Sentences with phrase «already polluted water»

Erosion and the loss of soil fertility cause further complications, and as yields decline, more and more petrochemical fertilizers are applied to the soil, finding their way into already polluted water supplies.

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Meanwhile, purification efforts to clean up polluted rivers, lakes, streams, and wells can not meet the world's growing water needs, and water shortages are already causing human and ecological suffering on a haunting scale.

Fracking has already drawn considerable scrutiny from environmental groups, unhappy homeowners, and teams of lawyers who blame the drilling method for polluting pristine rivers, turning bucolic farmlands into noisy industrial zones, and leaking enough methane to make ordinary tap water as flammable as lighter fluid.

Companies are already recycling potentially polluting nutrients and using water that is too salty or too dirty for other uses.

Oklahoma has already seen polluted water from concentrated animal feeding operations.

Relevant regulatory failures in that coal - centric state are nicely unpacked by Nora Caplan - Bricker in this New Republic piece: «Why So Many West Virginians Relied on Water from the Elk River: Industry Already Polluted the Others.»

«The water here is already polluted, homes are threatened by flooding and we have regulatory agencies that look the other way and pretend we don't exist.»

Already, the polluted Zarqa River in Jordan, like so many other rivers in the region, is running with dramatically less water than usual, which means less natural filtering of environmental toxins.