Sentences with phrase «require water systems»

The proposal would also require water systems to notify the state and property owners if test results show levels for contaminants above «notification levels» established by the health commissioner.

Cuomo wants to require water systems with fewer than 10,000 customers be tested for contaminants — including PFOA, the chemical found in Hooksick Falls — that the federal Environmental Protection Agency monitors but does not regulate.

«This will make New York state the first in the nation to require water systems across New York to test for emerging contaminants regardless of the size of the water system,» Hutton says.

Not exact matches

«On average, the amount of water required to produce one liter of biofuel is the same amount that's required to produce food for a person for one day,» he said, adding that the problem with first generation biofuels was that they were competing with food production systems in terms of water and land.

Open your mind and open a book, other than some several thousand year - old fairy tale about talking snakes, floods requiring more water than exists in the entire solar system to create, mythological heaven dwellers who stole men's wives, ful of numerology and suppossed «fulfilled prophesy».

Because these systems require no plant cooling water or heavy electrical services, the installation and maintenance costs are low and the ROI is high due to the increased productivity this technology can provide.

When this soil isn't treated with chemicals, it becomes a nutrient - dense base for plants to thrive into robust root systems that require less water.

With the rapidly escalating growth of AWS water stewardship we urgently require additional staff in the international team to support with the monitoring and evaluation of impacts and with facilitating participation in the AWS System.

These practices include steps to reduce source water use in cleaning and sanitation; minimize use of cleaning products and other chemicals; decrease the volume and strength of wastewater produced and associated energy required for treatment; minimize the water and energy needed for heating and cooling operations; and optimize the effectiveness of land application systems for wastewater treatment.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder works closely with local waterway managers to ascertain whether providing environmental flows are likely to have a significant effect — the volumes and flows required to disperse blooms or dilute hypoxic blackwater events are often beyond what the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder holds or what can be delivered in regulated systems.

Tomorrow the Senate will vote on a proposal to reduce the amount of water Queensland irrigators are required to put back into the Murray Darling River system.

The chemical - free system consumes significantly less electricity than traditional wastewater treatment technologies like aeration ponds, which require constant electricity to pump and circulate water.

«Restaurants can't survive without sufficient hot water and this project proved it's possible to have plenty of hot water on demand using less energy than required by a traditional water heating system.»

They are a two - step system and require a water proof cover.

The system provides two water qualities for specialty coffee and flash steamer applications, which means that only one filter system is required for all the back - of - house catering equipment typically found in a professional kitchen.

Currently, the EPA is required to test for unregulated contaminants in water systems serving more than 10,000 people.

«There's certain expertise that's required to be represented on the council, including some water system operators, expertise in environmental health and microbiology and engineering.»

«If testing were required in all of these cases, PFOA in the Village of Hoosick Falls water system would have been detected much earlier.

About 2.5 million New Yorkers get drinking water from systems that are not required to test for unregulated contaminants being monitored by the EPA.

The village water system in Hoosick Falls was not required to test for the organic and chemical compounds listed by the EPA.

The governor's proposal would require these small water systems to conduct tests once every three years for the unregulated contaminants listed by the EPA and for «emerging contaminants» that would be identified by the state Department of Health.

«Due to the extreme risk posed to the sick by Legionella bacteria, hospitals should be required to check their water systems frequently so we can prevent future outbreaks.»

Life during the next few years should get a bit easier for people in the Adirondacks and Catskills with the passage of a measure that should eventually clear the way for road and bridge improvements as well as new utility lines, municipal water systems and even bike paths, without requiring a constitutional amendment.

No other state that I'm aware of has required all public water systems, regardless of size, to undertake testing for emerging contaminants,» said Hutton.

«That includes this year's landmark achievements to fully fund the Environmental Protection Fund and the new law just signed to require schools statewide to test their drinking water systems for lead contamination.

Schools that use municipal water systems are not required to test at the tap, but those using private well systems are.

Specifically, Gratz encourages «construction of the Shaft 4 connection, which allows diversion of Delaware system water into the Catskill Aqueduct,» thereby introducing more clear water into the system that has required alum treatment.

Citing an aging water infrastructure across the state, DiNapoli in a new report said the system could require nearly $ 40 billion in repairs and upgrades over the next two decades.

He says he'll also improve the state's emergency fuel and water supplies and protect the subway system and other infrastructure from future floods, in what he says will be a massive effort that «requires immediate assistance on a grand scale.»

The PSC found that the company was only entitled to increase revenues to cover increases in local property taxes and required investments in the water system plus small increases in labor and other operating expenses.

Corrosion in Byron's essential water system had been discussed in plant meetings, and because testing the risers required repeated use of a crane to gain access, inspectors should have suspected something.

Year after year, as the rivers and streams have dwindled, the state's Department of Water Resources, which requires permits, has continued to issue them, allowing new groundwater wells, and not counting their withdrawals as part of a single system.

But such reactors still require the same electricity - generating, safety, and waste disposal systems as the hulking light - water reactors presently being built as well as identical rigorous licensing requirements, at least in the U.S. — and that may cost them.

The Solar System Habitable Zone One of the guiding tenets in the search for life as we know it (the only kind we can meaningfully speculate about) is that it requires water.

Generating electricity from solar - thermal energy, however, usually requires a large - scale system, with an array of mirrors that reflect and concentrate sunlight onto tanks or pipes filled with water or other liquids.

Most CSP systems require significant amounts of water, which has proven to be a challenge in desert regions of the U.S. where solar power is most attractive, while Stirling engines require none other than small amounts for cleaning the mirrors.

Dynamic pressure drops happen whenever there is a sudden change in velocity, for example when there are valve or pump failures, or sudden demands on the system, such as when large volumes of water are required for fighting a fire.

The cellulosic ethanol process we developed was unique because it did not require multiple processing steps and the use of expensive laboratory - modified enzymes, the ethanol bioprocessing system uses significantly less water and energy in ethanol production resulting in larger yields per ton of biomass.

This revolution requires conversion systems that produce hydrogen from water or rechargeable batteries that can store clean energy in cars.

However, turning this proof of concept experiment into a system that can be used in actual oil or water pipelines all over the world will require some more efforts in development.

A key feature of the new solvent system is that it does not require changes to existing DNA nanotechnology designs that were developed for water.

«Because they made the switch from saltwater to fresh, the Bandringa would have required a system to control their salinity levels in fresh water as well as saltwater,» says Sallan.

Although the system requires water to operate, the amount of liquid that is spent is lower compared to the environmental damage caused by the refrigerant gas and electricity used by traditional systems.

«No pesticide sprays are required and the plants» rhizomatous root system has proved to absorb fertilisers efficiently, so helping prevent seepage of nitrate into ground water.»

In addition to the prospect of developing systems in areas of impermeable rock, enhanced geothermal systems also would not require that water already be present underground.

The water - recovery system, set to be delivered to the ISS on a September 2008 shuttle mission, will be self - contained, which means the astronauts will not have to manually initiate the various steps required to make drinking water, Roman says.

In most cases, these guidelines require the incorporation of water quality treatment systems.»

Hydraulic fracturing processes, similar to those used in oil and gas production, also have been used in enhanced geothermal systems, but those processes have drawbacks due to the amount of water required, the potential toxicity of the chemicals used and the high costs of retrieving and treating the water.

This will require system innovations — to further reduce the use of resources such as water and minerals, to increase production per unit area, and to obtain the high - quality, healthy products that consumers want.

In the Hydrology and Earth System Sciences paper, the team focused on determining the water resources required to grow grain, the staple crop of the Roman civilisation, and how these resources were distributed within the Empire.