There is no federal oversight of the materials or processes used to manufacture plastic water pipes; instead, water pipes are certified and tested by an organization paid for by industry.
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Gas and water pipes were also reported to be damaged.
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Other times, burst water pipes have gotten in the way.
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Their investors don't see the return on replacing water pipes.
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It turned out that the home's water pipes were rusted.
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You know, we have wooden water pipes under Boston — wooden.
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The corrosive river water leached lead from the city's water pipes.
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While Australians aren't the world's biggest weed smokers, water pipes, a.k.a.
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Is it the state highways and municipal water pipes you're imagining?
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Many lack working electrical systems or are missing water pipes and furnaces.
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It also cracked roads and broke water pipes, leaving homes without water.
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Water pipes that leak 6 billion gallons of clean drinking water daily.
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The amendment also targets the smoking of cannabis in shisha water pipes.
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People were bathing in muddy river water or under burst water pipes.
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In cities, underground chilled water pipes offer one alternative to air-conditioning.
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Lead water pipes run beneath the streets of many of our houses.
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Flint also continues to remove lead water pipes in the city, she said.
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In Philadelphia, water pipes installed before the Civil War are still in use.
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Deteriorating water pipes can lead to unsafe water, as we saw in Flint.
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It has also banned the smoking of hookahs, or water pipes, in cafes.
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Not all of them, but there is still wooden water pipes under Boston.
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Tobacco products include cigarettes, cigars, dissolvable products, electronic cigarettes, chewing tobacco and water pipes.
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Some of the money has allowed the city to expedite replacing old water pipes.
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"About 229% of our water pipes were installed between 22015 and 220," Engeland says.
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The fissures damage water pipes, causing leaks and prompting the need for more water.
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Add to that corroded water pipes, an aging electrical grid, and insufficient broadband access.
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Like Flint, the water pipes are old -- in St. Joseph's case, about 90 years old.
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Now, largely because of tourism, the town is paved and there's fresh drinking water pipes.
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The water pipes inside the core will connect to pipes in the rotating apartment units.
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A mere $22027 million could replace the lead water pipes poisoning children in Flint, Mich.
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Underneath, there are water pipes to cool it down, so there's a lot of engineering.
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Cantlie also talks about the bombing of water pipes that supply large parts of the city.
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They must also maintain the farm facilities such as all animal shelters, fences, and water pipes.
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Aging water pipes had given rise to improvised cisterns situated at the eaves of every house.
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The tubes scattered around Hyperloop One's Nevada facility are, Giegel said, standard, 2-meter water pipes.
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Flint is only one of many postindustrial cities with an outdated network of lead water pipes.
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What we&aposre looking for is torque in order to haul water pipes, the garbage trailers.
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The presence of high-voltage power cables and water pipes made the rescue work especially difficult.
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While Mohamed stayed out with his friends smoking water pipes, Noor could barely leave the house.
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Hookah lounges are places where people gather to smoke flavored tobacco from Middle Eastern water pipes.
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Rick Snyder's (R) administration, the city's water pipes had corroded, contaminating the drinking water with lead.
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FEMA also covers the longer-term costs of repairing public assets, from water pipes to public schools.
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The building's hot-water pipes run directly beneath our floors; we know this is a contributing factor.
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Like Flint and most American cities, a majority of New Orleans water pipes are made of lead.
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Water pipes are kept to minimal length and the single exhaust is mounted high at the rear.
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More than 210.5 million yuan is also being spent on renovating old water pipes in the area.
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Older homes are often blanketed with lead paint, and the water pipes and fixtures typically contain lead.
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Vandalism was rampant, packs of stray dogs roamed the grounds, and water pipes were broken and leaking.
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His duties included welding broken water pipes and inspecting remote-controlled robots that survey radioactive hot spots.
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One architecture firm in the city believes it has a solution: micro homes in concrete water pipes.
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Visiting officials were welcomed to red booths and water pipes; two American senators dined there in July.
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Middle Eastern music drifts from the sound system while smoke from silvery water pipes fills the air.
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These efforts include rerouting the water supply, replacing corroded water pipes and distributing bottled water and filters.
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Instead of bourbon-and-sodas, however, these waitresses are carrying trays full of vaporizers and water pipes.
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Scattered into the air or flushed down water pipes, the fibers eventually reach the ocean via waterways.
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He involves them in projects that maintain the public pathways and repair stairway railings and water pipes.
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Water pipes would explode, destroying hundreds of thousands of pages before he and his colleagues could enter.
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Yutu tore off the roofs of buildings, flipped vehicles and damaged electricity poles, generators and water pipes.
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But the emerging luxury cannabis market isn't about gold-leaf rolling papers or $950 crystal water pipes.
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The second time, they hid under the train carriage ceiling, huddling together between electric wires and water pipes.
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The switch resulted in lead leaking out of the city's old water pipes, exposing thousands to the chemical.
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In June 2016, local media reported two cases of boys whose heads were stuck in large water pipes.
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The corrosive water of the Flint River is thought to have leeched lead from the city's water pipes.
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Mike Murphy, attorney for the state, said the problems are being addressed, including replacing corroded lead water pipes.
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Money for the community finances schools, scholarships, water pipes, reservoirs and other public works that serve 20093,000 people.
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City officials have continued to ease restrictions on the use of tap water while workers flushed water pipes.
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In 2014, the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority changed which chemicals they use in the public water pipes.
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In Hong Kong, an architect created micro homes in concrete water pipes that can be stacked under flyovers.
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Bushes and trees suggest large vegetables or flowers; chopped-off tree trunks intimate water pipes, corncobs or phalluses.
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The Romans did themselves no good by using lead for water pipes and sometimes even as a food sweetener.
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Trump's budget proposal would preserve funding for the EPA program that helps cities like Flint buy new water pipes.
