Sentences with phrase «where drinking water supplies»

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On ships, there was little storage room, and water / drink is heavy, so Rum, meads, brews would keep better than water, and last for months, where water supplies would contaminate during the same time.

Tori gave me the encouragement that I needed, right down to telling me to at least continue to drink water to sustain my supply in a time where I didn't want to eat or drink anything.

The two Democrats made their call at Washington Lake, Newburgh's main drinking water supply, where toxic PFOS contamination was found in the spring of 2016.

The agency also released a letter Tuesday that it signed last week with five other states calling on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to undertake a multi-state health study using data from a multitude of communities where perfluorinated chemicals have contaminated drinking water supplies.

«In addition, no one should flush medications down the toilet, thereby contaminating our drinking water supply, or leave them in their medicine cabinet where they could be stolen.

In areas where water resources are limited we see conflict between multiple needs such as drinking supplies, irrigation and even energy development.

IDR reintroduces treated wastewater into groundwater supplies, where it re-enters the drinking water system.

The reservoirs beneath us contain several feet of sand through which the seawater filters before making its way to a vast metal hangar, where it is transformed into enough drinking water to supply 1.5 million people.

The challenges of supplying sufficient water has led authorities, water utility companies, technology suppliers, and knowledge institutions from all over the world to coin the phrase «fit for purpose water» — where water of a quality other than drinking water is used for washing clothes, watering lawns, and cleaning the car, for example.

In places where the available water supply is contaminated with disease - causing bacteria, boiling water and allowing it to cool before drinking it is a valuable health measure.

The track passed through a small populated village where we were able to grab some drinks and snacks at hugely inflated prices (this was the last place we'd be able to top up our water supplies before we arrived at the campsite that evening), and then continued on to the ruins of the Inca hill fort, Huillca Raccay.

Those backyard sewage disposal devices send pollutants into the ground, where they can leach into waterways and sometimes drinking water supplies.

This idea is already in use by some military forces, including the Israeli and US military, for creating drinking water in arid regions where obtaining clean drinking water supplies -LSB-...]

Not only does the EPA study verify what the fracking industry has known for more than 60 years — that fracking is safe for nearby drinking water supplies — it also confirms sworn testimony given before Congress by Lisa Jackson when she was the EPA's administrator, that there have been «no proven cases where the fracking process itself has affected water.»

It also bewilders me that in Canada, where most people can get clean drinking water from the tap, so many pay more for bottled water than gasoline, which creates more plastic and raises issues around corporations profiting from water supplies.

It detailed how drilling deeper wells was speeding up contamination of groundwater supplies, and it provided the first 3D groundwater map which can help researchers show where water supplies are safe for drinking, and where water purification is needed.

People are also more aware than ever that industrial pollutants and pesticides from farm fields can contaminate water supplies, to the point where drinking bottled water and using water filtration systems in homes is commonplace.