Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Green Project Reserve Business Case Examples Water Efficiency Summary Replacement of 24,000 feet of pre-1930s lead-jointed cast iron (CI) distribution pipe with new 8-inch to 16-inch ductile • iron ( DI ) pipe to eliminate the loss of 115 million gallons of water per year ( MGY ), equal to 10% of total production and 52% of total system water loss. SRF loan amount = $2,500,000 • Water saving (green) portion of loan = 100% • Annual water
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Christensen English 102 September 16, 2012 Shannon Lewis Harvesting Natural Gases I. Introduction A. Although natural gas is the next step to our clean energy initiative, the lack of regulations on fracking is leading to air and water pollution, droughts and undisclosed chemicals which are used in the process. II. What is the Fracking? A. Fracking is a process to harvest Natural Gases from the earth core. 1. There are two different processes of
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P5 - explain health promotion and protection Health Promotion This is the process of allowing people to have more control over their health as this will help improve their health and well-being. It focuses on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and interventions. Health promotion is how health is shown for example to challenge obesity change 4 life is used so people can have a guidance on how to make their lifestyle healthier. It also shows that health promotion is aimed at individuals
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table luxury. Tea also has many medical applications as Bencao Shiyi, a Chinese classical pharmaceutical book, has states, “Drinking tea for a long time will make one live long to stay in good shape without becoming too fat and too heavy.” It is said that tea was first discovered by the second emperor of China, Shen Nung. Legend has it that while boiling some drinking water, tea leaves blew into his pot. He found the flavor pleasant. He then experimented with the leaves and discovered that it
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surrounding it and the people surrounding it. It benefits a small number of corporations at the expense of the environment and communities existing in neighboring areas. In fact, over 1.2 million acres of once lush forests and over five-hundred mountains in the Appalachia’s have been completely destroyed by mountaintop removal coal mining (Perks 1). Mountaintop removal mining has created an extensive amount of problems in the Appalachians including human health, community,
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of drilling about 2 miles, or 10,650 feet, in order to reach the shale level of the earth. The shale holds an abundance of shale gas that is formed by the decomposition of plant materials over millions of years. Once they get deep enough they pump water, sand, and a slurry of chemicals down into the shale layer in order to expand the shale thus, giving the gas the means to travel to the surface. Fracking is a very beneficial alternate means of retrieving natural gas from the ground, in the sense that
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Drinking alcohol is like taking a drug. It is a form of drug abuse, and drug addiction. This is a worldwide problem that many people are involved in. There are good effects of alcohol if it is in small amounts, and in moderation. On the other hand there are bad short and long term effects. The effects that a person will get are all based on certain factors like, how much and how often alcohol is consumed, the age of the person, when the person started and how long they have been drinking for, gender
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process. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, has elicited substantial concerns in health, water availability, water contamination, air pollution, land pollution, and in causing earthquakes. Still, with dated federal regulations, oil and gas companies have meticulously maneuvered fracking procedures by releasing insufficient data to the public; and, appealing to them, and the government, with the possible benefits of generating jobs, economic stimulus, and energy independence. Thus, oil and gas
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how we collect water sample from three different locations such as paddle boat, fish dock and finally from Gees area. The sample analyzed in the lab measure the turbidity and also measures the bacterial colonies (Escherichia Coli and Coliform bacteria). Introduction: E. coli (Escherichia coli) are an adherent of the coliform group of bacteria and are present simply in the warm-blooded animal’s intestines, counting humans. When present in drinking water, E. coli specifies the water has been polluted
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Gasland addresses the environmental harm caused by fracking. Specifically, the film targets the pollution of drinking water. It also looks at the harmful health defects that will occur once animals and humans are exposed to fracking. This documentary relates to the political economy of neoliberalism. Josh Fox is the main character in the documentary, Gasland, who shows how gasoline companies benefit themselves by impacting other people’s daily life in an unsecure way. In May 2008, Josh Fox received a
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