Peconic Estuary Program director Alison Branco said most of the time when she talks to farmers, they want to do the right
thing for water quality because they all live in the area with their families, but for many, implementing all the practices that affect water quality is just «prohibitively expensive»
Not exact matches
«Governor if you want to run
for president, having
water contamination in New York, with some of the best
water quality in the country, not a good
thing,» Avella said.Multiple news sources, including public radio, have reported that Cuomo was soon to permit fracking on a limited basis in communities that desire fracking.
«Governor if you want to run
for president, having
water contamination in New York, with some of the best
water quality in the country, not a good
thing,» Avella said.
«That's one of the unusual aspects
for our sector, is that land is used
for multiple
things — agriculture, forestry, and ecosystem services, including
water quality and wildlife.
Making sure the
quality of your liquid intake is up to par by ensuring you're predominantly drinking
water is one of the best
things you can do
for your health and waistline.
- our almost - total inability as a species to calculate said risks, and what that deficiency means
for the rest of the list - ocean degradation and ecosystem collapse, i.e. losing the
things that we rely on, as well as causing irrevocable harm to a world we can't just create anew - rising GHG levels -
water quality and availability across the globe - ensuring our communications networks are sustainable, which probably falls under the wider umbrella of energy - the fact that we are still unable to provide basic food, shelter, medicine and education to billions as it is, without the additional stresses of what the future may bring
The 2012 budget cut funding
for the measure of industrial emissions, closed an oil spill monitoring facility in British Columbia and a global
water quality monitoring centre in Ontario, slashed funding
for atmospheric research — resulting, among other
things, in the partial closure of a vital research station in the High Arctic — and killed the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, which had been created by the Mulroney government.
But there are a number of cases where farming can actually be a good
thing —
for water quality, the health of the fish or seafood in question, and the aquatic environment as a whole.
As Christine McEntee, president of the American Geophysical Union, explained here, NASA's Earth programs have been used
for things like: confronting the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, monitoring dangerous algal blooms that threaten coastal communities, assessing air
quality and
water availability, predicting floods, responding to earthquakes, and tracking tornadoes and hurricanes.
Land degradation is the decline in soil,
water, and vegetation
quality - the very
things we depend on
for life.
They routinely inspect ships
for cleanliness, repair, food preparation,
water quality, pest management and other
things.