Sentences with phrase «threatened local water supplies»

It followed a two - year drought that severely threatened local water supplies.

These projects would have destroyed the corridor's wildlife habitat, threaten the local water supply, and limit public beach access while ignoring the reality that other similar developments in Puerto Rico had failed to bring the economic opportunities that had been promised.

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But all these countries have seasonal and local pressures on water supplies that threaten wetlands.

People in the area continue to act in ways that threaten the public water supply and local endangered species.

-- posing immediate health and safety risks to local residents, threatening downstream drinking water supplies, and degrading or destroying some of the most ecologically significant forest and aquatic habitats on the planet.

Prolonged warming could disrupt local agriculture, threaten water supplies and affect the risk of various diseases.

According to local complaints, the house has a broken sewage system and the owner has allegedly been using the kitchen sink as a toilet, threatening the area's water supply.