Sentences with phrase «water from your local water»

If you are drinking tap water from your local water supply, it will typically be your local water district or your local utility district that is charged with monitoring your drinking water quality, including its magnesium content.

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To date, O'Brien says that Earth Angel has diverted 3,000 tons of waste from landfills, donated 90 tons of material to local charities, donated 55,000 meals to shelters and food banks, avoided over a million single - use plastic water bottles, and prevented 6,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by using recycled paper, limiting transportation emissions, and implementing «Meatless Monday» initiatives.

Prior to Black Friday, Patagonia announced that it would donate 100 percent of its global retail and online sales from the shopping event straight to grassroots organizations that work in local communities to «protect our air, water and soil for future generations».

In northwest Louisiana, as the production rush began in the Haynesville Shale in 2009, the state water agency ordered oil and gas companies to stop pulling groundwater from the local aquifer that also supplied homes and businesses, and use surface water instead.

Within the terminal you'll also find food from local organic vendors, paperless ticketing, and water stations to refill reusable bottles.

It's that lightweight design that has set WateRoam apart from other water filtration solutions and helped it win favor with local communities, NGOs and corporate backers, according to WateRoam.

So every Monday morning we'd hire 10 people to haul the water we needed from the local hand pump to the different spots in the hospital, office and living quarters.

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.

The decision to return clean water to local communities wasn't an idea dreamt by a bright - eyed Coca - Cola employee, but rather a decision following years of mounting dissatisfaction from locals, consumers and NGOs who have seen the company exhaust local water resources in small communities in the developing world.

Local residents collect water from a broken pipe at an area damaged by Hurricane Maria, in Cayey, Puerto Rico, September 29, 2017 REUTERS / Alvin Baez #puertorico #reuters #reutersphotos #hurricanemaria #hurricane #disaster

Local residents collect water from a broken pipe at an area damaged by Hurricane Maria, in Cayey, Puerto Rico, September 29, 2017.

All we know is that Namaan descends into the waters seven times, sees his leprous skin «restored like the flesh of a young boy,» acknowledges the full authority of Israel's God and, to ensure that he can render proper thanks to the Lord when he returns to Damascus, gets permission from Elisha to bring back two mule loads of local soil — a piece of Israel upon which to give thanks to the one who washed him clean.

Oxen are still used for plowing, water may have to be carried from the tank, and pujahs are still said at the local shrine, but the oxen are tied with nylon rope, not hemp; the water is carried in plastic, not earthenware or brass, pots; and the donations for pujah are broadcast on a PA system.

Locals tell us that a UN-affiliated team from Nepal dumped sewage into the water far up the mountain and when it came down to their canal, where they bathe and eat and drink, well, people were dead within a day.

Almost certainly the willow wands had come from local trees — the splay of weeping willows was everywhere evident in our town, usually near water of some sort, and for a moment, as I handed them out, I wondered how they had been harvested.

maybe if Perry didn't give tax cuts / breaks for the rich and gave away all that money to those that helpled him get elected and used all that extra revenue he would have had to use in funding to bring in water from other states and for funding local fire and rescue departments.

A team from Samaritan's Purse arrived Sunday in Victoria, about two hours south of Houston, where they slept without power or water in a local church.

There isn't a particular brand which I use but I buy organic chickpeas which are just soaked in water, from Whole Foods or my local health food store!

Staying Local The stay - close - to - home spirit heightens interest in everything from house - purified water to regional seafood to locally manufactured products like beer and liquors, Technomic says.

Just want to share some valuable info (http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/california-targets-wrong-water-wasters/Content?oid=4222724) since I'm writing from Los Angeles — almond crops are currently responsible for making the current extreme draught conditions even worse because they are such a water - intensive crop in an area that does not naturally have sufficient water supply, so please consider using other nuts and seeds instead, as CA is currently the only major source of almonds in the world (if you're able to find a small, local / non-CA supplier, wonderful!).

The bottle of tahini I bought from a local store is just grounded sesame seeds with water and not oil.

Rather than frozen fish and shrimp shipped in from all corners of the world, the fish at a local market is usually caught from local waters and is impeccably fresh.

When buying local produce that isn't organic, I take extra care to wash any possible chemicals from my fruits and vegetables with a quick homemade solution made with a 1:1 ratio of white vinegar and purified water.

Alaskan seafood is considered to be the best managed fisheries in the world, harvested from local waters and managed from sustainable and renewable fisheries.

