Others simply were labeled with the words "Agua Potable," Spanish for potable water.
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Cruise line: Date of inspection:Inspection score:Violations: Improper handling of potable water, lack of equipment and procedures needed to ensure quality of potable water, improper food storage
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Cruise line: Date of inspection:Inspection score:Violations: A lack of backflow-prevention equipment between potable and non-potable water systems, improper food storage, storing dirty and clean food-preparation equipment together
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Then use the wand to blow your delicious potable bubbles.
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There was no internet, no cellphone service, no potable water.
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Were there really any such communities without potable water today?
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"Cabot will present evidence that the plaintiff's water is potable."
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It's the same potable water that goes through the bathroom system.
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These are our citizens, who have no electricity, no potable water.
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The city also has to worry about having enough potable water.
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Some 97 percent of the Gaza aquifer is no longer potable.
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The potable water system has a pump, filter, and pressure accumulator.
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The cities of ancient Rome had public baths, toilets, and potable water.
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There was no indoor plumbing or potable water at the family's home.
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Enviamos nuestro apoyo a Oaxaca donando 30 mil botellas de agua potable.
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I'm talking about clean, potable water, which some people truly fucking hate.
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The nation's potable water network is no outlier in the state of dysfunction.
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Worse still, those homes lacked potable water, as well as gas and electricity.
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Apart from some communal wells, the residents have no source of potable water.
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Creating sustainable potable water sources in developing countries would be a good start.
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I'll dry-heave in the lavatory, splashing my face with non-potable water.
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Often, you don't know whether the water is potable and the beer is cheaper.
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Moreover, even water that has undergone at least some treatment may not be potable.
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But for others, a robot sanitation worker could mean access to clean, potable water.
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But it remains the first principle of the more potable forms of pluralism. ♦
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There's some chemical additive I put in it so it's potable for five years.
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Lines for water -- potable or not -- are long in many parts of the island.
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Earlier in the day they delivered a massive tanker truck filled with potable water.
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There was a sign on the station stating that the water is not potable.
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"Waterpreneurs" are bringing in truckloads of bottled water and tankers filled with potable water.
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Like, say, if the rain is poisonous, wouldn't there be a lack of potable water?
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Right now, nearly half (44 percent) of Puerto Rico's population is currently without potable water.
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In Puerto Rico right now, 60 percent of people don't have access to potable water.
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The island's most pressing needs include fuel to run hospitals or potable water to drink.
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Water: Approximately 215% of Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) customers have potable water.
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As of Tuesday, reports were that over 85033 percent of Puerto Ricans lacked potable water.
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The worms feed on human waste and convert it to almost potable water and fertilizer.
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He added that residents are more concerned with finding potable water than going to the doctor.
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The company created a small potable device specifically designed to test for digested opioids called metabolites.
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Environmental conservation policies have maximized potable water and ameliorated a new Dust Bowl to the north.
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It was impossible to find potable water and the river's was dangerous because of the contamination.
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LifeStraw Personal Water Filter, $17.47LifeStraws are portable, personal water filters that make non-potable water drinkable.
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What is your WOTUS replacement plan to ensure rural communities have access to clean, potable water?
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Jerry Brown, reduced their use of potable urban water by 24 percent compared with 2013 levels.
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The water is clean and potable today, and 10,000 gallons of it are still produced daily.
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In Guatemala, I was part of a team that helped bring potable water to rural towns.
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Food packets, milk, drinking water and potable water purification kits have also been distributed to residents.
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Officials have also ordered the company to truck in potable water to communities stranded without it.
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The mountains are still without power, potable water, and some areas have lost the main roads.
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Activists have expressed concern about the mine's impact on the environment and sources of potable water.
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The lack of potable water is slowly choking these villages and helicopters can only carry so much.
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The storm laid waste to the island, leaving many residents without potable water or power for months.
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According to a FEMA report, 55% of the island's population did not have access to potable water.
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We didn't have potable water, so we would collect rainwater to clean the house and to shower.
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"Our village faces a severe shortage of potable water," Imrat's son, Jitendra, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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We've used it in some pretty murky, muck-ridden conditions to make once-non-potable water drinkable.
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In the Great Plains, farmers had exhausted a third of Ogallala's potable water in just 113 years.
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Pros: Lightweight and flexible, safe for use with potable water, resists permanent kinksCons: Quite a pricey option
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With millions lacking electricity or potable water, avoiding a humanitarian disaster should be President Trump's top priority.
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Thirst-quenching in a psychic way, that is; there is no actual potable water on this hike.
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Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in September 2017, leaving residents without gas, power, or potable water for months.
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Sure, it doesn't have a breathable atmosphere or potable water either, but let's try to stay positive, okay?
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Droughts and natural disasters can cut off access to potable and sanitary water anywhere in the world, too.
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Water and waste: More than 55.5% of Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) customers have potable water.
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Many now have to buy potable water for nine months a year, from October to June, they say.
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We need to figure out how to create habitats that have electricity, sanitation, clean air, and potable water.
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According to Puerto Rican officials, 64% of the commonwealth's homes and businesses had potable water as of Saturday.
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The shortage of potable water is so severe that officials fear residents might be tapping toxic Superfund sites.
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"The development still consumes potable water from the city," Sandrine Guendoul, a Veolia spokeswoman, said in an email.
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We&aposve used it in some pretty murky, muck-ridden conditions to make once-non-potable water drinkable.
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They are also marked by low productivity, disease, high infant mortality, lack of potable water and poor infrastructure.
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Explain this to me like I'm a five-year-old: how do you turn urine into potable water?
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When discussing how the ISS crew reuses their urine to make potable water, Trump replied, "Better you than me."
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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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During a drought, they have to walk even longer distances to find potable water for themselves and their families.
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What you won't find are clean toilets, potable water or anyone earning much over a few dollars a day.
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Each day, the most basic elements of modern life -- potable water, electricity, medicine, phone service -- fade further into memory.
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At least 44% of the island's residents don't have access to potable water, according to the Defense Department. Gov.
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Meanwhile, a lethal combination of infected floodwaters and shortages of potable water are creating an urgent public health crisis.
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The US territory's 3.5 million residents still lacked access to potable water and nearly all the island lacked electricity.
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The Category 4 storm shut down electricity, destroyed crops, and has residents scrambling to obtain food and potable water.
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Add a mechanism that harvests and stores the water and you've got yourself an off-grid potable water solution.
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Flash forward three years, and his Seedlip alcohol-free spirits might be the most of-the-moment potable around.
