Sentences with phrase «tainted water»

The US Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 40 000 such landfills now taint water supplies across the nation.

Researchers have found that E. coli can recover uranium from tainted waters when working alongside inositol phosphate.

Let's ALL drink tainted water compliments of Governor 1 %.

Microbes in the news Puerto Rico reports 76 cases of deadly bacteria caused by tainted water — CNN Wire — KFOR

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ALBANY — At least two residents of a tiny upstate village with tainted water have 50 times the national average of a toxic chemical in their blood.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee holds a hearing on the lead - tainted water crisis in Flint, Mich..

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.

But perusing newspapers from towns where fracking is going on reveals how the issue refuses to die, with headlines like «Fears of Tainted Water Well Up in Colorado,» «Collateral Damage: Residents Fear Murky Effects of Energy Boom,» and «Worker Believes Cancer Caused by Fracking Fluids» appearing regularly.

«The fact that we're commercializing our IP in the U.S.... left Canadian licensed producers reluctant (to talk) until there was clarity that they weren't tainting the water, so to speak,» said Lustig.

The panel's work included examining the levels of PFOA in the blood of those who consumed the contaminated water or were exposed to PFOA in other ways, and also researching their health issues in connection with how much tainted water they may have consumed over time.

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.

Mothers spoke of their guilt over feeding their children tainted water; others cited lack of information.

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.

It is the first comprehensive look at the PFOA blood levels among those people who live or had lived in the Rensselaer County village and drank tainted water over an unknown period.

To allow our kids to continue drinking lead tainted water?

Solar stills can make tainted water or seawater fit to drink.

The Fukushima plant is crowded with 10 - meter - tall tanks storing tainted water used to cool melted nuclear fuel masses and groundwater that infiltrated the site — some 750,000 tons in all.

Groundwater from deep «tube wells» has been widely used for drinking water in Bangladesh since the 1970s, but it has emerged more recently that naturally occurring arsenic taints the water in many of the country's 10 million wells.

Although solid wastes from all sorts of experiments have been sealed in a landfill, certain liquids, mostly chlorinated solvents, still taint the water that runs under the site.

(Live toads may still be unlikely to taint water because they typically release their toxins only under duress.)

Then, when heavy rain falls, tainted water slides into rivers rather than seeping into underground aquifers.

Tensions in the board room are at an all - time high, especially with back room deals and bribery tainting the water.

«If Buffalo had tainted water like Flint, Mich., and someone wanted to show us how to clean it up, wouldn't everyone rush to provide a forum?

The Los Angeles Unified School District has a multimillion - dollar project to fix or shut down tainted water fountains.

Some paragraphs or images brim with the emotional power of the grief of a mother who lost a child to leukemia in a suburb where industrial effluent once tainted the water.

Our wastewater systems combine stormwater, greywater, and even clean water (such as when we inadvertently let potable water run right down the drain without using it for some purpose) with the sewage from our toilets, when we could actually design and implement systems that would segregate the slightly tainted water (greywater and stormwater) from that which comes from toilets.

Tainted water pours into a containment pond in a Unity field processing facility in what is now South Sudan, where there are concerns about the environmental damage being caused by the oil industry.

The firm also gets the nod in highly contentious matters, with Ontario's attorney general having retained senior partner Brian Brock to manage insurance claims flowing from the Walkerton, Ont., tainted water scandal.

Obtained a favorable jury verdict in a case brought against a fast food franchise by customer who claimed he lost his sense of taste from tainted water at the restaurant.

Winkler has been involved in some of the largest and most complex class action cases in Canada, including the Walkerton tainted water case, the Hepatitis C class action, and the Indian residential school issue.

«A much more concrete problem is also visible: the fact that so much — yet not enough — is known about who is affected by tainted water, where the problems lie, and how extensive the problem is,» noted Rosner, who is also Ronald H. Lauterstein professor of Sociomedical Sciences and co-author of the 2013 book Lead Wars.

Why it's happening: Consumers have been increasingly aware of hazardous indoor environments over the last few years, but news of the lead - tainted water crisis in Flint, Mich., raised awareness to a nationwide level in 2016.

Mix that formula with tainted water (found in 28 states) and baby gets a double dose of perchlorate which is known to interfere with the thyroid hormones essential for brain development.

The first notice many residents received about tainted water was on their water bills, which many have said they didn't even notice.

These new data suggest that sea salt may be dragging microplastics from tainted water to dinner tables, the scientists conclude.

Cholera outbreaks can be contained if medical workers can trace the source of tainted water — but to do that, they need to know where the people who are affected live.

It's theoretically possible, though unproven, that some of the tainted water and dangerous gases might travel through deep underground crevices to unexpected places, such as the aquifers used for private wells and community water supplies.

Four more officials in Flint, Michigan were criminally charged in the state attorney general's ongoing investigation in the city's lead - tainted water that currently is still unsafe to drink.

Having a baby born into diarrhea - tainted waters is even more disgusting than the usual toilet bowl of water birth.

Some of the PFOA - tainted water will end up in the nearby Hoosic River, state officials acknowledge.

Why, exactly, did Cuomo's environmental agency ignore federal guidance and wait nearly a year and a half to warn residents about the perfluorooctanoic acid (or PFOA) tainting their water?

The EPA had the authority and information to issue an emergency order protecting residents of Flint, Mich., from lead - tainted water a full seven months before it did so, an EPA internal investigation has concluded.

The governor yesterday sent a state Department of Financial Services Mobile Command Center to Hoosick Falls to help homeowners concerned about their mortgages in the wake of revelations regarding the area's tainted water.

«I saw a whole new side of him with the water crisis, the tainted water here in Newburgh and Hoosick Falls.

State and local officials have defended their handling of the toxic pollution, including waiting more than 15 months to warn residents in Hoosick Falls to stop drinking the tainted water.