They should concentrate on reducing poverty by providing safe drinking water, better health and more education.
Apparently, the Safe Drinking Water Act makes it a federal crime to violate state rules governing wells.
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The Clean Water and the Safe Drinking Water Acts have significantly reduced threats to our environment and our health.
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Over the years dozens of wells were dug to provide safe drinking water.
But, for the 884 million people worldwide who have inadequate access to safe drinking water, chances are that nothing would happen.
In 2006, new safe drinking water standards were introduced that increase the water quality monitoring parameters from 35 to 106 items.
However, 800 millions of persons over the world do not have access to a source of safe drinking water.
One in three country-dwellers in China lacks access to safe drinking water.
Requiring no other technology or special skills, the filters are simply immersed in untreated water, stirred and then removed, leaving behind safe drinking water.
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As China is growing a middle class, the middle class has expectations of cleaner air, safe drinking water, and baby food that is good.
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The new bank report calculates that about 830 million people throughout the Asia Pacific region lack safe drinking water and over two billion lack sanitation facilities.
But a UNICEF spokeswoman said safe drinking water, shelter materials, water purification tablets, cooking sets, mosquito nets, medicine and sanitation supplies were all in dire need.
The war destroyed major water points and water systems, forcing millions of Liberians to go without access to clean and safe drinking water and proper sanitation facilities.
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Oxfam, whose work focuses on providing safe drinking water, was one of the aid groups who were told their registration to operate in Sudan was no longer valid.
In spite of this, there have been successes, particularly those with quantitative targets such as universal primary education (MDG 2) and access to safe drinking water (MDG 7).
And investigations by the Bush administration's Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency found no criminal conduct by Marine Corps officials and no violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
The April 2012 EPA decision to reduce air emissions from fracking could well be followed by an effort to end exemptions from certain elements of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
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Exactly one year later, we broke ground on a water and sanitation project in a small rural community called Joezohn with no access to safe drinking water or sanitation facilities.
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In 2000 the World Health Organisation estimated that, of the world's then 6 billion people, at least 1.1 billion were without safe drinking water and 2.4 billion had no sanitation.
She also sponsored social responsibility programs, including one that delivered a billion liters of safe drinking water to people around the world and another that vaccinated children in Third World countries.
Janin highlights isolated communities in Africa and South America as well as remote islands in Asia that have little or no access to safe drinking water as potential beneficiaries of the technology.
Iraq is currently facing severe water shortages across most parts of the country, with over 7.6 million Iraqis lacking access to safe drinking water, and an agriculture sector suffering from years of drought.
Virtually all disposal of wastewater is regulated by the EPA, either under the Safe Drinking Water Act or the Clean Water Act, but the EPA may delegate actual enforcement of these regulations to the states.
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On Tuesday, the President returned to his desk and signed a number of bills passed into law by Congress, five of which help ensure Americans can enjoy clean air, safe drinking water, and healthy wildlife.
Since data from some homes showed elevated contaminant levels and several residents expressed concern, EPA determined that well sampling was necessary to gather additional data and evaluate whether those residents had access to safe drinking water.
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In the annals of unwarranted federal criminal prosecutions, it would be tough to find a more outrageous case than that of Idaho farmer Cory King, who stands convicted of felony violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
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That list is part of the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, otherwise known as Prop 65, which prohibits businesses from knowingly exposing individuals to listed substances without providing a clear and reasonable warning.
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One of the most frequently forgotten dimensions of the water crisis is the fact that 900 million people in the world do not have access to safe drinking water and 2.6 billion people do not have basic sanitation.
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