" A tree is never just a tree, a water source is never just a water source, he says: "They're all signs of ancestral action.
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After the contamination surfaced in 2016, the city switched its water source to the Catskill Aqueduct, a major water source for New York City.
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A tree is never just a tree, a water source is never just a water source in the works of Barbara Moore and Sharon Adamson.
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Would the wall cut him off from his water source?
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Almost every water source in the area has dried up.
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But then he would have to find another water source.
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Glaciers can also be an important water source for agriculture.
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Remediation requires eliminating the water source and replacing infested materials.
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Rick Snyder (R) appointee switched Flint's water source in April 2014.
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It was the state government's decision to switch the water source.
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Vegetation, birds, and insects can all mean a nearby water source.
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Their main water source is what drips from stalagmites, Aubert said.
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Flint needed to find a water source while it was being built.
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"Obviously given the change in water source it's a concern," Snyder said.
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Federal and private entities are closing in on the tribe's water source.
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The city also lost a second water source in neighboring Hardin County.
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It also includes Lake Sakakawea, a primary water source for MHA Nation.
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But changes in water source or treatment can cause lead to spike.
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The city will also select a backup water source for use in emergencies.
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"(Having) pure water, a clean water source is actually very important," she said.
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A water source is about all that the vodkas have in common, though.
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Just think, you might be drinking from that water source the next day!
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"I told them it's better to be near a water source," Ake said.
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Flint switched to a new water source, the Flint River, in April 2014.
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More from Tonic: What we drink doesn't just depend on our water source.
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Only a little more than half of Haitians use a safe water source.
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The development also uses low nitrogen-oxide boilers and water-source heat pumps.
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They said the plant could pollute the Yili River, an important water source.
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It's likely that the lettuce was contaminated by an infected water source nearby.
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The city's water source was switched back to Detroit on October 16, 2015.
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The current proposed long-term water source is Lake Huron, according to Weaver's letter.
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"Without these services, the city's water source will be contaminated with sewage," she added.
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That led to suspicions that the outbreak might be from a common water source.
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The house has its own water source as well as a solar power system.
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But Fleurhof dam is not the only water source with religious significance for congregations.
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The water source can alter the texture and shape of the sea-salt crystals.
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The federal agency has said it is still evaluating the water source alternatives and plan.
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In Flint, a temporary switch of the water source coincided with the high lead levels.
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The city's drinking supply turned unhealthy in April 2014 when it switched its water source.
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Land with a scenic vista or a critical water source or wildlife habitat may also qualify.
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The initial change in the city's water source was made while Earley, 65, was emergency manager.
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This has shrunk the lake of the same name, which is the capital's main water source.
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"I can't think of a water source that explains it spreading like this," Hugh tells Olivia.
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Most of St. Joseph's iron comes from its water source -- a Mississippi River aquifer, Faulkner said.
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Vice reported that the chain's vodka is made from the same water source as Grey Goose.
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The switch of the city's water source to the Flint River was a cost-cutting measure.
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Rick Snyder (R) switched the city's drinking water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River.
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With no showers or bathrooms in their homes, this communal tap is their only water source.
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Snow was their only water source, and it was imperative that there was no cross-contamination.
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I was hoping to camp near Tinajas Altas, the most reliable water source along the Camino.
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Many suspect the change in water source caused the outbreak, but officials say they cannot prove that.
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But untreated water can damage lead pipes, causing the toxic element to seep into a water source.
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Though it is no longer a vital water source, few want to see the lake run dry.
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Though the river isn't used as a drinking water source, it is used for recreation, Chenoweth says.
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Refresh your memory: The city of Flint changed its water source to the Flint River in 2014.
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Hopefully them destroying the water source will expedite the day they realize this is a terrible plan.
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There's no obvious water source between my windowpane and the screen, which makes this a bit strange.
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The difference about this one was the fact that the dump used to be a water source.
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By focusing mostly on lead paint exposure, we miss possible lead exposure associated with water source contamination.
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The pipe taps into a water source that starts as snowmelt in the North Atlantic arctic region.
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At least 12 people died in a Legionnaires' outbreak that prosecutors linked to the new water source.
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Of those, 16 had at least one water source with elevated levels of lead, copper or both.
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Rick Snyder (R) announced that Flint would stop using the Flint River as a drinking water source.
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The issue has plagued the water source that Des Moines uses to hydrate its citizens for years.
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The city of about 100,000 residents switched its water source back to Detroit's municipal system in October.
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Multiple emails show individuals at Veolia clashing over whether to recommend that Flint change its water source.
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They claimed a 200-mile line could be drawn from his property to a navigable water source.
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The river is the country's primary water source and already has two dams downstream from the new sites.
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Flint's water problem was unusual in its severity and triggered by a decision to change a water source.
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Flint's water crisis occurred after the city switched its water source about two years ago to cut costs.
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People collect water from KMC water source during a hot day in Kolkata, India on April 11, 2016.
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The more polluted a water source is, the more processing required to make the water safe to drink.
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"As far as we know, no [community] uses the Flint River for a drinking water source," he said.
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Studies found that lead levels had risen 10 times higher than they were before the water source change.
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In Flint, the city changed its water source without following up on how that would affect lead buildup.
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But three in 10 people worldwide do not have a water source free from fecal and chemical contamination.
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It intends to travel underneath the Missouri River which is the main water source for the Sioux tribe.
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The ideal location for it would be in an arid or semi-arid climate, near a water source.
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TRAVEL An article last Sunday about Delphi, Greece, misspelled the name of an ancient water source in Delphi.
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The lake, a water source formed by a dam on the Missouri River, has been the focus of protesters.
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In 2014, while the pipeline was under construction, the city turned to the Flint River as a water source.
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The river is the main water source for these communities who believe that the project directly threatens their livelihood.
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In 2014, Flint changed its water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River in order to save money.
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While that pipeline was under construction, the city turned to the Flint River as a water source in 2014.
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Wait until it becomes alert, then take it to a park with a water source and let it go.
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The grasses recede, forcing herds of wildebeest to walk farther and farther from their only water source to graze.
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The Delaware River is the drinking water source for millions of people in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
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A company that dumps waste into a public water source shouldn't be able to avoid paying for the damage.
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Emails obtained show that in late 2014, state officials were questioning whether the epidemic was related to the water source.
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Image: Neil DaviesThe area in which these particular dinosaurs roamed was likely near a water source, according to the scientists.
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The trouble began four years ago when the city of Flint changed its water source because of cost-cutting measures.
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Flint switched to a new water source that has been blamed for the lead poisoning, before switching back last fall.
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But if the planet can shield and hide its water source from this heat, it would be saved, Dittmann said.
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The city switched its water source back to the original one in late 2015, but the damage had been done.
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The problem began after the city switched its water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River to save money.
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Tuaspring is the largest desalination plant out of three in Singapore and an important water source for the city-state.
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Rick Snyder (R) switched the city's water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River as a cost-saving strategy.
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The men were so desperate for water on Wednesday that they dug into the ground, looking for a water source.
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A manager appointed by him ordered the water source switch that caused the drinking water to be contaminated with lead.
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Snyder oversaw the Flint emergency manager who ordered the city to switch its water source, leading to the lead crisis.
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This gravity-powered water filtration system is simple to use and effectively removes 99.9999% of bacteria from the water source.
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Flint switched its public water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River to reduce costs during a financial crisis.
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The city decided in late 2015 to return to the Detroit system while deciding on its next drinking water source.
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Flint shows the extreme of what can go wrong when the chemistry of water — or the water source itself — changes.
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Hyflux's Tuaspring plant is the largest of three desalination plants in Singapore and an important water source for the city state.
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The abbey was built on a water source and is the perfect spot for a life of solitude, prayer and brewing.
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Globally, at least 2 billion people use a drinking water source contaminated with feces, which can lead to disease and death.
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The Spanish explorer was searching for the 'Fountain of Youth,' a fabled water source that was said to bring eternal youth.
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Another team analyzed the angles that that river channels on Earth make when they branch off from a parent water source.
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Flint's water crisis began in 2014 when the city switched its water source to a cheaper alternative without anti-corrosive agents.
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Gathered in thousands at a campsite in North Dakota, the activists argued that the pipeline's path threatened a critical water source.
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To reduce the high water bills, the municipal water source would be switched from Lake Huron to the local Flint river.
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Prince Harry is shining a light on the millions of people and animals in Africa whose water source is at risk.
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Writing at the AGU GeoSpace blog, Elizabeth Deatrick addressed the implications:Pinpointing the water source could be crucial to future Mars missions.
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"This community was already managing its own natural resources - it just needed a sustainable water source to withstand shocks," he said.
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Flint switched its public water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River in a cost-cutting move in April 2014.
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Carpenter ants: "They are large, black, or dark brown ants that must have a constant water source to survive," Zehner says.
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Protesters have argued that the 1,172-mile (1,885-km) project would damage sacred lands and could contaminate the tribe's water source.
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While the cleanup begins, officials said the drinking water source for the city of Joseph was temporarily switched to a backup.
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The outbreak coincided with Flint's change to the new water source, and officials said they could not rule out a connection.
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The state, having done just this, incorrectly concluded that the change in water source had no discernible effect on Flint children.
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Attach garden hoses to spigots to give firefighters a water source if they need it, but don't turn the water on.
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But one would fill farm tanks from a disinfected municipal water source, while another might draw from a pond or canal.
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The city's drinking water first became contaminated with lead after the state of Michigan switched the water source to save money.
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Now he must drive four miles a few times each week to the nearest water source on the United States side.
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In a bid to save money in April 2014, the city opted to switch its water source from the Detroit Water Authority.