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LONDON — The boilers are shot, the water pipes sag and the 2330-year-old cabling is a fire hazard.
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The water from that river contained heavy chemicals, corroding the city's water pipes and leaching lead into the water.
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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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We're talking about frozen water pipes, which then back up, expand, and burst, creating expensive fountains in your basement.
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USIC's workers mark cable lines, water pipes and other underground infrastructure before contractors start digging holes in the ground.
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But spending on health care and on basic public health infrastructure, like water pipes and sewers, has not kept pace.
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National Briefing | Midwest Newly hired outside engineers have been given a month to find Flint's underground lead water pipes, Gov.
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The river's corrosive water leached lead, a toxic element that can damage the nervous system, from the city's water pipes.
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Rusting away The people and water pipes of the city weren't the only casualties of the corrosive Flint River water.
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"If we lose a lot of water pipes, it could make it that much worse to control fires," she added.
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After all, there are no "Rs and Ds" adorning the bone-jarring potholes, contaminated water pipes and rusting steel trusses.
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A $2 million federal grant to repair and upgrade water pipes here just wasn't enough, according to Wright, Denmark's mayor.
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"EPA has never projected a fixed date for 'rescaling of the water pipes' in Flint," he said quoting FEMA's letter.
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Thawing permafrost on Alaska's North Slope is causing roads and buildings sink and shift, cracking water pipes and sewage lines.
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In densely packed neighborhoods, water pipes typically run underground or between buildings, making them less likely to freeze and burst.
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The corrosive river water leached lead, a toxic substance that can damage the nervous system, from the city's water pipes.
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To spur local decision-making, the A.C.C.E. has also adopted model legislation pushing for more open bidding for water pipes.
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He and his teams repair water pipes and electricity lines and supply food and medical aid to people in need.
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Here in the District of Columbia, some of our water pipes date all the way back to the Civil War.
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A legal settlement has set aside at least $2100 million for the replacement of water pipes in what troubled U.S. city?
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This law is still the basis for our current efforts to control the lead that can leach from our water pipes.
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As they drank alcohol and smoked water pipes, the guards stubbed out cigarettes and tipped hot coals over the prisoners' backs.
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The state of Michigan agreed to spend at least $87m to replace lead-contaminated water pipes in Flint within three years.
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In Cairo, 110km (68 miles) to the south, unveiled women sit in street cafés, traditionally a male preserve, smoking water-pipes.
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Water from the Flint River eroded the inner-lining of the city's water pipes, causing lead to leak into the supply.
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In effect, raising the minimum wage may be like putting antidepressants in the water pipes serving millions of low-wage workers.
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In Jeddah, a more liberal port city, seamstresses design abayas with bright colours and women smoke water-pipes out of doors.
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One client, a small machine-learning company, wanted 50 data scientists to help predict when water pipes needed to be fixed.
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The GOP lawmaker's office told the local publication McCaul's family has been experiencing chronic issues with its water pipes, Statesman reported.
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Flint residents are being urged to use only filter water for drinking after lead-corroded water pipes at the supply system.
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In the middle of the workday, you walk in to find men in track suits silently smoking water pipes, watching everyone.
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One challenge for prosecutors may be proving a direct link between Flint's corroding water pipes and Legionnaires' disease, legal experts said.
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Some big avocado companies also are building illegal water pipes to ensure they have enough water for irrigation, according to MODATIMA.
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The EPA letter called on city and state officials to develop a comprehensive plan to control the corrosion of water pipes.
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Mohamed and I passed a hole-in-the-wall café where middle-aged men were smoking water pipes and drinking coffee.
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We must replace our lead drinking water pipes, modernize our sewer systems and reduce raw sewage discharging to lakes and streams.
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Furthermore, infrastructure like water pipes and electrical conduits is hidden in the beams, so the whole thing doesn't look like a basement.
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About two years ago, Reed said, frozen water pipes broke during a cold winter, flooding the house and causing $90,000 in damage.
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Beyond the obvious benefits of roads without potholes and water pipes without leaks, investing in infrastructure can benefit both people and nature.
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But by then, it was too late: Water pipes around the city and in-and-out of homes had been badly damaged.
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They also estimated that leaking drinking water pipes result in the loss of 85033 billion gallons of clean, drinking water each day.
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The project cost $15.5 million and spanned 11 years, ultimately resulting in the removal of 8,000 lead water pipes, according to NPR.
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There's a good reason we got rid of lead in everything from house paints and gasoline to water pipes and children's toys.
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The former vice president's plan also calls for replacing water pipes, building out rural broadband access and updating schools, among other measures.
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In fact, in our nation's capital, they have water pipes that were installed during the Civil War that are still in use.
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We're worried about manipulated counts from electronic voting machines, frozen water pipes through hacked thermostats, and remote murder through hacked medical devices.
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Marinka also used to share water pipes with Donetsk, but hostilities made it impossible to keep supplies going through the front line.
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Long-term use of water pipes has also been linked to an increased risk of coronary artery disease, according to the report.
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Two other holdings are makers of water pipes: Forterra, which manufactures concrete pipes, and Advanced Drainage Systems, which produces resin-based pipes.
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Unlike water pipes, transmission lines are not hollow, and they can overheat or shut down if too much power flows through them.
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He would also work to eradicate lead water pipes in residential buildings, schools and daycares "by the end of his second term."
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Back at the restaurant, there is a perpetual cloud of smoke from numerous hookahs, or hubbly-bubbly water pipes, burning flavored tobacco.
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It won't come close, because the bill will likely address airports, water pipes, railroads, and more, along with the stuff you drive on.
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A collapsed road is filled with water after water pipes broke following an earthquake in Takatsuki city, Osaka, western Japan, June 18, 2018.
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According to McFarland, a storm the morning of the festival took down the campsite's tents and destroyed water pipes, causing further infrastructure delays.