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And he invested in hoses specially designed for potable water to run downhill to his house from a spigot.
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The uncertainty over potable water pipes of all kinds is exacerbated by a lack of regulation over their safety.
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Without electricity, potable water or reliable accommodation, a rapid-response labor force got to work carting away the wreckage.
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Plastic containers are piled in a corner, ready for the daily trips the family makes to get potable water.
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That would create jobs, increase access to potable water and electricity and create a more conducive atmosphere for reconciliation.
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Like the rest of Puerto Rico, potable water is a priority, along with power and fuel for hospitals and generators.
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Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in September 2017, leaving the territory's residents without gas, power, or potable water for months.
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On Monday, Venezuelans unable to obtain potable water for home use formed lines to fill containers from a sewage pipe.
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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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Look at the bifurcated legal system, asymmetric political influence, and imbalances in education, medical options and, sadly, even potable water.
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Racing fuel, which is used in drag racing, is made of methanol, a non-potable type of alcohol, says Seger.
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He also wants to see measures like rainwater harvesting, provision of potable water, recycling, wastewater treatment and re-use technologies.
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The Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) completed an adaptation plan for its entire potable water and sewage infrastructure.
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Astronauts who live on the International Space Station drink their own urine, which is recycled into purified and potable water.
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There is no electricity there, there is no potable water anymore, there is no structure in which people can survive.
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Those consequences range from reduced agricultural production to less access to potable water and shortages of medical supplies, the analysis found.
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More than 1 million Puerto Ricans have no access to potable water, and almost all are without electricity or cellular service.
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"The cause of the increase in diarrhoea cases is sanitation issues and a lack of sources of potable water," Minalang said.
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The French Development Agency (AFD) will finance a project to expand the potable water network and will fund a metro project.
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"They have only built one reservoir for potable water, and they enlarged another one in the state of Zulia," he said.
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In less than a year, the water treatment plant was up and running, producing 100,000 liters of potable water a day.
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Families stood under the sun to buy potable water, which is unavailable for most residents whose homes do not have power.
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But the efforts aren't enough, CNN said: Lines for water — potable or not — are long in many parts of the island.
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Let's start simple: consider the untold gallons of clean, potable water that would be wasted by my crying in the shower.
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Los lugareños cuentan relatos indignantes de acuerdos por debajo de la mesa, sabotaje del servicio de agua potable y destrucción medioambiental.
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Times Insider In the wealthiest state in the wealthiest country on earth, hundreds of thousands don't have access to potable water.
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That's our current reality, where maturity and decency are in the same abundance as electricity and potable water in Puerto Rico.
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Moreover, stormwater filled with sewage and other waste recurrently overflows onto American streets and into our potable and recreational water sources.
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Casa Aguila is also the first residence in San Diego County to use rainwater for 100 percent of its indoor potable water.
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More than one-fourth of the island's residents don't have potable running water and only 17 percent have electricity, according to FEMA.
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The city is home to a series of freshwater canals that in years past meant potable water was easy to come across.
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With the rapid expansion of its urban population, Chinese cities suffer from environmental pollution and a shortage of resources, like potable water.
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The potable water produced there will cost as much as $7 per 1,000 gallons—over twice the typical cost of treated runoff.
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Potable water was also affected by the storm, but the authorities could not yet say just how much damage had been done.
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The organizers must haul to the middle of nowhere enough potable water for staff and competitors, as well as food and fuel.
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The groundwater in Lukeville also requires significant treatment to make it potable due to traces of arsenic, according to Huffman and Karisch.
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As did growing up around my dad's nightly phone consults with his patients, or my grandpa's vision for potable water in India.
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So when Rosselló offered his upbeat claim last week about the widespread availability of potable water, he sparked a backlash on Twitter.
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Turns out the UCLA flood was just a drop in the sea of potable water that leaks or blows out of underground pipes.
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The system uses a chlorine generator to purify water on consumption and a skimmer keeps the nasty stuff out of the potable water.
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"The ultimate goal is to create a filtration device that will produce potable water from seawater or waste water with minimal energy input."
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Many people in Puerto Rico suffered from a lack of potable water for at least several weeks after the storm hit last September.
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That particular potable takes the usual cappuccino and blends in an egg for a super-rich drink that gets topped with whipped cream.
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Chinese alchemists believed that drinking potable gold in the form of elixirs, eating from gold plates and using gold utensils helped attain longevity.
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Cruise line: Date of inspection:Inspection score:Violations: Improper handling of potable water, improper food storage, storing dirty and clean dishes and kitchen equipment together
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Cruise line: Date of inspection:Inspection score:Violations: Improper handling of potable water, improper food storage, a lack of sneeze guards in food-service areas
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Landing locations for crewed missions may be influenced by these findings since water-ice can be leveraged to generate potable water or rocket fuel.
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Nearly 85% of the island were still without power on Saturday, and about 1.2 million people continue to lack access to potable drinking water.
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Since outhouses and night soil men aren't coming back into style anytime soon, the researchers came with another way to reduce potable water use.
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If you ever want to experience deep and worsening dread, try wandering into the woods and realizing that you don't have any potable water.
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Drinking water is stored on campus for exactly this kind of emergency, and administrators believe they can bring in more potable water if necessary.
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"Poverty in Africa is also multidimensional, in the sense of limited access to education, health care, housing, potable water and sanitation," the report said.
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Efforts by other municipalities in Texas and California to use "direct potable reuse" haven't always gotten off the ground because of the "ickiness" factor.
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For some, simply surviving is the main challenge—finding enough food and potable water, and some cases maintaining a steady supply of critical medications.
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They see America's interest in advancing democracy and access to potable water in some of the most oppressed and impoverished parts of the world.
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The current headlines are our reality, where maturity and decency are in the same abundance as electricity and potable water in Puerto Rico pic.twitter.
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Named "The Director's Cut," this Blade Runner-inspired Johnnie Walker gives us an idea of what's possible when impeccable set design becomes a potable reality.
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The Delhi government sent 760 water tankers to supply residents with potable water on Monday, and the trucks continued to ply the roads on Wednesday.
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The country has had to tackle some big macro problems: long-term potable water supply; food security; affordable housing; infrastructure; and talent acquisition, among others.
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Providing investment funds to bring energy to them is a way of providing potable water, refrigeration for drugs and energy to replace dung for cooking.
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Some say that an influx of immigrants will strain an already unstable resource economy, including potable water in some parts of the U.S. like California.