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The line was planned to run under a federally owned water source near sacred tribal lands of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
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But if you want to really disinfect the bowl, turn off the water source and flush to empty the bowl of water.
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Without a reliable water source, oxygen levels drop, water temperatures rise, algae grows and eventually the water becomes unable to sustain life.
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Earley only implemented the plan to change the city's water source that others had put in place before he started, Bolden said.
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When the city switched back to Lake Huron as a water source, the damage to the city's pipes had already been done.
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Whenever the association launches an initiative to conserve a local spring, it gives the Njuri Ncheke responsibility for protecting the water source.
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That's how much time has passed since the City of Flint switched its water source,…Read more ReadHow Queer Is Star Trek?
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"If you can't get rid of the water source, scrub the insides of containers to get rid of the eggs," Conlon said.
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With taps full of undrinkable water, she would carry water on her back from a clean water source for use at home.
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The local water source itself does not have elevated levels of lead, but rather a high level of the corrosive substance chloride.
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GROW requires a water source for its irrigation, which means if that's not handy this won't be something for you just yet.
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Water flows downhill, so be sure to check low-terrain canyons and mountain bases that could be home to a water source.
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The crisis started after the city sought to save money by switching its water source from Detroit to the nearby Flint River.
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By then, Flint was suffering through a health crisis after the city switched its drinking water source as a cost-saving measure.
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Legionnaires' is a respiratory bacterial infection usually spread through mist that comes from a water source; it isn't spread person-to-person.
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State officials, obsessed with budget cuts, switched the city's water source from the Great Lakes to the Flint River to save money.
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This means that if they enter a water source, for example, the water will remain contaminated for decades after the initial interaction.
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In Flint, 54 percent black, a state-appointed emergency manager changed the drinking water source and touched off the city's water crisis.
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In some cases thousands of people share one water source, or they have to walk hours to one used by nearby communities.
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Lead levels in Flint spiked after the city switched its drinking water source from the Detroit municipal supply to a local river.
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But remember, too, that no infrastructure projects can work without a safe and reliable power and water source in the first place.
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That's why officials have tightly restricted the use of Catalina's main water source: an aquifer connected to the interior Middle Ranch Reservoir.
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The Choke Mountains are the water source for the Upper Blue Nile River system which has more than 59 rivers and 3 springs.
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Legionnaires' disease is a respiratory bacterial infection usually spread through mist that comes from a water source; it isn't spread person-to-person.
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The pipeline's planned route—which closely mirrors the path of the would-be Keystone XL pipeline—goes right through the tribe's water source.
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If you're in a city park, Kann suggests planning your routes around water fountains so you always know where a water source is.
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Most recently, he rehoused 800 displaced families on his own land, providing them a water source to grow crops and become self-sustainable.
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Thanks to the meager water source, a small belt of vegetation grows around the city, in the middle of endless kilometers of desert.
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The reservoir is the water source for the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, whose land in Cannon Ball is adjacent to the line's route.
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With the Aquapaw, she'll be able to hook the hose right up to the water source and wash her doggo with full control.
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Residents need the lead lines responsible for the contaminated water taken out immediately—they need an infrastructure change, and not another water source.
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If you develop pneumonia-like symptoms such as cough, chills, or muscle aches after exposure to a water source, see a doctor immediately.
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The state revealed in 2015 that due to a switch in Flint's water source meant to save money, which was initiated by Gov.
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Flint, a predominantly black city of 100,000, was under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager when it switched its water source.
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The state of Michigan, in an effort to save money, switched Flint's water source to a cheaper, but riskier alternative, the Flint River.
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By law, every community water system is required to provide an annual report to residents that details the water source and contaminant levels.
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The situation in Flint, which began after the city changed its water source in 63, raised concerns over water safety around the country.
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This argument is nonsense, and a report of pollution in 2015 into the Schuylkill River, a drinking water source in Pennsylvania, shows why.
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As of Friday, the Sierra Nevada snowpack, a crucial water source after the winter, was at nearly 170 percent of its historical average.
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Next door is the water source, with slightly sparkling water flowing from two taps poking out of a wooden statue of an owl.
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Rick Snyder (R) and had wide-ranging power over Flint during the time of the water source switch that caused the lead contamination.
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He spent the spring landscaping for the arrival of his hive, including building a water source to keep bees out of his pool.
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Lead levels below federal limit The EPA has also required that the city receive public input on its final water source and treatment plan.
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Worshipped by a billion Hindus and a water source for 663 million, "Mother Ganga" is dying, despite decades of government efforts to save it.
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Six months ago, the state of Michigan switched Flint's drinking water source back to Lake Huron, after the disastrous trial using the Flint River.
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The water contamination in Flint was born out of a decision to switch the city's water source to the Flint River in April 2014.
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In 2014, while Lyon was still HHS Director, Flint changed its primary water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River to cut costs.
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So, Dr. Helfand suggests using little plastic tubs to carry water from a stream or other water source to the outside of your tent.
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Bring your own blanket and utensils, find a nice spot in a park or by some water source, and have a happy hour picnic.
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The decision breathes new life into the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's ongoing battle against the pipeline, which runs under the tribe's major water source.
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Lake Mead, located by Hoover Dam and a vital water source for California, Nevada and Arizona, had dismal levels last year that raised alarm.
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The pipes hadn't been a problem until the Michigan city had its water source changed to the polluted Flint River amid a budget crisis.
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It is hard to imagine why anyone familiar with the river's history would ever decide to use it even as a temporary water source.
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Flint, which has a population of about 100,000, has been dealing with contaminated water since it switched its water source nearly two years ago.
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The lead poisoning crisis in Flint, Michigan, was a surprise, an emergency that occurred after the city switched to a new, cheaper water source.
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The state — now under growing national pressure — finally acquiesced and within a month, the Flint water source was switched back to the Detroit system.
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The dosage button was defective and a hose that was needed to connect the machine to her water source wasn't included in the package.
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The disease spreads through water, so once a central water source is contaminated, everyone who relies on it is likely to get the disease.
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Much more stands to be erased in the canal project — entire towns and villages, as well as the ecology of Istanbul's main water source.
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Reopened in July with a tasting center, the distillery is next to the Town Branch of Elkhorn Creek, once a water source for whiskey.
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EPA officials based in Chicago pressed Michigan early last year on whether Flint had the proper corrosion controls when it switched its water source.
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Standing Rock had sued the Army Corps in July 2016 over the pipeline, arguing the line could contaminate its water source, the Missouri River.
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The problems started when Flint switched its water source from Detroit to the Flint River because of a state order in April 2014. Gov.
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Johnson constructed a pond in a small stream that crossed his property to provide a safe, reliable water source for his four daughters' horses.
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It's not just ice at the poles: Snow cover and glaciers are disappearing from many mountain regions, jeopardizing a water source millions depend on.
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Thus, the pink and white geometric ceiling often dips and twists towards the art objects, not unlike tree roots reaching towards a water source.
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The state revealed late last year that due to a switch in Flint's water source meant to save money, which was initiated by Gov.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that "at least" 1.8 billion people around the world use a drinking water source contaminated with human waste.
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Lake Oahe is the water source for the local Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which argues that it wasn't adequately consulted when permits were being granted.
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The Flint water crisis began to unfold in spring 2013 when the city opted to switch to the Flint River as a temporary water source.
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Though the city last autumn switched back to its original water source, the Detroit water system, the city is not out of the woods yet.
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Hazardous levels of lead were found in residents' tap water after the city switched its water source from the Great Lakes to the Flint River.
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Like Flint, where the lead contamination crisis was sparked by a switch in the city's water supply, Jackson changed its water source two years ago.
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When it does, the town will have to contend with a water source contaminated after the earthquake — skin infections have been spreading among the population.
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In 2014, the city authorities of Flint, whose residents are predominantly African-American, switched the public water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River.
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None of the communities surrounding Flint switched to the new water source, but they will be directly affected by the toxic water all the same.
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Flint, a predominantly black city, switched its public water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River in a cost-cutting move in April 2014.
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Occurrences of Legionnaires' disease in the city after the water source switch were more than the previous five years combined, Snyder said during the hearing.
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Flint switched its water source to the Flint River on April 25th, 2014; by the summer, residents were complaining about foul smells and skin rashes.
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The state took over the city's budget and decided to temporarily switch Flint's water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River to save money.
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The Flint crisis began in 2014, when an emergency manager appointed by Snyder switched the city's water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River.
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Locals cough and wheeze under vast clouds of smoke, and NASA images show oil threatening to encroach on the Tigris River, a major water source.
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EPA's Region 5 office in Chicago got the first citizen complaint about lead in Flint in May 85033, a month after the water source switch.
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It would cut people off from their own property and wildlife from the main (and sometimes the only) water source in a vast upland desert.
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Why it matters: The Colorado River is a water source for some 40 million people in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
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Emails from Snyder's top aides, released by the state earlier this year, showed internal concerns about the impact of the new water source on Flint.
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This draft of a Flint press release, about the switch to a new water source, is dated several days after Michael Glasgow's note of concern.
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Rick Snyder tried to save money by switching to the polluted Flint River as a water source without adding chemicals that would have prevented corrosion.
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Flint's woes began in 2014 when emergency managers appointed by Snyder switched its water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River to save money.
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APT 33 has a history of attacking aerospace and oil operations, as well as politicians, academics and the water source for a U.S. military facility.
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The presence of phosphate in the water source of the lakes in New York City parks has limited the options for addressing blue-green algae.
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Besides being Sal de Aquí's water source, Cabo Raso also hosts the annual Fiesta de la Sal Marina party, organised by the sea salt's producers.
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If you have a quality water source that is clean and pure and healthful, then you don't need to change the chemistry of the water.
