Sentences with phrase «cleaning polluted water»

To evaluate any wetland's efficacy in cleaning polluted water, extensive monitoring equipment must quantify the water flow, its incoming and outgoing nitrate content, and the amount of nitrogen stripping occurring.

New class of reusable carbon nanotubes could clean polluted waters more effectively than silicon gels and activated carbon

Most likely spawned by the immense need to find a better way to clean polluted water and land than using things like chemical dispersants, these ideas started being tested and developed.

Not exact matches

There is a grave environmental crisis in air quality (life expectancy in polluted northern cities is five and a half years lower than in the cleaner south), water and soil (one survey showed that 10 per cent of arable land was unsafe to grow crops on).

thymay, your country's water is cleaner and the environment less polluted (hence, the beer is better).

Rep. Carolyn Maloney slammed Trump last year for «weakening Clean Water Act protections,» but the Manhattan Democrat has made millions from companies that were sued for polluting wetlands in violation of the same law.

Federal budget proposals in the House and Senate threaten water and sewer infrastructure projects that would help clean up polluted waterways, including the planned restoration of Scajaquada Creek, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer said.

The designation opens up a legal avenue for the federal government to force the companies responsible for polluting the municipal water supply with a toxic chemical to pay for its clean up.

The Manhattan Democrat slammed Trump last year for «weakening Clean Water Act protections» — but she's made millions from companies that were sued for polluting wetlands in violation of the same law.

«While at the same time our state is NOT doing the basic things government is created for such as maintaining the highways, the subways, clean water systems, working sewer systems that do not pollute, and many other things,» he wrote.

• Taxpayers spend millions to clean up and monitor polluted land and water, but hundreds of sites statewide remain contaminated.

«And if we pollute the water and all the fish start dying we will lose business and the ability to provide clean drinking water to so many New Yorkers.»

The declaration would allow federal resources to be used to help clean up areas in the village contaminated with a man - made chemical that polluted public and private water supplies.

So the bivalves would help clean New York's polluted waters, and in a decade or two they might even be safe for human consumption.

However, unlike the combustion of hydrocarbon fuels — which emit greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide) into the atmosphere and pollute the environment — the product of hydrogen combustion is clean water.

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.

The alga in green is present in clean environments, while the orange one lives in more polluted water.

In Chicago, soil and ground water polluted with dry - cleaning solvents will be cleaned up to make room for a new library in a poor neighborhood.

«As the global demand for clean water continues to grow, it is critical that we develop cost - effective technologies to decontaminate polluted water,» Yin said.

China has vowed to reverse the environmental consequences of three decades of breakneck industrial expansion and clean up its heavily polluted air, water and soil and is hoping to use the market to encourage firms to cut emissions.

But the clean water ice of Saturn's ring system suggests that it may be much younger, since interplanetary dust should pollute it over time.

A polluted sky has many more aerosols than a clean sky — think haze and smog — and that means less water for each seed.

The study authors emphasize that this effect could extend to potentially «devastating» economic consequences for cities that will need to pay more to cool buildings, clean polluted air, and ensure clean drinking water.

Efforts to clean up an abandoned mine turned into an environmental disaster when polluted water accidentally spilled into a local waterway.

Even if we try hard to eat clean, our world is full of toxins: all municipal water is loaded with chemicals, our air is polluted, there's carcinogenic chemicals in dry cleaning solvents, make up, body care products, baby wipes, plastics, artificial sweeteners, pesticides and fungicides on fruits and vegetables, and I could go on and on.

They ensure beaches are accessible, keep our water clean, protect our ocean, preserve our coasts and keep plastic from polluting our waterways.

conducting pollution patrols in the field and cooperating with public agencies to identify and clean up discharges of polluted water to storm drains, creeks and beaches.

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.

Keep the water clean of polluting...

Goldfish will die from the water they themselves pollute if it is not cleaned for them.

Investing in clean energy like solar and wind won't pollute our water or air.

The problem with getting clean water is that we are polluting it at ever faster rates due to the ever - expanding, never - ending organic waste and sewage messes that no one is considering as having any action for controlling.

The first step to clean water is stopping it from getting polluted by often very costly mishandling practices with organic wastes and sewage.

Plants and animals and their habitats are better protected, our air and water are much cleaner, and polluting industries are better regulated.

To understand the hidden costs of corn - based ethanol requires factoring in «the huge, monstrous costs of cleaning up polluted water in the Mississippi River drainage basin and also trying to remedy the negative effects of poisoning the Gulf of Mexico,» says Tad Patzek of the University of California's Civil and Environmental Engineering department.

We ensure beaches are accessible, keep our water clean, protect our ocean, preserve our coasts and keep plastic from polluting our waterways.

Only HIV / AIDS, malnutrition, and lack of clean drinking water and sanitation are greater health threats than the problems of polluted indoor air.

Clean, renewable energy sources — including wind, solar and geothermal power — do not pollute our air or our water and will never run out, unlike coal, natural gas and other fossil fuels.

Now's the time to be investing in more clean energy like solar and wind power, which won't pollute our air and water or fry our planet.

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.

American Rivers is working to protect clean water for people and wildlife in the face of 21st century challenges such as aging infrastructure, polluted runoff, and increasingly variable and frequent floods and droughts.

Even so, our region continues to be dominated by expensive, dirty fossil plants that burn coal and gas — harming our health and polluting our air and water, as we watch the clean energy economy pass us by.

Jeff Holmstead's job as their lobbyist is to delay any clean air rules, clean water rules or climate change laws that threaten the billions in profit these companies make by getting to pollute for free.

Drilling for shale gas raises serious safety concerns and risks polluting water supplies — and it could take vital funding away from the clean energy solutions we know are safe and will work.

Thus they were cleaning the polluted upstream water, before re-releasing into the river.

So far, six households in the neighborhood are engaged in the experiment to live more consciously through a variety of low (er)- tech practices such as organic gardening, rainwater harvesting, greywater recycling, renewable energy generation and even cleaning polluted well water with a living machine.

One of the benefits of constructing these artificial wetlands was thought to be in cleaning and filtering polluted water, including mitigating the effects of excess fertilizer runoff, which has been contributing to hypoxic zones in the ocean.

«A common understanding of a pollutant is a substance that «pollutes» or renders impure a previously unpolluted object, as when chemical wastes leach into a clean water supply.»