Sentences with phrase «polluted urban water»

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The environment has emerged as one of Beijing's key priorities amid growing public disquiet about urban smog, dwindling and polluted water supplies and the widespread industrial contamination of farmland.

Narain is the director general of the Center for Science and Environment in New Delhi and author of a new two - volume book, «Excreta Matters: How Urban India is Soaking up Water, Polluting Rivers and Drowning in its Own Waste.»

When preparing such a zoning and related regulations, factors like population density, the ecological sensitivity of the area concerned, closeness to polluting industry, closeness to sources of drinking water, etc. should be taken into account as well as the potential risks related to certain types of urban agriculture.

Major Environmental Issues: Erosion resulting from inadequate flood controls and improper land use practices; irrigated soil degradation; desertification; air pollution in Buenos Aires and other major cities; water pollution in urban areas; rivers becoming polluted due to increased pesticide and fertilizer use.

Water is also polluted by industrial and urban waste.

Major Environmental Issues: Natural fresh water resources scarce and polluted in north, inaccessible and poor quality in center and extreme southeast; raw sewage and industrial effluents polluting rivers in urban areas; deforestation; widespread erosion; desertification; serious air pollution in the national capital and urban centers along US - Mexico border.

Polluted runoff from both rural and urban lands increases erosion and puts public health at risk by contaminating drinking water supplies.

Polluted water commutes from urban centers to the suburbs through canals running below the existing network of highways.

What are the potential health implications of the connections between urban environmental degradation (standing polluted water, lead paint and asbestos in buildings) and the health of animals and humans in cities?