Sentences with phrase «to contaminate drinking water»

1.8 million people die every year from contaminated drinking water....

And people traveling to regions with contaminated drinking water should not leave home without it.

A boil water notice is issued to protect consumers from potentially contaminated drinking water.

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Cynthia Nixon tore into Gov. Cuomo on Wednesday over the state's handling of contaminated drinking water in upstate Hoosick Falls.

Impoundments are notoriously leaky, contaminating drinking water supplies in many communities, and are also known to fail completely.

Dooley said cases of contaminated drinking water occur, like that found in Dimmock, Pa., where home owner can set well drinking water on fire, are caused when well bores are not properly sealed, allowing lighter - than - air methane gas to rise through wells, fissures in rock and into drinking wells.

In the U.S., the company paid out $ 105 million to settle a class - action lawsuit for contaminating the drinking water for over 50 million citizens with its «gender - bending» herbicide Atrazine.

To date, more than three dozen lawsuits and 10 class actions have focused on contaminated drinking water from fracking operations in Colorado, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas.

This could impact the compound's environmental mobility and its likelihood for contaminating a drinking water aquifer, Borch said.

In a study released in May 2012 an independent scientist confirmed that fracking contaminated a drinking water source east of the town of Pavillion, Wyoming, supporting the findings in a draft EPA report published in December 2011.

Two of the most common sources of lead exposure in children include (1) paint dust from chipped or peeling lead paint and / or home renovation (may be present in any home built prior to 1978) and (2) lead contaminated drinking water from lead water pipes or lead solder.

Polluted runoff from both rural and urban lands increases erosion and puts public health at risk by contaminating drinking water supplies.

Environmentalists are worried, though, about contaminated drinking water, and earth tremors - but perhaps those are the least of the dangers.

Gas drilling contaminates drinking water Drilling for shale gas may pose a safety hazard if there are water wells nearby.

«It is no longer dissolved in the groundwater and therefore can't contaminate drinking water brought to the surface.»

In a 2000 case that wasn't caused by injection but brought important lessons about how fluids could move underground, hydrogeologists concluded that bacteria - polluted water migrated horizontally underground for several thousand feet in just 26 hours, contaminating a drinking water well in Walkerton, Ontario, and sickening thousands of residents.

, raises serious doubts about the industry's contention that there is no need for tighter water - quality standards to keep mountaintop removal from contaminating drinking water relied on by communities downstream of the mines.

Each day seems to bring more pesticide spills and injuries, more poisoned food, more contaminated drinking water, more dead zones and more residues on our food.

We have radioactive ground water at Indian Point nuclear plant and now contaminated drinking water in one of our towns.

Iris Marie Bloom, a Saugerties resident, said risks from pipelines include a potential to contaminate drinking water like a recent incident in Montana.

«In addition, no one should flush medications down the toilet, thereby contaminating our drinking water supply, or leave them in their medicine cabinet where they could be stolen.

Last year, McLaughlin was thrust into the middle of a fight for state resources for Hoosick Falls, a mill village close to the Vermont border, after a chemical was found to be contaminating the drinking water there.

Fracking doesn't appear to be allowing methane to seriously contaminate drinking water in Pennsylvania, a new study finds — contrary to some earlier, much publicized research that suggested a stronger link.

Arsenic, benzene, and other mining wastes contaminate the drinking water in many areas, which may be why Appalachia's cancer rates are abnormally high.

Arsenic contaminates drinking water the world over, entering from both naturally occurring deposits and industrial activities.

However, because it is easily preventable by filtering contaminated drinking water, this worm may be the next human pathogen to be eradicated.

All chickens exposed to contaminated drinking water survived, and no virus was detected in the organs collected during the necropsies.

The EPA has determined that C8 contaminated the drinking water for more than 6.5 million people in 27 different states.

Last Friday, Freedom Industries, the chemical company responsible for the chemical leak which contaminated drinking water in West Virginia, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Why, for example, are outbreaks caused by contaminated drinking water [25] not more common, given the number of free - roaming cats in the environment?

Infected poultry can everywhere contaminate the drinking water.

To see a map of PFC - contaminated drinking water sites in the U.S. and to read the report in its entirety, click over to The Intercept.

Without federal standards to safeguard our water, those plants will keep on sending toxic sludge into rivers and streams, where it threatens swimmers and boaters and anglers, poisons wildlife, wrecks ecosystems, and could even contaminate drinking water.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Pennsylvania regulators levied a record fine for contaminating drinking water against major natural gas producer Chesapeake Energy, a move that threatens to intensify a fierce debate over drilling for natural gas in the state.

Fracking also poses other hazards, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council, which warns that besides contaminating drinking water with toxic and carcinogenic chemicals, fracking could trigger earthquakes, poison livestock, and overburden wastewater systems.

California's Central Valley and New York's Suffolk County have the shared problem of nitrate contaminated drinking water as shown in two separate studies.

Rod's environmental practice is broad ranging, and includes representing families in cases involving contaminated drinking water, as well as representing businesses involved in cleanup actions ordered by regulatory authorities.

November 1, 2013 - A number of lawsuits have been filed against DuPont Co. alleging the chemical giant knowingly contaminated drinking water supplies with C8 used in its West Virginia plant.

In particular, children born to mothers exposed to solvent - contaminated drinking water face an elevated risk of reproductive problems.

The Associated Press (7/19/13) reports: «A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, the Department of Energy -LSB-...]

Opposition to fracking has arisen mostly out of fear that the technique could potentially contaminate drinking water supplies.

Lead contaminates drinking water.

But perhaps the most notorious Pennsylvania contamination case was in the northeastern part of the state, in rural Dimock Township, where natural gas was found in early 2009 to have contaminated the drinking water wells of 14 homes.

There's no evidence — zero, zilch, nada — that fracking contaminates drinking water.

The study, which was featured in the August 9, 2010 issue of Nature magazine and later published in the peer - reviewed journal Environmental Science and Technology, raises serious doubts about the industry's contention that there is no need for tighter water - quality standards to keep mountaintop removal from contaminating drinking water relied on by communities downstream of the mines.

Carbon dioxide emissions from power plants could be put to good use, preventing fracking chemicals from contaminating drinking water supplies.

The voices of the thousands of Appalachians living with contaminated drinking water have finally been amplified over the past several days with a long - overdue announcement about halting mountaintop removal permits from the EPA and a widely - discussed New York Times story on Sunday about the devastating effects of coal - tainted water.

Current prices for conventionally grown foods do not reflect the costs of federal subsidies to conventional agriculture, the cost of contaminated drinking water, loss of wildlife habitat and soil erosion, or the cost of the disposal and clean up of hazardous wastes generated by the manufacturing of pesticides.