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Not only does it help protect crops, she says, but trees, water pipes and tanks and grain stores that elephants have attacked before.
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Action Bronson just added the "Mona Lisa" of water pipes to his collection and he dropped a ton of cash to get it.
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Several roads suffered severe damage and water pipes burst, sending water flowing onto streets in Takatsuki city where the biggest shock was felt.
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And like many cities, it worked to follow an EPA mandate that required many of the city's public water pipes to be replaced.
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But Nisrine was troubled by Idlib City's ubiquitous jihadist billboards, face veils and cafes segregating women and banning them from smoking water pipes.
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LEAD has proved to be such a useful, malleable metal that it turns up everywhere, from water pipes to window flashing and printing type.
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Workers pick the berries by hand and load them into the water pipes, which carry them from the hills down to the processing center.
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They broke off the water pipes, they ripped off the toilet bowl, they took away the windows, the fences, the doors, the beds. Everything.
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Aging water pipes played a role in the lead crisis, as did the failure to add an anti-corrosive agent to protect the water.
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Flint's lead levels have since fallen below EPA's action level, but the process of replacing the city's water pipes is likely to take years.
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This lack of investment causes trillions of gallons of treated water to leak through crumbling water pipes, wasting an estimated $2.6 billion each year.
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Three cups of strong mint tea and two water pipes stuffed with a sticky tobacco-and-molasses mixture ended up costing just 35 pounds.
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But to make the 92-acre swath more than just a park required a huge investment: in sea walls, water pipes and electrical lines.
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Down by the Nile, young people relax on plastic chairs on the grass, sucking on water pipes that were banned by Mr. al-Bashir.
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After World War II, America went on something of an infrastructure kick, building an expansive network of water pipes in cities across the country.
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Heat pumps, which use electricity to draw heat from the air or from underground water pipes, are relatively expensive with a price of 10,000 euros.
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A collection of tools from different time periods was also found in the settlement, which was discovered by engineers laying water pipes in Oxfordshire, England.
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"You know when your plumbing goes out in your house or the water pipes in Flint (Michigan) corrode, it has life threatening consequences," Perez said.
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Fashionable weddings spill through the streets on the weekends; the wealthy still gather for meals and to smoke water pipes at plush restaurants and bars.
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The company shut off gas to approximately 150 households, distributing electric space heaters to heat homes and keep water pipes from bursting throughout the night.
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The move will allow federal financial assistance for state and local governments as they repair roads, parks, schools and water pipes damaged by the eruption.
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A settlement is reached concerning funding for water pipes in Flint, Michigan, but residents are still living with the effects of the city's water crisis.
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There, as in Los Angeles, high lead levels persisted even though workers flush the water pipes every weekday to push out lead that accumulates overnight.
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The plant is designed to produce 1.5 million tons of ethylene, which is used to make consumer and industrial products, from kitchenware to water pipes.
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But over the next decade, as much as 222.5 percent of new municipal investment in water pipes could be spent on plastic pipes, Bluefield predicts.
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They fixed toilets, repainted walls, replaced water pipes, and prepared the stadium so that it was ready to host the last game of the season.
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As it stands, when a community and its water professionals want to use a specific material for their water pipes they get to select it.
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And on these cleared roads, a massive parade of trucks lines up, bringing in everything from fuel to furniture, from new water pipes to portable buildings.
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As a result, as much as half of the water pipes laid in America's burgeoning metropolitan areas during the early 20th century were made of lead.
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As swaths of Mexico City continue to sink, the water pipes that weave their way underneath the city's 543 million inhabitants grow older and more brittle.
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To regulate the amount of cooling, any practical system involving the film would probably need water pipes to carry heat to it from the building's interior.
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Somehow, the GMA has worked to help the American people without attaching a proviso that it's now legal to dump toxic sludge directly into water pipes.
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This month, President Obama tied the Metro's problems to a broader lack of investment in infrastructure across the country, like the water pipes in Flint, Mich.
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Sure, he made a nod towards building new water pipes, but it didn't take long for Trump to mention the only pipelines he actually cares about.
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In the next 85003 years, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates the total cost of revitalizing water pipes and treatment plants would run about $384 billion.
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Years of increasing visitation and flat funding have left many of our national parks full of potholes, crumbling bridges, leaky water pipes and faltering power grids.
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Essential works - that include replacing electrical wiring, water pipes and the heating system installed in the aftermath of the Second World War - can now go ahead.
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Built atop a landfill, Rikers, another jail in New York, is plagued by dangerous amounts of poisonous methane gas, damaged water pipes, and an unstable foundation.
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One evening in early January last year, the two met in an ahua — a cafe where men often smoke water pipes — near the Ramses train station.
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He has been a major figure in Flint's ongoing water contamination crisis, which was caused by corrosion in water pipes in the city of 100,000 residents.
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A 36-year-old father of two boys, he was sitting in a tiny booth in the Golriz shopping center, selling water pipes and Zippo lighters.
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But familiarity has offered little insulation this week as records fell, water pipes froze and snow piled up in a large swath of the United States.
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Aviva, a British insurer, for instance, installs sensors on customers' water pipes to detect even minuscule leaks, so that these can be repaired before causing greater damage.
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When they did, officials ripped out lead water pipes feeding 17,600 homes — and discovered three years later that many of the repairs had only prolonged the contamination.
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Because the water from the Flint River lacked adequate treatment for corrosion, it drew lead out of the city's old water pipes, the Detroit Free Press reports.
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Our leaders must establish a permanent fund to address crumbling water infrastructure across the country and specifically to replace lead water pipes in cities such as Flint.
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He wants to remove lead from all drinking water in the United States in 10 years and has started taking comments on revising rules for water pipes.
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For investors, their view of climate investing may have been to avoid fossil fuels companies but invest in water pipes, power storage, carbon capture and solar panels.