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Get an irrigation syringe so that you can fill it with potable drinking water and wash dirt, pine needles, and pebbles out of fresh wounds.
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Let's talk potable, because we're gonna need at least a shot's worth to get us through Thanksgiving dinner or the aftermath of a holiday party.
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Yet the pipeline routinely breaks, leaving park visitors without potable water on an entire rim of the canyon and costing taxpayers roughly $220006,2202 per repair.
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But on Friday, Procter & Gamble debuted a brand-new plan to package their detergent—and it, uh, also shares a striking resemblance to something potable.
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The checks will focus on 26 environmental aspects, including potable water protection, solid waste imports, urban sewage renovation and water pollution improvement alongside Yangtze River regions.
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A full 55 percent of people lacked access to potable water Sunday, up from about 42 percent last week, according to numbers provided by the Pentagon.
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The vast majority of people in Puerto Rico are still without power and cell service, and the majority of the island's residents don't have potable water.
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As cities such as Cape Town in South Africa grapple with the reality of running out of potable water, researchers have started getting creative with solutions.
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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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Utah's water-delivery systems are largely gravity-fed, thus keeping costs down, and most homeowners have access to unmetered non-potable water for landscaping and irrigation.
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The state and federal governments have committed over $100 million in relief funding, but it remains uncertain when Flint residents will once again have potable water.
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It is used to make pesticides and the bleach that disinfects hospitals, and it is injected into municipal drinking water to make it clean and potable.
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While infrastructural woes plague California's municipal water systems (which sometimes fail to deliver potable water to low-income residents), nothing suggests homeless people are to blame.
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You can use it to drink out of puddles, rivers, and other bodies of water, and it filters out anything that may make water non-potable.
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He said 85033 of the region's 69 hospitals are operational, while 4 million liters of potable water had been imported, with another 7.6 million liters expected.
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Water: Nearly every professional preparedness organization will suggest stocking away bottles or pouches of water and gallons of potable water in the event of an emergency.
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Gialluca said he was just one of several sick children and that babies were being given formula mixed with non-potable water instead of adequate meals.
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Cientos de venezolanos deambularon por las calles de Caracas en busca de agua potable y de alimentos que no hubieran caducado por la falta de refrigeración.
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A new filtration system will boost production when completed later this year (the hotel already provides potable water to neighboring properties that the municipality cannot reach).
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Administrators at the nearby Christus St. Elizabeth hospital, which currently has 210 patients, are holding steady thanks to well water and a store of potable water.
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Administrators at the nearby Christus St. Elizabeth hospital, which currently has 230 patients, are holding steady thanks to well water and a store of potable water.
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This spare, yet visually engaging, apparatus functioned as both an elaborate sculpture and a water purification system, making potable the famously polluted water just outside the Arsenale.
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Activists also run a Facebook group called "Water Exists in SP," arguing that polluted rivers and lakes could be cleaned and included in the potable water supply.
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There are growing fears that the death toll, already in the hundreds, could escalate rapidly, with so many people still marooned, desperate for food and potable water.
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At present, 300 million in the region do not have access to potable water, 400 million live without electricity and 1.5 billion do not have basic sanitation.
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One solution for expanding potable water access could be for larger systems to absorb smaller systems, which would allow them to spread infrastructure costs across more customers.
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To prepare for a growing population and the imminent shortage of fresh, potable water, scientists have found efficient means of warding off this epidemic by drinking…seawater.
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Beer was more potable than water in seventeenth-century Europe, and when the Mayflower's supplies were running low its captain made an impromptu landing at Cape Cod.
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Given the relative lack of potable water, 18th-century folks drank beer during the day, switching to wine and liquors like Cherry Bounce in the afternoons and evenings.
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The start-up has developed a technology that can treat water from just about any source — including sewage, standing water and industrial effluents — to produce potable water. Openwater.
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The situation in Puerto Rico after the passage of Category 22017 storm Hurricane Maria is still dire, with many people left without a home, potable water, and food.
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Water and waste: Approximately 56.8% of Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) customers have potable water, and additional water is being provided by bottled and bulk water.
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Water and waste: Approximately 63% of Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) customers have potable water, and additional water is being provided by bottled and bulk water.
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We asked five of our favorite chefs to share the meal that makes them feel a hell of a lot better when they've overdone it on potable merriment.
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The GWRS is the world's largest advanced water purification project for potable reuse and its advanced purified water is the first to be bottled in the Western Hemisphere.
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Half a year has gone by, yet hundreds of thousands are still without power, many without access to potable water and without the security of a decent home.
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"We are still able to maintain our luxury experience," said Carl Hunter, the resort's property manager, adding that the potable water takes care of all the hotel's needs.
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The Rimac River, a vital source of potable water for Lima, he said, was in bad shape because of the storms and huaycos — flash floods — and resulting runoff.
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Judge said the neighborhood is served by a small-diameter potable water service that was installed in the 4103s and is fed by a common private water supply.
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Each truck must have a potable water tank with a capacity of about 4.903 gallons, and a wastewater tank at least one and a half times that size.
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Only about 153 percent to 45 percent of the customers of the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) had potable water as of Tuesday, company authorities said.
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Developed by a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the box-like product can store fresh produce at 30 degrees Celsius below ambient temperatures using non-potable water.
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Despite loss of power, limited cabin heat and a shortage of potable water, the crew converted a potentially catastrophic loss into a victory of will and grace under pressure.
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But when it comes to teaching wary freshman the basics of mass transfer and thermodynamics, the UC Davis professor relies on a less messy (and more potable) liquid: coffee.
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"Here there are more avocados than people, but only people are lacking water, never the avocados," said Veronica Vilches, an area activist who helps distribute the "potable" drinking water.
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People queue to collect potable water in Caracas on March 10 during the third day of a massive power outage that has left Venezuelans without communications, electricity, and water.
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Mr Mitchell says the world should be grateful to them for helping to preserve the rainforest, which in turn provides the Earth with so much of its potable water.
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"Our precious water reserves will need to be conserved and recycled, particularly in the face of a growing population that rightly demands proper services, including potable water," Lucas said.
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Maybe you're going to make better potable water or self-driving cars that saves lives or you'll help the environment with solutions to global warming or better energy technology.
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Los científicos consideran que es un hallazgo muy importante porque el hielo podría ser usado como agua potable o incluso en la fabricación del combustible que usan los cohetes.