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Flint's problems began after the city switched its water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River in 2014 as part of a cost-cutting plan.
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The Flint water crisis happenedIn 2014, the small Michigan city of Flint transitioned their water source from the Detroit Water Authority to the Flint Water System.
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Meanwhile, there are women and girls who spend up to eight hours a day walking to a water source to bring clean water to their families.
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For more news, click The food maker said it has sold the Quezac mineral water source and its bottling plant in Lozere, France, to Ogeu Group.
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It contends that the decision to switch the water source denied residents their civil rights to bodily integrity and to be free from state-created danger.
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Rick Snyder stuck to a disastrous money-saving decision to change the city's water source, even after local residents and the City Council complained about contamination.
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Flint, a predominantly black city of 100,000, was under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager when it switched its water source for cost reasons.
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The proposed pipeline would have carried crude oil underneath Lake Oahe, a dammed-up part of Missouri River and the main water source for the reservation.
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After the city made its switch to the lead-contaminated water source, residents who complained of tainted water supply were repeatedly brushed off by local officials.
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But the local clinic doesn't have running water either, a far too common occurrence in Africa where nearly half the medical facilities lack a water source.
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The following day, I stumbled upon the same phenomenon: a confetti of visibly used TP, tucked in a grove abutting an otherwise pristine glacial water source.
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A state-appointed emergency manager switched the city's drinking water source from Detroit's municipal water system to the Flint River in an effort to save money.
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Schuette said at a news conference that both Earley and Ambrose were instrumental in securing $85 million to connect the city to a new water source.
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Snyder appointed Darnell Earley, Flint's emergency manager during the 2014 switch in Flint's water source that caused the lead problem, and Earley reported directly to him.
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In Palmeirante, a rural municipality in the state of Tocantins, subsistence farmer Ronivon Matias de Andrade blames expanding mega-farms for damaging a community water source.
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In Flint, lead levels increased in 2014 when it switched its water source to the Flint River, which was not treated with the anti-corrosive orthophosphate.
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The city has switched back to its original water source, Detroit's municipal system, until Flint can be connected to a new regional utility still under construction.
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And it offers a direct solution to this other image—that of a shaded, stagnant water source that's far away from the village and carries disease.
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That agency failed to require corrosion controls mandated under federal law when Flint changed its water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River in April 2014.
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The fact that the Missouri River is the same water source for the Standing Rock Sioux connects this community to the exigencies surrounding the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), "at least" 1.8 billion people around the world still use a drinking water source that is contaminated with human waste.
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They argue that the Missouri River, which the pipeline would cross under, is too precious a water source to risk contamination from an oil spill or leak.
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Sand dunes don't have a reputation for being fertile, but this particular area is a rich ground water source that dates back to the Tertiary geological period.
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The city's water issues began in April 2014 when it temporarily switched Flint's water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River as a cost-saving measure.
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Flint was under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager when it switched its water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River in April 2014.
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This is all the more reason to support your local municipal water source, which is working to make improvements to the system that will benefit more people.
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Even slight leakage in the pipeline would contaminate the water source, which accounts for about one-third of the nation's irrigation and 1.8 million people's drinking water.
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Despite the switch, Flint residents had been consuming the contaminated water for months while petitions and protests failed to force city officials to change the water source.
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Flint was under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager when it switched its water source to the Flint River from Lake Huron in April 2014.
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If the water source is corrosive (which is what happened in Flint) the water can pick up lead from the soldering as it flows through the pipes.
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In 2014, the City of Flint, under state management, committed to a new drinking water source instead of water treated and supplied by the City of Detroit.
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The lake, created by government-built dams a half-century ago, is a water source for the Standing Rock Sioux and a focal point of the dispute.
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They were light enough to carry to and from whatever water source was available, and they were more environmentally friendly than relying on plastic gallon water jugs.
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Spinifex, a grass that otherwise lives for decades and crowds everything else out, is replaced by other plants like bush tomatoes, an important food and water source.
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Living a nightmare in China's city of sinkholes In Beijing, groundwater is the main water source -- two thirds -- for everything from industrial and agricultural use to household consumption.
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Stewart heard the lawyers for the company that owned a chemical plant near a water source -- the suspected cause of the cancer -- laughing about golf in another room.
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Before the latest evacuations, U.S. officials announced funding to fight the Lake Christine Fire and said it also threatened a large power grid and a primary water source.
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Another tip is to have a running water source or water pump that keeps water from getting stagnant, which significantly delays or even prevents the freezing of water.
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That outbreak caused more than 200 illnesses and at least five deaths, and was likely spread by a tainted water source close to farming regions in Yuma, Arizona.
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That announcement amplified alarm among Native Americans and their allies, who oppose the pipeline because it would pass beneath Lake Oahe, a drinking water source and sacred site.
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Plans called for the pipeline to pass under Lake Oahe, a federally owned water source, and to skirt the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation by about half a mile.
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A spokeswoman for Hyflux Ltd, which operates an important water source for Singapore, told Reuters in an email that the company will be "cooperating fully" with their queries.
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Thousands of people have flocked to North Dakota, where the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe argues that the proposed pipeline could permanently contaminate its water source, the Missouri River.
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This means that the "reliable" water source from Lake Huron is now not safe anymore due to the way the Flint River water heavily corroded the city's pipes.
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Problems began when government officials decided in April 2014 to switch the city's water source temporarily and use water from the Flint River as a cost-cutting measure.
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But the original problem is that Flint's river water is much more difficult to treat than water from Lake Huron, the city's water source from 1974 to 2014.
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"However, the development of the new water source is, under the concession agreement, ultimately the responsibilty of MWSS," he added, referring to the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System.
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In July, the US Army Corps of Engineers gave its permission for the Dakota Access Pipeline to cross the disputed reservoir, the major water source for the Tribe.
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The companies, Veolia North America and Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, or LAN, were awarded contracts to advise the city about using the Flint River as its drinking water source.
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The city's residents have not had an adequate supply of clean water since 2014 when the city's main water source was changed to the lead-contaminated Flint River.
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At the time, others in the administration were scrambling to respond to suggestions that bacteria in the city's new water source, the Flint River, could be the culprit.
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But there is a water source if it can be secured: the Berkeley Pit, the mile-wide hole on the edge of Butte where copper was once mined.
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Nine elephants were electrocuted near a village in eastern Botswana this week after they came into contact with a fallen power line near a water source, officials said.
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Royalty and nobility flocked to SPA as far back as the 14th century to drink from the natural water source that were believed to have healing properties. 3D.
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The attack took place in Casas Frias in the municipality of Pupiales, causing oil to leak into La Pinuela water source, Ecopetrol said in a statement on Saturday.
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This week marks two years since Flint, under the control of an emergency manager appointed by Snyder, switched its water source to the Flint River to save money.
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Flint's water contamination was linked to an April 2014 switch of the city's water source to the Flint River from Lake Huron in an attempt to cut costs.
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The company this week said it was mobilizing equipment to drill under Lake Oahe, the water source that has been a focus of the protests surrounding the project.
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In April 2014 the city switched its water source, from Lake Huron to the Flint River, in order to save money during the construction of a new Huron pipeline.
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Flint's financial emergency, which began in 2011, became controversial when its state-appointed emergency manager in 2014 changed the city's water source, which caused lead to leach from pipes.
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Chaiwat Dusadeepanich of the Department of Groundwater Resources explained Saturday that his team, which had been drilling for two days, found a small underground water source near the cave.
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Energy Transfer Partners, the main company behind the pipeline, is seeking an easement to tunnel under Lake Oahe, the North Dakota water source at the heart of the protests.
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Chaiwat Dusadeepanich of the Department of Groundwater Resources said Saturday that his team, which has been drilling for two days, found a small underground water source near the cave.
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I do not know from what clear water source she is drawing, but I know that she has found her way directly to our truth for both of us.
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The crisis sprang from government officials' decision in April 2014 to switch the city's water source temporarily and use water from the Flint River as a cost-cutting measure.
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Experts say the tap water in Flint became contaminated after the city, in a cost-cutting move, temporarily switched its water source to the Flint River, according to CNN.
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Protestors say the 1,172-mile conduit that is planned to cross the Missouri River would put their community's sole water source at risk and destroy sacred Native American sites.
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Kariba is the water source for a hydro plant which provides Zimbabwe and Zambia with much of their electricity and power cuts have become a daily occurrence this year.
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More than a dozen state and local officials have been charged with crimes, like ignoring signs of danger in the new water source and knowingly putting residents at risk.
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The study notes that while researchers collected information on consumption of different fish types, they did not have enough data to distinguish between species, cooking procedures or water source.
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They say the planned pipeline, near but not on tribal land, runs through a sacred burial ground and could leak, polluting nearby rivers and poisoning the tribe's water source.
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Speaking via his attorney, Darnell Earley said that the decision to switch Flint's water source (which is blamed for the polluted water) was made before he came on board.
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Ten thousand gallons of a licorice-scented chemical called MCHM had leaked from a storage container into the Elk River, a tap water source for 300,000 people in Charleston.
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It was under this system that Flint's emergency manager made the disastrous decision to switch the city's water source, which led to the poisoning of the people of Flint.
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It was Snyder whose emergency manager overseeing Flint directed it to switch its water source to the Flint River as part of a money-saving measure in April 85033.
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Ever since the city's water source had been switched from Detroit's municipal system to the Flint River 17 months before, residents had been complaining, holding meetings and organizing protests.
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Juan A. Mateo, a lawyer for Darnell Earley, the former emergency manager who made the decision to switch the water source, said his client had always maintained his innocence.
