landowners over their groundwater wells.

These include the Water Replenishment District of Southern California, the Orange County Water District, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works, the Inland Empire Utilities District, the city of Los Angeles, and the city of Oxnard.

The researchers focused their global simulations on the U. S. and modeled the country's evolving economic activities in different geographic regions to determine the water requirements for five main sectors: thermoelectric cooling; public supply, such as for drinking water and other public utilities; industrial demand; mining; and irrigation.

And with wind and solar increasingly seen as viable commercial energy alternatives in the United States, investors and public utilities also seem more willing to literally test tidal energy's waters.

When Kempthorne first proposed opening up the land to uranium mining, several concerned parties — including dozens of elected officials, public utilities and Native American tribes — complained about potential threats to surface and ground water from such activities.

Beyond the benefits to individual homeowners, rainwater harvesting can also be good for the local community, as it reduces the erosion, flooding and pollution runoff associated with heavy rainfall, and lessens reliance on public water supplies, alleviating some of the burden on utilities.

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Like many public utilities, California Water has grown its dividend very slowly over its history.

Municipal Securities may be used for numerous public purposes, including construction of public facilities, such as airports, bridges, highways, housing, hospitals, mass transportation, schools, streets, water and sewer works, and gas and electric utilities.

«A public utilities project to improve the water system backfired when chlorine used to disinfect new lines ended up in about 200 homes in an area northeast of Lake Conway.

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