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The flooding has all but blocked access to some small communities along the river, where potable drinking water has become scarce as the flood has contaminated wells, Wight said.
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The reverse osmosis plant, 15km south of Tel Aviv, is pumping out 165 million gallons of potable water a day and providing approximately 20% of the country's drinking water.
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The government, which had promised to sweep into rebel lands behind the FARC, bringing health and education services and potable water, is barely seen in much of the country.
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The issue attracted the attention of Dr. Cerón, whose 215-employee organization had previously worked on climate change, smoking restrictions and the lack of potable water in poor communities.
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A small group of traditional mutual funds and exchange-traded funds already invest in it, mainly in companies that contribute to the delivery, testing and cleaning of potable water.
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But unlike coastal Cape Town, Johannesburg is many hours from the sea, so it has fewer options for accessing potable water: desalinating nearby seawater, for example, is not possible.
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A cart or truck "is a much smaller space, with limited refrigeration and hot holding areas, and a potable water tank instead of water from the building," he said.
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Administrators at the Baptist Beaumont Hospital is Southeast Texas say they are airlifting around 103 patients to other facilities because the hospital no longer has access to potable water.
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Administrators at the Baptist Beaumont Hospital is Southeast Texas say they are airlifting around 210 patients to other facilities because the hospital no longer has access to potable water.
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Back at the Al-Nour IDP camp, Khadeeja stands shyly in the snow, waiting to fill up a jerry can so the family can have potable water at their tent.
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"Private capital is required in the state government's quest to provide more access to potable water," he said, adding that Lagos state government was "determined to explore" public-private partnerships.
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Ninety percent of Puerto Rico lacks electricity, and only 63% of residents have access to potable water, but President Trump is ready to close up shop on the U.S. territory.
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The ship can produce 72,000 gallons of fresh potable water per day and is stocked with pallets of food, medicine, baby formula, diapers, first aid supplies and other key items.
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The firm said that Hart was "encouraging them to get as much potable water to Puerto Rico as possible" following the major storm that devastated the island territory last year.
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Riding the subway is itself an exercise in security, requiring airport-style checks of bags and bodies of passengers, even drinking from water bottles to prove the contents are potable.
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Puerto Rico is in a devastated state with 80 percent of its agriculture destroyed, only 15 percent of the hospitals with electricity, and nearly half the population without potable water.
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En el caso de los humanos —se han encontrado fibras plásticas en todo, desde el agua potable hasta la sal de mesa—, se siguen estudiando las consecuencias a largo plazo.
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Or it might just be because of the men themselves, who harbor secrets and seem to be making up for an alarming lack of potable water by drinking booze instead.
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During a military exercise in the Mediterranean in 1996, its distillation equipment broke down, leaving the crew of 2,000 short of potable water; the American Navy came to its aid.
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Reacting to the comments, Steve Ayorinde, Lagos state information commissioner, said the 2017 budget increased spending with the aim of addressing the two key issues of potable water and cleaner environment.
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In a four-hour drive around the island's northeast section, a TIME reporter saw only a truck dispensing potable water and just two crews from the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority.
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Meanwhile, it's been nearly two months since Hurricane Maria struck in late September/early October, and almost half of Puerto Ricans still don't have ready access to electricity or potable water.
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It's there that potable drinking water is scarce; that electricity is intermittent; and that entrepreneurs with the dream of building big businesses are struggling every day to build thriving international businesses.
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Freeze-dried meals require that you have potable water lying around, which might not be the case in the event of a serious calamity (some Wise Company kits include water purifiers).
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While most of its people have gained access to potable water, more than 25 percent of Puerto Rico is still without reliable telecommunications service, cutting them off from the outside world.
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A small run of 200 bottles will be sold for $18 each while supplies last that day, so you better run fast if you want a potable version of pepper spray!
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I am volunteering at a Basic Earthquake Emergency Communication Node (BEECN) in North Portland, and I'm among the first to see the arrival of a truck carrying potable water for distribution.
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La Constancia Industries, El Salvador's largest brewing and bottling firm, closed its Agua Cristal plant in March, cutting off hundreds of thousands of households from their main source of potable water.
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The idea is fairly simple, though naturally rather difficult to engineer: Use solar power to provide to a small community both electricity (in the form of charged batteries) and potable water.
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In Gaza, the flood of untreated sewage is so great that groundwater is no longer potable, and most beaches in Gaza and some in neighboring Israel have been forced to close.
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Also, as waste and energy consumption goes, using composting toilets is such an easy way to conserve energy and not waste potable water while also putting nutrients back into the soil.
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Por todas partes a su alrededor, los solicitantes de asilo aprovechaban una pausa del frío para lavar su ropa, bañar a sus hijos que temblaban y llenar contenedores con agua potable.
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As many as 21964,000 people lack access to potable water in the San Joaquin Valley alone, according to a 2018 report by the University of California Davis Center for Regional Change.
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As a result, in the future states would be responsible for doing more work on their own, after already struggling to keep water systems potable with previous financial assistance from the EPA.
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Extensive power outages ranging from a few days to a few weeks are common, and residents are encouraged to stock up on potable water as filtration systems also fail during this time.
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"In terms of food and potable water, the regional JEOCs have been established and the mayors have to solicit this help from those centers to bring aid to their towns," he said.
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What's happening: All four of the primary reservoirs the city depends on are virtually dry, resulting in approximately 4 million people becoming dependent on makeshift wells that produce largely non-potable water.
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You may have reservoirs near you brimming over with fresh rainfall right now, but the truth is that the amount of potable water on this planet is growing more scarce every year.
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Sending refugees to an island that "floods at high tide, has no potable water or potential for agriculture, and is infested with pirates, is the equivalent of a death sentence," he added.
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As of Sunday, more than 30% of Puerto Ricans were without access to potable water, according to the island's water utility, Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (AAA), which distributed the contaminated water.
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Each year, as much as two hundred tons of dyes, mostly petrochemicals, are dumped into waterways, killing aquatic life and poisoning potable water sources and farmland with carcinogens and other hormone-disruptors.
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This resulted in an enhanced level of dioxin being released into the ship's potable water tanks, where it was used for hydration, cooking, cleaning, showering, food preparation and the ship's laundry facility.
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The U.S. territory is still in dire straits from Hurricane Maria, which has left the entire island without power and upwards of 60 percent of the population without access to potable water.
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An Israeli tech startup called Utilis has taken top honors at Imagine H2O this year, for technology that can detect underground leaks in underground, potable water supply systems through analysis of satellite imagery.
