Sentences with phrase «when local water supplies»

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With all this ocean comes a variety of water sports, like scuba diving with manta rays off Islas Marietas, boating around Los Arcos» reefs, and parasailing off of the popular Playa Los Muertos, but Puerto Vallarta really becomes alive when the sun dips below the horizon; steamy salsa clubs light up the streets, and rowdy local bars supply a steady stream of cervesa for the thirsty traveler.

We went the whole hog and installed a reverse osmosis water filtration system for our drinking water (because our wonderful local government decided to fluoridate the water supply... ggrrrrr... and for the rest of the house we have a basic (same job as your brita filter) water filter so all our other water has no chlorine — oh the happy veggies and my skin is much improved... also my son has stopped sneezing when he turns a tap on.

«Among other things, we wanted to ask the first minister on camera about the effect of the Trump golf course development on local residents, including a 90 - year - old woman who hasn't had a proper water supply for four years, and about what happened to the 6,000 jobs his government promised when approving the development.»

Lib Dem health spokesman Norman Lamb said: «Local communities must have the power to decide if and when they want fluoride in their water supplies.»

Environmentalists and residents of Parker County, Texas, were dismayed last year when the EPA dropped an investigation into complaints that fracking by Range Resources was contaminating local water supplies with methane.

When ecology teacher Paul Ritter at the Pontiac Township High School in Pontiac, Illinois realized the U.S. is beginning to experience increasing amounts of unused or pharmaceuticals in the water supply he swung into action by working with his students to organize a local program to keep drugs out of the environment that may well serve as a model for others across the country.

Most of us are directly tied into the local water supply, which is great when it works well, and horrible when it doesn't (as evidenced by the recent and ongoing travesties in communities such as Flint, Michigan), and although some homes may capture rainwater for irrigation, or have their own well, there aren't a lot of alternative choices for getting clean drinking water, other than purchasing bottled water.

You can't start charging a hundred dollars for a litre of water after an earthquake renders your local water supply inoperable, or ten times standard price on a toll road when the only alternative is covered by a landslip for months.

Now under a federal state of emergency, following a government edict in February, local media reports say that Day Zero — the day when the city's water supply is switched off — has been set back to July 9 — a relief to those who had previously believed that April 16 or May 11 would see the taps stop running.

The tourist information pamphlet handed to passengers when disembarking in Auckland carried warnings about the local water supply, advising passengers to drink bottled water and not to order ice in their drinks (bwahahahaha, hotbed of infectious water, New Zealand).