Forests absorb and store carbon, and help regulate water supplies, so cutting them down exacerbates climate change and worsens water supplies, Damania said.
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Water supplies in Flint were first contaminated with lead in 2014, when officials switched water supplies without allowing anti-corrosion elements that prevent lead from pipes from leaking into drinking water.
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Those particles make their way into food and water supplies.
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Biodiversity is diminished and water supplies may well be affected.
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After months of drought, food and water supplies are dwindling.
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Fracking contaminates water supplies with toxins, endocrine disruptors and radium.
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Egypt fears the dam will cut into its water supplies.
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The power shortages have hit water supplies, hospitals and factories.
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Rising temperatures and droughts threaten our food and water supplies.
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Lead and copper are rarely detected in most drinking water supplies.
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The fighting trapped civilians in their homes with dwindling water supplies.
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Overall, the researchers found elevated PFAS levels in 194 water supplies.
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Drought has devastated vegetation and water supplies, and hunger is soaring.
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Food and water supplies are also at risk from the storms.
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No public water supplies or waterways were affected, his office said.
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They say the pipeline threatens water supplies and sacred tribal land.
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Across the country, perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are contaminating drinking water supplies.
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Even handwashing can be difficult in facilities with questionable water supplies.
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The police staged a crackdown, shutting down electricity and water supplies.
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Without it, streams and underground water supplies can run dangerously low.
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Eighty percent of people in Venezuela can't get proper water supplies.
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Raising them polluted water supplies and gobbled up scarce arable land.
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Initiatives to protect forests and safeguard water supplies were also highlighted.
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Advocates for the environment and victims of contaminated water supplies disagree.
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Turkey has also pledged to provide food and water supplies to Qatar.
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Drugs that are flushed can taint our rivers, lakes and water supplies.
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Algae blooms have shut down fisheries before and cut drinking water supplies.
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It turned the water into dark sludge and threatened drinking water supplies.
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The mountains are losing their glaciers, threatening water supplies and triggering wildfires.
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But conditions are still dire, and testing of water supplies between Sept.
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Daily life, amid cuts in power and thus water supplies, is grim.
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They provided us with pipes for water supplies, buckets and so on.
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This left four million people in Damascus without safe drinking water supplies.
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Nationally, rivers provide more than two-thirds of our drinking water supplies.
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The chemicals seeped into groundwater, contaminating water supplies and locally grown food.
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It is now often found at low levels in drinking water supplies.
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In some instances, the Defense Department is providing temporary replacement water supplies.
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Constellation Brands says the plant is not a risk to water supplies.
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The flood of ash into rivers is also affecting drinking water supplies.
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California is not the only state facing problems with drinking water supplies.
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The cruise ship is carrying food, water, supplies, first responders, and volunteers.
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Poorer, more rural communities often pay more for less secure water supplies.
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For Sadoff, there are three clear strategies to enhance limited water supplies.
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It's also contaminated drinking water supplies, leading to thousands of people being hospitalized.
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About 70 percent of Iraq&aposs water supplies flow in from upstream countries.
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Fear gripped the remaining residents as food and water supplies were cut off.
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Devastated city Power and water supplies have been cut off to the city.
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That could help cut down on over-watering when water supplies dry out.
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Maria felled the rainforest and knocked out the electricity, telecoms and water supplies.
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Turkey has also pledged to provide food and water supplies to Qatar [nL8N1J432D].
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SGT Taipei Water Department stops water supplies to four million in Taipei City.
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The bottom line: Cities cannot afford to view their water supplies as guaranteed.
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Fresh water supplies have been contaminated in the north, according to the UNOCHA.
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The government has assured villagers that the project would not affect water supplies.
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"We are now trying to restore electricity and drinking water supplies," he said.
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Power-generating capacity and water supplies have been knocked out in some areas.
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Environmentalists say the project threatens Istanbul's last forestland and will contaminate water supplies.
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Dr. Carlsson was an outspoken critic of fluoridating water supplies to prevent cavities.
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Flint's crisis prompted Detroit officials to start testing school water supplies in 2016.
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The use of rotenone in lakes and other water supplies has been contentious.
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China's per capita water supplies are around a quarter of the global average.
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The loss of glaciers can, in turn, put pressure on local water supplies.
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Today, rapid population and economic growth, shared water supplies across borders, and the effects of climate change including frequent droughts, declining rainfall and high evaporation rates have significantly impacted water supplies in the region, according to the 2018 Arab Regional Report.
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Traces of cancer-causing contaminants in New Orleans and Pittsburgh public drinking water supplies.
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Electricity and water supplies have been affected and several local roads have been closed.
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Local authorities accused Alunorte of contaminating water supplies when heavy rains hit the region.
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If these pollutants enter water supplies, they pose a serious hazard to public health.
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Depleting reservoirs have forced cities including Chennai, Mumbai and Hyderabad to cut water supplies.
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State authorities said they had stepped up water supplies to the city each year.
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Tribal leaders say the project violates several federal laws and will harm water supplies.
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Water supplies are undrinkable and once-unspoilt Mediterranean beaches are contaminated by untreated sewage.
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She revolutionized the supply chain so that dyes were safer for local water supplies.
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But the development of new water supplies has not kept pace with population growth.
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Contamination of water supplies happens more often than oil companies would like to admit.
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The relentless Russian and Syrian air campaign has badly damaged hospitals and water supplies.
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Ricardo Rosselló told CNN that crews are trying to restore water supplies for residents.
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In fact, civilizations have been trying to clean up their water supplies for millennia.
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Instead, the community starts by informally prioritizing how limited water supplies will be divided.
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The demonstrators said the pipeline could pollute water supplies and destroy sacred tribal sites.
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Ordinarily winter in the region is a relatively wet season, building up water supplies.
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Shimla is not the only Indian city whose water supplies are under increasing pressure.
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Utilities have long used chlorine or other chemicals to disinfect their drinking water supplies.
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Meanwhile, the city of Beaumont, east of Houston, had its water supplies cut off.
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"Water supplies being depleted ... Bread and milk supplies still robust," she posted on Instagram.
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Ministry officials said the suspension subsequently led to a halt of water supplies to Kaesong.
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But it has brought generators, satellite communications, an inflatable shelter and water supplies to Kaikoura.
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Unless, of course, states figure out how to better manage and share their water supplies.
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Other parts of the world, meanwhile, may become drier, harming crops and straining water supplies.
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The demonstrators said the pipeline could pollute water supplies and destroy sacred historic tribal sites.
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In total, the PFAS-contaminated water supplies evaluated in the study serve six million Americans.
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El Salvador has rebuilt schools, repaired roads and restored water supplies, helped by American aid.
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Protest leaders largely dismiss the impact their camp is having on the city's water supplies.
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It encourages farmers to adopt good practices that preserve the environment and increase water supplies.
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The amount varies according to the modifications and preservation methods used to improve water supplies.
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The city switched water supplies but the damage was already done to the lead pipes.
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Flint's lead contamination problem came after a 2014 switch in water supplies to save money.
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It is also extremely expensive to build out new water supplies, dams and desalination plants.
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This is a potential death knell for fisheries, the agricultural industry, and municipal water supplies.
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Tribes near the pipeline route have said a spill puts drinking water supplies at risk.
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More rain means more flooding, and runoff will pour pesticides and fertilizers into water supplies.
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The hydroelectric plant now provides power to 50,000 people; treated river water supplies 700,000 people.
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Eagle Scouts know how to collect rainwater in case other drinking water supplies run out.
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Mr. Wheeler framed the new regulations as a major step forward in protecting water supplies.
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Rome turned off its public fountains and only narrowly avoided rationing water supplies to homes.
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Melting could translate into radical disruptions to food and water supplies and mass population displacement.
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Melting could translate into significant disruptions to food and water supplies and mass population displacement.
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Though 194 public water supplies with higher-than-recommended chemical concentrations are located in 33 states, three-quarters of the toxic water supplies are in just 13 states: California, New Jersey, North Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, Georgia, Minnesota, Arizona, Massachusetts and Illinois.
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Temperatures are rising, water supplies are scarce, soil fertility is low and severe droughts are common.
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"Practically all cell phone service was lost and municipal water supplies were knocked out," said NOAA.
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Israel's nationalisation of all water supplies has helped "integrate" policy, but may not be replicable elsewhere.
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For instance, diarrheal disease is often in large part caused by poor sanitation and water supplies.
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Many are hungry and have been without clean water supplies for days, according to aid agencies.
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Fresh food, water supplies and medicine must now be airlifted into Qatar or delivered by boat.
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But it's prohibitively expensive to take all of the necessary water supplies with us from Earth.
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Disruption to water supplies, including infrastructure damage, has caused acute shortages in the capital this month.
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The government has assured villagers near Michiquillay that the project would not affect their water supplies.
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It adds threats such as over-fishing, harmful logging and disruptions of water supplies from dams.
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They crawl into mouths and eyes, swarm water supplies, and cause general mayhem for an ecosystem.
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The relentless Russian and Syrian air campaign in east Aleppo has damaged hospitals and water supplies.
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More money for mass transit, more money for electric grids, more money for rural water supplies.
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They strove to ensure that water supplies were not contaminated with cholera, typhoid, or other diseases.
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Changes in extreme weather events are putting humans, infrastructure, agriculture, water supplies and ecosystems at risk.
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Most of the island remains without power, and many residents lack adequate food or water supplies.
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Researchers continue to uncover evidence that PFAS chemicals are leaching into water supplies across the country.
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Water supplies in Libya, which sits in a desert and doesn't get much rain, are limited.
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We didn't know where we would be sleeping, and our water supplies were almost half depleted.
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The pharmaceutical industry has also committed to protecting water supplies from runoff from antibiotic manufacturing facilities.
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Turkey, which has a military base in Qatar, also pledged to provide food and water supplies.
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Tests by U.N. investigators in October showed that the spill had not contaminated local water supplies.
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U.S. lawyer Robert Bilott also received an honorary award for exposing contamination in local water supplies.
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It would collapse buildings, contaminate water supplies, and bring down any power grids in its path.
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Forests, fisheries and drinking water supplies are imperiled as extractive industries chew further into the wild.
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The humanitarian crisis has pushed people into camps lacking sanitation and ample food and water supplies.
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But the bounty has come at a price, residents say - the drying of local water supplies.
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The tribes say Dakota Access threatens water supplies and sacred sites on the North Dakota prairie.
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Critics say the practice has polluted water supplies, while backers say it supplies needed energy resources.
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You need to get really involved in your local communities because your water supplies are getting compromised.
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Building the dam would alleviate water shortages and contamination of water supplies in southwest Bangladesh, experts say.
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Tests later showed that the spill, caused by a defective valve, did not contaminate local water supplies.
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But, as the saying goes, you can't overthrow the global system without irradiating a few water supplies.
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Algae blooms can disrupt fisheries, causing millions of dollars in lost revenue, and cut drinking water supplies.
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Depleted water tables cause the ground to compact, allowing seawater to intrude into cropland and water supplies.
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It says their large populations put too much strain on water supplies, roads, hospitals and so on.
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There were also two outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease, a bacterial infection that spreads through contaminated water supplies.
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Food and water supplies dwindling across the FL and SC as people prepare for Hurricane Matthew. pic.twitter.
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Such policies lead to excessive use of already scarce water supplies and are not sustainable, said Jägerskog.
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Water supplies coming from the rebel-held area of Wadi Barada have been cut since December 22.
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American Indians say the project would endanger water supplies for people of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation.
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When the manure pits overflow, they risk contaminating water supplies with bacteria like salmonella and e. coli.
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Over the last decade, the Millennium Drought in Australia threatened the water supplies of Melbourne and Brisbane.
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CAWCD has a responsibility to deliver water supplies to its Arizona customers at the lowest reasonable cost.
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The chemical compounds are also "contaminating water supplies and the environment across both peninsulas of Michigan," MLive.
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Chilean regulators last year implemented new restrictions on the salt flat amid concerns of dwindling water supplies .
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Phone and internet communications were interrupted across the countries, and some water supplies were also cut off.
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But activists say the construction of the pipeline will harm sacred cultural lands and local water supplies.
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Providing clean and adequate water supplies is one of the most critical functions a government can play.
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Residents said water supplies and cooking gas had been restored in areas that the LNA has taken.
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These assets are generally vital to everyday American life, including financial institutions, electric grids, and water supplies.
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Countries with uncollected waste, failing water supplies and intermittent power could prove as dangerous as the virus.
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The idea was to preserve undeveloped public lands and protect water supplies, wildlife and other natural values.
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Another possibility is that North Korean agents will introduce BW into water supplies for major metropolitan areas.
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They say the project threatens water supplies in North Dakota and infringes on a local tribe's rights.
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"The more we monitor water supplies, the more widespread we find these chemicals to be," he said.
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That crisis has worsened as the fighting disrupted medical facilities and fresh water supplies, the agency said.
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Melting glaciers are already putting millions of people at risk of floods, droughts and shrinking water supplies.
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The report said wild pigs are an invasive species known to destroy crops, landscaping, and water supplies.
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In addition to these infrastructure needs, there are growing concerns with new pollutants in drinking water supplies.
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In Australia's cities, the picture is somewhat less bleak, but even there, water supplies are running short.
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Seasonal monsoon rains, which bring relief each year and replenish the country's water supplies, are late this year.
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Compounding the problem, at many mining sites, workers dig below the permitted levels, polluting water supplies, Bidhuri said.
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Mounting rubbish, failing sewerage and wrecked water supplies have led to the worst cholera outbreak in recent history.
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But the quake knocked out water supplies and sewer systems and left people with no easy way out.
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Food and water supplies are going fast across the states — as are propane and plywood, multiple outlets report.
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He said power and water supplies had been restored, but could be disrupted again if the crisis continues.