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Prince Albert mayor Greg Dionne stated they'll have to wait until the city has their water source corrected before the water supply is resumed to the Muskoday First Nation.
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The massive mammal was spotted in Cowlitz County, a few miles from a water source big enough for it, according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW).
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I remember one of the first Kenyan villages I visited in Turkana where the water source was several kilometres from village and they were using diesel to pump water.
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It's possible that this surface ice could be a water source for future moon mission, and easier to access than any water believed to be beneath the moon's surface.
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Rick Snyder (R) publicly acknowledged that the water in the city of 100,000 was contaminated with lead, partly due to his administration's decision to switch the city's water source.
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Just when it seemed things could not get any worse, in 2016, a manganese mine broke ground directly above the main water source for Kuala Koh, the Tonduk River.
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Women, kids, and other members of underserved communities often journey far from their village in search of the nearest water source or wait in long lines to collect it.
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The group, the National Drinking Water Advisory Council, also called for stricter guidelines around water testing and corrosion control, particularly when cities change their water source, as Flint did.
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Republican Governor Rick Snyder's administration changed the water source for the former automobile manufacturing hub from Lake Huron to the Flint River in a cost-cutting move two years ago.
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The Flint Journal reports that Stephen Busch, a DEQ official, emailed others in the department on March 26, 2013 about how switching Flint's water source could cause public health problems.
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Rebels in Wadi Barada have allowed government engineers to maintain and operate the valley's pumping station, the capital's main water source, since they took control of the area in 2012.
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In the months after Flint switched its water source, officials largely dismissed complaints that the Flint River water — which was much more corrosive — tasted bad and was causing health problems.
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The orbiter's mission is to seek out hydrogen levels underneath the Martian surface, which could help pinpoint deposits of ice that later crewed missions can use as a water source.
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They argue that the Missouri River, one of three major rivers the pipeline would cross, is too precious a water source to risk contamination from an oil spill or leak.
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That also included a bad call about which kinds of chemicals to use to treat the water, to prevent the new, dirtier water source from corroding Flint's lead-based pipes.
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Hugh can't identify the water source because he hasn't seen it — until the Red Room is opened at the end of their stay in Hill House, no one really has.
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The tribe had sued the Army Corps over its approval of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota, arguing the line could contaminate their water source, the Missouri River.
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The number of kids testing positive for elevated lead levels in their bloodstreams has doubled in the past few years, after the city switched to a new, cheaper water source.
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Rick Snyder (R), the city in April 2014 switched its water source to the Flint River, but the water was never properly treated, and it corroded the system's lead pipes.
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Two crises in Michigan Michigan is grappling with two crises -- Detroit Public Schools and the situation in Flint, where a water source switch resulted in high lead levels and corrosion.
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The project aims to improve water quality in the Tana basin, safeguard Nairobi's main water source and improve the incomes of thousands of people through sustainable land management, he said.
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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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The $250 million package would fund loan programs to help drinking water systems that have contamination problems, including Flint's lead contamination, caused by a switch in the city's water source.
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In Flint, even after the careless decision to switch the water source from the Great Lakes to the Flint River, less than $100 per day could have prevented the crisis.
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The contamination was linked to an April 2014 decision by a state-appointed emergency manager to switch Flint's water source to the Flint River from Lake Huron to save money.
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The backdrop: Flint's water supply was contaminated with lead in 2014, when officials changed the city's water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River in a cost-saving measure.
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And since this model isn't equipped with its own reservoir, you'll also have to camp fairly close to a water source in order for the pump to do its job.
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After the incubation period, milky white female worms pierce the skin and burst out of the human body in search of a water source to deposit their millions of larvae.
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To save money, officials switched the city's water source in 2014 from Lake Huron to the Flint River, which is 19 times more corrosive, according to researchers from Virginia Tech.
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About 21,85033 water customers have paid their bills throughout the crisis, which started in April 2014 when the state directed Flint to switch its water source to the Flint River.
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Last year, a huge sinkhole opened up beneath one of these stacks, sending millions of gallons of contaminated mine wastewater into the Floridan Aquifer, a drinking water source for millions.
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If, however, you can build your campfire by a natural water source, such as stream, river, pond or lake, then this is strongly advised from a safety point of view.
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Flint was under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager in 2014 when it switched its water source to the Flint River from Detroit's municipal system to save money.
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Plans called for the pipeline to pass under Lake Oahe, a federally owned water source, and to skirt the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation by about a half-mile (one km).
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The section of the pipeline that protesters hoped to stop runs underneath the Missouri River, near the Lake Oahe Reservoir, which is a crucial water source for the surrounding communities.
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For nearly 18 months after Flint's water source was switched while under state financial management, residents drank and bathed with improperly treated water that coursed through pipes, scraping away toxic lead.
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That said, this is a desktop printer and you can easily leave it in an undisturbed corner and carefully take the finished build plate to a nearby water source for cleaning.
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The villain, to many observers, could not be more unsympathetic: The crisis surfaced after Flint officials switched the city water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River to save money.
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Even when people do have access to a water source, they often can't get disinfectant like bleach or chlorine to treat water and clean the receptacles they're using to collect it.
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The lead exposure was linked to an April 2014 decision by a state-appointed emergency manager to switch Flint's water source to the Flint River from Lake Huron to save money.
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Before the month was out, the government hit the firm with a $10 million fine for breach of contract and ordered it to spend $220 million developing a new water source.
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The latest fighting has been especially intense near Damascus where the army and allied militia are trying to capture a rebel-held area that includes the main water source supplying Damascus.
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But late Monday night, people at the camp said the medical trailer and water tanks had been removed, leaving them to scramble for a new water source for hundreds of people.
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An emergency manager overseen by Snyder switched the city's water source in April 2014, which caused the untreated water to corrode lead pipes, among other water quality problems, and sicken residents.
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With a declining economy and a growing deficit, Flint began using the Flint River, a waterway with severely dangerous lead levels and contamination, as a water source to lower state costs.
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Roseburg last year told the city to find another water source, angering residents who said the water was always intended for municipal use, not to be given to the highest bidder.
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The Standing Rock Sioux tribe had sued the Army Corps over its approval of the pipeline in North Dakota, arguing that oil spills could contaminate their water source, the Missouri River.
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The Standing Rock Sioux tribe had sued the Army Corps over its approval of the pipeline in North Dakota, arguing that oil spills could contaminate their water source, the Missouri River.
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In footage shot over several years, we watch the herd congregate at its watering hole, raise its offspring and, during a drought, travel long distances to find a new water source.
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Walters was one of the first people to demand action in 2014 from local officials after discovering a rash on her twins following the city's switch to a new water source.
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The Standing Rock Sioux tribe had sued the Army Corps over its approval of the pipeline in North Dakota, arguing that oil spills could contaminate their water source, the Missouri River.
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Nebraska's economy depends on agriculture, and Nebraska agriculture relies on the Ogallala Aquifer, the vast underground water source that nourishes crops and livestock on a huge swath of the Great Plains.
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After a state-appointed emergency manager switched the city's water source from Lake Huron and the Detroit River to the Flint River, in 2014, brownish liquid began flowing from many taps.
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An email sent April 17, 2014 -- eight days before Flint switched its water source -- seems to indicate that Glasgow had problems with the monitoring schedule and his staffing ahead of the switch.
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"Under some particular settings the risk is even greater — for example, when you are at the beach or out on a reflective water source like a lake or a pool," Iwach said.
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On December 4th, the US Army ruled that the Dakota Access Pipeline, planned to run underneath the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's water source, would not be allowed to cross the Missouri River.
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An email sent April 17, 2014 -- eight days before Flint switched its water source -- seems to indicate that Glasgow had problems with the monitoring schedule and his staffing ahead of the switch.
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After the incubation period, the female worm creates a painful lesion in the skin and pushes out from the body in search of a water source to deposit her millions of larvae.
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The rancher on the Mexican side of the border said the bison visited a pond on his land almost every day because it was the only year-round water source anywhere nearby.
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To achieve a similarly interactive effect, Nakagaki and his compatriots paired software written on Processing with a water-shaping device, a computer, an Arduino UNO microcontroller, a camera, and a water source.
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"The situation that gave rise to the current crisis in Flint — a large public water system switching from purchasing treated water to using an untreated water source — is highly unusual," Beauvais said.
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Flint switched its water source to the Flint River to save money in 2014, but the water was never properly treated and it corroded the system's lead pipes, leading to widespread contamination.
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This April 2014 email, sent by Michael Glasgow just days before Flint made the switch to a new water source, suggests that the system was not ready and that he had concerns.
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In April 2014, the city of Flint, MI, changed its water source from the city of Detroit's Water and Sewerage Department to the nearby Flint River in an effort to save money.
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The story of how the well was discovered differs: Some accounts say it was the baby Ismail's distressed kicking of his feet that scratched away the dirt and revealed the water source.
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The Corps in December denied Energy Transfer Partners an easement to drill under Lake Oahe, a water source upstream from the Standing Rock Sioux reservation that has been the focus of protests.
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Since the water wasn't properly treated, lead from aging service lines to homes began leaching into the Flint water supply after the city tapped into the Flint River as its main water source.
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The decision is a victory for the several thousand camped near the construction site, who've said for months that the four-state, $3.8 billion project would threaten a water source and cultural sites.
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The backdrop: Previous studies have shown that there is a risk that cloud forests will see less frequent cloud immersion, thereby depriving moisture-adapted vertebrate and vegetation species of a vital water source.
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Rick Snyder, speaking on MSNBC, said problems over the switch to another water source that caused lead to contaminate the struggling city's drinking water stemmed from the actions of a few government workers.
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Flint, a predominantly black city of 100,000, was under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager when it switched its water source in April 2014 to the Flint River from Lake Huron.