No ill effect on searing the meat since I did it in more batches and this similarly did not affect the reduction of sauce; - I used beer instead of water in the chili paste (per Joe Yonan's Texas Bowl O» Red from Serve Yourself); - I threw in some Mexican Oregano from Rancho Gordo because I had it; - I used a mix of chiles sourced from Rancho Gordo, my local Whole Foods and a taqueria / market in the boonies: chipotle, California, arbol and pasilla.

If you know your seafood, this is also the best place to get fresh fish and live crabs and lobsters outside of a farmer's market (where vendors bring seafood fresh from local waters.

This time of year is when I start to think of the similarities between the food of Scandinavia and what's available here in the Pacific Northwest: salmon from local waters, berries picked at the peak of perfection, mushrooms and herbs — the list goes on.

She realized that she could benefit from an ongoing «crop swap» program that the local water district created to combat drought.

The management, delivery and monitoring of Commonwealth environmental water relies on considerable advice and assistance from local organisations, state governments and others.

Staff from the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office in Canberra will also continue to meet with local people in the Basin.

The technologies it distributes have won local and global awards, including recently the IChemE global green energy award for the RAPTOR ™ system from wastewater treatment and green energy authority Global Water Engineering (GWE) for technology which replaces fossil fuels.

Nicholas Meat's new facilities will be designed to recover both energy and water from waste products generated on site and significantly reduce the impact of the beef and veal processing plant on the local community.

These monitoring projects involve teams of experts, including scientists from some of Australia's leading regional universities and research institutions, and local land and water managers, assessing the impacts of environmental water use in the Gwydir, Lachlan, Edward - Wakool, Murrumbidgee, Goulburn, Lower Murray and the Junction of the Warrego and Darling rivers.

This can however be complicated if the sources of additional water (e.g. the storage from which environmental water is released) is also affected or if local waterways are flooded and the threat of third party impacts is great.

Our friends at Portland - based Jacobsen Salt Company utilize traditional methods to gather pure salt crystals straight from Oregon's cold waters, and Bee Local harvests neighborhood honey in micro-batches from hives across the state.

Meanwhile, staff from the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office, including our six Local Engagement Officers, continue to work hard to strengthen relationships with a range of people living in and working in the Basin, to ensure diverse perspectives are included as part of environmental watering planning and management.

Crafted using Polish Dankowskie Rye and blended with water from its own local pristine source, Belvedere's taste profile is distinctively soft with a subtle sweetness and smooth, clean finish.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

Sponsored by the Key Largo Fisheries and Key Largo Merchants Association, the fifth annual event at Rowell's Marina, mile marker 104.5 bayside, is a delicious weekend of family fun, food and fish from local waters.

All local California locations will leverage reclaimed wood from California ports and, where possible, newly built restaurants will incorporate more sustainable landscape features such as solar panel canopies over drive - thrus and reclaimed water for irrigation.

It takes into account, for example, what sort of water has been used at all stages of the life cycle (eg natural rainfall over agricultural land, water from rivers, lakes and groundwater resources); the context of local water scarcity; and whether the water would otherwise be used for another activity of critical importance.

As a highlight of GNA's yearly calendar, Taste of Gramercy Neighborhood aims to promote local industry and introduce more New Yorkers to a wide array of Gramercy eateries as they enjoy the gourmet delights and refreshments from Foco Water, GuS - Grownup Soda, Squish Marshmallows, Irving Farm Coffee Roasters, Mexicue and Fam2Me.

This makes SHF one of the few artisanal smokehouses nationwide that sources its Atlantic salmon from local waters instead of importing it from Chile, Norway or Scotland.

Sourcing fresh fish from the sustainable local waters identified (nautically) as Area 31, with local produce from Florida's rich farmlands, Executive Chef E. Michael Reidt infuses the menu with passion and energy while preserving the integrity of the ingredients.

** Variation: use organic, whole, raw nuts from the local grocery or health foods store, soak in water with sea salt overnight.

In Marin County, when a particularly effective and correspondingly loathed officer retired a few years ago, he appeared in the local paper proudly leering over a water cooler jug — one of three, he boasted — filled with cigarette lighters he had confiscated from teenagers over the years.

We had a wonderful time on the Surprise — aside from being out on the water — the company was great and we loved hearing all about the local history.

Discuss this with your baby's doctor and consider getting a report from your local water company if in doubt about your water supply.

Mass Audubon, the Charles River Watershed Association, and the Massachusetts Rivers Alliance have each received a grant from the Foundation for MetroWest to assist local communities with land and water management options that benefit the environment, economy, and community quality - of - life.

This might include reading a chapter from a book to prepare for the class discussion the next day, or interviewing a community member for a school project, or collecting real data, such as water samples from a local source for a science lab.