Sentences with phrase «polluted water runoff»

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«Better knowledge will also provide an understanding how pressures such as invasive species, polluted runoff and reduced vegetation cover affect the ongoing health of water - dependent ecosystems in the Basin.

The hardening prevents water from soaking into the soil, promoting flash floods and polluted runoff.

The city has committed $ 1.5 billion to erecting green infrastructure — green roofs, street and sidewalk plantings, porous pavements, cisterns, rain barrels — that will control and absorb storm water and prevent polluted runoff from flowing into waterways by capturing it and filtering it naturally through the soil.

Conventional: Fertilizer runoff pollutes coastal areas and can strip water of oxygen, spur algae growth, and kill marine life.

They could no longer grow food for their children because nutrients in the soil were depleted; they had no access to firewood, which was their main source of energy; livestock suffered because there was no vegetation to graze on; and streams were drying up or were polluted by soil runoff, resulting in a lack of drinking water.

Besides being inconsiderate, leaving your pet's waste behind can pollute water sources when runoff washes into streams and lakes.

Native New Yorkers know not to swim on Coney Island after a rain because of the sewage polluted storm water runoff, but if more people put out plants and grow green roofs, that might change.

As I read reports about the release of more than 11,000 tons of radiation - laced water into the sea from the damaged nuclear plant in Japan, I recalled reporting I did more than a decade ago on the many uses of silt barriers — essentially curtains suspended in water — to hold back everything from oil slicks to the bursts of polluted runoff flowing into coastal waters from city storm drains after heavy storms (the water can be pumped and treated once the system is not overloaded).

Not only is polluted stormwater runoff one of the largest sources of water pollution in North Carolina, but it's also the top cause of swim advisories and beach closures nationwide.

Fresh drinking water could become more and more scarce as polluted floodwater runoff contaminates rivers, lakes, and reservoirs.

Fresh drinking water could become more and more scarce as drought and warming combine to dry up reservoirs, rivers, and groundwater — or polluted floodwater runoff contaminates what they do have to offer.

New York City has great quality tap water because the city invested in water protection by purchasing land around its Catskills reservoirs to ensure that polluted runoff from roads and lawns doesn't enter the water supply.The city's $ 600 million investment in Catskills land protection and restoration did the job of $ 6 billion in capital costs to construct a water filtration plant as well as $ 200 - 300 million in annual operation and maintenance costs.

Fresh drinking water could become more and more scarce as polluted floodwater runoff contaminates rivers, lakes, and reservoirs — or drought and warming combine to simply dry it all up.

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.

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

Runoff from chemical inputs and CAFO waste pollutes our water and contributes to global warming; monoculture — planting a single crop over a large area year after year — depletes soil and reduces biodiversity; overuse of antibiotics in meat production threatens our ability to fight human disease.

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.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is launching a new strategy to promote the use of green infrastructure by cities and towns to reduce stormwater runoff that pollutes our nation's streams, creeks, rivers, lakes and coastal waters.