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Bert de Bièvre, head of the water fund in Quito - which now has 100 percent potable water - said the concept was to achieve water security through a combination of "grey and green infrastructure".
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A team of Belgian scientists have created a device — jokingly referred to as a "sewer brewer" — that uses solar energy to turn urine into potable water, which can then be turned into beer.
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One of the lawsuits seeks to have water bills reimbursed for that time period and alleges that the local government had no right to make people pay for water that was not potable.
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These storage systems for hydrogen and oxygen in the Apollo Service Module, which contained life-support systems and supplies for the lunar landing missions, generated power and produced potable water for the astronauts.
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Since having enough potable water is a top prepper concern, Stutts carries this 4-way water key, which allows him to tap into various spigots and faucets he might find on his treks.
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In the meantime, the continued detention of children has shined a light on their abysmal treatment in custody — spoiled food, inadequate potable water, and the forcible administration of psychotropic medication, among other conditions.
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In 2012, a migrant worker from Kiribati, Ioane Teitiota, applied for asylum in New Zealand, arguing that he was unable to grow food or find potable water in Kiribati because of saltwater intrusion.
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"I've been coordinating with a group called Waves for Water to receive and distribute Sawyer water filter systems and get them to communities that have no access to potable water," says Stephen Hoppe.
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The Puerto Rican government said it had taken steps to make more water accessible, like allowing the two largest dairy companies, Suiza Dairy and Tres Monjitas, to bottle potable water in milk containers.
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We've tested the LifeStraw in some pretty murky, muck-ridden conditions to make once-non-potable water drinkable, and at less than $10, it's worth giving this lightweight, portable water purifier a try.
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A la par de la creciente extracción de recursos no renovables, van aumentado la resistencia antimicrobiana, el desperdicio de comida y la polución por los plásticos, que amenaza nuestras fuentes de agua potable.
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The DJB—which is the government agency responsible for supplying potable water to the Delhi region—was concerned that the water being supplied had "dangerous levels of ammonia," making the water unfit for consumption.
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FreshWater, a Start-Up Chile graduate that has created technology to extract potable water from atmospheric moisture, is already working with 40 families in Cachiyuyo, a small city in the northern Atacama desert region.
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D7 kills viruses on hard surfaces as well as textiles for up to eight hours, before it degrades into non-potable water, making it far more long-lasting than a bleach and water spray.
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Yet the ''disruptive'' thinking that insists a workplace ought to care not just for your average needs (supplies, potable coffee, a microwave) but for your deepest psychological ones as well has its insidious side.
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As protests have continued, a water crisis is rapidly getting worse, according to the director of Haiti's National Directorate of Potable Water and Sanitation in an interview with Radio Caraibes, a local radio station.
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Ironically, but not surprisingly, those obstructing access to clean water will never have to experience a life without potable water as communities in Flint are now, for the second holiday season in a row.
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Considering that we all need fresh, potable water to live, we also need to be more mindful of our water saving habits as we all play a role in helping preserve this precious resource.
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Federal Emergency Management Agency officials say that unusually tough conditions are forcing them to continue to focus on the emergency response phase across the battered island — potable water, roof tarps and other bare necessities.
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Dylan, Miriam, and I hiked Middleham Falls, where I eventually scampered down to a lower (safer) pool to fill a bottle with potable water — "cold, pure and sweet," as Rhys described the island's springs.
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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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The NCRC said the amount of distress caused by unsafe levels of lead in Flint's drinking water has made banks hesitant to offer home loans because of requirements for houses to have potable water.
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Waterborne illnesses, including cholera and malaria, kill 3.4 million people a year, with many of the victims under the age of five, and is especially prevalent in rural areas with little access to potable water.
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Two years ago, XPrize, an international nonprofit organization, announced a global competition enticing innovators to find a sustainable and affordable way to bring potable water to those who aren't privileged enough to have it now.
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The prospect of months without electricity across the island, the lack of potable water and thousands of homeless people make some amount of migration to the mainland from the U. S. territory all but guaranteed.
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The U.S. plan calls for channeling "significant investments" into infrastructure to increase water supply in Gaza, including desalination facilities aiming to double the amount of potable water available to Palestinians, per capita, within five years.
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Residents report frequent skin problems, intestinal bugs and diarrhea, which compels those who can afford it to spend more money on "jugs" of potable water, and forces those who can't to miss school or workdays.
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At the roadside camp in Guánica, municipal workers have come by every day to fill a huge potable water container, which Ms. Ayala and her friends and neighbors use to rinse silverware and wash up.
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The U.S. plan calls for channelling "significant investments" into infrastructure to increase water supply in Gaza, including desalination facilities aiming to double the amount of potable water available to Palestinians, per capita, within five years.
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But I guess he relented, because literature suggests that even though the waters in New England ended up being potable, the new additions to early 17th century America were essentially drinking ale from morning to night.
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He said Border Patrol agents are trying to do their job and take care of people to the best of their ability, making sure detention cells are clean, babies have diapers, and people have potable water.
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A corrugated-tin barn stood beside five squat reservoirs used to capture rainwater — the town's water is not potable — and a lonely clothesline tree leaned crookedly in a cement courtyard surrounded by an uneven stone wall.
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To learn more about Israel's attempts to ensure that sustainable future with fresh, potable water, visit Israel Is On ItThis content was paid for by the advertiser and was created independently from the Motherboard editorial staff.
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More than two months after Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico and devastated the island — knocking out its power grid and leaving millions without potable water — the official death toll has stayed surprisingly low at 62.
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The returnees, some surely infected with the coronavirus when in Iran, cluster shoulder to shoulder in massive crowds on both sides of the crossing, where toilet facilities are primitive and soap and potable water are scarce.
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The Trump administration faced scrutiny this week for what critics called an inadequate response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, where necessities, like food and potable water, are running scarce and most people remain without power.
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The Pacific Institute's Cooley argues that before building desal plants, municipalities should fully implement conservation programs, promote potable re-use—the re-use of wastewater, also known as toilet-to-tap recycling—or treat storm water runoff.
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State and city officials have referred to a "backflow problem" at the plant, and Ms. Womack said inspectors did not find a device in place that prevented contaminated water from flowing backward into a potable water supply.
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This 87,500-acre parcel, almost double the size of Acadia — with limited primitive campgrounds, dirt roads, pit toilets, no potable water — is catnip for travelers in search of the pristine wilderness traversed by Roosevelt in the 1870s.
