Sentences with phrase «school water systems»

It's unclear when local school water systems were last tested for lead.

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Land is still its largest component — and some 80 percent of «capital» gains in the U.S. economy are land - price gains Site values are increased by public investment in streets, water and sewer facilities and transportation hubs, in school systems, by zoning restrictions, by the general level of prosperity, and most of all, by whatever bankers will lend.

Until schools have water and power, the district's custodial and facilities staff can not start cleaning schools, assessing air conditioning systems or begin repairs.

The charity also supported local partners to rebuild schools, repair damaged water systems, help communities restore their means of making a living and prepare for future disasters.

CST Wastewater Solutions» customers to use the Smith & Loveless FAST system include Alcoa, Bechtel Pacific, Hooker Chemicals, CSIRO, Hunter District Water, BHP Wakefield Colliery, Kiama Municipal Council, Central Coast Grammar School, Blue Circle Southern Cement, Electrolytic Zinc, Lakeside Leisure Park, Blair Athol Coal, Dampier Salt and Berowra Waters Marina.

The older ones take summer school classes at Cal, study for the SAT's, and travel to Cambodia to build village water systems.

In MN, school kitchen staff use my ozonated water system to disinfect uneaten served whole fruits students.

Last week, Nolan said that the school district was granted a storm - water permit after it «improperly represented (to the village) that they had permission to use Park District property as part of their retention system.»

Current regulations already address the water issue, it is just being given some teeth in new regulation most likely because some school systems weren't following current guidance.

UNICEF and its partners are now planning the next stage of recovery: helping provincial authorities repair vital infrastructure, such as municipal water systems and battered schools.

The government and Mansanto are killing us and our children... The water is schools is poison as well, there are pesticides used on the grass, all these toxins eventually lead the immune system down a bad path..

Georgia Health News surveyed the state's 20 largest public school systems about their lead testing policies and found many differences in how school systems evaluated their water quality.

The EPA does not have jurisdiction over school systems except those few that maintain their own independent water supply.

6) Kids are not only fat because of what they are getting in school food systems, it is also because of them not getting enough water to stay hydrated.

The fund would be used to invest in roads, bridges, water systems, parks, and schools, but apparently not transit.

Before people filled the auditorium at Hoosick Falls Junior - Senior High School for a state Senate hearing chaired by Marchione on the Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh water crises and other water quality issues, Shaun Francis held a news conference to unveil a billboard critical of his opponent's response to the discovery of perfluorooctanoic acid, a suspected cancer - causing chemical, in both the village water system and wells in the village and surrounding town of Hoosick.

«This lack of oversight means the state's 2,700 small community water systems — including the Village of Hoosick Falls — as well as thousands of non-municipal entities, including businesses and schools, with their own water systems are not tested for unregulated contaminants.»

She has reported on controversies around discipline in charter schools, racial segregation in the New York City school system, and flaws in the city's method of testing for lead in water in schools.

High schoolers in Hoosick Falls say they are tired of the slow response by the adults in the community, and government, to the toxic substance PFOA which has infiltrated the village water system and made it unsafe to drink.

Following the devastation in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria, and months without sufficient electricity, water and supplies, the public school system on the island now faces potential manmade devastation: closures of almost 350 public schools.

In light of lead concerns at two elementary schools, the Ithaca City School System has turned off drinking water sources in all of its sSchool System has turned off drinking water sources in all of its schoolschool.

«We definitely need a much fairer tax code in New York state because right now the major challenge in New York state is how we're going to pay for our schools, our water systems, our infrastructure and just basic services the state is providing,» said Karen Scharff, the executive director of Citizen Action and a state co-chair of the Working Families Party.

The administration of H.E John Dramani Mahama has really brought us hope with the many infrastructural projects dotted across the length and breadth of the kingdom such as the various Community Day Senior High School projects at various stages of completion such the Sapeliga SHS, Binduri SHS and Garu SHS, the Tamme Irrigation Dam, the Garu District Hospital, the Bawku Town Water system, the massive rural Electrification Expansion projects etc We are also glad that the Eastern Corridor Fiber Optic Cable which extends to the Bawku was successfully laid awaiting the next phase.

