Sentences with phrase «to contaminate water supplies»

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.

Advocates for the environment and victims of contaminated water supplies disagree.

«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.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection fined Chesapeake $ 900,000 for contaminating water supplies in Bradford County, a busy drilling area in the prolific Marcellus shale gas formation, the agency said on Tuesday.

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.

Campaigners in Scotland are calling for a full, independent investigation into allegations that wind farms are contaminating water supplies across large areas of Scotland.

According to the scientists, in looking at the issue nationally, the EPA failed to give due consideration to several cases in which fracking may have contaminated water supplies locally.

Contaminating a water supply goes beyond environmental considerations.

Vermont Governor Phil Scott recently signed legislation aimed at holding polluters accountable for contaminating water supplies with the chemical PFOA.

Senate Majority Leader John J. Flanagan (R - East Northport) said contaminated water supplies and infrastructure failures jeopardize public health and constrain the economy across the state.

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

In a long - awaited move designed to protect people from cancer, California on Thursday proposed a new health goal for chromium 6 in drinking water that is thousands of times lower than the amount contaminating some water supplies.

These poisons, which periodically and fatally contaminate the water supplies of wild and domestic animals, can also harm humans.

A Seattle suburb was making progress cleansing its E. coli - contaminated water supply through system - wide flushes and chlorine injections, a task made more urgent after the potentially deadly bacteria sickened a child, officials said on Tuesday.

But researchers are also compiling evidence that arsenic poses a health threat at far lower doses than in such highly contaminated water supplies.

News of the suspected attacks came as a study revealed that poor cybersecurity measures in the Netherlands water industry could let attackers contaminate water supplies or cut them off entirely, holding whole nations to ransom.

Are dandelions and flies such an impediment to our wellbeing that we are willing to risk poisoning our families, not to mention contaminating our water supply?

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

«The numbers of coal ash ponds and landfills that are contaminating water supplies continues to grow, yet nearby communities still do not have effective federal protection,» said Earthjustice attorney Lisa Evans.

«In a civilized, first world society, even the thought of contaminated water supplies or the environmental implications of waste and sewage spilling into the ground are unfathomable.

These critters can contaminate the water supply by moving into estuaries and rivers.

In May, Pennsylvania officials fined Chesapeake Energy $ 1 million for contaminating the water supplies of 16 families in Bradford County.

Perchlorate is a by - product of rocket fuel production that has contaminated the water supplies in areas throughout the nation.

But the advising scientists» critique stands to reignite the debate over how to regulate a practice that critics say could contaminate water supplies and exacerbate global warming.

We are transferring to future generations the problems of coping with an exhausted soil and contaminated water supply.

Most health care providers are not very concerned about sterilizing bottles, unless you use well water or your city is known to have a contaminated water supply, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).

Nitrates used in farming, and the excess not taken in by the crop itself, easily run - off and may seep into water tables, contaminating water supplies.

Most medicines shouldn't be flushed down the toilet or poured down the drain, as they could contaminate the water supply.

OPPONENT But pumping a cocktail of chemicals into the Earth can't be good - surely this will contaminate water supplies.

Citing recent instances of contaminated water supplies and what they call an assault on the environment by the Trump administration, they are now determined to change that.

«Communities throughout the state are struggling with the growing problems of contaminated water supplies, major infrastructure failures, and other threats that jeopardize public health and constrains the economy,» said Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican from Suffolk County.

Vermont leaders have announced a settlement with Saint - Gobain related to contaminated water supplies in the Bennington area.

Students at Hoosick Falls High School are calling on Governor Cuomo to clean up their contaminated water supply.

If modified plants escape into the natural environment, they could contaminate water supplies, irreversibly alter wild species, or even enter the human food chain, which nearly happened in 2002.

Its opponents are concerned that this and other, more toxic pollutants might be seeping up from fracking sites far below ground and contaminating water supplies.

«Lanzhou has shut down the contaminated water supply pipe and deployed activated carbon to absorb the benzene,» the government said in a statement.

Before 10,000 gallons of an obscure coal - processing chemical spilled into the Elk River near Charleston, W.Va., in January and contaminated water supplies for more than 300,000 residents, few people knew crude MCHM existed.

The Woburn residents contended that chemicals from the factories had contaminated their water supply and caused the leukemia.

Environmental groups say fracking can contaminate water supplies, but the industry has argued that it does not hurt the environment.

Mercury exposure is also ongoing from contaminated water supplies, commercial crops grown from seeds treated with mercurial fungicides, agricultural soil polluted with mercurial pesticides and fertilizers, and air contaminated from a variety of industrial sources, including coal - burning power plants and crematorium smokestacks, which spew mercury vapors from the amalgam fillings contained in corpses.

In a small town a group of people must try to survive when a contaminated water supply drives most of the people insane.

The town of Black Creek, named for the oil that contaminates the water supply, has made Mikkelsen and his brother welcome, but the men who supposedly run it are under the thumb of a ruthless villain named Delarue (Morgan).