Sentences with phrase «water crisis as»

Kevin Winter, a lecturer in Environmental and Geographical Sciences at the University of Cape Town, emphasises the need for new ways of thinking, explaining that: «we shouldn't see the current water crisis as a temporary phenomenon that will resolve in a year or two.

Bilal Tawwab, the superintendent of schools in Flint, Mich., refuses to use the city's lead - water crisis as an excuse from keeping his team of educators focused on improving student achievement in a long - struggling school district.

Government accused of ignoring increasingly severe water crisis as it gives green light to more coal plants in bid to tackle electricity shortages

The report ranked this impending water crisis as the most dangerous risk facing our civilisation, followed by fast - spreading pandemics.

«Poisoned Water» takes a thorough look behind the headlines to give viewers insight both into the environmental and human costs of the Flint water crisis as well as how public officials actively hid the danger thereby eroding the public trust.

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Now a thriving local startup, Pipeguard, which was founded by a small team of MIT students, could keep as much as 20 percent of the world's drinking water supply from getting lost — and prevent global crises like the catastrophic water shortage in South Africa.

So a water crisis is rated both as the biggest global risk and the biggest opportunity for being solved.

In Puerto Rico and the USVI, the outages have led to ongoing health and environmental crises as idled sanitation systems have forced some to drink from contaminated wells and other water sources.

The working group has been urging governments, companies and other stakeholders to increase the role Christian and other faith - based organisations have in tackling humanitarian crises such as lack of food, water or sanitation, as well as civil wars, religious persecution or natural disasters.

As the crisis in Fallujah unfolded — as we brought food and water to thousands of displaced families — we knew that preemptive love meant going to the detainment compounds, toAs the crisis in Fallujah unfolded — as we brought food and water to thousands of displaced families — we knew that preemptive love meant going to the detainment compounds, toas we brought food and water to thousands of displaced families — we knew that preemptive love meant going to the detainment compounds, too.

A Christian in Cape Town, South Africa, has pleaded for prayers as a water crisis in the country's second largest city has reached a dire level.

A Christian in Cape Town, South Africa, has pleaded for prayers as a water crisis in the country's second... More

If Havel is right that we are in a crisis of responsibility and identity, then Christians can and should turn to the rich creation symbolism within their own tradition, suffused as it is with imagery of water, air, sky, and earth.

In 1984, he enlisted a small group of farmers to dig wide, shallow wells (about 26 ft. / 8 m in diameter) for each other in his home province of Uva, which has suffered a prolonged and severe water crisis since the British Empire ordered its soldiers to destroy all its reservoirs — as well as chop down every fruit - bearing tree and kill all men aged 18 and over — in retaliation for the Uva — Wellassa Uprising of 1817 — 1818.

As a result of deforestation, consequent erosion and a breakdown in the water cycle, crisis point was reached in 1990 when it was realised that 14000 km2 was suffering extreme ecological degradation.

If Britain is to emerge from this dreadful crisis, business needs access to finance, just as plants need water — and the banks aren't supplying it.

The Ministry says it has been able to provide enough water to the areas affected by the shortage as they look to deal with the drought which has caused the crisis.

Well, Zucker is currently being trotted out as the credible voice of public health in response to the water contamination crisis in Hoosick Falls.

As Lake Ontario's waters slowly recede and communities recover from months of flooding, the conversation will inevitably shift toward preventing a similar crisis in the coming years.

By Jesse McKinley ALBANY — For the second time in two weeks, New York State Department of Health officials sought to blame the Environmental Protection Agency for a contaminated water crisis in upstate New York, saying on Wednesday that they were confused and hamstrung by changing federal standards on perfluorooctanoic acid, a toxic chemical known as PFOA.

Klein announced the proposal as part of a report the IDC released comparing lead - paint problems at NYCHA to the crisis with Flint, Mich.'s water supply.

The state Health Department refused to caution residents of Hoosick Falls that their water contained levels of toxic chemicals considered unsafe by the federal government for more than a year, even as evidence mounted that a serious health crisis could be unfolding.

City officials are glad to know that 120 leaks in its water system have been identified and can be repaired, reducing the amount of water being lost as Newburgh continues to face its contamination crisis.

Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, has been criticized for what some saw as a lax response to the crisis, visiting the village only months after the water was confirmed to be poisoned; lawmakers in Albany, meanwhile, were also initially noncommittal about hearings on the contamination, before eventually assenting.