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The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and other opponents say the pipeline threatens sacred sites and local water supplies.
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It is also critical that we keep these farms working in the face of increasingly limited water supplies.
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The company also would have to notify nearby landowners before drilling and offer to test their water supplies.
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That can contaminate food and water supplies, which consequently raises people's risk of diseases like cholera and dysentery.
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They have vowed to stop the $3.7 billion pipeline, saying it threatens water supplies and tribal burial grounds.
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With fresh water supplies vulnerable to a changing climate, and our infrastructure outdated, as seen in Flint, Mich.
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Water supplies have been cut off for weeks, with the government blaming rebels and rebels blaming the government.
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Environmentalists supported the Obama administration rule and charge the Trump administration with putting significant water supplies in danger.
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I had to ration my water supplies and probably ended up more dehydrated than I should have been.
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He said the hotel had a generator and ample food and water supplies, but he was cautious nonetheless.
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Water supplies have been cut off for weeks, and the government and rebel sides have blamed each other.
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Tests by United Nations investigators in October showed the year-earlier spill had not contaminated local water supplies.
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"I have met people whose food and water supplies being threatened by climate-related catastrophes," the activist added.
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Traditional owners and activists fear fracking could contaminate ground and surface water supplies and the unique natural environment.
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According to local journalists, two attackers detonated explosives hidden in drinking water supplies in the village; both were killed.
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Governments should plan for risks to water supplies from drought, rising temperatures, flooding, population growth and urbanization, Scharp said.
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Rescuers and aid workers are struggling to reach them and electricity, water supplies and telecommunications have been badly disrupted.
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The 1.5C limit is favored especially by developing nations most at risk from disruptions to food and water supplies.
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The leak allegedly contaminated local water supplies and has been linked to six diseases, including testicular and kidney cancers.
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The country is home to 82% of Andean glaciers, nearly all of which are in retreat, threatening water supplies.
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Spikes of lead in municipal water supplies—like in Flint, Michigan in 22020—therefore tend to be geographically concentrated.
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Intensive farming on this scale contributes to greenhouse emissions by its very nature & places pressure on local water supplies.
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The leak allegedly contaminated local water supplies and has been linked to six diseases, including testicular and kidney cancer.
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The same goes for our contaminated water supplies, our patchwork access to high-speed internet, and our crumbling schools.
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Cities have been investing heavily in diversifying their water supplies, including developing new desalination technologies to make seawater potable.
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" Basically, their food and water supplies were dosed with LSD until they had achieved what the Soviets called "integration.
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The 1.5C limit is favored especially by developing nations most at risk from disruptions to food and water supplies.
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There were worries it could contaminate drinking water supplies, prompting North Battleford to shut down its water intake plant.
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AROUND THE WEB: California allowed oil companies to illegally inject wastewater into protected water supplies, CBS San Francisco reports.
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Their activities have heavily polluted some fresh water supplies and in some instances obstructed the operations of concession holders.
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But then the Neches River kept rising and Beaumont's water pump broke, cutting off water supplies to the city.
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Now is not the time for the federal government to lessen its commitment to clean and reliable water supplies.
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Because winter is when California gets nearly all of its precipitation, that could put more pressure on water supplies.
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How does he "magically" become equally interested in land conservation, wildlife protection and the sustainability of finite water supplies?
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But acid rain can contaminate household water supplies by leaching metals from building and plumbing materials, the USGS says.
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Now, as the Army encircled the Old City, electricity and water supplies were cut off, and life became impossible.
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Environmentalists contend that the practice can pollute air and local water supplies, but the companies insist it is safe.
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This has led to cleaner water supplies by cutting pollution and reducing upstream erosion and reservoir sedimentation, he explained.
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Climate change also disrupts the water cycle, which is expected to have a huge impact on drinking water supplies.
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For instance, Barrick Gold Corp mining operations in Peru were disrupted in 2012 because of protests over water supplies.
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Even so, members have looked to do even more for Flint and other cities with threatened drinking water supplies.
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Experts worry that if the lagoons flood, their contents could spread to nearby areas and contaminate local water supplies.
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Unlicensed outdoor cannabis farmers drench the fields with banned herbicides and pesticides, killing animals and polluting local water supplies.
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Bailey was immediately concerned about whether the contractor had obtained a permit to use the town's precious water supplies.
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The big picture: The pressures on municipal water supplies are likely to worsen with the effects of climate change.
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We must strengthen our ability to capture, store and deliver limited water supplies while maximizing efficiency to enhance conservation.
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Standards for farmers to monitor water supplies are still being fine-tuned, and are scheduled in stages through 2024.
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But there are an estimated 240,000 water main breaks every year in the U.S., wasting valuable drinking water supplies.
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However, these kinds of nonconventional water supplies can be expensive to implement, making them less common in poorer countries.
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"Military activities in that area means also the potential of further damaging water pumps and water supplies," he said.
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Some residents of the building, a few blocks from the presidential Miraflores Palace, have already exhausted their water supplies.
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"I have met people whose food and water supplies are being threatened by climate-related catastrophes," the activist added.
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We identified what waterways work together in order to protect the downstream drinking water supplies for 117 million people.
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Food and water supplies were so low, meanwhile, that some had begun digging holes to look for ground water.
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The cities said this reduced critical funding for hospitals, power and water supplies, schools, transportation and other municipal services.
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In contrast, public water supplies are regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and are required by law to test.
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In a draft environmental assessment last month, the State Department said Keystone XL would not harm water supplies or wildlife.
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Dr Otto concluded instead that a quadrupling of São Paulo's population since 1960 had put pressure on scarce water supplies.
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Energy companies seized on that presentation because it said the EPA found no "widespread, systemic impact" on drinking water supplies.
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Rainfall has decreased and temperatures have risen, increasing demand for agricultural irrigation just as water supplies fell and evaporation accelerated.
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Many residents were still without power or utilities Tuesday, and relied on relief workers to bring in fresh water supplies.
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Electricity and water supplies are faltering because of corruption, underinvestment and absenteeism by workers who cannot live on their salaries.
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Electricity and water supplies are faltering, because of corruption, underinvestment and absenteeism by workers who cannot live on their salaries.
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Native American activists and their allies say the pipeline crossing would threaten the region's water supplies and damage sacred sites.
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Chilean regulators last year delayed their review of Zaldivar's environmental study amid rising concerns over dwindling water supplies at Atacama.
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In February, Ahvaz saw extensive demonstrations against air pollution and other regional environmental damage, such as contamination of water supplies.
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World water supplies are under pressure as the planet warms and demand grows with the population, the United Nations says.
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But the Standing Rock tribe and environmental activists say it threatens water supplies as well as sacred Native American sites.
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Regulations alone cannot ensure the landscape-level actions needed to manage water supplies, sustain soil health, and preserve natural habitat.
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Both shelters are above anticipated storm-surge levels and have emergency generators and emergency food and water supplies, she said.
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Climate change causes serious regional disruptions including inundation of coastal areas, diminished potable water supplies and changes in agricultural productivity.
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The festival met delays in obtaining permits, arranging security, water supplies and sanitation, said a source close to the event.
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US Border Patrol agents have vandalized food and water supplies in the desert meant to save the lives of migrants.
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"If fracking were a major threat to drinking water supplies, the data gathered by EPA would show it," she said.
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It leverages a small public investment into big savings for homeowners and businesses, while ensuring secure and sustainable water supplies.
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The U.S. military's use of a firefighting foam, which contains hazardous chemicals, may have contaminated water supplies near many bases.
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The blackout hobbled public transportation, cut off water supplies and crippled phone and internet communications for much of the day.
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Environmentalists say non-conventional techniques will put health and water supplies at risk and add to the global climate crisis.
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Other cities are reeling from the aftermath of chemical spills, which have released toxic substances into their main water supplies.
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What about the effect on wildlife and local water supplies, he asked, and the benefit of preserving farmland and jobs?
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Last year, our email discussions around the school moved from administrative matters to urgent requests for water supplies and food.
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We experience too much rain or too little rain, and fresh water supplies are increasingly contaminated by rising sea levels.
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But there are thousands of stormwater overflows every year releasing pollutants into our water supplies that can undermine public health.
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The new version is far more worrying than the first, which found "no evidence that fracking systemically contaminates water" supplies.
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Rebels say the army is seeking to recapture the area, where a major spring provides most of Damascus's water supplies.
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The water supplies for nearly 110 million Americans may be contaminated with PFAS chemicals, according to the Environmental Working Group.
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The Wall Street Journal tells the story of generational oystermen losing their jobs due to increased stress on water supplies.
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Renewable water supplies in most of these countries already fall well below the United Nations definition of absolute water scarcity, which is about 350 gallons per person per day, and a 2017 report from the World Bank suggests that climate change will be the biggest factor increasing the pressure on water supplies in the future.
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In response, in 1974 Congress enacted the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), which was designed to protect public drinking water supplies.
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Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the project, has said that fears of impact on the tribe's water supplies were unfounded.
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When manure pits overflow, there is a risk that water supplies will be contaminated with bacteria like salmonella and e. coli.
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Activists claim the pipeline, which is almost complete, will contaminate local water supplies, threaten their livelihoods, and irrecoverably damage sacred sites.
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In particular, there are worries deforestation will upset the hydrologic cycle in certain places, threatening water supplies and hydroelectric power generation.
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Jihadists targeting our water supplies, assembling car and truck bombs, deranged individuals forcing us to look behind us at every turn?
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Electricity access is also needed for clean water supplies, communication services, mobile health applications and retention of skilled staff, they add.
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Around 70% of Iraq's water supplies flow from neighboring countries, especially via the Tigris and Euphrates rivers which run through Turkey.
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A government siege on eastern Aleppo is tighter than ever, and food stocks, clean water supplies and medicine are running dry.
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"In the Southwest, climate change is here, and it's already threatening our water supplies, our ecosystems and our health," he said.
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Track one is responding to the cholera with the emergency response teams and other measures including chlorination of domestic water supplies.
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In 2011, the agency approved the project, based on its benefits to the city's water supplies, firefighting efforts and forest health.
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"Toxic algal blooms affect drinking water supplies, agriculture, fishing, recreation, and tourism," said Jeff Ho of the Carnegie Institution for Science.
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They protested against the project for months, saying it threatens local drinking water supplies and important cultural sites in North Dakota.
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Ultimately, increased water supplies better prepare our country for future water shortage, protecting all Americans from higher prices and job loss.
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In California's drought-prone Central Valley, excessive groundwater pumping has led toxic levels of arsenic to leach into local water supplies.
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Around 70 percent of Iraq's water supplies flow from neighboring countries, especially in the Tigris and Euphrates which run through Turkey.
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If water comes from our taps or flows to farms and industry, we tend to assume our water supplies are assured.
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Atlanta, São Paulo, Melbourne, and London have faced serious droughts that threatened their drinking water supplies in the past few decades.
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The opposition to fracking generally revolves around two core issues: polluting water supplies, and the carbon emissions associated with the process.
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These barrels are ideal breeding grounds for mosquitos, and family water supplies can quickly become welcome habitats for the pesky bloodsuckers.
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In the Maldives, in the Indian Ocean, rising sea levels are causing salt water to intrude into underground fresh water supplies.
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Watersheds, which Postel calls "nature's water factories," are receiving special attention as cities try to make their water supplies more resilient.
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This is a limiting factor in water-based storage schemes in that it's challenging to find workable sites and water supplies.
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Conditions for residents are precarious, with electricity, gas, and phone lines disrupted, fresh water supplies limited, and rain continuing to fall.
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The planning was also intended to respond to natural disasters, oil spills or cyberattacks that could disrupt power and water supplies.
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Our analysis of unreleased EPA data indicates that water supplies for more than 100 million Americans may be contaminated with PFAS.
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That means they seek out solutions to environmental problems often caused by hazards or pollutants, like contaminated air or water supplies.
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But there is new urgency due to climate change and a rapidly growing global population, which have disrupted global water supplies.
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Suppliers warned that water supplies would continue to face disruption on Monday as they worked to fix leaks and refill pipes.
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An official from the plant said staff based there were evacuated, and this might have a temporary impact on water supplies.
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In Newark, the city discovered this year that its anti-corrosion efforts weren't working for one of it main water supplies.
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Its breakneck industrialization has come at a cost, with severely contaminated water supplies and heavy air pollution present throughout the country.
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The Delhi government ordered schools closed on Monday and rationed water supplies to make sure that hospitals and emergency services had enough.
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Both Michigan law and the SDWA require public water systems to monitor their water supplies and report monitoring results to state regulators.
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Fighters have, however, cut water supplies several times in the past to put pressure on the army not to overrun the area.
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The low-tech solutions range from warning systems, to medical training, to enforcing cuts to power and water supplies during cooler times.
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Hong Kong imports as much as 80% of its water supplies from China, as well as large amounts of electricity and food.
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Of these, 66 water supplies contained levels of PFOS and PFOA exceeding the EPA safe drinking limit of 70 parts per trillion.
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Pinpointing just how dehydrated vines can get before they die could be key to keeping wineries afloat when water supplies dry out.
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The mere prospect of shortages can lead to conflicts, as states race to secure water supplies at the expense of downstream neighbours.
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The faith's founder, Gautama Buddha, is said to have stopped a looming war over water supplies with a rival clan, the Koliyas.
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In areas that remained under Mr Assad's control, electricity and water supplies are more reliable than in much of the Middle East.
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Chromium-6, or hexavalent chromium, naturally appears in some minerals, but it can also sneak into drinking water supplies through industrial pollution.
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Southern India has been at the mercy of an extended, extreme drought that has greatly impacted both drinking water supplies and agriculture.
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Environmental groups and some Native American tribes also oppose support for the uranium industry out of concern mining would harm water supplies.
