Sentences with phrase «about polluting water»

Merry says he's not too worried about the polluted waters reported in Rio; the team is used to a wide range of health concerns wherever they row, he says.

Roberts is coming off a string of hugely successful romantic comedies that solidified her as a bonafide superstar, and a film about polluted water is definitely not something one would expect.

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Water back when was very polluted as people did not know about microbes and such, so they got their drinking water upriver and dumped their wastes downrWater back when was very polluted as people did not know about microbes and such, so they got their drinking water upriver and dumped their wastes downrwater upriver and dumped their wastes downriver.

Slave labour, one milliard persons in unvoluntary hunger, life - saving medicine not available where needed too, polluted air and water, murders,...; what does any doctrine of science say about these things?

Even the best people will not attain the best potential of their lives when they live in a very imperfect society; for example a society that does little about the way industry pollutes the air and water and whose transport system is inadequate.

Since then, we have all learned a lot about the risks of fracking — about how the toxic chemicals used can migrate into drinking water, about how methane can leak out of well casements, about the danger of disposing of billions of gallons of polluted wastewater the process produces.

HOOSICK FALLS — Gov. Andrew Cuomo made his first visit to Hoosick Falls on Sunday, about 100 days after the polluted town water supply blew up into one of the most serious public health crises his administration has experienced.

Critics have warned that the deal to exploit the about - $ 460 billion worth of bauxite in the area could potentially pollute water sources, like the River...

Officials said the typical level of the toxic chemical found in the blood samples of more than 2,000 Rensselaer County residents is about 11 times higher than the national average, but well below levels detected in other areas of the nation where the contaminant has also polluted public water supplies.

Gina McCarthy, the administrator for the EPA, fired back at New York's commissioners of health and environmental conservation, who this week accused the federal agency of giving «conflicting guidance» about a toxic chemical that polluted water supplies in eastern Rensselaer County.

His arduous but ultimately successful efforts to expose the truth about Flint's polluted water have cost Edwards a great deal of money and a number of friends, as well as the pain of being «harassed, lampooned, and threatened,» The Washington Post reports.

The environment has emerged as one of Beijing's key priorities amid growing public disquiet about urban smog, dwindling and polluted water supplies and the widespread industrial contamination of farmland.

About 200,000 tons of oil have polluted waters around the world in this decade alone.

More recent critics of the animals» deployment to the Washington base were concerned about how the cold waters might affect the dolphins and about both dolphin and sea lions» waste polluting the shellfish harvest areas nearby.

In a 2000 case that wasn't caused by injection but brought important lessons about how fluids could move underground, hydrogeologists concluded that bacteria - polluted water migrated horizontally underground for several thousand feet in just 26 hours, contaminating a drinking water well in Walkerton, Ontario, and sickening thousands of residents.

It's common knowledge that most water sources are now polluted, but there is tremendous confusion about what kind of drinking water is the most health promoting, and what kind of home water treatment produces the best drinking water.

While he and his family try to deal with this grim diagnosis, they hope to use his love of karaoke as a way to inform others about the danger of polluted water supplies.

It's not about men... it's about aggressive neo-feminists polluting the waters.

Dodging oversight and polluting our land and water are not in the heart of what an Oklahoma farmer is all about, and they are most definitely not at the heart of what it is to be Cherokee.

Mario games are never about the story, and all this polluted island clean - up business is little more than a reason to introduce the new water - based mechanics.

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Gigi Scaria talks about architectural spaces, class and social disparities, and polluted water in Delhi.

Interestingly, there he linked to a Web Ecoist post, «Water Colors: 10 Unnaturally Dyed Polluted Rivers,» which brought me full circle back to a special report I wrote in 1996 about the polluted history and remarkable (if still incomplete) cleanup of the HudsoPolluted Rivers,» which brought me full circle back to a special report I wrote in 1996 about the polluted history and remarkable (if still incomplete) cleanup of the Hudsopolluted history and remarkable (if still incomplete) cleanup of the Hudson River.

As I read reports about the release of more than 11,000 tons of radiation - laced water into the sea from the damaged nuclear plant in Japan, I recalled reporting I did more than a decade ago on the many uses of silt barriers — essentially curtains suspended in water — to hold back everything from oil slicks to the bursts of polluted runoff flowing into coastal waters from city storm drains after heavy storms (the water can be pumped and treated once the system is not overloaded).

In the process of organizing his community against a waste dump that would have polluted local water supplies, he taught himself about water ecology and became an environmental leader in his region.

So, for each person who might die from global warming, about 210 people die from health problems that result from a lack of clean water and sanitation, from breathing smoke generated by burning dirty fuels (such as dried animal dung) indoors, and from breathing polluted air outdoors.

«The Surfrider Foundation has been working for decades to warn surfers and swimmers about the health risks of swimming in polluted water,» says Surfrider Foundation Environmental Director Chad Nelsen.

They are also misled to believe that CO2 is polluting the oceans through acidification but there is nothing unnatural or unprecedented about current measurements of ocean water pH and a future rise in pCO2 will likely yield growth benefits to corals and other sea life.»

Even before Indiana's top enforcer of federal and state environmental regulations was advising coal companies on how to continuing polluting our air and water, it appears that denial of basic climate science is the state's official position on global warming — Indiana's 2011 «State of the Environment» report rehashes tired climate denier arguments such as global temperature records having «no appreciable change since about 1998.»

And even if fears about «chemicals» polluting water sources have some foundation, there seems to be scant evidence for them.

The ban aside, about 200 retailers have agreed to make the switch this month as part of an industry - led campaign, dubbed «Strawless in Seattle,» to prevent the plastic from polluting ocean waters and threatening marine life.

Someone did not like my disparaging remarks about economists, but neither Imhofe nor anyone else on several other blogs has faulted my comments as maligning those innocent messes that could not be polluting any water.

Environmentalists oppose the tar sands industry, saying the extra energy needed to extract the oil intensifies the impact on climate by about a quarter, while polluted waste water harms wildlife and pollutes rivers.

There's nothing conventionally erotic about Jones» fish - man, who secretes a thick slime, has razor - sharp claws, communicates only in clicks and gurgles (some supplied by del Toro himself) and requires nauseatingly polluted water to survive.