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The switch set off numerous contamination problems, the most significant of which was lead from the water pipes, caused by the corrosive water that lacked proper treatment.
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Construction work had damaged water pipes leading to his village, he said as he sat inside a rusty metal container serving as one of the blockade checkpoints.
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In downtown Beirut, where vendors turned up with corn stands and ice cream trucks, many took breaks from the dancing and chanting to smoke water pipes with friends.
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Flint Mayor Karen Weaver estimated earlier this month that it would cost $1.5 billion to replace the water pipes that criss-cross her city, the Detroit News reported.
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It also means that Pirch's floors are a bit like Swiss cheese, what with 484 holes for the water pipes and gas lines that lead to each appliance.
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To ease Hong Kong's housing crisis, a local architectural firm created micro homes in concrete water pipes that can be stacked under elevated roadways or between high rises.
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Wire fencing has been put up around many of the cages, but the old water pipes and metal bars are still there and rusting underneath branches and leaves.
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The Manhattan Company's water pipes — the wooden variety would soon be replaced by iron — represented New York's first attempt at bringing clean water to the busy neighborhoods downtown.
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Mr. Olson's group estimated that the loosening of standards could extend the length of time needed to replace dangerous lead water pipes from 13 years to 33 years.
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Researchers assessed the use of five types of tobacco products: cigarettes, cigars, pipes (including water pipes and hookahs), e-cigarettes and smokeless tobacco (such as snuff or dip).
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Since May, the city-controlled water utility, Acea, has rushed to repair 22,2100 of its 22,2329 kilometers of water pipes, recovering a hundred liters of water per second.
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He said he paid a "witch doctor" $70 to put arsenic in the water pipes of the synagogue and "hex" the place last year, according to the complaint.
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From harmful algal blooms in lakes, to bursting water pipes and sewer problems in cities, to aging filtration systems — our nation faces water infrastructure challenges like never before.
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There are straightforward ways to increase efficiency, like lowering the temperature on your water heater, using low-flow fixtures and demand-activated pumps, and insulating hot-water pipes.
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Regulators years ago forced an end to its routine use as an additive to paint and gasoline or its use as a metal of choice in water pipes.
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"Some water pipes are still made of wood," said Santoro, who thinks water infrastructure is going to be a major theme across the globe over the next several years.
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Long before that fateful decision two years ago to turn to the Flint River for the city's drinking water, pipes made of lead had threaded throughout the city's underbelly.
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" She recommended making the rule even tougher and including the smoking of hookahs or water pipes, whose popularity, she said, "has increased sharply in recent years, particularly among youth.
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Flint, Michigan, Mayor Karen Weaver announced a projected $55 million public works project aimed at replacing the city's lead-contaminated water pipes system, slated to begin within a month.
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To remove it, water pipes carry the beans over to the fermentation tanks, where they sit for up to two days to dissolve the remaining sugars from their surface.
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The more corrosive river water, which was not treated, caused more lead to leach from the city's aging water pipes than the Detroit water the city had tapped previously.
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As part of the EPA's contribution toward the administration-wide effort, the agency has been working on a regulation to potentially crack down on lead in drinking water pipes.
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This sinking could have dangerous consequences for the Central Valley's infrastructure: It can cause roads to crack, give rise to holes in the ground, and damage underground water pipes.
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Water pipes burst in cold In Louisiana, frigid temperatures caused problems for municipal water systems with pipes that aren't well insulated because they aren't often exposed to extreme cold.
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Record low temperatures that have stood for decades or longer could fall, and infrastructure from home water pipes to city water mains and fire hydrants could fail in such cold.
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In early 2003 an Environmental Protection Agency subcontractor called Cadmus Group was looking into a singular problem: Homes all over Washington, DC, were springing pinhole leaks in their water pipes.
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The building also recycles energy through water pipes and enables Amazon to heat more than 3 million square feet of office space, part of Amazon's sustainable initiatives and environmental efforts.
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Flint residents have been put at risk because of the high levels of lead leaching from water pipes, caused by a switch to less expensive water from the Flint River.
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Whoever was to blame, Flint still faces a serious health crisis and the costly, complicated task of cleaning up its water and possibly replacing damaged water pipes across the city.
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Twenty of the thin joints separating each glass panel house specially-designed water pipes for the sprinkler system, itself hidden under dozens of recessed circles in the carbon fiber roof.
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The state revealed in 2015 that due to a switch in Flint's water source meant to save money, the city's water pipes had corroded, contaminating the drinking water with lead.
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But in Denmark, it's not just the water pipes that are eroding -- so has trust in government officials who claimed the water was properly treated when it apparently was not.
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Hepatitis A is endemic among favela residents, health experts say, and children are frequently sickened by the pathogens that seep from sewage-laden culverts into jury-rigged drinking water pipes.
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The only effect wind chill has on inanimate objects -- such as cars or water pipes -- is that it shortens the amount of time it takes for the object to cool.
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The groups want a federal court to compel the city and state to replace all lead water pipes in Flint and to otherwise comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act.
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Tel Kabri was found by accident, like many archaeological sites, in the 1960s when workmen were digging ditches for water pipes connecting springs in the north to Nahariya and Akko.
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In 2013, a federal jury in California found that the Los Angeles-based company had defrauded states and municipalities for more than a decade by knowingly selling defective water pipes.
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But it skips a pricey safety proposal advocated by public health groups and water utilities: the immediate replacement of six million lead pipes that connect homes to main water pipes.
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But to Manuela Kragler, the woman who lived upstairs, it was an inescapable stink, rising through open windows and water pipes, wafting through the electrical outlets and permeating her home.
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The river water leached away protective coating inside the water pipes, leading to a dangerous level of lead, which can have permanent consequences on developing brain cells, in the water supply.
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In Sebring, Ohio, routine laboratory tests last August found unsafe levels of lead in the town's drinking water after workers stopped adding a chemical to keep lead water pipes from corroding.