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But the pipeline, approved by the Army Corps of Engineers, crosses the water source for the reservation of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe as well as sites of cultural significance, the tribe says.
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Stymied residents - fed up with a lack of action - took matters into their own hands this year and voted to give their local water source, the massive Lake Erie, rights to stay clean.
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Keith Creagh, director of Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality, will represent the state, along with Darnell Earley, the Snyder-appointed emergency manager of Flint during the time the city switched its water source.
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Flint's water supply became contaminated after the city, then under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager, switched its water source to the Flint River in April 2014, partly to save money.
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I saw a parallel in the myopic cost-cutting by Flint's emergency manager that triggered the water crisis, when he switched the city's water source from Lake Huron to the hyperpolluted Flint River.
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The cycle was broken by both taking steps to purify water sources and conducting public education campaigns about the importance of not soaking guinea worm–affected body parts in a public water source.
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I met Ismail Adewale carrying two buckets of water, which he bought for 193 naira (about a quarter of a cent each) from a community water source in Lagos, Nigeria, where he lives.
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If you're far away from a water source, then it's absolutely essential that you bring your own water with you — at least a large bucket's worth, but as much as can be carried.
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The Standing Rock Sioux tribe and its allies said that even though the pipeline would not be on their reservation, the lake is considered sacred and is used as a drinking water source.
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But three in 10 people worldwide still do not have access to a water source free from faecal and chemical contamination, according to a 2017 report by the World Health Organisation and UNICEF.
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Thousands of people have flocked to North Dakota, where the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe argues that the proposed pipeline could permanently contaminate its water source, the Missouri River, as well as desecrate sacred sites.
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The point of release into the Ash Coulee Creek is about 18 miles from where it feeds into the Little Missouri River, which then feeds the Missouri, a major drinking water source, Seuss said.
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Darnell Earley, a former state-appointed emergency manager in Flint, also was criticized for failing to ask enough questions about the safety protocols in place at the time of the city's water-source switch.
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He said he would release on Wednesday his own emails regarding Flint's water, which became contaminated with too much lead when the city switched its water source in 2014 as a cost-cutting measure.
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They are working together to restore suburban and agricultural lands and to improve water quality in the basin, the drinking water source for 15 million people in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
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The Council for Environment Quality that enforces NEPA should require an Environment Impact Statement (EIS) to assess the full threat to the tribe's water source and any other potentially harmful effects to tribal land.
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The city's primary water source was previously Lake Huron and the Detroit River before being switched to the Flint River, leading to an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease and other severe health problems for residents.
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The families are seeking class-action status from the court to cover any children poisoned by lead that leached into water due to the 2014 switch in Flint's water source, NBC News reported Monday.
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In April 2014, Flint officials switched the city's water source from Detroit's water system to the Flint River, and residents immediately began to report health problems, water discoloration and foul smells from their faucets.
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The Standing Rock Sioux's concerns about an oil spill just upriver from their water source has resonated with environmentalist and clean-water groups across the country, and dozens have rallied to support the tribes.
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The local water authority in the Motor City decided to sever ties immediately, forcing Flint to choose between backing down or finding a different water source until the new pipeline was up and running.
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In Flint, the lead pipes began leaching toxins into the water after the state of Michigan decided to switch the financially ailing city's drinking water source, and failed to properly treat the water with orthophosphates.
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The Standing Rock Sioux, which contends the pipeline would desecrate sacred sites and potentially pollute its water source, vowed to shut pipeline operations down if construction is completed, without elaborating how it would do so.
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The Raraku lagoon, a fresh water source on the island, has started to dry up in summer, stopping it from being used for ancestral swimming competitions during the Rapa Nui festivities that go back centuries.
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Flint's water contamination was linked to a switch of its water source to the Flint River from Lake Huron in April 2014 in an attempt to cut costs, when the city was under emergency management.
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Energy Transfer this week said it was mobilizing equipment to drill under Lake Oahe, the water source that has been a focus of the protests surrounding the project, in anticipation of being granted the easement.
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Flint's water contamination was linked to an April 2014 decision by a state-appointed emergency manager to switch the city's water source to the Flint River from Lake Huron in an attempt to cut costs.
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Flint, with a population of about 100,000, was under control of a state-appointed emergency manager in 2014 when it switched its water source from Detroit's municipal system to the Flint River to save money.
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By the numbers: After the city began using the Flint River as its water source in April 2014, fetal death rates jumped by 58% while fertility rates for women dropped by 12%, per the study.
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The problems began in April 2014 when the state decided to switch Flint's water source temporarily to the Flint River as a cost-saving measure until a new supply line to Lake Huron was ready.
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Both candidates expressed alarm over the water crisis that erupted in Flint when government officials switched the city's water source temporarily in April 2014 from the Great Lakes to the Flint River to cut costs.
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Dr. Marc Edwards, a Virginia Tech researcher who studied Flint water and found high levels of lead, said it would be almost impossible to make a definitive link between the water source and Legionnaires' disease.
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The city later switched the water source back, but in July, state prosecutors filed criminal charges against six government workers, accusing them of concealing information about the lead contamination and doing nothing to stop it.
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All you need to replicate that experience while camping is access to a water source to feed into the Zodi Zip's heating element, which is powered by four D-cell batteries and a propane tank.
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The mother of three carries a bucket on her head back and forth to the nearest affordable water source, a couple of kilometers away, about a dozen times to replenish the family's 200-litre tank.
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Despite the change in Newburgh's local water source, many residents continue to worry about the effects that drinking water from Washington Lake may have had on their health — and blame the military for the contamination.
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The Standing Rock Sioux, which contends the pipeline would desecrate sacred sites and potentially pollute its water source, vowed to shut pipeline operations down if construction is completed, without elaborating how it would do so.
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The Legionnaires' cases started popping up as Flint residents were complaining about the foul-smelling, discolored water flowing into their homes after the city switched to a new water source, the Flint River, in April 22014.
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The route is adjacent to the Standing Rock reservation, and the tribe and climate activists say the line risks contamination of the tribe's water source and its construction has damaged, and would further damage, sacred sites.
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Even after reports like this, Ambrose, a Snyder appointee, refused to back the Flint City Council's request to move Flint's water source back to the Detroit Water and Sewage Department, which uses water from Lake Huron.
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Mr. Earley was also the emergency manager in Flint who oversaw the decision to switch its water source to the Flint River while the city waited for a new pipeline to be built to Lake Huron.
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Speaking to reporters in Flint on Thursday, Dr. Eden Wells, the chief medical executive for the department, said that the timing of the Legionnaires' outbreak "correlated fairly well" with the timing of Flint's water source change.
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These people have turned into soil clearly, picked apart by birds and that sort of thing, so there's no traces of them at all other than these three pots that were found at the water source.
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Republican Governor Rick Snyder caused this crisis by appointing an emergency financial manager for the city, who switched its water source from the pristine Lake Huron to the contaminated Flint River as a cost-cutting measure.
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Once Mr. Davidson gets his crew off the ground, it heads to the nearest water source — often a pond created by a beaver dam — to pick up 270 gallons of water to drop on the fire.
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For nearly 18 months after the city's water source was switched from Lake Huron to the Flint River, residents drank and bathed with improperly treated water that corroded aging pipes and fixtures, releasing toxic lead. Gov.
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The city will spend $33 million to disinfect and test the new section of City Water Tunnel No. 3 to prepare it as a backup water source to Tunnel No. 2 by the end of 2017.
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Recent testing found "higher than acceptable levels ... (of) copper and/or lead" in at least one water source -- such as a fountain or sink -- at 16 of 24 schools, Vitti said in a statement released Wednesday.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration committed $22014 billion in 26 for a five-year project to clean the 2,525-km (1,570-mile) river that remains heavily polluted despite being a water source for 400 million people.
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At the time, Superintendent Nikolai Vitti said recent testing found "higher than acceptable levels ... (of) copper and/or lead" in at least one water source -- such as a fountain or sink -- at 16 of 24 schools.
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The garbage contained medical waste such as needles and plastic tubes, as well as cans, clothing and broken bottles, the paper reported Song Jian, deputy general manager of the island's water source management company as saying.
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After evaluating five places deemed especially hazardous to health and the environment, so-called Superfund sites, Environmental Protection Agency staff saw people accessing wells at a chemical-tainted water source on the northern coast of Puerto Rico.
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In 2007, Pepsi and Nestlé agreed to change their labels to reflect that their water "originates from a public water source" after a nonprofit accused the companies of painting a false and negative picture about regular water.
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Image 24.6 of 20503 SHARHABIL, Jordan – From a hillside in northern Jordan, the Yarmouk River is barely visible in the steep valley below, reduced from a once important water source to a sluggish trickle overgrown with vegetation.
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Adam Romanow, founder and president of Castle Island brewing company -- which won the People's Choice Award -- grew up in the Boston area and typically uses the Quabbin Reservoir in Central Massachusetts as his brewery's main water source.
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A spokeswoman for Mr. Snyder, who was also dealing with the public health crisis in Flint caused by an emergency manager's decision to switch the city's tap water source to save money, said he understood the frustrations.
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The Indian Supreme Court recently ruled to allot water to farmers in the drought-stricken state of Tamil Nadu, but people in Karnataka, where the regional water source originates, are angry because the deal limits their water.
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Clean the water In April 2014 the state decided to temporarily switch Flint's water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River as a cost-saving measure until a new supply line to Lake Huron was ready.
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Apologies 'a little bit late' for Flint children The crisis sprang from government officials' decision in April 2014 to switch the city's water source temporarily and use water from the Flint River as a cost-cutting measure.