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She currently leads CISA's cybersecurity efforts in protecting and strengthening the country's most important infrastructure, like the power grid and water supplies.
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Janet Stout is a Pittsburgh microbiologist and expert on Legionnaires' disease who has researched links between Legionella bacteria and public water supplies.
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Rainwater harvesting, an age-old technique for capturing monsoon run-off, can provide the country with reliable water supplies throughout the year.
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Cities in Hebei have been deploying sprinklers mounted on trucks to try to keep temperatures down, putting further pressure on water supplies.
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To try to prevent a repeat of that disaster, government and business leaders are rushing to shore up water supplies - and confidence.
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Officials in charge of public water supplies say new water-saving technologies are within reach if the government makes funding a priority.
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And as the world population swells and more people move to cities, the already strained water supplies could drain to critical lows.
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Native American activists and their allies worry that the $3.8 billion project would threaten the region's water supplies and damage sacred sites.
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Officials said the threat highlights the need for "collaborative strategies acres each river basin" in the west to protect water supplies there.
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I could go on and on about how many oil spills there have been that have been really detrimental to water supplies.
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The recent review criticizing the EPA's optimism about fracking's impact on water supplies has been well received by environmental scientists and activists.
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Some municipalities like Chennai, Mumbai and Hyderabad were forced to cut water supplies to ensure stocks lasted until monsoon rains replenished reservoirs.
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LA mayor Eric Garcetti has threatened to cut off power and water supplies to businesses that defy the city's coronavirus lockdown order.
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Recently, the state department of health fined Big Island Dairy $25,000 for illegally allowing animal waste to flow into local water supplies.
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As the center's name implies, there is also a realization that treating and reusing wastewater can help decrease stress on water supplies.
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And many Egyptians fear that the project, whose reservoir is about the size of London, will cut into their precious water supplies.
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As a result, Qatar has to reply on Iran and Turkey to secure food and water supplies - but apparently, that's not sustainable.
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The seas continue to take on the atmosphere's heat, as marine heatwaves cripple ecosystems and less snow and ice threaten water supplies.
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He wants to privatize public infrastructure — drawing private sector companies to fix, build and manage bridges and roads, water supplies and airports.
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But the mechanism that compels developers to demonstrate sufficient water supplies will need to be reviewed as the situation evolves, he believes.
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The city has built up diverse sources of water supplies, which exceed current demand, providing a buffer during dry spells, Sorensen said.
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As our climate changes, human creativity has been turning to solutions to problems ranging from restoring water supplies to rebuilding failing ecosystems.
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Refined coal has also led to contamination of water supplies for more than a million people, according to regulators and utility officials.
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In 2015 the authorities identified a score of villages with unusually high cancer rates, perhaps the result of water supplies laced with lead.
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In communities with unreliable water supplies, many residents collect water in rooftop tanks or containers, providing ideal nurseries for larvae if left uncovered.
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To deal with rising pressure on limited water supplies, finding ways to grow more food with less water is particularly important, analysts say.
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In particular, he noted, the group has been polluting water supplies with oil and other chemicals and destroying farmland, leading to further desertification.
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After all, some 19th-century English water supplies and medicines, which Austen might have taken, were contaminated with -- cue the dramatic music -- arsenic.
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It has been the target of intense protests by those concerned that a spill could contaminate water supplies underneath Native American tribal lands.
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Over the longer term, high concentrations of sulfur dioxide can cause acid rain, stripping nutrients out of soil and contaminating local water supplies.
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African governments are requesting billions of dollars in aid as the unusually dry period ruins farmland, kills cattle and cuts off water supplies.
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Warren was arrested the day that No More Deaths published a video showing Border Patrol agents destroying water supplies it left for migrants.
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In fact, it's usually part of the state's critical wet season, which provides the rain and mountain snow needed for replenishing water supplies.
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Elsewhere, the fund could offer free water supplies to remote properties or tax incentives to encourage larger landowners to cooperate, de Bièvre said.
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Some one billion people would be forced to attempt to relocate from unlivable conditions, and two billion would face scarcity of water supplies.
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In addition, climate change is expected to wreak havoc on urban water supplies, with decreased rainfall and rising temperatures expected to fuel demand.
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The gains accelerated in recent years amid concerns about the health effects of sugary drinks and the safety of public-water supplies. on.wsj.
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To top it all off, the Federal Emergency Management Agency plans to stop distributing food and water supplies by the end of January.
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Medical care can be damaged from compromised electricity and water supplies, interrupted supply chains, disabled transportation links, and disrupted communications and IT networks.
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The Tripoli government blamed a group that also cut the water supplies in 2017, saying its commander Khalifa Ehnaish belonged to Haftar's forces.
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Hunter said long-term disruptions to water supplies from climate change were a threat to crops including barley and hops, vital for beer.
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Indeed, after air freight and labour, power is the main cost: flowers need plenty of light and carefully controlled air and water supplies.
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Communities around the country have started to discover PFOS and PFOA in their drinking water supplies, leading to growing calls for EPA action.
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On Monday, the State Emergency Service said water supplies had also been restored to the town, but not to all its surrounding villages.
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But the condition is unusual and communities have taken steps to limit the amount of fluoride in public water supplies to prevent it.
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He said traditional gardens have been buried and killed in some places and water supplies have been discolored and the water tastes strange.
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Thinning also requires an extensive network of roads, which can threaten water quality by increasing sediment in streams that feed public water supplies.
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They argue that local communities should have the right to limit fracking, which they say pollutes the air and jeopardizes local water supplies.
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California was only slightly behind, thanks mostly to over-use of underground water supplies, which can take decades or even centuries to replenish.
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The Natural Resources Defense Council said the delay puts significant water supplies at risk, and said it would sue to stop the delay.
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Newmont put the gold project, Conga, on hold in 2011 amid violent protests by local farmers worried about its impacts on water supplies.
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Regulators in the United States, however, require on-land reactors to operate for 72 hours in an emergency shutdown without external water supplies.
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In the first two years of the drought, experts say, the national government failed to limit water supplies to farmers, intensifying the problem.
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A drought in the Himalayan resort has had residents blaming farmers, the tourism industry and one another for depleting the strained water supplies.
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The activists, some critical of the government for long-term mismanagement of water supplies, have been accused by the Revolutionary Guards of spying.
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Such sites often lack the concrete or plastic linings found in modern "sanitary landfills" and can leach toxins into soil or water supplies.
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Work is focused on repairing public buildings, electricity and water supplies, with little progress on the 95 percent of homes that were destroyed.
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A general lack of rain followed by short but concentrated storms means more surface runoff and less infiltration into the underground water supplies.
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In the developed world, water supplies are often closely regulated, and in the United States, governments are both big customers and potential competitors.
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As the blackout rolls eastward, major elements of the nation's infrastructure — the Internet, public water supplies, the banking system — also start to fail.
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The consequences of inaction will be devastating, impacting food and water supplies and raising the risk of mass population displacement, the assessment says.
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Many infectious diseases—from cholera and typhoid through river blindness and malaria, are directly or indirectly transmitted through polluted or stagnant water supplies.
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Most Nairobians live in slums where they must contend with high crime, irregular power and water supplies, and no toilets in their homes.
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As more trees are cut down, there will be more frequent droughts, endangering food and water supplies, and livelihoods for millions of people.
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The interesting question is why Trump seems unwilling or unable to do anything about America's crumbling roads, bridges, water supplies and so on.
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Early private sector engagement could have pushed new technologies such as saltwater desalinization systems, or established mutual aid agreements for emergency water supplies.
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Some municipalities like Chennai, Mumbai and Hyderabad were forced to cut water supplies to ensure their reserves lasted until monsoon rains replenished reservoirs.
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The company settled with regulators, agreeing to replace the water supplies for those homes and plug and abandon a number of nearby wells.
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A week ago, there were still towns in the interior of the island that hadn't received food and water supplies from the federal government.
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"Climate conditions have exposed our house of cards," Jay Famiglietti, a NASA scientist who studies water supplies told The New York Times in April.
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Citing the spread of contaminants in water supplies in Minnesota and Ohio, in 2002 the agency launched a "priority review" of some PFAS compounds.
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The U.N. warned the shortages could lead to waterborne disease outbreaks, and a spokesman has said sabotaging civilian water supplies constituted a war crime.
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Utah, she noted, has warmed twice as fast as the global average over the last 22080 years, straining Salt Lake City's limited water supplies.
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Police in Indonesia are now on high alert after the country unearthed a warning that ISIS is threatening to poison food and water supplies.
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They say this caused a variety of problems for locals, including compulsory purchase orders, issues with phone lines and water supplies and other disruptions.
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But if the fresh water seeped its way down there from land-based water supplies, the reservoirs could prove to be massive renewable resources.
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Flood waters have damaged 45 heath clinics, making medical supplies scarce, and clean water supplies have been disrupted for 600,000 people across Hamgyong province.
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She said some nurses arrived in towns that never got food or water supplies, or any other help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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But persuading rural communities to change their practices in order to ensure water supplies for city dwellers many miles away often demands novel solutions.
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The sharing of water supplies from the Indus River and its tributaries between the two countries is regulated under the 1960 Indus Water Treaty.
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Australia began evacuating thousands of people from resort islands in the tropical northeast on Thursday, as water supplies began to run low, Reuters reported.
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It also wants to repair the electricity system to deliver power and clean water supplies to 1.8 million people, amid fears of disease outbreaks.
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"You have seen war games where there have been indicators that in the future there could be fights, wars, over water supplies," he said.
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The long-term security of fresh water supplies is threatened by a mind-boggling array of aging infrastructure, aquifer depletion, pollution and climate variability.
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The government was delivering food and water supplies to municipalities but people in some areas said they were not receiving them from local authorities.
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Water supplies in Napa County include reservoirs where the wildfires burned, and there's also a worry well water could end up being tainted, too.
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The sudden isolation has spurred Qatar to hold talks with Turkey, Iran and others to secure food and water supplies, said a Qatari official.
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As a result, casualties of herbicides, burn pits, radiation, contaminated water supplies, PCBs and other self-inflicted wounds go without compensation or medical benefits.
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More than 6003 percent of the country's irrigated agriculture and 85 percent of drinking water supplies are dependent on groundwater, the World Bank estimates.
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The substance of the analysis documented a number of cases in which fracking and its related processes affected water supplies, but those were overshadowed.
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He dismissed concerns about the pipeline's threat to drinking water supplies, and noted a judge's Friday decision approving of federal permitting of the project.
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A draft version of the EPA's study concluded last year that fracking doesn't have a major impact on drinking water supplies around the country.
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PFAS is widely used in common household products, and the chemical has also been found in water supplies across the country after breaking down.
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Authorities have had to truck water supplies to 18 of Cambodia's 25 provinces, with some 2.5 million people affected by the drought, he said.
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Even so, a North Dakota tribe has sued against the project, saying it threatens cultural heritage sites and drinking water supplies in the region.
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Global health experts say breast milk is especially important for babies in poor countries, where unsafe water supplies can make powdered infant formula dangerous.
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For years, U.S. security and intelligence agencies have said that Moscow has inserted malware that could sabotage American power plants, pipelines or water supplies.
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Michigan's aging infrastructure has posed a similar problem in Detroit, which began testing water supplies in schools in the wake of the Flint crisis.
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The activists, some critical of the government for long-term mismanagement of water supplies, have been accused by Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards of spying.
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Rescuers and aid workers were having difficulty reaching them and electricity, water supplies and telecommunications have been badly disrupted, it said in a statement.
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Reflecting on his exposure to the culture of the Border Patrol, Mr. Cantú emphasized that destroying water supplies was never something he did himself.
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Big hogs can chew up acres of crops in a single night, destroying pastures, tearing out fences, digging up irrigation systems, polluting water supplies.
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But it has also brought more dangers from landslides, floods, avalanches, erratic water supplies and new plant and animal pests, the Mountain Partnership said.
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More than a third of the island still has no power, and federal workers are still sending food and water supplies to some towns.
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London's mayor Sadiq Khan said it was "unacceptable" that thousands across the British capital had no water, as utility companies struggled to maintain water supplies.
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Refugees housed in camps run by aid agencies had better access than local people to education, healthcare, water supplies and opportunities for a decent living.
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Some schools postponed summer examinations, and parts of northern France were put on drought alert, with water supplies to businesses, farmers and ordinary residents restricted.
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The Standing Rock tribe and environmental activists say the project would threaten water supplies and sacred Native American sites and ultimately contribute to climate change.
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The resource-scarce city-state gets up to 60 percent of its water supplies from Malaysia as part of an agreement that expires in 2061.
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On Tuesday, the UN's refugee agency (UNHCR) released a statement reporting attacks on medical facilities and other civilian infrastructure including powerlines, water supplies and bakeries.
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In other words, some in Puerto Rico have little recourse left than to seek out water supplies at wells located on the island's Superfund sites.
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The two pipelines would cross more than 2700,2150 water bodies and 21971 miles of pristine forest, potentially endangering municipal water supplies and ecologically sensitive habitats.
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The two pipelines would cross more than 1503,000 water bodies and 245 miles of pristine forest, potentially endangering municipal water supplies and ecologically sensitive habitats.
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In the Burkinabe village of Balole, local farmers reportedly attacked and closed a slaughterhouse in protest at blood and offal leaking into their water supplies.
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It has dispatched teams of fumigators and treated water supplies to combat the Aedes mosquito, which also carries diseases like dengue, yellow fever and chikungunya.
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Later, in the 1950s, the government built the Glen Canyon Dam even further upstream to create Lake Powell, to help store and regulate water supplies.
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Residents in Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina, a three-hour drive from the coast, saw grocery store shelves stripped of food and water supplies.