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Commercial internet of things solutions monitoring things like the pressure in water pipes and seismic data in oil fields are also breaking traditional databases for storing and analyzing time-series data.
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Interestingly, a few folks I spoke to have started to smoke heroin using dab rigs—glass, bong-like water pipes typically used for smoking marijuana concentrates such as wax or shatter.
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Water from the river, known locally as a dumping ground, was more corrosive, causing more lead to leach from Flint's aging water pipes than the Detroit water the city previously used.
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Rathjen specifically targeted hookah bars — venues for smoking Middle Eastern water pipes that are popular with immigrants — and his nine victims there were all of foreign backgrounds, most of them Turkish.
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Holzer told the undercover FBI agent on Facebook that he had paid a cook $70 to "hex and poison a local synagogue" by putting arsenic in the water pipes on Oct.
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Burwell, whose department is leading the federal response, will visit Flint on Thursday to meet with residents who have been affected by lead contamination caused by the city's corroded water pipes.
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But Obama also asked parents to make sure their children were tested for lead and warned that it could take at least another two years to replace water pipes in the city.
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On white plastic chairs in the concrete stands, amid the chatter of conversation and the gurgle of water pipes, most men watching the horses one recent Sunday were middle-aged or older.
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Islamic State militants overran the city in 2014, taking it as their biggest base in Iraq and triggering counter-attacks that have destroyed large parts of the infrastructure, including the water pipes.
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Giegel says they went with standard water pipes for the moment because the team wanted to prevent the "number of miracles in succession" the company needs to make the hyperloop a reality.
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A Chinese restaurant set far back from the street, protected by tall steel gates and a metal detector, provides a spot where couples smoke water pipes and pick at greasy spring rolls.
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As we have learned here in this crisis, homes should be built with rain water tanks to supply washing machines and water pipes to pump used water from those machines into toilets.
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Venezuela has been unraveling for years; decades of corruption have led to a wide economic collapse that has left water pipes dry, garbage piled in the streets and the sick without medicine.
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What these water professionals know, and the plastic industry wants neither the public nor their elected officials to become aware of, is that the market place for water pipes is already open.
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Historians have long believed that ancient Romans learned this the hard way—it's been said that lead used in water pipes and cooking materials could have poisoned Romans and contributed to their downfall.
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As part of Aviva's partnership with HomeServe, a British home-services company, the insurer pays to have a sensor ("LeakBot") installed on its customers' incoming water pipes that can detect even minuscule leaks.
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Lead is easy to extract from the ground, malleable and resistant to corrosion—qualities that meant it was the material of choice for everything from municipal water pipes to jewellery to food tins.
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Concrete water pipes - some measuring 2.5 meters in diameter - could be converted into a 120-square-feet mini-apartment for two, complete with a shower and a toilet, according to architect James Law.
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In the warren of alleys behind the camp's narrow main road, the ways are too small for cars and a thick canopy of tangled electrical wires and water pipes blocks out the light.
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Parents should be aware of potential lead sources in their children's environment including older housing, unsafe renovation practices, contaminated soil, lead in water pipes, "take-home" lead from parents' jobs and imported products.
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The suit calls for a federal court to order the city and state governments to carry out additional water testing and to replace all lead water pipes at no cost to Flint residents.
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This leaves open routes for cronyism, but also leaves crucial funding questions unanswered, such as what happens to projects that are socially vital but not privately profitable, like fixing Flint's lead-water pipes?
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The deal requires Michigan to give Flint $87 million in state and federal funds so the city can replace lead and other problem water pipes that connect homes to the city's main water line.
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On the morning of the festival, co-organizer Billy McFarland told Rolling Stone a "bad storm came in and took down half of our tents and busted water pipes," while guests began to arrive.
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Rick Snyder (R) in 2014 switched Flint's water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River as a cost-cutting measure, but that water corroded the city's water pipes and caused widespread lead contamination.
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The northwestern Arkansas trip was meant to promote Pruitt's efforts to repeal the Obama administration's Clean Water Rule, accelerate cleanups of contaminated Superfund sites and replace lead drinking water pipes, the EPA documents show.
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The state of our water pipes and water systems after years of inaction is troubling – the American Society of Civil Engineers gave our nation's water infrastructure a "D" in their most recent report card.
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The state of our water pipes and water systems after years of inaction is troubling — the American Society of Civil Engineers gave our nation's water infrastructure a "D" in its most recent report card.
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Think of existing toll-free roads in poor shape, or urban bus systems, or aging water pipes in low-income cities like Flint where people can't afford a big hike in their water bills.
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But efforts to move 10,000 people out of harm's way have been hamstrung because "the resource envelope is small" and costs for new homes, schools, water pipes and other infrastructure are high, he added.
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There would be an injection of $500 billion — $275 billion of which comes from federal coffers — into rebuilding roads, highways, mass transit, airports, seaports, broadband networks, electrical grids, water pipes, and other forms of infrastructure.
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Still afraid and mistrustful of the water, people in Flint -- who are still forced to use either filtered or bottled water because of damaged water pipes -- are bathing less, and refusing to wash their hands.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's soaring property prices have pushed tens of thousands of families into tiny, partitioned apartments, sparking calls for creative solutions, including converting shipping containers and even water pipes into temporary homes.
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Byzantine tangles of water pipes and gas lines and electrical cords that would have mystified a contractor somehow managed to pump the atrium with warm air and fresh water, insulating it from the Detroit winter.
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After nightfall, on the seafront, children play soccer under the palm trees while their fathers puff on water pipes and hunch over small glowing boxes — portable Wi-Fi hot spots — that offer an Internet fix.
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Some people like the ritual of smoking, and there are a whole array of ways to get that smoke into your body, from hand and water pipes to rolling papers, hookahs, and even homemade devices.