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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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The governor has been widely berated for his slow response to the emergency in Flint, where lead levels in the drinking water have spiked since officials switched the water source to a local river to cut costs.
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Slate Hill, the hamlet in Wawayanda where the plant is located, does not have a municipal water system, meaning nearby residents do not currently have a public water source to turn to if a well were contaminated.
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The men, who WJRT-TV identified as John Snyder and Robert Skidmore, both allegedly died of Legionnaires' disease after the city's water source was switched to the Flint River in 2014, which kicked off the water crisis.
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She now faces City Council members accusing her of corruption, a court battle over Flint's long-term water source and, on Tuesday, a recall election that could snuff out her four-year term at the halfway point.
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In a bittersweet coincidence, the show was organized before toxins were found in Flint's water supply — before, even, the city's emergency manager made his fateful decision to use the heavily polluted Flint River as a water source.
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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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Flint was under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager in 2014 when it switched its water source to the Flint River from Detroit's municipal system to save money, exposing residents to dangerous levels of lead.
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"In 2014, in a city with no democracy, forced under an emergency manager hand picked by Governor Snyder, a decision was made to switch the water source, without the proper testing and enforcement of regulation," Walters said.
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Heitkamp mostly stood on the sidelines, refusing to back the Native Americans who said their water rights and sacred grounds were threatened by the construction of the pipeline, which would run under Lake Oahe, a major water source.
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Flint, a predominately black city with a population of about 100,000 people, was under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager in April 2014 when it switched its water source to the Flint River from Lake Huron.
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"While the water system has a clean water source and supply, it is still unacceptable that a few individual homes are experiencing corrosion that is causing high levels of lead," said Craig W. Butler, the Ohio EPA director.
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Complaints from residents began within a month of the switch, but the city did not change its water source back until October of 2015, when tests showed high levels of lead in tap water and in some children.
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The Department of Justice, the Army and the Interior Department jointly announced that construction would pause on the pipeline near North Dakota's Lake Oahe, a major water source on the Missouri River for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
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What we know so far is that in 2014 the city's emergency manager — appointed by Rick Snyder, the state's Republican governor — decided to switch to an unsafe water source, with lead contamination and more, in order to save money.
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The Dakota Access Pipeline, set to run from North Dakota to Illinois, was delayed in September by federal authorities to re-review permitting under a federally owned water source near sacred tribal lands of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
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Just past the water source they've fenced off to protect it from the pigs and cows, there's a family garden where they grow tomatoes, onions, carrots, cabbage, and cucumber, both for their own use and to sell to neighbors.
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The state of Michigan, which was running Flint when it changed its water source — a switch that ultimately caused the corrosion leading to lead poisoning in the water — bears most of the blame for what happened in the city.
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But three in 10 people, or just over 2 billion, still do not have a "safely managed" service, meaning a water source on the premises - such as a piped supply or a well - free from fecal and chemical contamination.
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These developments were aided by Walters, who demanded that the city test her water, and Dr. Hanna-Attisha, who reported that the number of cases of child lead poisoning in Michigan had almost doubled after the water source switch.
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CNN moderator Anderson Cooper had challenged Sanders on his plans to use the federal government to help Flint recover after a cost-saving decision by public officials to change the city's water source led to a toxic lead contamination.
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Yet the community of 7,000 is in danger of running out of fresh water, despite the city's efforts to find a secondary water source, according to a new study published today in the journal Environmental Science and Pollution Research.
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Its investigation is focusing most on the EPA's role in the lead problem, going back to April 85033, when Flint first switched its water source from the Detroit municipal supply to the Flint River as a cost-saving measure.
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It's the most comprehensive proposal yet on the federal level to the crisis in Flint, in which a money-saving switch in the city's drinking water source caused pipe corrosion, leading to elevated levels of lead and other toxins.
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Studies in societies with limited supplies of drinking water suggest you can help to counter dehydration and, at the same time, enhance the healthfulness of your diet by consuming nutritious foods that are laden with a hidden water source.
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The president is in Flint to call attention to the crisis caused by lead seeping into the water supply after state officials in 2014 switched the city's tap water source to the Flint River as a cost-saving move.
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Mr. Creagh, for his part, said that technically, the federal lead-control rule would have allowed up to two years for corrosion control treatments to begin after the city switched its water source to the Flint River in April 2014.
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They are accused of misleading the Michigan Department of Treasury into getting millions in bonds and then misused the money to finance the construction of a new pipeline, forcing Flint's drinking water source to be switched to the Flint River.
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CHICAGO — The attorney general of Michigan said Monday that a former county prosecutor would lead his office's investigation into the water crisis in Flint, where a 2014 switch of the city's drinking water source led to contamination and widespread health concerns.
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Their opposition, led by HSUS, the Sierra Club, the ASPCA, and the Oklahoma Food Cooperative, argued that the bill, SQ 22005, would make it impossible to act if and when ag polluted or otherwise threatened a water source or the land.
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Why it matters: The mountainous 2,000-mile region, known to climate scientists as the planet's vast "Third Pole," is a major water source for 10 of the world's most important river systems, including the Ganges, Indus, Yellow, Mekong and Irrawaddy.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads DETROIT — In 2014 the city of Flint, Michigan decided (while under emergency financial management) to enact a cost-saving measure that temporarily switched the municipal water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River.
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Through some more investigating, Snow was able to determine that a backed up cesspool with a sick baby's diaper had contaminated this water source, which was where 60 percent of the people who had gotten sick got their water from.
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Having this insight before returning humans to the moon may mean that they don't have to visit these harsh craters as a water source and could still rely on parts of the lunar south pole that are illuminated by sunlight.
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Mayor Karen Weaver was elected on a promise to investigate why, after the city switched to a new water source, people's water smelled bad and caused rashes -- and why the state was still telling people it was safe to use.
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Since the US Army Corps of Engineers approved plans in July for the pipeline to cross the tribe's main water source, putting it at risk of contamination, thousands of protesters have flocked to Standing Rock in an effort to halt construction.
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In the lawsuit, the families allege that their children are the victims of developmental disabilities that stem from the high levels of lead they ingested when Michigan switched Flint's water source from Detroit's system to the Flint River to cut costs.
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AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - A senior Syrian rebel official denied a report on Friday that a ceasefire had been reached between rebels and government forces in the Wadi Barada area near Damascus, where bombardments have knocked out the capital's main water source.
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To save money, the city of about 100,000 residents in 2014 temporarily switched its water source from Detroit's municipal system to the Flint River, which was more corrosive and caused more lead to leach from aging pipes, causing health problems.
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Most recently, the Standing Rock Sioux tribe is protesting the construction of a $3.7 billion pipeline that is scheduled to be routed through sacred sites and could potentially threaten their primary water source, the Missouri River, should the pipeline leak oil.
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A decision by officials in 2014 to switch the city's water source to the Flint River from Lake Huron was suspected in health problems like rashes and hair loss, and symptoms in children including weight loss and problems with coordination.
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Work by Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, the pediatrician in Flint who initially called attention to this issue, found that the number of children with blood lead levels greater than five micrograms per deciliter doubled since Flint switched its water source.
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The decision to switch the water source — and the failure to add crucial chemicals to the city water supply to block pipe corrosion, the source of the water's lead contamination — was made in an attempt to save money, the report says.
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Jeff Seipenko, special agent with the attorney general's office, told Judge Crawford that his investigation suggested Early and Ambrose ignored advice saying they should switch Flint's water source back to the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, the Detroit Free Press reported.
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In the spring of 2014, the city, as part of a cost-cutting plan devised under emergency management, switched its water source from Lake Huron to the notorious Flint River, once so polluted it was said to have caught fire.
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The stream that the company releases its waste discharge water into eventually joins Shawnigan Creek, which in turn empties into Shawnigan Lake—the drinking water source for anywhere from 7,63 to 12,000 people in the local community, depending on the season.
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Mr. Kincaid and others on the council pushed back against her proposal for a long-term drinking water source for Flint and criticized her attempt to do business with a trash-hauling company that has been accused of corruption elsewhere.
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"The place where they access their water source has high salinization or even chemicals that have been used for agriculture, which cause many gastrointestinal diseases, diarrhea, malnutrition and, above all, dehydration," said Diego Tipping, president of the Red Cross in Argentina.
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"The place where they access their water source has high salinization or even chemicals that have been used for agriculture, which cause many gastrointestinal diseases, diarrhea, malnutrition and, above all, dehydration," said Diego Tipping, president of the Red Cross in Argentina.
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Related: Even Glaciers Near the North Pole Are Melting In the past, glaciers have been credited with leaving behind much of the fertile land in the Northern Hemisphere, while glacial packs currently provide a major water source for many populations.
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For months, thousands of people have camped out on the North Dakota prairie to protest against the $3.8 billion pipeline, set to transport up to 570,000 barrels a day of fracked Bakken crude oil through a tunnel under the tribe's main water source.
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It took relief workers five days to reach the town, and when they got there, they found less than 2790 buildings still standing, a contaminated water source, and ripe conditions for a disease that has plagued Haiti since the earthquake in 2000.
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It took relief workers five days to reach the town, and when they got there, they found less than 100 buildings still standing, a contaminated water source, and ripe conditions for a disease that has plagued Haiti since the earthquake in 2010.
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The tribe, which has fought to stop the pipeline since last year, won a major victory last month when the government denied Energy Transfer Partners LP the right to run the pipeline under Lake Oahe, a water source upstream from the reservation.
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The discovery of high levels of lead in Flint's tap water has unleashed a floodgate of lawsuits on behalf of aggrieved residents in the two years since officials switched the city water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River to save money.