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It said authorities would cut off power and water supplies, and even demolish the equipment of firms that fail to meet environmental and safety standards.
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It plans to double these by 2020 in the region where 80 percent of the population lives in cities, putting huge pressure on water supplies.
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Many people pump their water supplies from the ground, which contains high levels of the cancer-causing chemical in Bangladesh and parts of neighboring countries.
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Climate change and control of municipal water supplies are high on the list, and Sierra Club's Mayors for 100 campaign is out in full force.
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When megadroughts struck the Southwest in the distant past, the impacts on water supplies and agriculture were enough to destroy or break apart prehistoric civilizations.
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Replacing fossil power with efficiency and renewables slashes their emissions and water use, thereby cleaning the air and preserving water supplies in times of drought.
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The rules will also compel metallurgical miners to set up specialist storage sites for tailings to prevent them from contaminating local land and water supplies.
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He also dismissed concerns about the pipeline's threat to drinking water supplies, and noted a judge's Friday decision approving of federal permitting of the project.
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Under the direction of a state-appointed emergency manager, Flint switched water supplies to the Flint River from Detroit's system in 2014, to save money.
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Rapid urbanisation is putting pressure on water supplies after two years of drought, with the capital relying on Haryana to meet much of its needs.
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Bacteria, which are also a concern in drinking water supplies after storms like Hurricane Maria, were also found to be at safe levels, he said.
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Video footage provided by shipping unions broadcast on South Korean television this week showed some crews fishing for food and complaining of inadequate water supplies.
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It means no information about how much fresh water will be polluted or depleted from drinking water supplies, including rivers, lakes, reservoirs and underground aquifers.
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To encourage returnees, Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli said Turkey would supply mains power to Jarablus on Saturday, followed by water supplies two days later.
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For decades, these chemicals have been leaching into the water supplies of communities near industrial facilities or military bases where they are produced or used.
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It would also provide funding to update treatment systems or find alternative water supplies when local water systems or household wells are contaminated with PFAS.
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Fluoride is not added to public water supplies in Mexico, but people are exposed through naturally occurring fluoride in water and fluoridated salt and supplements.
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An expanding population, growing demand for water from agriculture and industry, and poor management of water supplies have sent India's groundwater to ever lower levels.
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Under the direction of a state-appointed emergency manager, Flint switched water supplies to the Flint River from Detroit's system in 2014 to save money.
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But it's now believed by many to cause cancer, and it is increasingly turning up in drinking water supplies near military sites across the country.
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The report said that after an initial melt and increase in water flow, possibly leading to high-altitude lakes bursting, water supplies would dry up.
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Nearly every aspect of the modern economy depends on electricity from the grid, including space and water heating, lighting, water supplies, transportation and industrial processes.
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All three flooded towns and cities; knocked out power, cellphone coverage and water supplies; and wrecked houses and farms, businesses and infrastructure over wide areas.
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"Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips failed to adequately monitor hazardous materials in large gasoline holding tanks, which endangered nearby water supplies," Harris said in a statement.
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Basic food and water supplies have begun to flow back into the region but infrastructure is badly damaged, with some affected towns remaining inaccessible overland.
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - With residents and courts ringing the alarm about depleted water supplies in Chile's Atacama salt flat, the world's top lithium miner Albemarle (ALB.
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The full extent of the effect on drinking water supplies is not known because private sources of drinking water are not tested, the report said.
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Faced with diminishing water supplies, the women decided to stop using pesticides and focus on organic farming instead, which uses far less water, she said.
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The Standing Rock tribe and environmental activists said the project would threaten water supplies and sacred Native American sites and ultimately contribute to climate change.
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Though progress is being made, field reports indicate continued challenges, in reestablishing power, communication, food and clean drinking water supplies and hospital-based care delivery.
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Conditions in the devastated area are grim, with food and water supplies running low and few buildings sturdy enough to offer safety from any aftershocks.
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Democrats accused the GOP of overriding California law and its power over water supplies, while significantly harming commercial fishing in the state by reapportioning water.
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Years of intensive farming combined with overuse of harsh chemicals has degraded cropland and poisoned water supplies, leaving the country increasingly vulnerable to crop shortages.
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A county report on the measure identifies a host of risks that could accompany cultivation, including odor from nearby grows and competition for water supplies.
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The Brazilian health ministry immediately refuted this and said there had been incidents of microcephaly in areas that had not used pyriproxyfen in water supplies.
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The project has faced months of protest from the tribe, as well as environmental activists, who say it threatens local water supplies and sacred tribal sites.
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The 32,000-gallon spill temporarily shut down water supplies in the downstream community of Glendive, Montana, after oil was detected in the city's water treatment system.
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Large investments are needed in schools, hospitals, roads and water supplies to bring services in the area to a level similar to the rest of Pakistan.
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And studies have found that when this all debris and waste gets into water supplies, it can have dire health impacts for the people living nearby.
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The situation reflects an ongoing nationwide crisis as a fatal heat wave sweeps across India, and cities from Mumbai to Delhi face dwindling water supplies. 5.
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The world's water supplies are threatened by many factors, from climate change to mismanagement in the form of water waste and pollution, Washington-based WRI said.
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Flooding, which is expected to increase due to rising sea levels and changing weather patterns, can pollute water supplies and spread unsafe water across wide areas.
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Communities, states, Congress, and federal agencies will have to decide how — or whether — to resettle certain floodplains, raise roads, and fortify water supplies and petrochemical facilities.
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Damage to Iraq's own dams and other infrastructure from years of fighting - and from a recent earthquake - also is making water supplies more irregular, he said.
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Besieged city Daraya was essentially cut off from normal food and water supplies in 2012 as the government tried to regain control of the opposition stronghold.
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This bacterium, which appears in potable water supplies, can spray out and — for older adults or those with weakened immune systems — lead to deadly Legionnaires' disease.
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Fracking has contaminated drinking water and strained local water supplies in some circumstances, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found this week in a highly anticipated report.
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Local authorities have switched off electricity and water supplies at the barricaded detention centre, leaving the asylum-seekers to survive on stockpiles of food and rainwater.
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Residents and forest officials have begun fencing in areas that have long been open, stopping the Bakarwal from reaching their traditional routes, pastures and water supplies.
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For refugees, meanwhile, aid agencies are increasingly trying to provide water supplies and sanitation in ways that also benefit local people and avoid tensions, Connor said.
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The Palestinians say Israel is preventing them from accessing adequate water at an affordable price, and point out that nearby Israeli settlements have plentiful water supplies.
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Aid agencies said they were struggling to provide medical care and shelter for the new arrivals, while water supplies were being stretched thin in the camp.
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In the Federal District, where Brazil's capital Brasilia is located, water supplies will be restored to normal on June 15 - a date brought forward from December.
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CAVAILLON, Haiti (Reuters) - A lifeless body caked in blood and mud lies in the street for days, and promised food and water supplies fail to materialize.
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Below ground, the practice of "long-wall" mining, which removes an entire coal seam, can crack buildings' foundations and damage springs and wells, destroying water supplies.
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For example, by targeting power and water supplies at the same time, attackers could cause a reactor to melt down or a cooling pond to ignite.
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He does not care about the long-term damage that a mountaintop mining operation can do to our drinking-water supplies and to our fishing habitats.
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India is still recovering from a drought last year that ravaged crops, killed livestock, emptied reservoirs and drained water supplies to city dwellers and some industries.
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Climate change - which is expected to cause more frequent and intense droughts and change rainfall patterns - will likely put additional stress on water supplies, Luo said.
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In order to adapt, the country is trying to build rainwater cisterns and new pipe systems to ensure that its people have safe drinking water supplies.
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Home Minister Amit Shah asked officials to ensure any power, telecommunications and drinking water supplies affected by the cyclone are restored as soon as possible afterwards.
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The first would establish guidelines for when cleanups will be required at federally controlled sites to try to prevent that contamination from reaching drinking water supplies.
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There are currently more than 2.5 million internally displaced people in Yemen, with a health service that struggles to cope and intermittent food and water supplies.
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Egypt draws almost all of its fresh water supplies from the Nile, and is faced with worsening water scarcity for its population of nearly 100 million.
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Egypt draws almost all of its fresh water supplies from the Nile, and is faced with worsening water scarcity for its population of nearly 100 million.
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SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian Environment Minister Neno Dimov was charged with deliberate mismanagement of the water supplies for the western city of Pernik, prosecutors said on Friday.
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In a March report to Congress, the Defense Department listed 126 facilities where tests of nearby water supplies showed the substances exceeded the current safety guidelines.
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The report, released Monday by the Environmental Integrity Project and Earthjustice, highlights more than a dozen instances in which those substances have reached drinking water supplies.
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More than 100 groups signed a letter Monday urging Congress to provide funding for the city, where people are suffering health problems from contaminated water supplies.
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But further rapid expansion could prove challenging at a time when water supplies are dwindling, as warming temperatures increasingly affect the western United States, scientists warn.
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Options under consideration include drilling new wells, moving water supplies to where they are needed using transmission mains, and leasing water rights from Native American tribes.
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The drought now threatening water supplies in Cape Town is a stark example of how cities need to adapt long before a drought or flood hits.
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The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services also warned the flooding may have contaminated private water supplies, saying wells should be tested to ensure safety.
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On Monday, a report found that one- to two-thirds of Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2100, disrupting food and water supplies for two billion people.
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Republican lawmakers, including those whose support Wheeler needs to be confirmed to lead the agency permanently, have also expressed concern about the contamination in water supplies.
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Though the toxic metal is not usually found in natural water supplies, such as lakes, it can enter water distribution systems and household plumbing due to corrosion.
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Already, 600 million people are facing acute water shortages nationwide -- and 200,000 die each year from inadequate or unsafe water supplies, according to the NITI Aayog report.
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The spring was knocked out of service in late December, reducing water supplies to the 70 percent of residents of Damascus and surrounding areas that it serves.
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Already some 500 million children live in areas with limited water supplies, and the demand for water today far exceeds available resources in 36 countries, UNICEF said.
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If no action is taken to clean up and conserve water supplies, more children will be forced to drink potentially unsafe water as a result, UNICEF said.
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Its redevelopment plans include resettling families away from risky areas and rebuilding power grids, water supplies and other critical infrastructure in a more robust way, Macie said.
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The cut-off neighbourhoods went 15 days without food or water supplies and they named themselves El Campamento de los Olvidados, the Camp of the Forgotten Ones.
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For months, the Standing Rock Sioux and other activists have been protesting construction there, arguing that the pipeline could endanger both nearby water supplies and sacred sites.
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Around the globe, many energy and fuel producers have been caught off guard this year by severe storms, anomalous temperatures and rapid changes to available water supplies.
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For months, Native American activists and allies have argued that the 1,13-mile, $3.8 billion pipeline project would pollute the region's water supplies and desecrate sacred sites.
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The United Nations this week said its humanitarian efforts have been impacted by the protests, affecting access to medical care and choking off fuel and water supplies.
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But, but, but: It depends on factors including sufficient water supplies for injection into reservoirs, attracting foreign capital, and a "conducive political and security environment," IEA said.
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Founded in 1954, MAP also helps to prevent disease by improving water supplies and promotes health to create hope and lasting change in more than 115 countries.
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That would be more than enough to provide backup water supplies to other cities facing water shortages beyond Cape Town, like São Paulo, Brazil and Mexico City.
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Although Mr Sall is unpopular among urban voters, he has a large following in the countryside and villages, where his government has built roads and water supplies.
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Flint's city switched water supplies in 2014 while a new pipeline was under construction and the corrosive water from the Flint River leached lead from old pipes.
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State and local agencies are eligible for the grants when wildfires burn outside federal land and threaten infrastructure such as water supplies and power grids, she said.
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Hundreds of people queued, some for more than an hour, to get food as power and water supplies to tens of thousands of homes remained cut off.
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Valiente points out that the Kuna will eventually need funds to transport entire communities off the island and set up new water supplies, electricity and sewage systems.
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A lot of people are concerned that hydraulic fracturing — where a mix of water and chemicals is injected into rock to release gas — contaminates drinking water supplies.
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The leaders of the three countries signed a co-operation deal in Khartoum last year to pave the way for a joint approach to regional water supplies.
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A water supply line The state government of Delhi has sounded an alert over water supplies and announced that schools in the city will remain closed Monday.
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More than 100 groups have signed a letter urging Congress to provide funding for the city, which is suffering from contaminated water supplies caused by corroded pipes.
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The plaintiff, Kenneth Vigneron Sr, alleges he developed testicular cancer stemming from a chemical leak at a DuPont plant in West Virginia that contaminated local water supplies.
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Numerous localities around the country have found PFAS in their water supplies in recent years, and the EPA is considering whether to regulate levels of the pollutant.
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Honduran nationals in the United States received TPS in 1998, after Hurricane Mitch devastated Honduras and left it lacking basic infrastructure, sanitation services and safe water supplies.
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It came to the public's attention after spills in North Carolina and Tennessee sent mercury, cadmium, arsenic and other heavy metals from the ash into water supplies.
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Fourth, a fully-funded program of stopping desertification and enhancing water supplies for the people of a new Iran should be planned by America and its allies.
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Any project backed by Masen, Zerouali added, is supposed to bring benefits to communities living nearby in the form of jobs, roads, water supplies and grid connections.
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"Unfortunately the last 22019 years have been the Colorado Basin's driest on record," she said, leaving water supplies for major cities at risk of reaching crisis levels.
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Better sanitation and clean water supplies reduced the rate of bacterial infection, while improved medical and treatment protocols reduced the spread of infection and improved treatment outcomes.
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About four months from now, the city's water supply is projected to drop so low that city officials will be forced to turn off municipal water supplies.