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Pruitt said he also hoped Congress could produce an infrastructure package this year that would include replacing municipal water pipes, as a way of combating high lead levels in certain parts of the United States.
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Shimla's decrepit network of water pipes, built under British colonial rule more than 260 years ago, depends on the civil servants known as key men to open and close the valves that supply each neighborhood.
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In some places, water pipes made of rubbery plastic are pierced by illegal connections that suck in sewage from the gutters they traverse and carry pathogens down the line to new victims, like Mr. Mubarak.
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She said that the city was making progress toward its goal of removing an estimated 20,000 lead-tainted water pipes and that it hoped to replace 6,000 of them by the end of the year.
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So, while a move away from soda is a good thing, the real problem seems to be that people living with sketchy water pipes don't really have any choice but to buy the bottled stuff.
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"So even though I think they are probably okay, it might be best for US citizens not to bring bongs or water pipes with them when they come to Canada, just to be safe," said Chang.
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The same worries had also pushed the New Zealand dollar down for a seventh session and copper, which is used in everything from electrical wiring and water pipes to cars, drifting lower in the metals markets.
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In the case of sewers and water pipes, for example, contractors and public works send trained inspectors down into larger sewer and drainage pipes to conduct visual inspections and ensure that pipes are up to code.
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Scholars believe that the decline of the Roman Empire was in part due to the slow poisoning from toxic lead sugars that sweetened wine, preserved fruit, fed soldiers, and lined their wine vessels and water pipes.
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HomeServe, which sells cover for household emergencies such as boiler breakdowns and burst water pipes, said the UK business, its largest unit, saw customer growth of 1 percent, while customer retention remained strong at 80 percent.
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Booker wants to establish an Environmental Justice Fund dedicated to issues such as cleaning up abandoned mines, replacing lead water pipes, and planting 100 million trees in urban areas over 10 years to help reduce pollution.
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But the collection doesn't only include pipes — though if that floats your boat, there is everything from small one-hitters to luxurious water pipes (prices range from $30–$220, depending on the size of the pipe).
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That same week, officials at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri found their building flooded after vandals cut through water pipes above the cultural institution's newly renovated Buck O'Neil Education and Research Center.
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Although Congress banned lead water pipes in 1986 — three long decades ago — millions of older pipes are still in use, typically as service lines connecting homes to local water systems, and inside homes in pipes and fixtures.
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Dr Hanna-Attisha explains that the water from the Flint river is unusually corrosive, but was not treated to stop it from eating away at the lining of the city's water pipes, as prescribed by federal guidelines.
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The state revealed in 2015 that due to a switch in Flint's water source meant to save money, the city's water pipes had corroded, contaminating the drinking water with lead and sparking a massive public health crisis.
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Turning whole buildings into craters yards deep, these bombs also threaten basement shelters and water pipes — not to mention the schools, clinics and even playgrounds built underground over the years to help minimize the damage of airstrikes.
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Of the total, up to $400 million would go to replacing and repairing water pipes in Flint, matching state funds, while $85033 million would go to establish a "center of excellence" on lead exposure from drinking water.
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As America embarks on a debate over how best to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, there is agreement, sadly, only on the urgent need to fix our bridges, rails, water pipes, drainage systems, public facilities and transportation hubs.
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And though Congress banned lead water pipes three decades ago, more than 80 million older ones remain, ready to leach lead and other contaminants into drinking water from something as simple as a change in water source.
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Holzer allegedly told the undercover FBI agent that he hoped to poison members of the synagogue and claimed he had paid off a "Mexican cook to hex and poison" attendees by putting arsenic in the water pipes.
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Vox recently talked to several Democratic lawmakers who mentioned one of their first major policy proposals will likely be a large infrastructure package focused on rebuilding roads and bridges, updating aging water pipes, and installing rural broadband.
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He asked Michigan lawmakers to authorize $28 million in spending on diagnostic tests, health treatment for children and adolescents, replacement of old fixtures in Flint schools and day care centers and a study of the city's water pipes.
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The Detroit News reported that Snyder would detail more than $28 million of supplemental spending on health treatment, replacement of faucets and fixtures in Flint schools and day care centers, and a study of the city's water pipes.
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Also on Wednesday, a coalition of Flint residents and national groups filed a lawsuit asking a Detroit federal court to compel city and state officials to replace all lead water pipes promptly and at no cost to residents.
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Thai soldiers drag water pipes that will help bypass water from entering a cave where 12 boys and their soccer coach have been trapped since June 23, in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province, in northern Thailand, July 7, 2018.
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Although Congress banned lead water pipes 30 years ago, between 3.3 million and 10 million older ones remain, primed to leach lead into tap water by forces as simple as jostling during repairs or a change in water chemistry.
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He also allegedly told an undercover agent that he had paid a Mexican man he called "Mexican Hitler" $70 to "hex and poison a local synagogue" and that he had put arsenic in the synagogue's water pipes on Oct.
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Snyder, a Republican, asked lawmakers to authorize $28 million in spending on diagnostic tests, health treatment for children and adolescents, replacement of old fixtures in Flint schools and day care centers and a study of the city's water pipes.
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By depending on such deals to rebuild America, the agenda poses serious risks to the public and fails to address the real issue causing our roads to crumble and water pipes to age: the long-term shortage of public funding.
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In 1968, at the enormous ditch where the original World Trade Center would rise, he sifted the ground for weeks, and his work was rewarded with Colonial pottery, handblown glass bottles, early wooden city water pipes and clay smoking pipes.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In India's 'Silicon Valley' tech hub of Bangalore, where gleaming office complexes and apartment blocks have sprouted faster than the plumbing to serve them, only 260% of the water the city needs each day arrives through its water pipes.
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The governor released the nearly 300 emails on Wednesday, just one day after he apologized to the residents of Flint for the way he handled the water crisis, which has led to thousands of citizens' exposure to lead due to corroded water pipes.
