Sentences with phrase «polluted ground water»

His main concern is to keep the potentially polluted ground water separate from the pure spring water and to soak up excess nutrients and trap silt and contaminants at every opportunity.

After loosing his senate position Rick Santorum earned millions of dollars including payments from a lobbying firm, an energy company engaged in controversial practice which pollutes ground water and endangers the public and a hospital conglomerate that was sued for allegedly defrauding the federal government.

Tribal leaders worry the mine will pollute ground water, the Salmon Trout River and Lake Superior, and strip the spiritual ambiance from their historical sites.

In this age of «going local,» they keep the organic matter at home (unlike a sewer system) without polluting the ground water (unlike many septic tanks).

The effects on the world around us are also negative — excessive use of water, sewage lagoons that pollute ground water and dead zones in the ocean from animal waste.

Moreover, petro - chemical soil additives pollute the ground water and poison birds and fish.

These sealers, which contain high levels of a harmful carcinogenic compound known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH), are believed to pollute our ground water.

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Now, with billions in new revenues flowing out of these deposits, a growing number of oil - and - gas - field services firms have emerged with solutions to the problem of how to remediate the huge volumes of heavily polluted water that comes out of the ground.

Further, it's also designed not to pollute air, ground, or water.

It's time to treat the earth as our shared home where no one will worry that their air, water, or land is being polluted by poison dug up from the ground,» Nixon said.

Crescent Duck Farm, the last of its kind on Long Island, has a new 26,000 square foot solid waste storage facility that will prevent thousands of pounds of nitrogen from polluting ground and surface waters.

Some products, when poured down the drain or on the ground, can damage plumbing or septic systems, and pollute our water supplies.

Basically, they added three quantities: the consumption of rainwater (the so - called green water footprint); the use of ground - and surface water (blue); and the volume of gray water polluted (and therefore depleted).

For example, it can be pressed into a cheap industrial textile — useful as absorbent padding inside machinery, to protect bare ground from erosion, or to soak up oil from polluted water.

Water filters can help by quickly converting polluted surface or ground water into safe drinking wWater filters can help by quickly converting polluted surface or ground water into safe drinking wwater into safe drinking waterwater.

In 1995 he reported that some of the sulfur crystallized and stayed on the ground, potentially tainting the local water, and some of it floated away as a gas, polluting the air.

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.

A study published today in Science explains how wastewater injection sites — areas where toxic water left over from oil drilling and fracking processes is injected into the ground between impermeable layers of rocks to avoid polluting freshwater — could be driving the sharp increase in the sometimes - disastrous earthquake events.

Anza used to be our stomping ground, no one else would get in the water because it was polluted and we'd get stunning waves, just to ourselves.

Hank, it appears as if methane created in bio-reactors is less energy incentive and more energy efficient than driving around in the country side and polluting ground and drinking water or pay people for drilling rights.

In fact, he says, the oil sands, combined with Alberta's growing mania for extracting natural gas from coal seams by injecting toxic chemicals into the ground — thereby poisoning some of the dwindling supply of drinking water — threaten to create a parched, deforested, polluted wasteland.

Animal products from industrial systems generally consume and pollute more ground - and surface - water resources than animal products from grazing or mixed systems.

When we account for what water is fresh, and in the ground table, and not being used for agriculture or industry, and not too polluted to drink, there just isn't much left.

Jurors often harbor a basic belief that if a big company is on trial, it has probably harmed people or the environment in pursuit of profits and has caused long - term damage to people and the planet — either by directly causing human health effects, polluting the air, water, or ground, or by contributing to global warming.

This hazardous waste is carefully contained but sometimes seeps through containment vessels and pollutes the ground - water, air or vegetation surrounding it.

Can pollute ground and water.