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And the federal government must demonstrate how innovative water management can reduce conflict, provide secure water supplies, and restore health to rivers that flow through arid lands.
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Another major cause of unrest has been drought, which locals say has been exacerbated by the diversion of water supplies to ethnically Persian provinces such as Isfahan.
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In some cases, communities have been engaged in long legal battles over uranium mining that has forever tainted water supplies and caused cancer among the people there.
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Climate change, the growing world population and demands for industrialization have put a strain on global water supplies, with the impact felt on rich and poor nations.
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School officials in Newark, New Jersey, announced in early March that 30 of the district's 2.53 schools had elevated levels of lead in their drinking-water supplies.
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The project has long been lamented by residents in the southern region of Arequipa where farmers say the mine will pollute their fields and affect water supplies.
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The Obama administration said that the drinking water supplies for 117 million Americans rely on protection by the rule, which it had dubbed the Clean Water Rule.
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But the advising scientists' critique stands to reignite the debate over how to regulate a practice that critics say could contaminate water supplies and exacerbate global warming.
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Animal waste, antibiotics, hormones, fertilizers, pesticides used on feed crops, bacteria, viruses, and sediments from eroded land wash into our waterways, sometimes leaching into drinking water supplies.
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The country is still recovering from a drought last year that ravaged crops, killed livestock, emptied reservoirs and drained water supplies to city dwellers and some industries.
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Since 2014, Avdiivka has had multiple disruptions in water supplies, and everyone, including women, has had to carry buckets of water up the stairs of apartment buildings.
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The water supplies in Brunswick County, North Carolina, and Quad Cities, Iowa, contained the highest levels of the chemicals, more than 100 times the EWG's suggested limit.
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Yet very much the same effect is achieved when logging increases run-off that contaminates local water supplies and forces communities to build expensive water treatment plants.
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The cut-off neighborhoods went 15 days without food or water supplies and they named themselves El Campamento de los Olvidados, the Camp of the Forgotten Ones.
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Citing recent instances of contaminated water supplies and what they call an assault on the environment by the Trump administration, they are now determined to change that.
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In Indonesia alone, thousands of children have developed birth defects, half a million people have been poisoned, and food and water supplies are laced with toxic chemicals.
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Zaharin says the EcoLoo could potentially play a role in disaster relief efforts when sanitation issues, often related to contaminated water supplies, cause diseases to spread rapidly.
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The project has drawn opposition from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, as well as environmental activists, who say it threatens water supplies as well as sacred tribal sites.
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The SDWA requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish national standards for contaminants, such as lead, in public water supplies that could adversely affect public health.
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Growing populations, more farming and economic growth, climate change and a rush of people to cities all are increasing pressure on the world's limited water supplies, researchers say.
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Meanwhile, the less fortunate struggle with dwindling public water supplies, hoping sporadic flows will fill their 150-gallon (560-liter) plastic storage tanks fitted with buzzing electric pumps.
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The situation in Chennai reflects an ongoing nationwide crisis as a fatal heat wave sweeps across the country, and cities from Mumbai to Delhi face dwindling water supplies.
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They escaped ISIS, but Falluja's children still suffer Civilians there have had to cope with acute shortages of food, medicine and other basic services, such as water supplies.
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With reports that crippling blackouts throughout Libya affecting water supplies that rely on electric power for distribution, the solar panels may prove to be a much needed lifeline.
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Kirsten Gillibrand, a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, who this month introduced an amendment to require testing of all public water supplies for unregulated contaminants.
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He contends federal and state government agencies are unfairly reducing water supplies to farmers and residents and are instead trying to protect fish such as the Delta smelt.
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The creek feeds into the Little Missouri River, but Seuss said it so far appears that no oil leaked into the river or has threatened drinking water supplies.
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Thank you to our firefighters, blue collar workers, white collar workers, police officers, district directors, those responsible for water supplies, etc.. for your magnificent contribution, Solidarity and Professionalism.
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Their improvements in water supplies could pave the way for the state to next year surpass the production record of 26 million 2671-kg bags reported in 22014.
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Tia Maria has been stalled for nearly a decade due to opposition from residents of Arequipa who fear it will harm crops or use up local water supplies.
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The ban was put in place five years ago to deter poaching, but local residents complained that elephants have been damaging crops, killing livestock and destroying water supplies.
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Food and water supplies will be threatened globally, sea level rise will inundate coastal communities, and billions of people will be at risk of devastating heat-driven diseases.
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She said the initiative would help mosques establish better water supplies and storage facilities, offer fundraising advice and provide funding to mosques to help them become environmentally friendly.
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Government officials said the situation has also sparked deadly conflict in some parts of the country as local farmers and pastoralists clash over dwindling pasture and water supplies.
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Environmental and land rights campaigners say the drought has exposed the impact of mining projects, which they say divert water supplies and contaminate lakes and other water sources.
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The 2628-mile span is the most contentious segment of the 28503,22019-mile pipeline route, because a local tribe says the pipeline threatens its drinking water supplies there.
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For a long time, scientists have wondered how it survives with limited water supplies, but now a study published yesterday in the journal Nature Plants has the answer.
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The 1.25-mile span is the most contentious segment of the 1,170-mile pipeline route, because a local tribe says the pipeline threatens its drinking water supplies there.
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The kingdom has become a major importer of wheat since abandoning plans in 2008 to become self-sufficient as farming in the desert was draining scarce water supplies.
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Indeed, investments in safe drinking water supplies, cleaner transportation and energy, and a more reliable electric grid could all be popular and bipartisan parts of an infrastructure bill.
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Until Saturday afternoon, the Terrys occupied the trees to oppose a development project that would, they fear, poison local water supplies and irrevocably damage the area's natural beauty.
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We simply must have strong public safety, a safe and secure transportation network to move throughout our nation, and confidence that our food and water supplies are protected.
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Their bill would protect communities and the environment by balancing industrial-scale mining with other important land uses, such as water supplies, conservation, recreation and renewable energy development.
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In the water-rich towns in the shadow of Mount Shasta, residents have raised concerns over proposed bottling plants that they say could severely diminish local water supplies.
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Native American activists say a recent mass arrest won't stop them from protesting an oil pipeline in North Dakota that they say threatens water supplies and sacred land.
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Other preppers have been in combat, or lived through natural disasters that remind them how keeping extra water, supplies, and guns on hand is not a bad idea.
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Water supplies across the port city of Chennai have dropped by half, with the government saying tap water may dwindle to a trickle in the days to come.
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Saudi Arabia has become a major importer of wheat and barley since abandoning plans for self-sufficiency in 2008, as farming in the desert drained scarce water supplies.
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They also steal those public water supplies: Rainfall in California during the May-September outdoor growing season is minimal, meaning water must be diverted from streams and rivers.
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California's Napa Valley vinyards largely escaped undamaged and the rain was expected to replenish water supplies after five years of drought, said Patsy McGaughy, Napa Valley Vintners spokeswoman.
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Fani was the strongest summer cyclone in 43 years to hit Odisha, disrupting water supplies and transport links, the state's chief minister Naveen Patnaik said in a statement.
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He came up with a nickname for Grace — "the scale in the sky" — and began tracking California's water supplies during what eventually became a decade of unrelenting drought.
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The announcement, however, will likely trigger fresh protests in the southern region of Arequipa, where farmers say the mine will pollute their fields and affect local water supplies.
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Superfund regulation is broadly seen as essential to getting the Defense Department to swiftly clean up drinking water supplies it has contaminated near military bases around the country.
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This will make it easier to pollute streams and fill in wetlands that safeguard our water supplies, reduce flood risks and provide for healthy fish and wildlife habitat.
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SOFIA, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Bulgarian Environment Minister Neno Dimov was charged with deliberate mismanagement of the water supplies for the western city of Pernik, prosecutors said on Friday.
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As well as protecting water supplies for millions, that will conserve "some of the country's most biodiverse ecosystems and globally important wetland protected areas," according to the WWF.
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But the nation has suffered devastating droughts and deadly heat waves in recent years, putting an unprecedented strain on water supplies and boosting competition for the scare resources.
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The Cuyahoga River catching on fire, giant algae blooms in lakes and rivers, and widespread contamination of municipal water supplies led to the Clean Water Act of 1972.
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Due to concerns about shrinking U.S. water supplies, the federal government has regulated faucet and showerhead water flow since at least 1994, when Democrat Bill Clinton was president.
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Here are some of the key findings from the latest science: A total of 21.5 million people in high mountain regions depend on glaciers for their water supplies.
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Marshall Billingslea, assistant secretary for terrorist financing at the Treasury Department, also accused the government of President Nicolas Maduro of contaminating Venezuelan water supplies at gold mining sites.
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An entire ecosystem remains toxic to wildlife, while communities have been forced to build expensive water treatment plants or seek alternative drinking water supplies to safeguard resident's health.
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India needs a good monsoon this year as in 2018 a drought ravaged crops, killed livestock, emptied reservoirs and drained water supplies to city dwellers and some industries.
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Hexavalent chromium is linked with cancer, for example, and lead causes irreversible damage to developing fetuses and children and can contaminate water supplies and harm plants and animals.
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When these substances leach out of the ground and into nearby water supplies, it poisons the water and turns it an impossible-to-ignore shade of rusty orange.
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In 2013, Rango conducted a study in Sri Lanka, in partnership with the water institute, testing water supplies in affected and nonaffected regions for traces of these heavy elements.
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But that has allowed it to pioneer ways of managing scarce water supplies or growing food in forests at the local level where it matters most, say its supporters.
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SANAA (Reuters) - Authorities in the Houthi-held Yemeni capital Sanaa are sterilizing water supplies at wells, distribution networks and houses to help stem the world's worst outbreak of cholera.
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He said his district already needs to ration water supplies in dry periods, and families feel the situation will get much worse if water begins being diverted to Blantyre.
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Further fueling the controversy are instances in which large corporations have privatized water supplies then raised the rates of local residents, essentially cutting them off from their own resources.
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The first 48 hours is the most important time to stay inside, so at a bare minimum you should have food and water supplies for that amount of time.
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One of the government's most experienced cybersecurity civil servants, Manfra currently leads the effort to protect and strengthen our nation's vital infrastructure, including the power grid and water supplies.
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Tap water supplies for roughly 63 million Americans nationwide were found to have chromium-6, a carcinogenic chemical, at levels above California's public health goals, a new study found.
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The Pan American Health Organization said on Thursday it was preparing for a possible cholera surge in Haiti after the hurricane because flooding was likely to contaminate water supplies.
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"Underground mines that use a lot of water also have an impact on water supplies," said Oscar Bazoberry, the head of the Institute of Rural Development in South America.
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The report said OPM paid too much for land ostensibly to expand space for refugee registration activities and there were also potentially $7.7 million in overpayments for water supplies.
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A similar device went missing from a contractor in Iraq this year, creating concerns that terrorists could use it to contaminate water supplies or help make a "dirty" bomb.
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They argue that the pipeline, which is intended to carry crude oil from North Dakota to a refinery in Illinois, could pollute water supplies and destroy culturally important land.
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In recent inspection campaigns, China has been focusing on the cleaning up of "black and stinking" urban water supplies and the removal of illegal construction on protected nature reserves.
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The water crisis in Flint, MI, hit new levels on Wednesday, as members of the National Guard arrived in the city to help distribute water supplies to local residents.
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These studies say that global warming, if it continues unabated, will cause longer and more severe droughts in already-dry places, thereby threatening drinking water supplies around the world.
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Details: Maduro said in a televised address the move would help combat the blackouts, which have caused water supplies and communications to be cut off, according to the AP.
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Yet the bureau's 22019,073-page management plan contained just three brief mentions of fracking and no analysis of fracking pollution's threats to public health, endangered species or water supplies.
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They introduced national pollution control mechanisms that superseded local standards and placed strict regulations on the industrial sector that prohibited the contamination of public water supplies and the air.
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Air and drinking-water supplies are also polluted by the contaminant, as G.E. shuts down and demolishes its plants along the upper Hudson, moving jobs out of state. Gov.
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What's more, the measurements enabled glaciologists to look at the decline of massive mountain glaciers, like those in Central Asia, which are a critical resource for regional water supplies.
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"Most public tap water supplies have toxicities including chlorine and fluoride in them… Spring water created by the earth is clearly the best solution," notes Find a Spring's website.
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" Ian Neilson, the deputy mayor, said that new water supplies have been part of the city's plans but "it was not envisaged that it would be required so soon.
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Water scarcity is a factor in the violent conflicts in Syria and Yemen, and in both countries, control of water supplies is being used as a weapon of war.
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Natural gas is often portrayed as cleaner, but two-thirds of United States natural gas comes from fracking, a method with still-to-be-determined risks to water supplies.
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The three countries' irrigation ministers met in Cairo on Sunday to resume negotiations over filling and operating the dam, which Egypt sees as a threat to its water supplies.
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Adoption of drought contingency plans this summer, developed over years of collaborative negotiation, takes the next step by implementing mandatory action to reduce risk and protect limited water supplies.
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Another bigger eruption could potentially send ash -- which carries microscopic shards of glass -- 2000 kilometers (226 miles) away or more, contaminating the air and water supplies in distant locations.
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Perhaps we could build differently, or set aside land that would both help recharge the dwindling water supplies in times of drought and slow the floods when they come.
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The floods inundated thousands of homes and buildings in poor and wealthy districts alike, forcing authorities to cut off electricity and water supplies and paralyzing transport networks, Wibowo said.
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Conservation programs under the federal Farm Bill on private lands in the Upper Midwest helped grow duck populations while providing protection from floodwaters and keeping drinking water supplies safe.
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Making matters worse, most residents and businesses rely on wells that drain underground aquifers for their water supplies, resulting in the city sinking by 5-10 cm each year.
