Sentences with phrase «taint water supplies»

(kellymom.com) Also, according to the World Health Organization, «a modest increase in breastfeeding rates could prevent up to 10 % of all deaths of children under five,» due, in part, to tainted water supplies, but also due to the immunity factors.

It highlighted five areas around the state — none in Western New York — where tainted water supplies were found, including in Hoosick Falls and on Long Island.

BEEKMANTOWN — Residents are continuing to await state approval of a plan that would remediate salt contamination issues that have tainted their water supplies.

The Rensselaer County village of Hoosick Falls, which has been grappling with a chemically - tainted water supply, can now begin flushing contaminated water lines after the installation of a temporary filtration system.

I had a particularly fascinating time interviewing Richard Wilson, a professor emeritus of physics at Harvard who has lately been studying risks associated with everything from nuclear power to Bangladesh's arsenic - tainted water supply.

This is the last paragraph Dr. Wilson writes in the web page you can get to from «nuclear power to Bangladesh's arsenic - tainted water supply.»

Not exact matches

Environmentalist groups and farmers are becoming allies in their concern for tainted and dwindling water supplies, chemical poisoning, urban encroachment and other issues.

It was launched in Pakistan in 1999, following a series of seminars organised by Nestlé PR company that suggested urban water supplies were contaminated and other bottled water tainted.

The Hoosic River runs through the village, which has become the epicenter of a public health crisis after researchers discovered that the public water supply was tainted with high levels of perfluorooctanoic acid, which is used to make Teflon.

Petersburgh has had private and public water supplies tainted with PFOA, a chemical used in manufacturing insulating and non-stick materials.

The fact sheet was published as the state revealed his week that those consuming tainted water from Hoosick Falls» municipal water supply had PFOA blood levels more than 30 times higher than the national average.

In its work for General Electric Co. through the years, the public relations firm owned by Mark Behan became entangled in a legal battle between GE and several river communities that filed federal lawsuits against the company when their water supplies were tainted by the PCBs dumped into the river from its plants in Fort Edward and Hudson Falls.

But when the federal government announced late last year that the town's water supply was tainted and dangerous to use, it was a blow of a very different sort.

ALBANY — Hoosick Falls residents who drank from the tainted municipal water supply have, on average, more than 30 times the national level of a toxic chemical in their blood, according to state health department data obtained by POLITICO.

ALBANY — The company suspected of tainting Hoosick Falls» drinking water supply with toxic chemicals should immediately disclose the full extent of the pollution it caused, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer said Monday.

Surface spills could taint soil and water, and «inadequate wastewater treatment» could leave water supplies polluted.

When Flint, Mich., started using its own river as a water supply, the city's drinking water became tainted with lead.

Recent news about tainted water in Flint, Michigan, and other parts of the country have called into question the safety of the nation's drinking water supply.

If the water supply itself is tainted or toxic, you can't change the quality of the water by changing how it's delivered.