Sentences with phrase «contaminates fresh water supplies»

Rising sea level will have a huge impact, since half the world's population lives within 60 km of an ocean and increased flooding contaminates fresh water supplies and increases the threat from waterborne diseases.

It would contaminate fresh water supplies with salt.

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We know their pockets are being lined, but will they be supplied with fresh water when we all have contaminated water?

Half of the near - distilled - quality reclaimed water is injected into a saltwater barrier — an underground supply of freshwater that prevents brine from creeping inland from the sea and contaminating fresh reserves.

If young and fresh H5N1 contaminated water from low local wells, cisterns, tanks, rain barrels or rice fields is used for water supply the water temperature for infection may be higher (at 24 °C the virulence of influenza viruses amount to 2 days) as in temperate climates (for «older» water from central water supplies cold water is decisive to virulence of viruses: at 7 °C the virulence of influenza viruses amount to 14 days).

In America's Magic City, the rising seawater is leaking into, and contaminating, fresh water supplies above and underground.

The fresh water supplies are contaminated with salt water as tides creep farther inland.