The water crisis in Hoosick Falls has risen in the news in recent weeks when the cancer - causing substance known as PFOA was found at strikingly high levels in blood tests on residents.

Cuomo called for more facts and less emotion as his administration continues to investigate a water pollution crisis in Hoosick Falls.

But 500 days after the contamination was confirmed, village residents say they feel like they've been shunted aside, even as their crisis spurred a focus on clean drinking water problems throughout New York.

Even as the water crisis moves toward some form of resolution, the town is just beginning to grapple with the health effects of the PFOA pollution.

Buell, too, has faith that the way Hoosick Falls recovers from the water crisis can be used as a future selling point.

In our conversations, we discuss a still - unfolding potential hospital crisis, recovery efforts by the Queens Library for it's heavily damaged Rockaway branches and one elected official's personal experience as the water rose on the night Sandy hit.

As the lead educational organization in the Hoosick area, continuing research and education on hydrology and geology is vital as the community recovers from the PFOA water contamination crisiAs the lead educational organization in the Hoosick area, continuing research and education on hydrology and geology is vital as the community recovers from the PFOA water contamination crisias the community recovers from the PFOA water contamination crisis.

As POLITICO New York reported in June, the Cuomo administration resisted sounding a public alarm over the water pollution crisis in Hoosick Falls, even though federal regulators warned senior DOH officials that residents of the town should be alerted that they were drinking water that contained dangerous levels of PFOA, a chemical that has been linked to cancer and other serious health problems.

That lack of response demonstrates the difficulties looming for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration as it seeks to respond to a water crisis in a predominately minority city of 30,000 residents, many of whom are poor.

«As the federal official who alerted the public about the risk of drinking the toxic water in Hoosick Falls, I continue to be concerned that the state of New York has not learned the lessons from their water crisis,» she said in a statement provided to the Times Union late Tuesday.

The release of blood test results in Hoosick Falls caused panic and confusion as residents there, facing a similar water crisis, tried to decipher the results and what they meant.

Clare Myers, third from left, spoke as students held an emergency news conference Feb. 12, 2016, at Hoosick Falls Central School regarding the water crisis in Hoosick Falls.

Enck's comments, delivered during an interview on WCNY's «The Capitol Pressroom,» preceded her continued defense of her agency's response to the water contamination crisis in northeastern Rensselaer County as state officials cast blame on the EPA for confusion among residents.

Much as what unfolded during the crisis in Japan, the computer modeling suggested that fuel in one of the two reactors on the Peach Bottom site would begin to melt as soon as nine hours after a loss of cooling water flow.

But we are facing a potential global resource crisis as the use of water has increased six-fold while the world's population has only tripled.

And as a threat to safe drinking water, So says, «sanitation is the big crisis.»

Yet California and Arizona — the two states water experts say are facing the most severe water crises — continue to count and regulate groundwater and surface water as if they were entirely separate.

ProPublica examination shows that the scarcity of water is as much a man - made crisis as a natural one

In places, this has been referred to as a «levee war,» whereby one town's levees funnels water downstream to become the next town's crisis.

We have been ignoring that», observes PhD candidate Bas Kolen, who works as a consultant for crisis management and water safety for the consultancy firm HKV Lijn in water.

And as ever - poorer water stocks are called on and drawn - down aquifers in coastal areas are invaded by seawater, the crisis in quantity is being matched by a crisis in quality.

The researchers visualized the flow by lacing the water with tiny plastic beads and tracking them with laser light, showing that as the drag crisis set in, the object's wake shrank and the water flow stretched smoothly around the object.

A previous California resources secretary proposed building bigger dams on California's rivers as a solution to the water crisis.

The crisis has also further depleted Puerto Rico's power supply, as the Guajataca lake supplies hydroelectric power as well as drinking water.

As the recent meltdown in Fukushima showed, the design of these reactors» systems, such as the donut - shaped «suppression pool» of water meant to cool the reactor in a crisis, showed flaws — flaws identified by regulators decades agAs the recent meltdown in Fukushima showed, the design of these reactors» systems, such as the donut - shaped «suppression pool» of water meant to cool the reactor in a crisis, showed flaws — flaws identified by regulators decades agas the donut - shaped «suppression pool» of water meant to cool the reactor in a crisis, showed flaws — flaws identified by regulators decades ago.

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