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Derese and Verliefde have spent the past two years researching how to recover potable water and nutrients from urine, in the hopes that farmers in developing countries could soon use these techniques to fertilize their own crops.
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" And this one: "Residents of Mayagüez, San German, Cabo Rojob, Lajas, Añasco, Hormigueros, Moca, Aguada, Aguadilla, San Sebastian and other villages are concerned about the lack of potable water, bread, coffee, and ice among other primary necessities.
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After a week of cleaning out their flooded home, FEMA had not come, potable water was running out, and what food remained was rotting in people's refrigerators; one of their elderly friends had confessed to eating spoiled ham.
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GAZA DESALINATION PLANT The U.S. plan calls for channelling "significant investments" into infrastructure to increase water supply in Gaza, including desalination facilities aiming to double the amount of potable water available to Palestinians, per capita, within five years.
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A 2011 study found that before water from the Flint River could be considered potable, it would need to be treated with an anti-corrosion agent, a measure that would have cost the state about $100 a day.
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Besides a huge public awareness campaign, teams have also intensified leak detection and repairs, as well as extending the use of treated effluent water which offset the use of drinking water for non-potable purposes, De Lille said.
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LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivian Environment and Water Minister Alexandra Moreira resigned on Wednesday before she was scheduled to testify in front of the country's legislative assembly about shortages of potable water amid the worst drought in 25 years.
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The pair were there to discuss desalination (the process of turning seawater into potable water), but who knows what the two besties really talked about as they hiked up their pants and waded, smiling, into the Mediterranean Sea.
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Her death comes at another time of crisis and abandonment after the storm flattened the island, reducing trees to skeletal piles of timber, leaving large parts of Puerto Rico still without electricity or enough food and potable water.
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"Both territories now suffer from devastated power grids and communications networks, lack of potable water, crippled transportation and supply systems, severely degraded medical services, and an economy that will take months to rebuild," the September 25 report stated.
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"These factors – the presence of the V. cholerae bacterium, poverty, collapsed infrastructure and lack of potable water access – create a toxic mix that could promote cholera outbreaks in Puerto Rico during the coming days and weeks," he wrote.
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During the fasting month of Ramadan, the families here pause to reflect on the things they are thankful for — even if it's a roof over their heads in a dustbowl with no access to electricity, potable water or toilets.
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Finding a cafe that doubles as an office — with plenty of seating, speedy Wi-Fi, and potable coffee — can be made simpler by checking the iOS app Work Hard Anywhere or consulting the Yelp-for-remote-work option Workfrom.co.
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CAF in 2016 approved $541 million in operations for Venezuela including $400 million for urban development, $40 million for potable water systems, and a renewal of a $101 million credit line to state development bank Bandes, the report said.
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"We have implemented every recommendation from the Health Department and are currently only using complimentary bottled water for our drinking water and added an additional chlorination system for our non-potable water," owner Nick Thompson wrote in an email.
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The lack of potable water, sanitary living conditions and the other benefits from access to commercial energy have created a situation where almost 28503 billion people have very high mortality rates, especially among infants, and high rates of disease.
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The committee should be looking well beyond this issue to widespread problems, including the continuing scarcity of potable water in some areas, the reliability of other emergency contract deals and the mounting frustrations with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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With freshwater constituting less than 3 percent of the earth's water and only 1 percent being readily accessible, it is stunning that Americans waste approximately 40 percent of potable water because of broken water mains, leaking pipes and faucets.
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As the government finally kicks its aid and military response into high gear to help the millions without potable water and electricity, this National Geographic photo essay is a gorgeous tribute to a beautiful island and its proud and resilient people.
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" Massive generators, "one of which could surpass $100,000 have been sent in by barge potable water will be thoroughly tested for cafeterias" and hundreds of people are working to repair and clean, Freinberg said, calling it a "no fail mission.
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The death toll was due to a lack of access to potable water and power, and because the nation failed to bring a sense of urgency to the relief effort commensurate with the size of the disaster — and still has.
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Families live in refashioned containers or flimsy shacks of tin and plywood at the sites, with poor sanitation and limited access to potable water, according to the survey of 119 migrant parents and children in 21 sites in northern Thailand.
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A study done in 2014 by the WateReuse Research Foundation estimated that purified wastewater could yield more than a billion gallons a day of potable water—enough, says foundation chairman Doug Owen, to meet the needs of over 8m Californians.
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Long described as a bright spot in a city that has been in decline for years, Caracas' macaws have become a mechanism of escape from the daily grind of finding potable water, struggling with collapsing internet and avoiding crime-ridden streets.
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I'm definitely aware of Flint and we have some similar problems up here in Canada—many of our First Nations communities have been relying on bottled water from companies like Nestle for years, because the water around them isn't potable.
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Eight days after Hurricane Maria made landfall, nearly half the population still does not have access to potable water and huge numbers of people are struggling to get access to fuel to power generators, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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It's worth noting that there are other ways to ensure that potable water is available universally without having to pay for additional packaging — paying money to upgrade water infrastructure so everyone in the U.S. has access to clean, delicious drinking water.
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As for the water concerns, the developers say they will fulfill their promise, made at the outset of the project, to build a desalination plant for all their potable water needs, that way sparing the municipal water supply additional burden.
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One of the many new technologies discussed Tuesday at a White House Water Summit aims to reclaim water from showers and sinks, clean it and use it for irrigation and flushing toilets, among other non-potable uses in the same home.
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In January, the United States pledged $1 million to help provide temporary shelter, potable water, food, sanitation and hygiene kits to thousands of Cubans who were stranded in Costa Rica while trying to make their way to the American border.
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The quality of these private tankers and systems, sold from individual vendors, is also unregulated and uncertain—the last thing Cape Town needs is a bunch of shady water filters or contaminated tankers in which potable water could be rendered dangerous.
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She links the taste of her perfectly brewed cup to the desalination plant that has brought potable water to the doorsteps of islanders, and almost erased the memory of the brackish tea she hurriedly swallowed down until a decade ago.
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In the San Joaquin Valley, nearly 80 percent of disadvantaged communities without potable water are less than one mile away from other communities with safe drinking water, according to a 2018 report by the U.C. Davis Center for Regional Change.
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We created a network of aboveground pipes that reduced the spread of disease, cut the cost of a jerrycan of potable water (about five gallons) by 60 percent and prevented local cartels from siphoning off water to sell to private vendors.
