Sentences with phrase «safeguarding drinking water supplies»

Basil Seggos, DEC commissioner, said the money acquired through the settlement with Akzo Nobel will play a significant role in safeguarding drinking water supplies in this county of a little more than 65,000 residents.

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For decades, however, efforts to safeguard drinking water were hampered because no one had an accurate sense of the full range of contaminants in the water supply, nor of the geographic extent of the pollution.

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.