Sentences with phrase «into the water system»

This is an issue because the compounds can then get into the water system and be passed around.

If a minute amount of 1080 were to get into a water system and be consumed by humans, what would be their symptoms?

Manure applied to agricultural fields also contains antibiotics that can leach into the water system after rainstorms.

Benzene, the cancer - causing chemical that city officials believe was sucked into its water system in a heavily burned area of Fountaingrove, is continuing to be discovered in new places, including one in Coffey Park.

The facility, essentially a massive hoop structure made of steel and concrete, will prevent upwards of 7,300 to 21,000 pounds of nitrogen from infiltrating into the water system annually, according to the county.

6 In 1945, Grand Rapids, Michigan, became the first community in the world to put fluoride into its water system.

Those products they just sprayed on your lawn were aerosolized, rain washes excess products into the sewer system and out into the water system.

To add insult to injury, our water is often contaminated with the hormones that women on hormonal birth control pee into our water systems, plus things like fluoride, pesticides and possibly heavy metals.

You may have even gone to the effort of finding out ways you can stop contributing to the problem, by refusing plastic straws and shopping bags, or by purchasing clothing with natural fibers instead of plastic fabrics that release microscopic plastic fibers into the water system.

Chemical fertilizers are running off the fields into water systems and oceans where they generate damaging blooms of oxygen - depleting microorganisms that disrupt ecosystems and kill fish.

IANS: Climate change is causing toxic metals trapped in the sediment beds of the Hooghly estuary in the Indian Sunderbans to leach out into the water system due to changes in ocean chemistry, say scientists, warning of potential human health hazards.

A chemical spill in West Virginia got into the water system of nine counties, with the result is that 300,000 people have tap water that can be used for no purpose at all, other than flushing toilets.

All of the factory stages are committed to following U.S. regulations for chemical waste management, whereas many factories in Asia simply dump their dyes and waste directly into the water systems.

Commercial farming operations use massive amounts of fertilizer each year, causing nitrogen and phosphorous to leach into water systems.

The proper disposal of unused prescription meds is critical so as they do not get into our water systems or into the hands of people who can misuse them.

In the Mississippi Basin, a surplus of nitrogen from fertilizer that leaches into water systems is having a major downstream impact, creating a massive oxygen - deprived «dead zone» in the Gulf of Mexico.

Widespread use of antibacterial chemicals, especially in hand soaps, has led to these chemicals getting washed down drains and into the water system.

Not only does sustainable fashion recognise things like pollution (whether that be into the water systems, the atmosphere or the ecosystem), it also recognises the dangers of the fast - fashion business model.

According to the Five Gyres Institute, these tiny plastic beads, used in face & body scrubs and toothpaste, are washed directly down the drain and into our water systems, where they harm our waterways and the animals that live there.