Sentences with phrase «to contaminate water»

Your pet may have been drinking, swimming, or walking through contaminated water.

Currently, BPA - contaminated water such as industrial waste or landfill runoff may or may not be treated before it's released into the environment or to wastewater treatment plants.

We made our coffee with the uranium contaminated water.

How a floating pool could help filter this city's contaminated waters so residents can once again enjoy them.

It can also be transmitted through contaminated water or food.

Mind you, this fact - based drama about the 1982 lawsuit accusing corporate giants W.R. Grace and Beatrice Foods of contaminating the waters of Woburn, Mass., does have a pretty cool scene of a lake on fire — its dark, poisoned surface bursting into flame when a firecracker is accidentally tossed in.

For instance, many municipalities or states require some type of backflow protection to prevent non-potable water from contaminating the water supply in case of a drop in local water pressure.

«This major investment will ensure that Auburn and Owasco residents continue to have access to clean drinking water and will prevent harmful algal toxins from contaminating the water supply,» Cuomo said.

Often, dogs contract the disease by swimming in stagnant water or drinking contaminated water in puddles.

Her return to the Capital Region this week is focused on the Rensselaer County community where residents continued drinking contaminated water for more than a year after health officials and elected leaders learned about the elevated levels of the dangerous chemical.

Lots of residents in mining communities suffer greatly from various kinds of cancer, skin infections and other related health problems as a result of the use of contaminated water for basic necessities.

Giardia can also be transmitted from infected pets to humans, as well as from contaminated water sources.

He said such pollution can lead to unclean drinking water, an unhealthy food supply through fish consumption and the flow of contaminated water into smaller waterways.

Recreational water illnesses spread when a child comes in contact with contaminated water in pools, lakes, hot tubs, water parks, and beaches.

Or, for that matter, by ensuring that we're protecting our water through the Department of Environmental and Planning and its environmental planning and its environmental compliance division to ensure that people are not contaminating our water supplies by putting what would be considered harmful chemicals into the water.

Typhoid can also be spread by flies carrying the disease or by using contaminated water for cleaning purposes.

But the lion's share of people who experience traveler's diarrhea can thank a strain of E. coli bacteria called Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) that is the most common cause of diarrhea in travelers to the Caribbean and Latin America, including Mexico, and is typically found in food that is not adequately cooked as well as contaminated water and ice.

The women she was working with objected, accusing her of contaminating the water because she was a Christian.

The scientists estimated that the amount of contaminated water flowing into the ocean from this brackish groundwater source below the sandy beaches is as large as the input from two other known sources: ongoing releases and runoff from the nuclear power plant site itself, and outflow from rivers that continue to carry cesium from the fallout on land in 2011 to the ocean on river - borne particles.

ICICI Lombard General Insurance also shared the report of increasing number of claims, majorly related to health hazards arising from consuming contaminated water and breathing in the polluted environment.

The disks make for a durable and lightweight platform and they can spin quickly so when contaminated water hits the device, the water spreads out into a thin film that light can easily pass through and then the pollutants are quickly broken down.

Also on hand were residents from Dimock, Pa., a community where drilling operations have been blamed for contaminating water wells and having other deleterious effects on the environment — claims that local drillers either deny or claim are overblown.

Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority initially labelled the incident a level 1 event (known as an «anomaly») on the International Nuclear Event Scale, but yesterday upgraded it to level 3 («serious incident»), citing the large amount of contaminated water leaked and the fact that a safety buffer was not available for the water tank in question.

«If Governor Cuomo gives the green light for Fracking, does he have a plan on how to deal with cleaning up contaminated water systems like those we saw last week in Pennsylvania?»

Many people and dogs contact the Leptospira bacteria by drinking or swimming in contaminated water while camping or engaging in outdoor water sports.

And employer health - care costs climb, as extreme hot and cold spells trigger illness — combined with potentially contaminated water sources.

In Signs, Bo is perpetually paranoid about contaminated water which later on — as it does in The Last Airbender — literally becomes weaponized.

Deep drilling for seams of underground gas deposits rely on chemicals used in «fracking fluids,» which contaminate water sources when they leak.

Veterans who say they were tainted by contaminated water at a Marine base are being denied government disability funds.

It is allowing Entergy to leak radioactively contaminated water from Indoan Point as long as that leakage dies not kill people.

And the exhibit plays to local concerns over contaminated water supplies, fracking - induced earthquakes, methane leaks, noise, dust and dirt.

Diseases transmitted via contaminated water include diarrhea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid and hepatitis A. Worldwide, diarrheal diseases are the second leading cause of death — after pneumonia — for children under the age of five.

Pups tend to contract the parasite by drinking from mud puddles or other contaminated water sources.

Dogs become infected by ingesting contaminated water, food or feces.

The Environmental Protection Agency has described Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal as «one of the nation's most extensively contaminated water bodies.»

You don't have to worry about us funding private prisons, fracking, oil drilling, contaminated water pipes, or supporting idiotic political candidates.

Inferior sanitary conditions, lack of refrigeration and contaminated water mixed with formula all affect bottle - feeding in underdeveloped nations.

Meanwhile, Nixon, an actress, activist and Cuomo's Democratic primary opponent, paid a visit to Hoosick Falls, where she ripped into the governor's handling of the local contaminated water crisis.

Risk factors for dogs include contaminated water and contact with cattle, rats or raccoon urine.

They have been forced to pump low - level radioactive water, left by the tsunami, back into the sea in order to free up storage capacity for highly contaminated water from reactors.

More on the Mayflower, Arkansas oil spill Contaminated water pumped into Lake Conway Latest in Exxon oil spill reveals AG hired firm with oil industry ties Exxon pipeline rupture is 22 feet long, indicating immense pressure, possible criminal negligence.

Whether this small group of patients became ill after inhaling contaminated water in a Flint home can be assessed by more detailed analysis.

Swimmers are also at risk, but only if contaminated water gets into an open cut or wound.

The eggs are usually found in contaminated water on grass or in the soil, or other contaminated environments.

Studies confirm fracking is safe for groundwater, yet the Left falsely asserts fracking contaminates water supplies.

Oceans, rivers and fresh groundwater sources are typically monitored for radioactivity following a nuclear accident, but several years following the disaster, those weren't the most contaminated water sources.

Company employees (often dressed like health - care workers) went to hospitals and health clinics to counsel women on formula use — ignoring the proven advantages of breast milk, formula's astronomical cost for Third World families and the fact that many women had only contaminated water for preparing formula, thus starkly increasing a baby's risk of contracting life - threatening diarrhea.

«Retrograde actions by the Trump administration — backtracking on COP 21, deregulating Fossil Fuels, rolling back environmental protections — will lead to many Superstorms like Sandy, more contaminated water like Flint and Hoosick Falls, worsening Asthma and respiratory problems, further poisoning the lungs of our Bronx babies,» said Judy Sheridan - Gonzalez, the president of the New York State Nurses Associations.