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Agreeing on a budget might also give hope that Lebanon's rival political factions are capable of co-operation, laying the groundwork for even more important legislation—such as a new electoral law—as well as for functioning roads, water pipes and power lines.
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The breakdown Saturday in the drainage system, which led to the flooding of "a couple hundred" properties, highlighted the challenges posed by New Orleans' aging infrastructure -- a problem mirrored in roads, bridges, water pipes and sewer plants across the nation, Landrieu told CNN.
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The evening sun streamed through the glass walls as the partygoers, many dressed in lounge suits, ate from fruit platters, smoked water pipes and danced the dabke, a traditional folk dance — unable to hear, over the music, the occasional boom of explosions outside.
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But in a lawsuit against the state filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the American Civil Liberties Union seeking the replacement of all lead water pipes, some residents are quoted as saying that their requests for water delivery had been ignored.
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He told me that Mexico's federal government in September slashed funding to Mexico City by billions of pesos, interrupting critical repairs to the strained metro system and to the precarious system of water pipes upon which tens of millions of residents rely.
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The borough is in the process of replacing its aging water pipes, Ms. Dassing said, adding that she would also like to see the sidewalks and retail facades along Bloomfield Avenue upgraded, though they haven't been able to find funding for that.
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He pledged in his state of the state address Tuesday night to provide funding for the city to replace corroded water pipes and fixtures, test and treat children with high lead levels, study of the city's water infrastructure and aid its utilities. Sen.
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The rule covering public housing forbids cigarettes, cigars, pipes and hookahs (or water pipes) — but not electronic cigarettes — from being smoked in all living units, indoor common areas, administrative offices and all outdoor areas within 25 feet of housing and office buildings.
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But water from the Flint River is 19 times more corrosive than that of Lake Huron, according to researchers from Virginia Tech, so lead from the water pipes leached into the supply and soon the water coming from residential taps looked, smelled and tasted odd.
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Changes the agency is considering include requiring more proactive replacement of lead water pipes, beefing up mandates for corrosion control technology, changing water sampling standards to better detect high lead levels, and putting a new focus on lead exposure to pregnant women and young children.
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However, the distortion of the debate by Trump and other politicians creates a danger that resources will be misdirected from more pressing infrastructure needs, such as aged water pipes leaching lead and schools - or from projects that will have a considerable regional economic impact.
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Lightweight, easy to install, corrosion-free and up to 2.23 percent cheaper than iron, plastic pipes have already taken the place of copper as the preferred material for service lines that connect homes to municipal mains, as well as water pipes inside the home.
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But rather than tap FEMA funds, she's advocating new legislation, sponsored by Michigan Democrats, providing hundreds of millions of dollars for the city, including funds to replace water pipes, expand education programs and provide healthcare services to those affected by the lead-tainted water.
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So until we figure out how to design pipes that never break and adapt to shifting soil, or start laying all of our sewage and water pipes above ground, sinkholes will continue to be another one of the joys of living in a crowded urban center.[YouTube]
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Although the current appearance of the neighbourhood is a great improvement on the unpaved roads and shacks of the past, the little houses with their cramped rooms and rusty water pipes are no longer seen as fit for purpose in what has become a rich country.
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They know they can't get the lion's share of their agenda signed into law, but infrastructure is a rare opportunity, and Americans could see real benefits from it: cracked roads rebuilt, old and contaminated water pipes fixed, and broadband put in rural areas without reliable internet connections.
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By the mid-nineties, they were hanging from ship keels, turbines, and propellers in bulbous, tumorlike masses, encrusting docks and piers, clogging water pipes and sanitation systems, and washing ashore in such numbers that, on some beaches, you could walk on a solid bar of shells.
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A poisonous Roman cocktail of chronic mismanagement, corruption, bureaucracy, neglect, heavy traffic, rare snow and constant rain has turned Rome's roads into a modern ruin that has surpassed overflowing garbage, busted water pipes and striking bus drivers as the emblem of a degraded city in another decline.
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The evening consists of raffle prizes, a potluck dessert, and special guests, who tend to be celebrities of the fiber world like editors at "Vogue Knitting" and London Kaye, the Yarn Bomber, whose knitted street art has appeared on fences and water pipes all over the city.
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As Flint becomes the focal point of the Michigan primary battle when it hosts a nationally televised debate on Sunday, residents want to see Clinton and Sanders push harder for funding to replace the city's crumbling water pipes, pay for long-term medical needs and lower their water bills.
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Once the danger has passed, the best way to get things moving again would be for Mr. Trump to follow through on his longstanding promise to deliver a significant increase in federal spending on the nation's decrepit infrastructure: lead water pipes, an overwhelmed electric grid, unreliable public transportation systems.
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"The UV water purification method within the water filtration systems will disinfect all lead and bacteria coming from the water pipes to allow students to drink from and fill up water bottles from school water fountains," the city of Flint said in a press release on October 5.
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There were also dramatic drops that coincided with the Antonine plague of 165-53 A.D., thought to have been small pox, and the Cyprian plague, cause uncertain, of 250-270 A.D. Lead was widely used in the Roman economy for making water pipes and sheathing the hulls of boats.
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Its gross domestic product is growing at a tepid 22013 percent, while unemployment remains at 15.5 percent, and about 30 percent among the young, many of whom while away their days smoking water pipes at cafes with little hope of being able to move out of their parents' homes.
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Flint Mayor Karen Weaver said in Lansing, the state capital, where she met with Governor Rick Snyder, that the cost to fix or replace the city's water pipes has been estimated in a range of millions of dollars to up to $1.5 billion, the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press reported.
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Broadband is relatively affordable when compared to other essential infrastructure: for the same public investment that it takes to build a quarter mile of a light rail line or to replace 15 miles of water pipes and meters, a city could build 85033 miles of an underground fiber broadband network.