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Residents of Flint, an industrial city with high poverty rates and a declining population, had complained about the water quality since shortly after a cost-saving effort switched the drinking water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River in April 2014.
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The literal spring of Ehrenreich's title is a water source used by the residents of Nabi Saleh, now blocked off by hardline Israeli settlers, a group Ehrenreich tries desperately to understand but seems always to leave even more appalled and baffled by.
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Every two years, scientists from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife take mussels from a pristine water source on Whidbey Island and place them at various sites in Puget Sound, using these little mollusks to test for pollutants in urban waters.
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The goal is to store 86,000 acre-feet a year in nearby reservoirs and aquifers—more than enough, officials say, to meet the demand of the growing population and decrease reliance on the dwindling Virgin River, currently Washington County's primary water source.
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In April 2014, the state, which had appointed an emergency manager to Flint amid a financial crisis, decided to temporarily switch Flint's water source to the Flint River as a cost-saving measure until a new supply line to Lake Huron was ready.
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Flint, which has been hit hard by automotive industry turmoil, losing more than 80,000 GM jobs over the last 30 years, saw its latest trouble start in 2014 when the city opted to switch its water source from the Detroit Water Authority.
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Colin Wellenkamp, the executive director of the Mississippi River Cities & Towns Initiative, said that communities in Arkansas down to the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico face the most serious nitrate issues, due to bioaccumulation of the nutrients in their water source.
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The water source was switched back to Lake Huron, but residents still cannot drink unfiltered tap water because the pipes are still damaged and tainting the water, while many people — including children — are still reeling from the physical effects of lead poisoning.
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Discussions about Flint inevitably come back to Snyder's role, and he's apologized repeatedly about the crisis, but hasn't yet testified under oath about what he did or did not do in the lead-up to Flint's water source switch and the aftermath.
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Roosevelt designated the land part of the federal Forest Service, turning the tribe's main water source and sacred site—Taos Pueblo belief holds that Blue Lake is the source of life and maintains the souls of those passed—into a national park.
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The Water Resources Commission has expressed concern over the pollution to these rivers, while the U.S. Forest Service in March provided a technical consultation on Atewa which warned of "potential significant and permanent impact" on the forest reserve and its water source.
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The Flint water crisis, lawsuits claim, is a result of the complicit state of Michigan trying to save money by switching the city's water source and the complicit city of Flint failing to act as corroded pipes leached lead into the water.
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Opponents of the plant say it's the first referendum in the nation to take up the question of whether or not private corporations should be allowed to tap a public water source — especially in drought-stricken regions — and sell it for private profit.
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An emergency manager, installed by the state's governor to fix the budget of the long-depressed, heavily African-American and disproportionately poor city, approved a switch from a cleaner water source to save money, without requiring additional chemicals to keep the lead out.
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Michelle Zdrodowski, a spokeswoman for Detroit Public Schools, said the manager, Darnell Earley, had declined to testify before a panel investigating the widespread contamination of Flint's tap water after the city switched its water source, which led to elevated blood lead levels throughout the city.
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Three more emergency managers have cycled through, including Darnell Earley, a career manager who came off a stint running the city of Flint, where he made the executive decision to connect the city's water source to the corrosive Flint River in order save money.
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She was brought on "to be part of the solution" and had been a key player in getting the state of Michigan to give the full $6 million needed for Flint to switch its water source back to Detroit water in October 2015, Kennedy said.
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Michigan's governor asked President Obama to declare a federal emergency over the lead contamination of Flint's drinking water, and the state's attorney general opened an investigation into the decision making that, in 29, shifted the city's water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River.
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Celebrities showed up too, including Shailene Woodley and Mark Ruffalo, and the demonstration hoped to prevent Energy Transfer Partners from building a $3.8 billion project that would send crude oil to Illinois from beneath Lake Oahe — a vital water source for nearby Native communities.
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In addition to poisoning the city of 100,000 people and exposing an estimated 8,2300 children to toxic levels of lead caused by the new water source, the total lifetime economic losses of the lead poisoning in Flint will reach $24 million, or $22015,24.5 per child.
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In addition to poisoning the city of 100,000 people and exposing an estimated 8,000 children to toxic levels of lead caused by the new water source, the total lifetime economic losses of the lead poisoning in Flint will reach $395 million, or $50,53 per child.
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At another popular collection site where water flows in the surburb of Woodstock that lies at the foot of Table Mountain, pick-up trucks with empty containers pull over under a bridge as people bend down on the pavement to access the water source.
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For months, unarmed Native Americans and allies gripping eagle feathers and sage have demonstrated against the construction of the pipeline that would threaten the Missouri River, the main water source for the Lakota people as well as 17 million others who live along the river.
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The spring of the title is a real, not a metaphorical Arab spring; a water source used by the Tamimis and others in Nabi Saleh for many decades until, in 1976, the first Israeli settlers arrived and established a community they later called Halamish.
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Flint's water crisis started in 2014 after an emergency manager appointed by Snyder switched the city's water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River to save money, but failed to treat the water with chemicals to eliminate lead from leaching out of corroded pipes.
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"We've had really high spikes in arsenic in our main drinking water source in the region, and it's because for years we didn't have enough regulation," says Sam Perkins, the program director at the Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation, a nonprofit group based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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"My friend recently told me that the reason why humans like shiny stuff is because they're always trying to locate a water source," Madere says, and points to a back wall, where shimmering Mylar drapes ripple under an electric fan, a waterfall of fabric.
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The Army Corps and Department of Interior on Monday delayed a decision on whether to grant an easement to Energy Transfer Partners, the main company behind the pipeline, for an easement to tunnel under Lake Oahe, the water source that is the focus of protests.
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Mr. Snyder also took shots at the E.P.A., which learned in April 2015 — a year after Flint switched to a new water source, the Flint River — that the city was not adding a chemical that would prevent its pipes from corroding and leaching lead.
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It has been almost 5 years since the Flint water crisis started, which began after the city's drinking water source was changed from the Detroit River water pipeline to water from the Flint River that had not been treated for corrosion control at the time.
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Rick Snyder to lead Flint out of fiscal distress, were charged over their roles in the public health crisis prompted by the city's switch to a new water source, as well as the delays in responding to residents' complaints as they suffered the devastating effects.
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The Departments of the Army and Interior, in a joint statement, said that while their previous decisions to grant construction were consistent with legal requirements, they wanted to have additional discussions due to concerns about protecting Lake Oahe, a sensitive federally owned water source.
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One piece of good news is that Portland's drinking water source is relatively secure--it is in a landslide risk zone, but the risk here is mostly excess turbidity in the water (floating particulate matter) which would likely settle by the time the plumbing was repaired.
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"The EY Centre is a building that reinterprets and honours the uniqueness and history of this place, positioned at the edge of Sydney's Tank-Stream (the first water source of the colony of New South Wales)," wrote architecture firm Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp in the project description.
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They are citing concerns about the pipeline's threat to a massive water source called the Ogallala Aquifer and pointing to a recent spill of at least 200,000 gallons of oil from a related TransCanada pipeline called Keystone in South Dakota as proof the company can't be trusted.
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EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler made the announcement outside Detroit, securing $28503 million in grants for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, an effort to boost the water quality of lakes that serve as a water source for more than 22019 million people in the U.S. and Canada.
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"Essentially," the county health officials are "putting up the flare" and asserting that the "uptick in cases is directly attributable to the river as a drinking water source," said an official at the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality in an email to his state colleagues March 13.
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"Land grabbing by elite individuals and encroachment of the lake by floriculture farms has dispossessed us of our ancestral territories thus denying us access to the lake by blockading access route to the only water source," Jackson Shaa, a community leader, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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The problem began in April 2014 when the city, then under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager, switched its water source to the Flint River from Lake Huron as a cost-saving measure, and corrosive river water caused lead to leach into the water supply.
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When the Army Corps of Engineers cleared the way for completing the Dakota Access Pipeline on Tuesday, the agency also canceled something the Standing Rock Sioux have been asking for since the project started: a full report on the environmental effects to the tribe's main water source.
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Here's some bad news if you've been paying a premium for that svelte bottle of silky smooth Grey Goose: It's made from the same water source as Costo's Kirkland Signature Vodka and has received lower ratings than the Costco house brand on many blind taste tests.
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The way I see it is that stories have to be told... I was interested in the fact that these people are a symbol for the corruption in Haiti just because, first of all, their fresh water source was taken, and no other water was provided.
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The emergency managers Mr. Snyder appointed to run Flint's city government decided to switch the city's water source to the Flint River from the Detroit water system and later refused requests by residents and the City Council to reverse that decision, because it would cost more money.
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Earlier this year, the Michigan Civil Rights Commission issued a scathing 129-page report, attributing the water crisis to "deeply embedded institutional, systemic, and historical racism," which ultimately led city officials to try to cut costs by switching the city's water source to the Flint River.
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Despite the cleaner water source and the lead filters, the corroded service pipes running into people's houses can still leach lead, so the city is currently going through the arduous process of removing and replacing all of the lead-pipe service lines attached to Flint residents' homes.
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Several nervous residents pointed out flaws in Michigan's response in Flint, about 120 miles east, where the state's environmental quality agency gave assurances about a 2014 change in the city's water source that ultimately poisoned people with lead and put them at risk for Legionnaires' disease.
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After stopping for a couple of short hikes, including one up a canyon to find Tule Tank — another historically important water source — I took a seven-mile side trip up a rough road to Christmas Pass, looking for the bighorns that are sometimes found in that area.
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In one of the largest social movements in recent years, they leveled a months-long protest against the construction of the pipeline, which they argued would endanger a nearby water source for millions of people and taint sites sacred to the Sioux and other indigenous nations.
