Sentences with phrase «where toxic water»

A study published today in Science explains how wastewater injection sites — areas where toxic water left over from oil drilling and fracking processes is injected into the ground between impermeable layers of rocks to avoid polluting freshwater — could be driving the sharp increase in the sometimes - disastrous earthquake events.

Not exact matches

As the officers came in, drenched from wading in toxic waters and standing in the pouring rain, she steered them toward tables where they could get dry socks, underwear and clothes.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

To help you navigate through the toxic waters that have formed in the area where the poisonous political basin met the not - so - pristine waters of conference realignment, let's go to the scorecard.

However, more and more, whales and other sea animals are exposed to toxic waste in the water where they live and eat.

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.

But Cuomo has yet to set foot in Hoosick Falls, where about 4,000 people can't drink their water because it contains a toxic chemical linked to cancer and other serious health problems.

Officials said the typical level of the toxic chemical found in the blood samples of more than 2,000 Rensselaer County residents is about 11 times higher than the national average, but well below levels detected in other areas of the nation where the contaminant has also polluted public water supplies.

Underground aquifers can be identified by aboveground formations, helping officials bring cleaner water to people by pointing out where not to place a landfill or dispose of toxic waste.

In 1991, the IMO adopted guidelines which recommend that ships should avoid taking on ballast in shallow areas and during toxic blooms of marine algae; keep accurate records of where and when ballast is loaded; exchange ballast water at sea, where toxic organisms are rare; and discharge sediments into approved areas at the port of destination («End of the line for deadly stowaways», New Scientist, 24 October 1992).

But to scientists» surprise, plumes of oil extending several kilometers were floating roughly 1,000 meters beneath the surface, where the toxic compounds are literally washing off the oil and contaminating the water.

These organisms thrive where other microbes don't dare venture: boiling water holes, freezing lakes, and toxic waste dumps.

And — where is the proof that all toxic residues we take in (diet, air, water, personal care products, pharmacy drugs, etc) are all efficiently removed?

We live in a world where we are constantly ingesting toxic materials, from the harsh chemicals in cleaning products, in our beauty products, our cookware, unfiltered drinking water, and most importantly, in the food we eat.

Depending on where you live, the tap water can be anywhere from almost acceptable to fairly toxic.

Tucker's Onion Burgers — Dogs are welcome on the patio where they have a special dog watering station and will even make your dog an onion - free burger (onions are toxic for dogs).

The hotels often have rudimentary waste water treatment systems, so biological waste goes straight into the sea, where it may create algae blooms that are toxic to coral.

Underdeveloped countries are not going to have problems with toxics and drugs escaping into drinking water, but your composting potty idea is not going to work very well where people live in squalid conditions of 500 persons on up per square mile, Unfortunately, many more people live under such crowded conditions than those, who can make a composting potty to dump out in some isolated spot where a few hundred people or less people live on a square mile.

In 2014, the news was especially urgent in Toledo, where a toxic algal bloom in Lake Erie forced health officials to declare the water unsafe for drinking and bathing.

Without federal standards to safeguard our water, those plants will keep on sending toxic sludge into rivers and streams, where it threatens swimmers and boaters and anglers, poisons wildlife, wrecks ecosystems, and could even contaminate drinking water.

The society which has been created is highly extractive and highly inefficient, where today material resources and water become wasted and toxic, and we waste 60 % or more of the energy between point of origin and point of consumption.

Heavy metals at toxic levels fill the streams that make up our rivers, where we draw our drinking water.»

Recently, problems with well water have been revealed in the Chatham - Kent area, where vibrations from turbine construction and operation have disturbed the shale bedrock resulting in toxic heavy metals such as arsenic contaminating water, making it undrinkable.

Cuomo's attacks on Indian Point were in marked contrast to his reaction two days later to a toxic chemical found in the drinking water at Hoosick Falls, where the carcinogenic chemical PFOA was found levels four times higher than EPA limits.

Though the watchdog group is getting stronger, reaching its tentacles into localities where dirty officials tend to be as rampant as dirty water, and locals are fighting back, even taking polluters to court, the toxic tales keep creeping in.

Mafia Has Used Somalia As Dumping Ground for 20 Years Here's the broader connection here: Since the 1990s the Mafia have been known to dump toxic waste in the waters off Somalia — where the utter lack of government means it costs one - tenth that of dumping in Europe.

Eventually I see something more sophisticated like Round - Up on steroids i.e. we give the GM critters some fancy effluent pumps in the cell wall for toxic compounds without analogs in nature and then grow them in open ponds where the water is toxic to everything else and the effluent pumps too complex for natural evolution to produce one anytime soon in a natural competitor.

Surface mining has also become a dominant driver of land - use change and water pollution in certain regions of the world, where mountaintop removal, coal and tar sands exploitation, and other open pit mining methods strip land surfaces of forests and topsoils, produce vast quantities of toxic sludge and solid waste, and often fill valleys, rivers, and streams with the resulting waste and debris [81].

After I reported the toxic water at Just For Jesus 14530 Rt. 28, Brockway, PA that welcomes the poor in there to live, and where I was living, The PADEP water inspected finding Manganese in water more than eight times higher than what law permits.

Why do I keep reading so many other peoples lawsuits where they were «exposed» to toxic chemicals and have been «put at increased risk of having future health problems» while the toxic Manganese and Lead water I ingested injured my brain and caused permanent disability and life threatening Severe Immunosuppression with cell counts so low my teeth have fallen out and why have I not been able to get compensation for my toxic water injuries that I did not cause?