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Bevan recommended cuts to water consumption by as much as one third, as well as leaks from water pipes by 50 percent, and suggested changes such as more water metering and the building of "mega-reservoirs," which the Guardian described as controversial and likely to be met by local opposition.
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"When you take that inherent issue that we needed to rebuild trust of the citizens in the water system, we felt that copper was the way to go," Michael McDaniel, a retired Michigan National Guard brigadier general put in charge of replacing Flint's water pipes, said at a conference this year.
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The refinery, a major Iranian refinery, had to temporarily shut in 2018 after some water pipes were damaged because of a build up of salt due to falling levels of the Karoun river and rising salinity, said the refinery's head of public relations, Mohsen Kab Amir, according to Mehr news agency.
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Related: Millions of Taps Run Dry as Mexico City Fixes Some Decrepit Water Pipes Acuña, the sociologist, says that all this should not be laid at the door of the relatively wealthy, and the aspirational, who insist on facing the bottlenecks in the relative luxury, and comforting isolation, of their cars.
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ABADAN REFINERY The refinery, a major Iranian refinery, had to temporarily shut in 2018 after some water pipes were damaged because of a build up of salt due to falling levels of the Karoun river and rising salinity, said the refinery's head of public relations, Mohsen Kab Amir, according to Mehr news agency.
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At a July convention in Denver that brought together about three dozen local legislators, Bruce Hollands, executive director of the plastic pipe industry group Uni-Bell PVC Pipe Association, discussed what had gone wrong in Flint, and explained what needed to be done to open up local bidding for plastic water pipes.
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Flint is not served by private wells, but its battle to get the lead out of the water has triggered alarms in other communities – including those served by private wells, which can draw in corrosive water that leaches lead, copper and other heavy metals from well components, water pipes and plumbing fixtures.
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The High End will offer all manner of luxe smoker's paraphernalia: Devambez rolling papers made from organically grown French hemp; handblown water pipes by Siemon and Salazar, a glassware studio in California; stash boxes by the jewelry designer Martine Ali; and joint holders (otherwise known as roach clips) by Good Art Hlywd.
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Lead, the heavy metal that's still present in our water pipes and old paint, affects well over 3,000 communities and 4 million households across the U.S. It's an open secret, and a systematic poisoning of brains and bodies, holding back entire neighborhoods: lead exposure is linked to cognitive impairment, behavioral issues, and even violence.
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But an external advisory committee made a number of recommendations about it to the EPA last year, including to require proactive replacement of lead water pipes by utilities and to establish a lead concentration level that would trigger a public notification as soon as a test finds the level in a house's tap water.
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He points to one academic research to prove his point: One study examined the effect of poor infrastructure on efficiency (for example, poorly constructed highways, congested airports with antiquated air traffic control systems, aging electrical grids and old water pipes) and concluded this could all be costing us more than $200 billion a year.
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One asks that the president declare a state of emergency, allowing for immediate assistance like water, food and generators; the other asks him to declare a major disaster, allowing for millions of dollars in loans and grants to residents and the state for long-term needs like new water pipes, an improved filtration plant or temporary housing for residents.
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Other sources include: • Soil contaminated with lead or food grown in it • Lead water pipes or those soldered with lead, which can leach into the water supply • Some canned goods, if the cans are soldered with lead • Paint on some imported toys • Some jewelry Low levels of lead exposure usually have no obvious or immediate symptoms, which means it can go undetected.
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As the 450 lots show, the bookstore carried a range of finely crafted miniature tomes, from British almanacs with gilded covers to leather religious texts to books celebrating vices — like a tiny one from 1905 with 50 recipes for popular cocktails or 1866's The Smoker's Textbook, which features illustrations of water pipes and tobacco plants on an engraved title page.
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Debbie StabenowDeborah (Debbie) Ann StabenowUSDA eases relocation timeline as researchers flee agency USDA office move may have broken law, watchdog says Senate Democrats see Warren, Sanders proposals as unfeasible MORE and Gary Peters had hoped to attach an amendment to the bill providing $600 million in federal funding for infrastructure improvements in Flint, where corroded water pipes have produced high lead levels in the drinking water.
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In an NPR report on East Kentucky's struggle with sewage-contaminated water from the region's coal and gas extraction, Gail Brion, an expert in water treatment issues, expressed his skepticism of Trump and Pruitt's purported pro-clean water, pro-clean energy stance, making note of why it's so easy to flaunt infrastructure improvement while ignoring water issues: because unlike a bridge, you can't see water pipes.
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There are LG solar panels on the roof that have an estimated annual production of 8,450 kilowatt-hours a year; motion sensors on the LED lights; double walls for thick insulation; and gray water pipes that shoot secondhand water into the drought-tolerant garden from the laundry, showers, and tubs (One catch: "You have to use Dr. Bronner's hippie soap; you can't use Pantene," said Mr. Pallrand).
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Jason ChaffetzJason ChaffetzHouse Oversight panel demands DeVos turn over personal email records The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by JUUL Labs - Trump attack on progressive Dems draws sharp rebuke GOP senators decline to criticize Acosta after new Epstein charges MORE (R-Utah) announced earlier this month that the two would testify on Flint, setting the stage for members to grill two leading players on their roles in precipitating and responding to the crisis in Flint, where corroded water pipes have caused increased lead levels in drinking water.
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We also face serious economic challenges: severe inequalities in income and wealth; low work force participation by adults without college degrees, especially white men; dramatic differences in growth between prosperous urban and suburban regions and counties full of small towns and rural areas; gaping shortfalls in our national infrastructure, from inadequate roads and bridges, to rusty, dangerous water pipes, to an electrical grid incapable of moving the cleanest, cheapest energy from where it can be produced most efficiently to where it is most needed, to the absence of affordable, rapid broadband internet in areas that desperately need to be included in the national economy.
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