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Experts warn that blocking the river and building the dam, which will require flattening up to 500 acres of hillside forest, will not only stifle the river flow and destroy natural habitats but endanger a vast underground network of aquifers that feed Beirut's primary water source, the Jeita spring.
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The law essentially turned over control of the city to an emergency manager and it was an emergency manager who, in 2014, decided to switch the city's water source to the Flint River while building a new pipeline from Lake Huron in order to save the city money.
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Encampments that have become home to thousands stretch along both banks of the river, begun by the people of the Standing Rock reservation, who are determined to protect their water source, the Missouri River, from the Dakota Access Pipeline, which will, if built, run directly beneath the water.
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India sent thousands of soldiers and paramilitary forces to northern Haryana state on Sunday, after protesters demanding a quota for government jobs for their caste turned violent and attacked cars, shops and several public buildings, as well as cutting a key water source for the capital city, New Delhi.
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Crisis began in 2014 About two years ago, while in charge of the city's budget amid a financial emergency, the state decided to temporarily switch Flint's water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River to save money until a new supply line to Lake Huron was ready.
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So they returned to the drawing board, trialing 10 iterations before eventually coming up with the final product in 2015: a 3.5 kilogram pump that can be attached to a central water source to provide clean water to a village of 303 people for up to two years.
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And due to a decision by the city's emergency manager to start using the Flint River as a municipal water source in April 2014, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of children who will be living with the effects of lead toxicity from tainted water.
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DETROIT — The former epidemiologist for Michigan acknowledged in a plea deal on Wednesday that she was aware of dozens of cases of Legionnaires' disease in the Flint area around the time the city changed its water source, but that she did not report it to the general public.
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The plea agreement states that Ms. Miller was aware of the Legionnaires' cases in 2014, and reported to someone identified only as "Suspect 2" that the outbreak "was related to the switch in the water source" after compiling data about the illness in Genesee County, where Flint is.
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Although the well-publicized crisis in Flint, Michigan, happened after the city switched to a new, cheaper water source contaminated with lead, health officials generally cite deteriorated lead-based paint in homes or residual lead in soil from gasoline emissions as the two major sources of lead exposure.
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The proposed $4 billion dollar oil pipeline is slated to pass right through a sacred burial ground of the Sioux Nation's Standing Rock Tribe, and threatens to contaminate their water source, along with the water for a reported 18 million other people, if there's ever an oil spill.
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Lead has already shown up in other districts and Newark is in the process of completing its own million-dollar battery of testing and re-testing that will take a sample from every water source in every building, rather than the ten samples taken from each building used in past testing.
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The catastrophe in one of the state's biggest cities has taken many turns, but it began in the spring of 2014 when Michigan officials in charge of the city's budget -- which was facing a financial emergency -- decided to temporarily switch Flint's water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River.
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Voices of Flint: How residents are coping About two years ago, while in charge of the city's budget amid a financial emergency, the state decided to temporarily switch Flint's water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River to save money until a new supply line to Lake Huron was ready.
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At first, they maintained that the quality of the new water source was fine; but they had only tested the water at the treatment plant, not in a home after it had been exposed to the miles of lead pipes that leached metal due to the more corrosive river water.
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Flint residents began complaining about water quality issues shortly after the city switched its water source in April 2023, but city and state officials denied any problems until studies from Virginia Tech University researchers and the Hurley Medical Center in Flint showed high lead levels in both water and children's blood.
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This plan—nine years in the making—would limit water use "in three tributaries to the San Joaquin River, which joins with the Sacramento River to feed into the delta, a key California water source and home to endangered species such as the Chinook salmon," Pacific Standard reported last month.
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The owners of the Dakota Access Pipeline on Tuesday said it was moving equipment to prepare for tunneling under Lake Oahe, the water source that has been a focus of protests, even as federal regulators have not given a go-ahead signal that the line will be able to proceed.
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Falk, who's also director of the Communication Neuroscience Lab at the Annenberg School of Communication, has another example: If you're part of a group wandering in the forest, another member might warn you about a contaminated and potentially deadly water source that you wouldn't have known about on your own.
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The emails, obtained through a public records request by Progress Michigan, a liberal advocacy group, indicate that county health officials were concerned last March about a wave of Legionnaires' cases, and were at the time raising the possibility of a connection to the city's switch to a new water source, the Flint River.
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Switch in water supply was a cost-saving move The catastrophe has taken many turns, but it began in spring 2014 when Michigan officials in charge of the budget for the city -- which was facing a financial emergency -- decided to switch Flint's water source temporarily from Lake Huron to the Flint River.
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"Flint hired Veolia nearly one full year after the change in water source, and the focus of Veolia's analysis, at Flint's direction, was only to help the city address concerns about the levels of disinfection byproducts (TTHM), discoloration, and taste-and-odor issues related to the drinking water treatment process," the statement said.
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PEN America is adding two new honorees to its 2016 PEN Literary Gala lineup: LeeAnne Walters and Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, the mother and doctor who helped expose the water crisis in Flint, MI. The crisis began in 2014, when Flint temporarily switched to using the Flint River as the city's water source.
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It has been almost 5 years since the start of the Flint water crisis, which began after the city's drinking water source was changed from the Detroit River water pipeline to water from the Flint River that had not been treated for corrosion control at the time, resulting in unsafe levels of lead.
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About an hour south of Bismarck, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their supporters have faced violence and intimidation as they protest the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a nearly 1,200-mile crude oil pipeline that will plunge directly under Lake Oahe, the tribe's main water source, and through sacred burial grounds.
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The Departments of the Army and Interior, in a joint statement, said that while their previous decisions to grant construction were consistent with legal requirements, they wanted to have additional discussions with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe due to concerns about protecting Lake Oahe, a culturally sensitive and federally owned water source.
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I hope we can close Canyon Mine and properly remediate the site, and pass H.R. 1373 to protect the Havasupai Tribe and their main water source, visitors to Grand Canyon and all life within this extraordinary place -- as well as the 40 million people who live downstream and rely on Colorado River water.
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A federal appeals court has affirmed a lower court ruling that had found the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers adequately delegated to the state of Michigan the authority to grant a permit for a sulfide mine project that an Indian tribe fears could pollute a drinking water source.
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Around the world, many people have to walk long distances to find a water source and others have to wait in long lines and pay large percentages of their income to secure any water at all, explain Damon and Gary White, who, along with Damon, co-founded the non-profit organization Water.
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The move had the potential to reverse a decision made one year earlier by Flint's state-appointed emergency manager, Darnell Earley, who signed off on using the new water source after failing to reach an agreement to continue buying water from Detroit, from which Flint had purchased water for nearly 50 years.
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The group ran from the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota all the way to Washington to hand over a petition started by Three Legs, 22016, and Anna Lee Rain Yellowhammer, 13, to stop construction on a massive oil pipeline that would cross the Missouri River, putting their community's sole water source at risk.
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While there is strong reason to believe that the increased lead exposure rates in Flint are related to the change in Flint's water source to the Flint River in April 2014, it is important to note that the lead exposure rates in Pennsylvania are largely linked to aging, deteriorating lead-based paint (chips and dust).
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Two-thirds of the mountain glaciers that have historically supplied most of the water for Pakistan and India, together with much of the rest of the South Asian subcontinent, are gone, and China is holding the rest hostage through its control of the "Third Pole"—the massive water source in the once-frozen Himalayas.
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Under the leadership of a state-appointed emergency manager who was brought in by Snyder to balance the city's deficit, the city decided in April 303 to use the Flint River as its water source in order to save $5 million over less than two years until the new infrastructure connecting to KWA was finished.
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The Army said on Wednesday it is gathering information to prepare an environmental impact statement regarding an easement to cross at Lake Oahe, a water source upstream from the Standing Rock Sioux reservation that has been the focus of months of fierce protests due to fears the pipeline could damage drinking water and desecrate sacred grounds.
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These are the first targets in a widening criminal investigation of a crisis that began to unfold in spring 2014 when the city opted to switch to the Flint River as a temporary water source: Mike Glasgow, utilities administrator, city of Flint Glasgow is a former laboratory and water quality supervisor who now serves as the city's utilities administrator.
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Areas between 5,000 and 10,200 feet Areas meeting the elevation criteria that are within 23,000 feet of a water source Areas meeting the elevation and water criteria that contain species of pine trees We believe it's in Montana or Wyoming — specifically 23,310 acres (a 98% area reduction) Still, we were looking at 23,310 acres of wild land.
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It's hard to put anything about the issue in a nutshell, but a solid summary is as follows: In charge of the city's budget amid a financial emergency, the state decided to temporarily switch Flint's water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River as a cost-saving measure until a new supply line to Lake Huron was ready.
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The Army said on Wednesday it is gathering information to prepare an environmental impact statement regarding an easement to cross at Lake Oahe, a water source upstream from the Standing Rock Sioux reservation that has been the focus of months of fierce protests because of fears the pipeline could damage drinking water and desecrate sacred grounds.
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One recently revealed email exchange shows that Snyder's senior policy adviser and deputy counsel advised the governor's chief of staff and others to stop using the Flint River as a water source due to health concerns -- a move that did not come about until more than a year after that email in the face of mounting public pressure.
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First, any investigation that does not involve the governor who imposed the law that took away our local control, who appointed the emergency manager who ordered the change of water source, who also appointed the officials who misled the public, and who managed to remain either obtusely in the dark or diabolically silent the whole time, is deficient.
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Immediately before Flint switched to river water for its water source — the fateful decision that set the lead crisis in motion — Glasgow warned that the city was moving too fast: "If water is distributed from this plant in the next couple weeks, it will be against my direction," he said eight days before the switch, according to MLive.
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