Sentences with phrase «threatening drinking water supplies»

(Witness the 1 - in -100-year drought in the southeastern US, which has been threatening drinking water supplies in Georgia and other states.)

And 400 out of 442 glaciers being monitored worldwide are retreating at a rapid rate, thus eventually threatening the drinking water supplies of millions of people.

It would address the decades - old issue of septic tanks on Long Island that threaten drinking water supplies and surface waters, according to a Senate report released last year after a series of public hearings chaired by Sen. Kemp Hannon (R - Garden City).

Officials cite environmental and climate concerns, but studies show safe hydraulic fracturing doesn't threaten drinking water supplies, and cleaner - burning natural gas is the leading reason U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation are at their lowest levels in nearly 30 years.

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SHAWNIGAN LAKE — New Democrat MLA for Cowichan Valley, Bill Routley, issued the following statement on the ongoing threat to the drinking water supply at Shawnigan Lake: «The people in Shawnigan Lake and across B.C. know that threatening any community's drinking...

As it stood, the pipeline would be only a mile from their reservation, so if it leaks, which pipelines often do, it would threaten their supply of drinking water, and could possibly disrupt their sacred burial grounds.

New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio warns that fracking could threaten drinking water and food supplies that might be contaminated by the gas drilling.

A group of coalfield citizens traveled to Washington, D.C., during the March on Blair Mountain to renew their call for the end of mountaintop removal mining, a devastating coal mining practice that is destroying their communities, contaminating their drinking water supplies, and threatening the health and lives of many Appalachians.

-- 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.

Rising salt water is creeping through the porous rock underlying much of the state and into freshwater aquifers, threatening the drinking supply for millions of Americans.

In fact, he says, the oil sands, combined with Alberta's growing mania for extracting natural gas from coal seams by injecting toxic chemicals into the ground — thereby poisoning some of the dwindling supply of drinking water — threaten to create a parched, deforested, polluted wasteland.

Environmental groups such as the Sierra Club say fracking in New York threatens drinking water sources, including the reservoir that supplies New York City with 1.3 billion gallons (4.9 billion liters) a day.

She has produced a graphic to explain how septic tanks function, created an animation of how manure threatens water supplies, written how genetic engineering can remove the horns of cattle and reported how a couple coped without access to a safe supply of drinking water.