The version of Clinton's stump speech that she delivered at Cohoes High School last night was touched with references for the regional and state audience — including a promise to work to improve water infrastructure so that communities like Hoosick Falls have systems that are «clean and pure.»

And when you can't pay for new schools, or water systems, or to even pave Main Street — you now know who to call.

Students from the Hoosick Falls school district held their own press conference in February to request a new water system, which they feel is exactly what the town needs to bounce back.

«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.

Parents at a high - performing public school in Brooklyn are protesting a city plan to change its admissions system, for fear it will water down the school's rigor.

These actions don't even begin to address the needs of child care providers or the thousands of undervalued state, local government and school employees - many work for much less than $ 15 per hour - who take care of our kids, maintain our roads, water and sewer systems and do a whole lot more necessary work.

These actions don't even begin to address the needs of child care providers or the thousands of undervalued local government and school employees - many work for much less than $ 15 per hour - who take care of our kids, maintain our roads, water and sewer systems and do a whole lot more necessary work.

«The filters are part of the proactive system Governor Cuomo had NYDEC install to filter the school's well water,» said Paul Baker, Superintendent of Building and Grounds.

Lead levels are elevated in water across the NYC school system, but poisoning rates have fallen consistently

The Governor also renewed his call for all Californians to conserve water, laid out the key elements of the state's long - term water plan and noted the work ahead to fight climate change and build on historic reforms to the state's school funding and criminal justice systems.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYDEC) has set up a proactive schedule to clean and inspect the water filtration system at Hoosick Falls Central School (HFCS).

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

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about issues regarding free college tuition at SUNY / CUNY schools, a teenager who fell down an open manhole into an upstate sewer system, and the impact of winter road salt on area lakes and water resources.

«We've got schools that need to serve kids in poverty, we've got water systems exploding,» he said.

On Wednesday, however, Dr. Zucker said that water filtration systems would be placed at schools and other community gathering places.

A research group led by Chengsi Pan, Postdoctoral Researcher, and Tsuyoshi Takata, NIMS Special Researcher, at the Global Research Center for Environment and Energy Based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN; Director - General: Kohei Uosaki) of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS; President: Sukekatsu Ushioda), and Kazunari Domen, a professor of the Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (President: Junichi Hamada) newly developed a water - splitting photocatalyst that is operable over a wider range of the visible light spectrum than before.

According to Heinz Valtin, a retired professor of physiology from Dartmouth Medical School who specialized in kidney research and spent 45 years studying the biological system that keeps the water in our bodies in balance, the answer is no.

The observed upward trend in associated infections is likely to continue, and aging water distribution systems might soon be an additional reservoir of costly multidrug resistance,» said lead study author Elena Naumova, Ph.D., professor at the Friedman School and Director of the Initiative for the Forecasting and Modeling of Infectious Disease at Tufts University.

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Through the construction of water supply systems in communities and rainwater harvesting systems in school compounds, Acqua for Life and Green Cross ensure community members, particularly women and children, have sustainable access to safe water.

Acqua for Life, launched in 2011, has in its first three years raised funds for the successful implementation of water pumps, wells and rainwater harvesting systems in more than 60 communities and schools in Ghana, Bolivia, Mexico and China, providing around 150 million litres of water per year.

Silver City Consolidated Schools, in New Mexico, got $ 357,500 under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to install a solar hot - water heating system and other energy - saving features.

Acqua for Life generates funds for GCI's Smart Water for Green Schools project, which has been installing water systems in schools and communities living in water poverty in Africa, Latin America and Asia since Water for Green Schools project, which has been installing water systems in schools and communities living in water poverty in Africa, Latin America and Asia sincSchools project, which has been installing water systems in schools and communities living in water poverty in Africa, Latin America and Asia since water systems in schools and communities living in water poverty in Africa, Latin America and Asia sincschools and communities living in water poverty in Africa, Latin America and Asia since water poverty in Africa, Latin America and Asia since 2010.

The school boasts a solar electricity system in addition to ample natural light, water - saving features, and indoor air - quality measures.

Your school should have a water systems risk assessment, which will give details of the necessary actions to minimise the risk, for example weekly flushing of showers.

One movement in education that has already begun linking schools directly to communities by engaging kids in building more sustainable environments through food, water, and energy is systems thinking — the process of understanding how things influence one another other within a whole.

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.