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The storm delivered a direct hit on the region starting Wednesday, destroying airports and ports, knocking out power and potable water systems, and leaving many tens of thousands of residents and tourists isolated and increasingly desperate, unable to go anywhere.
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Also new is the Reef by CuisinArt, a beachfront property in Anguilla powered by a solar generation system that saves 1.2 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions a year and creates potable solar water for guests and the island's residents.
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But if your platform treats everything and almost anything indiscriminately as 'content', then don't be surprised if fake news becomes indistinguishable from the genuine article because you've built a system that allows sewage and potable water to flow through the same distribution pipe.
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The lack of potable water was not just bad luck: It was precisely that fact that made it possible for black and Mexican farm workers to purchase land in places like Lanare, said Michael Eissinger, a lecturer in history at Fresno City College.
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DARPA, the Pentagon&aposs research arm, has launched the Atmospheric Water Extraction (AWE) program to explore ways to extract potable water from the air in quantities sufficient to meet troop&aposs demands for drinking water in less hospitable areas, such as desert regions.
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An example of how much water is needlessly wasted was illustrated in a study by a young University of Cape Town researcher, who found that enough potable water to fill eight Olympic-size pools was flushed away in urinals on the campus each year.
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The tunnel will accommodate a tube 2.6 metres wide, the deepest potable-water pipe in the world, that will pump (mostly desalinated) water through 30km of tunnel from sea-level to an elevation of 860 metres to supply much of Jerusalem's drinking-water needs.
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One message came across clearly: It was no longer acceptable to use potable water to flush toilets, and the world would have to find other options to the water borne sewage systems that are an integral part of the infrastructural fabric of cities worldwide.
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Steampunk, a style choice that emphasizes the glamorous aspects of an era in which the massive influx of people to cities caused huge plagues, lack of potable water, and living conditions that would violate the Geneva Convention, is an interesting choice for a restaurant.
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"To Quench the Thirst of New Yorkers: The Croton Aqueduct at 175" features 19th-century maps, drawings and artifacts, along with contemporary photographs, to illustrate an engineering feat that delivered potable water by gravity 103 miles to Manhattan from the Croton River in Westchester County.
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"When you have a population that has been accustomed to being able to rely on clean potable water sources, and a new danger is introduced in the environment or their standard sources are no longer reliable, that creates a real risk," Konyndyk told Vox.
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Morales first spoke to the gathered crowds about "the power of the village to advance the future of Bolivia," and dove into what sounded like a generic campaign speech about the investments the government was making in health, education, potable water, and hydroelectric energy.
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In this vast, wild part of America, accessible only by water or air, there may not be plumbing or potable water, the local store may not carry perishables and people may have to rely on caribou or salmon or bearded seal meat to stay fed.
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Potable water is increasingly scarce in San Cristóbal de las Casas, a picturesque mountain town in the southeastern state of Chiapas where some neighborhoods have running water just a few times a week, and many households are forced to buy extra water from tanker trucks.
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The regulations specify the size and swinging motion of doors, the material for door frames, the need for washable ceilings, the angle that water flows out of drinking fountains, the availability of waiting areas with toilets, public pay phones, potable drinking water and a reception area.
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A month after Hurricane Maria's passage through Puerto Rico, almost the entire island is still in the dark, most of the communications infrastructure is down, a third of the population lacks access to potable drinking water, and thousands who lost their homes are still living in shelters.
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Given that the vast majority of Americans rely on these systems for potable and sanitary water, we truly cannot underestimate the devastating impact of water supply contamination or disruption to the network of pipes, pumps and other equipment that constitute the systems that regulate our water.
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It's built upon an index that the fund's sponsor, Calvert Research and Management, created to include not just companies that help supply potable water but also big users with exemplary practices, said Jade S. Huang, a vice president and environmental, social and governance portfolio manager for Calvert.
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As many as 1,000 community water systems in California may be at high risk of failing to deliver potable water — one out of every three — according to a previously undisclosed estimate by senior officials at the California State Water Resources Control Board, which regulates drinking water.
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As many as 1,000 community water systems in California may be at high risk of failing to deliver potable water — one out of every three — according to a previously undisclosed estimate by senior officials at the California State Water Resources Control Board, which regulates drinking water.
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Puerto Rico, home to nearly 3.5 million people, remains largely devastated by Hurricane Maria, the Category 4 storm that has claimed 24 lives in Puerto Rico alone and has left almost the entirety of the US territory without electricity and almost half of all residents without potable water.
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If much of the pesticide and fertilizer were released into a single stream rather than scattered around the state in leaky containers, the volume would exceed the amount of chemicals spilled in 2014 into the Elk River in West Virginia, which left 300,000 residents without access to potable water.
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Much has changed since I was in grade school, but the concept of the water cycle surely has not: For hundreds of millions of years, a finite amount of fresh, potable water has cycled through rivers, streams and aquifers, into the atmosphere and back down to the ground.
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A total of 8 percent of the world's total carbon footprint now comes from the apparel industry, and apparel is the second largest polluter of fresh water globally (we already know how water-intensive a simple cotton T-shirt is — using thousands of gallons of precious potable water).
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From a chalice we learn how big were the hands that were meant to hold it; how much liquid people liked at once and could consume; what kind of liquid, cold or hot, basic or acidic, they considered potable; what kind of surface their cups might sit on.
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A band of hooligans raided our camp, stole from us, pulled and sliced all of our electrical lines leaving us with no refrigeration and wasting our food and, glued our trailer doors shut, vandalized most of our camping infrastructure, dumped 200 gallons of potable water flooding our camp.
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All the experts I've spoken to agree that in those bubbles, weed cultivation would look a lot like it does in an earth-bound greenhouse or hydroponic setup—albeit with extensive water and waste recycling systems to account for limited access to potable water, viable soil, and vital plant nutrients.
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In the weeks that have followed, the magnitude of the disaster has slowly become clear: As of today, about 82% of the island still doesn't have electricity, 31% remains without water (and those that have access to water, don't know whether it's potable), and 48% of telecommunications systems are still down.
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A new study, done by environmental engineers at Drexel University and published in Resources, Conservation, and Recycling, has revealed that four different American cities could boost their residents' finances and reduce problems with their infrastructure, if they took steps to make sure that toilets used rain water and not potable water.
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A unanimous three-judge panel of the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals reversed last year's dismissals of both actions by a federal judge in Ann Arbor, Michigan, who found the plaintiffs' civil rights' claims were preempted by a federal law that sets the standards for potable water.