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Military and civilian firefighters can continue to use PFAS firefighting foams that slowly seep into drinking water supplies, although some have pledged to use alternative foams when they train.
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That's if the world doesn't take steps to guard crop pollination, protect coasts from flooding and erosion, maintain water supplies, store carbon and manage timber production and fisheries sustainably.
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An environmental impact assessment commissioned by Lydian to get approval to start work in 2016 stated there would be no significant impacts on the environment and local water supplies.
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The United Nations has said the spring was damaged because "infrastructure was deliberately targeted", without saying who was responsible, leaving 4 million people in Damascus without safe drinking water supplies.
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For example, extracting the lithium in lithium-ion batteries involves drilling massive holes in the salt flats of Bolivia, which has diverted water from farmers and contaminated local water supplies.
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The kingdom has become a major importer of wheat and barley since abandoning plans in 2008 to become self-sufficient - as farming in the desert was draining scarce water supplies.
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In the areas around Quito, that might involve a shift in grazing methods on the sponge-like paramos plains that are vital to water supplies - such as Comuna Espejo's alpacas.
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Cornejo and other Tia Maria opponents fear the project will interfere with farming and pollute water supplies, remaining opposed even after Southern Copper made plans to build a desalinization plant.
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Managing water supplies in largely agrarian Thailand has proved a challenge for successive governments, with the government of then Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra being criticized for mismanaging the 2011 crisis.
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But as the waters recede, rescue workers worry that tainted water supplies and sanitation issues in the flooding's aftermath could lead to a spike in deadly diarrhea and malaria cases.
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KABUL (Reuters) - A growing population is straining water supplies in Afghanistan's capital, forcing those who can afford it to dig unregulated wells ever deeper to tap a falling water table.
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The start of this open-pit mine threatens to pollute the air and nearby water supplies with toxic metals, in a region that economically depends on outdoor recreation and tourism.
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The protesters are demonstrating against the Dakota Access pipeline, a $85033 billion, 1,170-mile project that a North Dakota tribe says threatens its cultural heritage sites and drinking water supplies.
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The attacks were aimed at sabotaging power supplies and manipulating water supplies or disrupting communications lines, the paper said, adding security authorities suspected foreign intelligence agencies were behind such attacks.
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By 2025 the UN expects that 14% of the world's population will be faced with water scarcity as a result of the damaging effects of climate change on water supplies.
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Global farming needs sustainable water supplies to feed the growing world population and provide the basis for world peace and stability, the meeting's host, German agriculture minister Christian Schmidt, said.
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Given the proposed route of the pipeline, there has been strong indigenous resistance to the project as native tribes claim it will drill through sacred sites, and contaminate water supplies.
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Undeveloped distribution networks, poor roads and fickle water supplies are difficult hurdles for even the most competent farmer, and many of these would-be farmers have little training or experience.
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Having seen first-hand the power of this storm, please ensure you stay inside, ideally in organized shelters or other solid concrete structures with water, supplies and emergency contact plans.
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The company had in the past said that the brewery, which is partly built, would affect less than 1% of local water supplies and that it had all necessary permits.
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They range from providing credit to Ghanaian women working on climate-smart farming to promoting forest restoration in Honduras and protecting drinking water supplies from drought in the Marshall Islands.
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At a time when cities around the country fear their water supplies becoming as contaminated as those in Flint, we need to improve clean water protections, not roll them back.
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The American Dental Association said it was "committed to fluoridation of public water supplies as the single most effective public health measure to help prevent tooth decay," in a statement.
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And as the most common targets are civilian — electrical grids, hospitals, water supplies, transportation infrastructure — cyberwarfare disproportionately threatens citizens, linking American foreign policy with the everyday lives of ordinary Americans.
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As prolonged droughts and population growth continue to strain U.S. water supplies, oil and gas companies could soon find themselves competing with local communities, farmers and other water-guzzling industries.
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Raqqa council volunteers have said they told the coalition it will take 5.3 billion Syrian lira (about $10 million) a year to restore power and water supplies, roads and schools.
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This month, volunteers at the council told Reuters they had informed the coalition it would take about $10 million a year to restore power and water supplies, roads and schools.
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But the Cascade Range, from Washington south into Oregon, has so far seen much less snow than average, with possible repercussions later this year for water supplies and fire danger.
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A report from Argentinian doctors' organisation, Physicians in the Crop Sprayed Town, suggested pyriproxyfen, a larvicide used in drinking water supplies to control mosquitoes, was behind the cases of microcephaly.
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Hackers could mess with a city's water supplies without attacking its critical infrastructure directly, but instead targeting its weakest link: internet-connected sprinklers, researchers warn in a new academic study.
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Our water supplies are also likely to become contaminated as heavy rainfall brings more chemicals and waste into increasingly warm water, creating a petri dish for salmonella and E. coli.
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That is when crippling nationwide power outages began to leave vast swaths of territory in the dark for days at a time, cutting off water supplies and cell phone service.
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Members of the tribe, who fought hard to block part of the pipeline's construction, said the relatively small spill bolsters their argument that Dakota Access threatens their water supplies and livelihoods.
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Moving like a gigantic thick wall, it carries sand and dust -- burying homes, increasing evaporation to a region that's struggling to preserve water supplies, as well as eroding valuable fertile soil.
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"It brings a lot of concerns for us because if bad luck reaches one of the main water facilities, the water supplies for 133,000 - 500,000 people could be stopped," he said.
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"It is very hard to avoid exposure to PFAs because they are in so many products and in some water supplies," Claudio, who wasn't involved in the study, said by email.
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In addition, increasingly frequent droughts in countries ranging from Ethiopia in Africa to Colombia in Latin America would place higher competition on water supplies over the next 40 years, he said.
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On the southern short of Lake Turkana, famed for the harsh beauty of its landscape, residents are burning carcasses to stop the bodies from infecting water supplies if the rains come.
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The kingdom has become a major importer of wheat and barley since plans to become self-sufficient were abandoned in 2008 because farming in the desert was draining scarce water supplies.
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"The crisis of halting water supplies has ended and flows have started," the Great Man-Made River company, a pipe network supplying ground water from the Sahara, said in a statement.
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The U.N.-backed government of Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj had blamed a group that also cut the water supplies in 2017, saying its commander, Khalifa Ehnaish, belonged to Haftar's forces.
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TEPIC, Mexico (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Reducing inequality, securing water supplies and strengthening disaster prevention is crucial to bolster Chile's quake-prone capital against climate change and other hazards, Santiago's authorities said.
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Residents of the city, which has been under siege for months, have had to cope with "acute" shortages of food, medicine and other basic services, such as water supplies, it added.
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Brockovich brought chromium-6 into the national spotlight in the 1990s after fighting a California power company that allegedly leaked the chemical into tap water supplies in Hinkley, California, sickening residents.
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The techniques won't quench the collective thirst of humanity, but they've got serious potential to help us augment water supplies in particularly dry places, especially as climate change wreaks its havoc.
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Federal law requires coal companies to clean up land that they have mined, restoring the landscape to its original vegetation and treating water supplies that were damaged during the mining process.
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Across once-lush islands now being compared to a "nuclear landscape," many residents find themselves in darkness, as power remains out, -- and they're increasingly worried about dwindling food and water supplies.
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The EPA was considering a petition to "prohibit the purposeful addition of fluoridation chemicals to U.S. water supplies," which it received in November, but said Friday it is declining the request.
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High levels of lead plague schools, the industrial chemical polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) permeates water supplies around the country, and other industrial pollution continues to seep into our lakes, rivers, and streams.
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Klimkin said the EU promised him to consider that and also to look into aid for Donbas and southern Ukraine, including safeguarding water supplies for the Azov Sea port of Mariupol.
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The project was constructed in response to the effects of climate change, she said, which has led to more erratic water supplies in mountain areas, putting lives and incomes at risk.
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Emails among U.S. government officials show the Trump administration trying to manage a potentially damaging report on a class of chemicals found to have polluted water supplies near U.S. military installations.
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South Africa's Cape Town, with a population of 3.7 million, is suffering from severe drought after three years of low rainfall, threatening water supplies for its residents, businesses and tourism industry.
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And there's growing evidence that when mining debris and waste gets into water supplies, the toxic metals can have dire health impacts for the people and mostly rural communities living nearby.
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As a new mother, she became hyper-aware of all the products that came in contact with her baby, from microplastics contaminating water supplies to chemical-laden air pollutants like VOCs.
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BRIDGETOWN, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Barbados was hit by serious power outages for a second day on Tuesday, forcing schools and some businesses to close and hitting water supplies on the island.
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Somalia and parts of neighboring Ethiopia and Kenya have suffered from repeated seasons of failed rains that have shriveled crops, depleted livestock and left people's food and water supplies increasingly insecure.
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For years, U.S. security and intelligence agencies have said that Russia has inserted malware that could sabotage U.S. power plants, oil and gas pipelines, or water supplies in any future conflict.
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The recommendations issued Thursday focus instead on longer-term remedial actions — which can take years — to address instances in which the government has confirmed that drinking water supplies have been contaminated.
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In those cases, the agency said it expected cleanup or other actions in areas where drinking water supplies have been contaminated with at least 70 parts per trillion of the chemicals.
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WASHINGTON — To ensure that tap water in the United States is safe to drink, the federal government has been steadily tightening the health standards for the nation's water supplies for decades.
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It has also sent more farm runoff into our waterways, worsening pollution in drinking water supplies and major water bodies such as the Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay, and Gulf of Mexico.
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Kepco is facing renewed resistance from farmers after the state's planning department endorsed its project, saying the impact on water supplies was outweighed by the economic benefits a mine would bring.
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A German court has forced Tesla to temporarily halt preparation work for its Gigafactory near Berlin after local activists raised concerns about its impact on wildlife and water supplies, Reuters reports.
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Sanitation is just one element of my work - I also work on responding to the needs of refugees in camps and looking at water supplies in arid and semi-arid areas.
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More than 600 MSF staff are working alongside Chad's health ministry to test for new cases, treat patients and improve water supplies and sanitation in the regional capital of Am Timan.
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If it erupts again, the ash -- which carries microscopic shards of glass -- could potentially be carried 100 kilometers (62 miles) or more, contaminating the air and water supplies in distant locations.
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They had objected to the pipeline's path running so close to the source of the tribe's drinking water, noting that any spill could poison water supplies for it and others downstream.
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His lawyers said the arrest was in retaliation for a viral video that NMD released the same day showing U.S. Border Patrol agents destroying water supplies it left in the desert.
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When water supplies to the capital were halted in late December, the government blamed rebels, first saying that they had poisoned the water and later that they had damaged the infrastructure.
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A deal with Acea — which runs power, public lighting and water supplies in Rome — would allow Open Fiber to cable up to some 1.5 million users, one of the sources said.
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Worst of all, they say, the Government deliberately delayed attacking long-term problems like global warming linked to pollution, acid rain, toxic waste, air pollution and the contamination of underground water supplies.
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"The dictator's militias have carved paths of destruction through crowded streets -- destroying hospitals, severing water supplies and herding thousands of people from their homes," UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told Parliament Tuesday.
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The solution lies in increasing access to land, boosting the resilience of rural communities to environmental and economic shocks and more investment in infrastructure, including roads and water supplies, the FAO said.
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MULANJE, Malawi (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With increasingly prolonged droughts threatening worsening water shortages, Malawi is moving to shore up water supplies to its cities, including building new long-distance pipelines and dams.
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JLR had halted production at the car plant in central England after water supplies in Britain were disrupted by burst pipes, the carmaker and water company Severn Trent had said on Monday.
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The rupture of water supplies from the springs has caused severe shortages after the pumping station of Ain al Fija that supplied around 70 percent of the capital's water needs was damaged.
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"That means that groundwater levels are falling, lakes are drying up, less water is flowing in rivers, and water supplies for industry and farmers are threatened," Dr. Hoekstra said in an email.
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Hyflux's Tuaspring plant is the largest of three desalination plants in Singapore, an island city of 5.6 million people that is trying to become less reliant on neighboring Malaysia for water supplies.
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Sewage and seawater seep into Gaza's depleted aquifer, rendering most water supplies unfit for human consumption, according to the UN. Electricity comes on for three hours a day, often at odd times.
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Despite his antiquated stance on the environment, Perry signed the first law requiring drilling companies to disclose chemicals used during the fracking process—chemicals that are known to leak into water supplies.
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But without being sarcastic, it's difficult to understand why Mayor de Blasio has postponed further work on Water Tunnel 803, a vital infrastructure program to safeguard water supplies to Queens and Brooklyn.
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The EPA held Tuesday's conference as a public forum to discuss the use of controversial carcinogenic chemicals Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (commonly referred to as PFAS), which have leached into water supplies.
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Earlier, a U.N. human rights investigator said Israel was depriving millions of Palestinians of access to regular clean water supplies and stripping the land of minerals "in an apparent act of pillage".
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Companies are also concerned about the effects of climate change on water supplies, with $14 billion of water impacts such as loss of production reported by companies last year, the report found.
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Dave Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, claimed the Dakota Access conduit could "poison" the region's water supplies if the pipeline breaks or leaks where it crosses the river.
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Adams is preoccupied with the idea that vaccines cause autism and injury, that heavy metals poison our food and water supplies, and that alternative medicine is safer than the traditional Western approach.
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Washington (CNN)Arnold Schwarzenegger has a proposition for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt following a Politico report about the administration's handling of a study containing warnings about toxins in water supplies.
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According to a recent filing by the Prison Legal Advocacy Network, for two weeks now, individuals living in US Penitentiary (USP) Beaumont have continued to suffer from inadequate food and water supplies.
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Qatar has been in talks with Iran and Turkey to secure food and water supplies after Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain cut links, accusing Doha of supporting terrorism.
