Sentences with phrase «rely on drinking water»

The contamination of groundwater is of major concern for those who live near drilling operations and rely on drinking water wells.

Not exact matches

The civilians in eastern Aleppo — one third of whom are children — are relying on poor quality water from wells which are potentially contaminated by fecal matter and unsafe to drink.

More than 300,000 people rely on the bayou for drinking water.

Not everyone knows that water in plane and train bathrooms is NOT SAFE FOR DRINKING, and you shouldn't rely on the airline's bottled water supply (which can run out if there's a delay on the tarmac).

As is the case with other unregulated contaminants, we've relied on the federal EPA's advisories and when they recommended against drinking the village water and lowered the advisory level for the chemical, we abided by that decision.

The surrounding community relies on this river water for bathing, drinking, and fishing.

For 20 years, both have relied on an equation to predict how much water they will need to drink, given the temperature and expected level of exertion.

Portable potable test One of the reasons that the U.N. relies on improved sources as a measure of drinking water access rather than actual safety is that the latter is much more difficult to assess than counting wells and spigots.

To determine the level of a particular pollutant in drinking water — which the EPA does before making a regulatory ruling on it — the agency relies on analytic testing methods so insensitive that they can not identify the contaminants at levels expected to cause health effects.

In two months the Big Apple will begin relying on both ultraviolet light and chlorination to rid its drinking water of cryptosporidium, giardia and other pathogens

And because local people rely on fishing and on river water for drinking, the human impacts of oil pollution could be especially severe.

Then, add to that reality the fact that nearly 400 million people rely, to some degree, on Himalayan snowpack and glacier melt to feed the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers which provide irrigation and drinking water for the heavily populated lands surrounding northern India.

And glaciers have been melting, losing their stores of freshwater — moisture that downstream communities rely on for drinking and watering crops.

The water that flows through it from the north recharges the aquifers the region's burgeoning cities rely on for drinking water.

Drinking a lot of water in the winter can be tough, so I definitely rely a lot more heavily on my herbal teas and warm water with lemon.

You don't have to rely on just the water you drink to meet your daily intake goals.

At one time people relied more on common sense when it came to drinking water in a race — dry mouth, fatigue, calculating how much might be needed based on temperature, humidity, race pace, and how many more miles remain.

If your urine is not a pale straw color, you are likely dehydrated; you should rely primarily on water and unsweetened sports drinks for hydration.

The houses we live in, the electrical appliances we use, the water we drink, the new products we use, medical and technological services we rely on, everything is influenced by the effects of engineers.

When walking your dog, try and provide clean drinking water instead of relying on standing bodies of water or natural water sources such as lakes or streams.

Small actions can turn into big solutions, and we believe the 24 million people in the United States who rely on this beautiful, massive resource for their drinking water, jobs and livelihoods want to be part of that wave of change.

It houses the largest proportion of global poor (30 %), around 24 % of the global population without access to electricity (304 million), about 30 % of the global population relying on solid biomass for cooking and 92 million without access to safe drinking water.

Roughly 1.7 billion people rely on the annual Indian summer monsoons for water to drink, grow crops, and raise livestock.

The study, which was featured in the August 9, 2010 issue of Nature magazine and later published in the peer - reviewed journal Environmental Science and Technology, raises serious doubts about the industry's contention that there is no need for tighter water - quality standards to keep mountaintop removal from contaminating drinking water relied on by communities downstream of the mines.

EPA officials said their agency is «acting under the law and using the best science available to protect water quality, wildlife and Appalachian communities who rely on clean waters for drinking, fishing and swimming.»

This goes across the gamut of identified sources of damages from sea level rise to impact on agriculture to drinking water stresses, especially for the billions in asia that rely on himalayan glaciers, to infectious disease to massive malevolent land use changes - think last year's Pakistani heat wave on steroids - to all the magnifying implications the resulting geopolitical conflict could trigger.

Drought and heavy rainfall events can make drinking water vulnerable to contamination and can ruin agriculture, leading to increases in incidents of water - borne infections and diseases like cholera, as well as malnutrition and hunger when damaged farms fail to provide enough crops for the people who rely on them.

He relied on a 1992 decision, Mattoon v. City of Pittsfield, by the 1st Circuit at Boston, which also found that the Safe Drinking Water Act precludes civil rights lawsuits resulting from water contaminatWater Act precludes civil rights lawsuits resulting from water contaminatwater contaminations.

Many of the islands have already reached the limits of drinking water supply and must rely on mobile or permanent desalination plants to meet demand.