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For instance, "it is true that Coca-Cola is more readily available than potable water in some parts of the world," said Mebert, who was not involved in the new paper but has conducted separate research in San Cristóbal de las Casas, a town in Chiapas, Mexico, between 2007 and 2008.
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Tillotson repeatedly flushed the wiper fluid tank in his Subaru with clean water to ensure it was as clean as possible before filling it with potable liquids, but this hack probably isn't something you'd want to try with your own vehicle unless you replaced the wiper fluid tank altogether with a clean one.
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The plaintiffs had argued for the monitor to oversee all border patrol facilities where children are being held, saying that the poor conditions — specifically children being held for days with no access to potable water, inadequate and expired food, and no blankets or sleeping mats — were pervasive across facilities along the border.
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The failing infrastructure at the heart of the potable water crisis in these communities is tinged with the legacy of rural redlining, said Camille Pannu, the director of the Aoki Water Justice Clinic at the University of California, Davis, who likened the situation in the valley to the one in Flint, Mich.
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Debido al calentamiento global, algunas zonas del mundo —entre ellas, la costa atlántica de Centro y Sudamérica— podrían enfrentar para fines de este siglo hasta seis crisis relacionadas con el clima al mismo tiempo; entre esos desastres se incluyen ondas de calor, incendios forestales, huracanes, inundaciones, sequías y escasez de agua potable.
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Better engineering knowledge about how to safely run a spacecraft for years (doing such things as recycling the fluids created on board to make potable water, maintaining a breathable atmosphere, and protecting humans from exposure to radiation) is also something that can only be gained by running the ISS or something like it.
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"While the presence of armed group fighters at (the) spring constituted a military target, the extensive damage inflicted to the spring had a devastating impact on more than five million civilians in both government and opposition controlled areas who were deprived of regular access to potable water for over one month," the commission's report said.
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En el pueblo mexicano de San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, hay poca agua potable, y la que hay se destina en buena medida a la producción en una fábrica refresquera; como consecuencia de la mayor disponibilidad de bebidas azucaradas se ha disparado la obesidad y los problemas de salud asociados al consumo de azúcares.
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"If the AWE program succeeds in providing troops with potable water even in arid climates, that gives commanders greater maneuver and decision space and allows operations to run longer," Cohen said, adding that this technology could potentially "diminish the motivation for conflicts over resources by providing a new source of drinking water to stressed populations."
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"A band of hooligans raided our camp, stole from us, pulled and sliced all of our electrical lines leaving us with no refrigeration and wasting our food and, glued our trailer doors shut, vandalized most of our camping infrastructure, dumped 200 gallons of potable water flooding our camp," they wrote in a post detailing the situation.
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But we need gold for the important role it has played in health and medicine, according to the book "Gold: Nature and Culture," by art historian Rebecca Zorach and filmmaker and critic Michael Phillips Jr. Chinese alchemists believed that drinking potable gold in the form of elixirs, eating from gold plates and using gold utensils helped attain longevity.
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At an extra cost, this one has provided everything Mr. Ahmed needs for the day: heads of lettuce, a few dozen tomatoes and potatoes, ready-sliced halal lamb, several bags of boneless chicken thighs, two 12-pound bags of basmati rice, four large plastic containers of potable water for cooking and washing, clamshell containers and napkins.
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Sus numerosas cuencas en las montañas, a través de la meseta del Decán y su extenso delta, son —para 443 millones de personas, una tercera parte de la población de India— una fuente de agua potable para humanos y animales, además de ser esenciales para el riego de cultivos, la pesca y como medio para desplazarse.
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The captain listed the options: Wait for a tow; try to lighten the ferry by dumping a tank of 200 gallons of potable water and hope to float off; or start up the engine on the port side, which was still floating, and use it to turn the boat clockwise until it was safe to start the starboard engine.
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How tap water became toxic in Flint The Flint River had long had a reputation for nastiness when the state made the switch, and a 2011 study had found that before water from the Flint River could be considered potable, it would need to be treated with an anti-corrosion agent, a measure that would have cost the state about $100 a day.
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"At the turn of the previous century when water-borne illness led to dehydration and was the leading cause of child death, we did not just admonish parents to boil their water each time before using it, we constructed potable water systems and sewer treatment plants and designed the problem out of existence," Smith, who wasn't involved in the study, said by email.
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The Burning Man became an annual tradition with a few hundred participants before it was banned by police in 1990 because of potential fire hazards, leading to its relocation to Black Rock Desert east of Reno in an otherworldly locale with no electricity, potable water, or other amenities, not to mention extreme conditions including blinding sandstorms, brutal heat waves, and freezing nights.
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A recent case in point: the response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico was ultimately about a White House that refused to comprehend the magnitude of the disaster, lead when the threat was real, or take responsibility for a population that lacked potable water and electricity -- and a death toll that would be revised upward last week to nearly 3,000.
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"With a twist" might usually conjure up visions of frosty gin-based cocktails, but this fall, thanks to J.Crew, the phrase takes on a meaning that's a bit less potable: the brand's classic blazers, jazzed up with thrilling details, such as colorful threading against luxe menswear-inspired fabrics, pleated peplums, and secret pockets for toting around lipstick and/or snack packs of pistachios.
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Todos sabemos que las consecuencias del fenómeno categoría cuatro fueron mucho más devastadoras de lo que nos podríamos haber imaginado: Los puertorriqueños pasaron meses sin agua potable o electricidad, lidiando con la escasez de comida y problemas para acceder servicios médicos, luchando contra dificultades financieras y enfrentado una crisis de salud mental que llevó a un aumento de 29% en casos de suicidio en la Isla.
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"While CBP has the ability to offer incentives for individuals to apply for, relocate to, or remain at these locations, incentives cannot solve basic, fundamental needs of our workforce and their families, such as readily accessible medical facilities, schools, and potable water," said CBP's Acting Executive Assistant Commissioner Carry Huffman and Border Patrol Rio Grande Valley sector chief Rodolfo Karisch in congressional testimony earlier this month.
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Quienes viven en Venezuela intentaron retomar ayer la rutina de ir al trabajo, la escuela o a buscar y hacer fila para conseguir alimentos y productos escasos tras casi una semana sin luz eléctrica o suministro de agua potable en muchas ciudades; el gobierno de Nicolás Maduro responsabilizó de lo sucedido a un sabotaje; la oposición, liderada por Juan Guaidó, lo atribuyó al mal manejo de recursos.
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