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Hanging in the balance of our new administration's actions this year, is the difference between collaboration or conflict, and reliability versus uncertainty in the availability of critical water supplies in the basin.
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These forests are just waiting to burn at catastrophic levels, wildfires which are not just devastating for landowners, but also destroy drinking water supplies for urban and rural areas, and wildlife habitat.
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Mexico's incoming president, however, has said he will not permit hydraulic fracking, the widely used technique to unlock oil and gas from dense shale rock that critics say harms underground water supplies.
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HAMBURG (Reuters) - Greater global efforts should be taken to safeguard precious world water supplies to secure food production, the agriculture ministers of the group of 20 leading economies (G20) said on Sunday.
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Democrats who opposed the Water Act argue that the bill would have negative consequences for the commercial fishing in California as well as diminish the state's control over its own water supplies.
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As the weather went from bad to worse, many farmers fell short on feed — particularly important now, a month before lambing season — and water supplies were cut off because of frozen pipes.
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Mountain-sourced water supplies, which provide about half of all drinking water worldwide, is becoming more unpredictable as warmer temperatures melt glaciers and change precipitation patterns and river levels, affecting countries unevenly.
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The AP reports that large amounts of ash from burning coal at Colstrip has contaminated underground water supplies with toxic materials and will cost hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up.
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But as pressures on water supplies from climate change and rapid urbanization grow, along with data showing that groundwater aquifers are quickly being depleted across the globe, that has begun to change.
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Mr. Trump recently directed the Environmental Protection Agency to roll back regulations that are intended to protect drinking water supplies from pollution and runoff — a move that will benefit his golf courses.
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But as pressures on water supplies from climate change and rapid urbanization grow, along with data showing that groundwater aquifers are quickly being depleted across the globe, that has begun to change.
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Under those more dire circumstances, the Himalayas could heat up by 218 degrees Fahrenheit (21 degrees Celsius) by century's end, bringing radical disruptions to food and water supplies, and mass population displacement.
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BAHADURGARH, India — India deployed thousands of troops in a northern state on Sunday to quell protests that have severely restricted water supplies to New Delhi, forced factories to close and killed 203 people.
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Some residents say they are being held to ransom by private water distributors, as they have no option but to pay and no prospect of being hooked to government-run water supplies soon.
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The government's failure to warn people of the devastating storm, a lack of preparedness, along with widespread and protracted cuts to power and water supplies drew public anger and exposed Macau's inadequate infrastructure.
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Last May the state adopted a stress-test approach to water conservation, meaning a more flexible approach that asked water suppliers whether they had enough water supplies for three years of dry conditions.
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The $3.7 billion Dakota Access project has drawn opposition from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe as well as environmental activists who say it could pollute water supplies and destroy sacred historic tribal sites.
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To understand why water supplies become insecure, you first need to know two things that affect the volume of water stored in lakes and reservoirs, says Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio, the firm's boss.
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FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - A stretch of street collapsed in central Florence early Wednesday, dropping a row of parked cars into an underground pipeline and cutting water supplies to part of the ancient city.
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But scientists fear what is likely to happen as time goes on: a gradual dwindling of water supplies to densely-populated floodplains in India, Pakistan and China, potentially stoking local and international tensions.
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Authors pointed to water withdrawals in areas with low water supplies, chemical or water spills, the injection of fracking fluids into wells with "inadequate mechanical integrity" and fracking fluids entering the groundwater supply.
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Indigenous rights groups slammed regulators for initially approving the pipeline despite objections from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, which said the proposed route threatens drinking water supplies and cultural sites in the region.
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Turkey brought forward troop deployment to Qatar on Wednesday and pledged to provide crucial food and water supplies to the Gulf Arab country facing a worsening rift with its powerful Middle Eastern neighbors.
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The mercury of New Almaden poisoned immigrant miners and polluted the Guadalupe River and south San Francisco Bay, just as the Gold Rush left a toxic legacy elsewhere in the region's water supplies.
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Wu Shicun, the head of China's National Institute for South China Sea Studies, said lessons learnt from the Paracels expansion could be transferred to the Spratlys, particularly to manage water supplies and waste.
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Because those foams are routinely used in military training exercises, 126 military facilities across the U.S. have nearby water supplies containing levels of PFAS above the EPA's standard of 70 parts per trillion.
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About 30 percent of the underground water supplies that the Stanford researchers found run right into drilling sites for either oil or natural gas—and that means that they could easily be contaminated.
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Public water supplies in California's Central Valley, for instance, have been known to harbor both nitrates and trihalomethanes, a group of chemicals associated with an increased risk of rectal, colon, and bladder cancers.
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But it was importing 80 percent of its food from bigger Gulf Arab neighbours before they cut ties and is now in talks with Iran and Turkey to secure food and water supplies.
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China said this year it would spend 430 billion yuan ($62.4 billion) on around 4,800 separate projects aimed at improving the quality of its water supplies, though it did not give a timeframe.
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The Samarco catastrophe released thick reddish-brown sludge into the Rio Doce, one of Brazil's main rivers, killing fish and fouling water supplies for hundreds of kilometres (miles) before reaching the Atlantic Ocean.
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The $3.7 billion Dakota Access project has drawn steady opposition since last summer from the tribe, along with environmental activists, who claim it could pollute nearby water supplies and destroy sacred historical sites.
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Following the collapse, thick reddish-brown sludge flowed into one of Brazil's main rivers, the Rio Doce, killing fish and fouling water supplies for hundreds of km (miles) before reaching the Atlantic Ocean.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With rising urban populations and ever scarcer water supplies, cities and companies are teaming up to invest billions of dollars in water management projects, a report said on Tuesday.
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Those risks include "disruption to and competition for reliable energy and fresh water supplies" and "changed disease vector distribution, increasing the complexity and cost of ongoing disease-management efforts," among others, he added.
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Experts in the security implications of climate change, including water availability, said the new study could be viewed as a map of potential future conflict, if cooperation to ensure adequate water supplies fails.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece declared a state of emergency on the island of Symi on Tuesday after a sudden downpour swept cars into the sea, damaged homes and cut off electricity and water supplies.
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But it was importing 80 percent of its food from bigger Gulf Arab neighbors before they cut ties and is now in talks with Iran and Turkey to secure food and water supplies.
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Two American Indian tribes with reservations near Lake Oahe are still working in federal court to have the pipeline shut down, saying it could harm their water supplies and violate their religious freedom.
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The accelerated melting appears to be swelling rivers during warm seasons, but scientists are concerned about the long-term impact on irrigation, hydropower and drinking water supplies that support some 800 million people.
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Mr. Hart made the contact after Hurricane Maria struck the island in September, to urge the agency to get involved in efforts to ensure there were sufficient drinking water supplies on the island.
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Fourteen years after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, the country still suffers from poor electricity and water supplies and a shortage of schools and hospitals, while existing facilities are neglected.
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The Army Corps of Engineers said that it would not approve permits for a section near a Sioux reservation in the Dakotas that tribal leaders said would threaten water supplies and sacred sites.
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Adler said cooperation was nonetheless required to avoid tensions — such as those between India and Pakistan over water supplies after New Delhi released water from a dam in August — and to avert conflict.
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Power stations have broken down; banks, schools and offices were closed; water supplies were disrupted; and flights to and from Ahvaz were cancelled — including, ironically, one scheduled for the regime's top "environment" official.
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Afraid to go inside The scene on the ground in Palu is beyond chaotic as Indonesia's emergency services scrabble to restore access as well as food and water supplies to the remote communities.
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ANHEUSER-BUSCH The world's biggest brewer said it would cut its greenhouse gas emissions by a quarter by 240 and help thousands of farmers cope with disruptions to water supplies stoked by global warming.
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At the same time, the pipeline could impact local communities, water supplies and cultural heritage sites, and would facilitate the import into the United States of "a particularly dirty source of fuel," Kerry concluded.
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Although Espirito Santo forced irrigated coffee farms to ration water early in 2016, the state capital of Vitoria began restricting water supplies in 58 neighborhoods last week for the first time in its history.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Efforts to share rivers, lakes and aquifers that cross national boundaries are falling short, raising a growing risk of conflict as global water supplies run low, researchers warned on Thursday.
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On top of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket will be one of the company's Dragon cargo capsules, filled with 5,453 pounds of food, water, supplies, and experiments for the six-member crew of the ISS.
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WET MONSOON CRITICAL AFTER 2018 DROUGHT India needs a good monsoon this year as in 2018 a drought ravaged crops, killed livestock, emptied reservoirs and drained water supplies to city dwellers and some industries.
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After a quieter wet season in the summer, experts now fear clashes could surge again as the dry season begins, forcing herders to move south towards greener land and water supplies, often across farmland.
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Hydropower diplomacy in Kashmir India has fast-tracked hydropower projects worth $15 billion in Kashmir in recent months, ignoring warnings from Islamabad that power stations on rivers flowing into Pakistan will disrupt water supplies.
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Tia Maria opponents say they fear the mine would interfere with farming and pollute water supplies, even though Southern Copper says it plans to build a desalinization plant to ensure the environment is protected.
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In fact, relying on a new technique that uses modern weather prediction to fine-tune water supplies, the city continued to draw water from key reservoirs at normal rates while waiting for warmer weather.
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Trees catch rain as it falls, serving as a filtering and cleansing mechanism as the water makes its way downward into the underground aquifers that we humans depend on for our fresh-water supplies.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - The leaders of Ethiopia and Egypt vowed on Sunday to iron out their differences over a dam Addis Ababa is building on the Nile River that Cairo fears threatens its water supplies.
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Dakota Access developer Energy Transfer Partners says the current pipeline route is safe, while protestors from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe warned the proposed path threatens both cultural heritage sites and drinking water supplies.
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"I am very concerned about the effect of these pesticides on the health of our rivers, on our streams, and especially the drinking water supplies of all our citizens, including pregnant women," Napolitano said.
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The Pacific nation of Vanuatu is preparing to permanently evacuate the entire population of one of its islands as thick ash spewing from a volcano kills crops, dirties water supplies and fouls the air.
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Much research on the effect of environmental hazards on humans is typically done by administering doses of hazards to research animals in much greater concentrations than is typically found in water supplies, he said.
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The debate over the consequences of increased consumption of both recreational and medicinal marijuana has drowned out any discussion of the impact there could be on the natural environment, particularly on our water supplies.
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The idea is that Pruitt is sticking to "traditional" priorities, such as cleaning up Superfund sites and contaminated drinking-water supplies, rather than focussing on newer and broader environmental threats, such as climate change.
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Demonstrators in the monthslong fight against the $3.7 billion Dakota Access project say it will threaten water supplies, and members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe say it violates their right to sacred land.
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Police had previously entered the decommissioned camp Thursday, destroying property and the dwindling food and water supplies of 400 or so refugees who were refusing to leave, according to some of the men there.
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The group has intentionally cut off water supplies to neighborhoods near the front line, according to Zuhair Hazem al-Jabouri, a Mosul City Council official responsible for supervising the city's water and energy services.
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Kevin Winter, an environmental scientist at the University of Cape Town, said South Africa's government needs to take strong measures to manage ever-more-limited water supplies, and ensure water-related infrastructure works reliably.
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She has also constructed roads, built hundreds of toilets, improved power and piped water supplies and enlisted young volunteers to register the village's most needy inhabitants for social welfare schemes such as food subsidies.
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Such defenses also gloss over the patrol's casual brutality: I have witnessed agents scattering migrant groups in remote areas and destroying their water supplies, acts that have also been extensively documented by humanitarian groups.
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Sports events have been canceled because of the condition of playing fields, and the annual Cape Town Cycle tour has taken extraordinary measures to ensure that it does not impact Cape Town's water supplies.
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Besides importing, from a drought free area, all the water that will be used during the race, the organizers are also trucking in over 580,000 gallons to add to the city's potable water supplies.
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Reuters Breakingviews' Antony Currie and Jennifer Saba will moderate a discussion with a select group of experts to investigate the risks and opportunities that rising global temperatures will have on the world's water supplies.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Four million people in Damascus have been without safe drinking water supplies for more than a week after springs outside the Syrian capital were deliberately targeted, the United Nations said on Thursday.
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At the same time, Nigeria faces a huge task to repair the environmental damage caused by oil extraction in the Niger Delta, which has contaminated water supplies and soils as a result of spills.
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The rains falling over California have replenished water supplies after years of severe drought — about 40 percent of the state is considered drought free, according to an update to the U.S. Drought Monitor on Thursday.
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But critics say the firms' use of rural water is depriving people in those areas of sufficient water - and that fast-depleting water supplies mean it's time to rethink how water is managed in Chennai.
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"It is an area in which we can make a huge difference," he added, noting security of food and water supplies was as high a priority as access to clean energy in a warming world.
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The government's population plan says the environmental carrying capacity, food and water supplies, energy production and the ability of medical and public services to cope would be stretched by too great an increase in population.
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It found that plastic waste imports into Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam jumped from mid-2017 to early 2018, leading to illegal operations dumping and open-burning, contaminating water supplies, killing crops and causing respiratory illnesses.
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An early warning tool that tracks water supplies worldwide and mixes in social, economic and demographic data to flag up potential crises is being developed by the Netherlands-based Water, Peace and Security partnership (WPS).
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More and more displaced people were arriving at collection centers, and more than 400,000 were affected by a loss of running water supplies including 82,000 residents of two refugee camps in the region, OCHA said.
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Water supplies to Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank have long been a point of tension between the neighbours, with the Palestinians saying Israel prevents them from accessing adequate water at an affordable price.
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A global commission, including former heads of government, business leaders and economists, said resilient infrastructure from the design of roads to rural water supplies could limit both global warming and pollution and ensure economic growth.
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"We are concerned of the threat that [the order] poses to critical wetlands and to streams, including streams that feed into the drinking water supplies of 117 million Americans," the members wrote in their letter.
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Parasites can be spread through contaminated water supplies in places with poorly functioning sewage treatment facilities or malfunctioning public utilities, according to David Heymann, a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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In recent weeks, federal officials have warned residents of the southwestern United States that their two major lifelines — the Colorado River and the Rio Grande — will deliver alarmingly low water supplies in the coming months.
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Under the new rules, which take effect on June 1, communities would set reduction guidelines based on their own projection of water supplies, assuming that the next three years here continue to be uncommonly dry.
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Fluoride has become almost synonymous with U.S. public water supplies since the mineral is in an estimated A new study suggests when pregnant women consume fluoridated drinking water, it could decrease their children's brain function.
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The DCP may sound like three unimportant letters to members of Congress outside the seven states that rely on the Colorado River for their water supplies: California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming and Utah.
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Meager resources meant to reduce poverty and improve basic services such as health and education were diverted to fund the conflict while schools, hospitals, power and water supplies were destroyed by shelling and artillery fire.
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Tribal and environmental activists say that the pipeline would threaten water supplies for the Standing Rock Sioux and millions of others downstream, and that its route would destroy tribal burial grounds and sacred cultural lands.
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Almost 83,000 people have been displaced by since storms that began more than a week ago caused rivers to break their banks, leaving villages underwater, and knocked out power and water supplies in some areas.
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He added that the indirect consequences of the fighting were taking an even bigger toll, most notably on children, citing the widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, health centers, and electricity and water supplies.
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"Fights over water supplies have gone up since May and these fights now constitute almost 50% of our daily complaints," said a police official at the Bhalswa Dairy Police station, who declined to be named.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Waste from poultry and livestock farms has contaminated land and water supplies in China's northeast farm province of Heilongjiang due to inadequate and poorly run treatment facilities, a government review said on Wednesday.
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And, in April, officials in Hamilton, New Jersey, announced that they found lead in water supplies at a pair of elementary schools, which isn't all that shocking considering the city sources its water from Trenton.
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He also said the west must promote new forms of urbanization and industrialization and pay attention to protecting the environment, particularly its scarce water supplies, which have constrained development in large parts of the region.
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The Russian-backed Syrian army has benefited from this, creating a corridor to the Euphrates River that secures Aleppo's water supplies and suggests at least tacit coordination with U.S.-allied Kurdish militia - at Turkey's expense.
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Thousands of Native Americans and activists have been protesting, warning that a section of the pipeline that is to go under a river has the potential to foul tribal water supplies and ancestral cultural sites.
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In the 1950s and 1960s, states and cities in the U.S. began adding fluoride to drinking water supplies, following decades of research and anecdotal reports showing that fluoride could prevent tooth decay, especially in children.
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The Standing Rock Sioux had objected to the pipeline's path so close to the source of their drinking water, and said any spill could poison water supplies for them and other reservations and cities downstream.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The world faces increased flooding, droughts and possible conflicts due to the effects of climate change on fresh water supplies drawn from mountains but is "woefully unprepared" to tackle these risks, experts said.
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In 2009, a policy was enacted in states situated upwind of Delhi to protect dwindling water supplies, but it is having unintended consequences and wreaking havoc on the lungs of residents in India's capital city.
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Two water districts in Long Island, New York have sued 3M Co, E.I. DuPont De Nemours and Co. and the Chemours Co, accusing the chemical makers of contaminating their drinking water supplies with toxic substances.
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RDX was developed by the US military during World War II. It is now believed by many to cause cancer, and is increasingly turning up in drinking water supplies near military sites across the country.
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Other Portuguese regions want similar irrigation projects, but Alqueva is unlikely to face competition from new schemes as EU rules that require sufficient clean water supplies for human needs have largely halted damming for agriculture.
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More than a third of the 3.4 million US citizens on the island still can't turn on the tap to get clean water, and reports say that emergency water supplies aren't reaching people who need them.
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Help for coal plants: The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to roll back a regulation meant to limit the leaching of heavy metals like arsenic, lead and mercury into water supplies from coal-fired power plants.
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In 2014, under a state-appointed emergency manager, Flint, a city of 100,000, switched water supplies to the Flint River, from Detroit's system as part of a plan to save money in the poverty-stricken city.
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The use of weapons such as missiles, rockets, and mortars also causes severe damage to hospitals, water supplies, and electricity grids -- frequently leaving thousands of people without access to basic services for months or even years.
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At the ceremony, Ban Ki-Moon said that "science has a crucial role to play" in sustainable development worldwide, particularly as rising populations and the effects of climate change put further stress on drinking water supplies.
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Iraq's Minister of Water Resources Hassan al-Janabi said Iraq had asked for the postponement and that the two countries had agreed on a way to fill it while still allowing adequate water supplies to Iraq.
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ROHTAK, India (Reuters) - A political ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was shouted down on Tuesday by a crowd angered by rioting in Haryana that destroyed businesses, paralysed transport and cut water supplies to metropolitan Delhi.
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Rossello said drinking water supplies have been restored to nearly 60 percent of the island but some areas in the north remained at around 20 percent nearly three weeks after Hurricane Maria hit the U.S. territory.
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The militants, believed to number several hundred and described as "remnants" of Islamic State's Libya operation, are trying to foment chaos by cutting power and water supplies and to identify receptive local communities, the officials said.
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The chemicals have been discovered in recent years in the drinking water supplies for numerous cities, and the EPA has started work to figure out whether it should take stronger action to protect people from them.
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The escalation in fighting has wounded civilians, forced many to flee their homes and hampered humanitarian agencies, which are concerned about a potential cholera outbreak in the densely inhabited city as battles cut off water supplies.
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There is no federal regulation of these chemicals, though the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) acknowledges that exposure to them can be dangerous for humans and that the chemicals can be found in food and water supplies.
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ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - President Barack Obama wants to find out what happened in Flint, Michigan where a switch in water supplies led to a variety of health problems, the White House said on Wednesday.
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It may be a mystery, then, why the Corps of Engineers, an agency charged with building and protecting the nation's water sources and water infrastructure, would allow any of those potential risks near precious water supplies.
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The report outlined actions that could enable key economic systems affected by climate change - from food production and water supplies to the natural environment and cities - to function better and provide for a growing global population.
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The $3.7 billion Dakota Access construction project has drawn steady opposition since last summer from the Standing Rock Sioux, along with environmental activists, who claim it could pollute nearby water supplies and destroy sacred historical sites.
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"We have a bountiful supply of water, but we ask the rest of the world to use their scarce water supplies to produce the food that we could and should be growing at home," Batters said.
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If temperatures were to rise by 4.5 degrees Celsius, animals like African elephants would likely lack sufficient water supplies and 96% of all breeding ground for tigers in India's Sundarbans region could be submerged in water.
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That coal ash, mixed with water and sluiced into pits and ponds on the plant property, has been making its way into groundwater and the river, potentially threatening drinking water supplies, according to two current lawsuits.
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Sharp dips in mining, manufacturing and agriculture were the largest contributors to the negative growth in the third quarter, with agriculture affected by a severe drought which has forced government to begin rationing water supplies nationwide.
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Hato, with destructive winds of more than 200 kph (124 mph), was the worst storm since 1968 to hit Macau, causing almost city-wide blackouts, flooding, disrupting water supplies, smashing scores of vehicles and damaging buildings.
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For months, the Standing Rock Sioux and various activists have protested the pipeline's construction, arguing (among other things) that the tribe wasn't properly consulted on the pipeline and that a leak could endanger vital water supplies.
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Image: Nate BergFor all the existential threats L.A. faces from climate change—sea level rise, coastal erosion, increasing wildfires, decreasing water supplies—the one that will be most evident to the majority of residents is the heat.
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"We may see all other drought signals improve, but we may see those aquifers and well levels still lingering for quite some time just because of how slow those deep water supplies take to replenish," said Fuchs.
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At least 2 facilities that store coal ash have reported some type of breach in containment or overtopping, which raises the possibility that this byproduct of burning coal has made it into rivers and, eventually, water supplies.
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Also, excess nitrates that seep into water supplies can cause "blue baby syndrome," when nitrogen obstructs red blood cells' abilities to carry enough oxygen, causing a baby's skin to turn blue, according to the New York Times.
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The new emails offer the clearest sense yet of what those who work for Governor Snyder knew about Flint's water crisis as it unfolded since the city switched water supplies in 2014, in part to save money.
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But businesses and richer countries also face significant threats as worsening heatwaves, cyclones, wildfires, floods and other hazards imperil food and water supplies, and could lead to more deaths, said former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
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The growth of cut flower farms has intensified competition for dwindling grazing land and vanishing water supplies for the herdsmen whose traditional grazing grounds between Lake Naivasha and Mount Longonot have shrunk as the industry has expanded.
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Dakota Access protesters — who call themselves water protectors — have argued for months that plans to run the new pipeline beneath Lake Oahe, a large Missouri River reservoir, would jeopardize the region's water supplies and threaten sacred sites.
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This is a huge problem in itself, since most of this e-waste ends up in landfills in developing countries where the toxic chemicals found in the waste leach into local water supplies and poison the environment.
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GUWAHATI, INDIA (Reuters) - Millions of people are stranded by flooding in northeast India with concern growing about food and water supplies, and officials said on Wednesday that water levels of a major river were rising even further.
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Paris, meanwhile, is redesigning and opening green schoolyards as cooler places for locals to escape extreme heat, while in New Zealand, Wellington is rolling out neighborhood water supplies to keep the taps on when an earthquake hits.
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"Communities in the Appalachian Mountains, vital salmon streams in Alaska and much-needed water supplies across this country will be left dealing with the aftermath, while our Republican colleagues boast about providing so-called regulatory relief," Rep.
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KURASHIKI, Japan (Reuters) - Municipal workers in western Japan struggled on Friday to restore water supplies a week after floods caused by a record downpour killed more than 703 people in the worst such disaster in 36 years.
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When disturbed they release carbon, but when left to grow they actively pull carbon out of the air and store it while simultaneously cooling the air, providing natural flood control, stabilizing fresh water supplies and supporting biodiversity.
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Once constructed, the pipeline would span more than 85033,000 bodies of water and roughly 245 miles of forest, which protesters say could pose a threat to the area's municipal water supplies and habitat, according to the publication.
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Last week aid agencies warned of a looming humanitarian crisis after heavy shelling between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russia separatists cut off power and water supplies to tens of thousands on both sides of the front line.
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This includes reduced life expectancy, a higher incidence of suicide (across age, gender, race and ethnicity), continued contamination of public water supplies, an epidemic of fatalities caused by opioid overdoses and higher rates of chronic liver disease.
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Fluoride has become almost synonymous with U.S. public water supplies because the mineral is in an estimated The findings rattled researchers since healthcare providers have always considered fluoride safe for pregnant women, and beneficial to people overall.
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Unlike many other cities, which can draw their water supplies from various sources like underground aquifers or through desalination plants, Cape Town gets more than 99 percent of its water supply from dams that rely on rain.
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But just a few decades ago, early computer chip manufacturers IBM and Fairchild Semiconductor were leaking toxic solvents such as such as trichloroethane and Freon into local water supplies, all the while touting themselves as environmentally friendly.
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The study said investing in renewables, like solar and wind, would mitigate the effects of climate change such as droughts and crop failure, boost economic growth, improve access to electricity, clean up air and bolster water supplies.
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The Pentagon has used PFAS-related chemicals extensively as a firefighting tool, and it has confirmed the release or the possible release of the chemicals at 401 locations nationwide, in some cases contaminating known drinking water supplies.
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The situation there is precarious at best, with daily breaches of the ceasefire; towns are divided between free Ukraine and the occupied area, with water supplies in some cases coming from the opposite side of the line.
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Many were concerned with possible oil spills, the pipeline's affect on nearby water supplies and the tribal rights of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, who discovered the construction of the pipeline was planned through a sacred site.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - One of the worst droughts in California history has officially ended, Governor Jerry Brown declared on Friday, but not before it strained the state's farm economy and threatened water supplies for millions of residents.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fire authorities insisted on Monday that they have ample water supplies to fight California's devastating wildfires, contrary to U.S. President Donald Trump's tweets that unspecified water diversions to the Pacific were making matters worse.
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It stores a great deal of carbon and is the source of much of the rainfall locally and thousands of miles away — which in turn supports agriculture, urban water supplies and a large fraction of Brazil's economy.
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In the spring of 2016, members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe set up a camp to protest construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which they saw as a direct threat to their water supplies and sovereignty.
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Environmentalists warn that fracking techniques, which involve injecting chemcial mixtures into rock at high pressures to release oil and gas reserves, can damage drinking water supplies and contribute to global warming by allowing more fossil fuel extraction.
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Todd Flood, a former prosecutor for Detroit's Wayne County, and retired Detroit FBI head Andrew Arena will conduct the independent investigation into the lead contamination in Flint after water supplies were switched to save money, Schuette said.
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Research by Jeanne VanBriesen, director of Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Water Quality in Urban Environmental Systems, found that bromide additives used to reduce mercury could significantly boost trihalomethanes in drinking water supplies downstream of coal plants.
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Access to clean water also helps increase the amount of time children spend in schools, as often it is children who are tasked with time-consuming chores of walking to water supplies and waiting to collect water.
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Environmentalists and landowners have long been battling the pipeline in Nebraska, citing concerns that a leak from the pipeline could harm either the ecologically sensitive Sand Hills region or the crucial water supplies in the Ogallala aquifer.
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The $3.7 billion Dakota Access construction project has drawn steady opposition since last summer from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, along with environmental activists, who claim it could pollute nearby water supplies and destroy sacred historical sites.
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