Sentences with phrase «polluting water resources»

It is printed using a waterless dye process which allows for each side of one piece of fabric to be printed with a different color or pattern making for a lighter, wearable garment while being good to the planet by not contributing, as other textile companies do, to polluting our water resources.

Not exact matches

The reasoning goes: why should limited natural resources be used for free, and why should polluting shared air and water not come with a price tag?

The global economy is rapidly depleting the resources on which it depends, polluting the air, water, and land and changing the global climate.

Yes it's a far stretch from UFO's to an enlightened civilization, but those who are visiting are surely more sane than this planet of nations competing for resources, polluting the water and land while still using fossil fuels, fighting in «God's» name...

But neither can we indiscriminately and indefinitely plunder the planet for its resources, overpopulate it with people, and pollute our air and water without paying the terrible consequences in human misery.

Most of the current discussion focuses on what can be done to reduce the rate of exhaustion of limited resources, the polluting of air, water, and soil, and the rate of global warming.

What is required for this to happen, more than anything else, Is not a technology revolution, but a mindset evolution away from old technology that has passed its use - by date, (such as extensive, polluting and smelly lagoons) and outdated attitudes that treat waste water as a cost or even place in which to hide process problems, rather than a resource for recycling and generation of green energy.

In contrast, artificial baby milk production pollutes our land, air, and water and uses up natural resources.

«It would be unacceptable for a pipeline — or any project — to pollute our waters and undermine New Yorkers» health and water resources.

The declaration would allow federal resources to be used to help clean up areas in the village contaminated with a man - made chemical that polluted public and private water supplies.

«In this high mountain desert, water is a critically precious resource and the use of metal - polluted waters for irrigation may have substantial detrimental impacts on the lives of subsistence farmers,» said Bill Strosnider, researcher on the project.

The report by the Yangtze River Water Resources Authority also concludes that stretches of the 6212 kilometre - long river are too polluted for human use.

Environmental engineering is the application of science and engineering principles to improve the environment (air, water, and / or land resources), to provide healthful water, air, and land for human habitation and for other organisms, and to remediate polluted sites.

Agrochemicals applied in the paddy pollute these water - bodies and hence affect the entire food chain, thereby causing a decline in the overall fish, shrimp and frog supply — a resource freely available to the poor.

Lomborg was a member of Greenpeace and when he began the research for «The Skeptical Environmentalist», he was intending to support the notions of resource scarcity, increasingly polluted air and water and the rest of the «littany» as he calls it.

Nearly 20 % of the world population — mainly in rural areas - still practise open defecation, resulting in 300 million tons of untreated human excreta polluting fresh water resources each year.

After all, the air, land and seas are being relentlessly polluted with human waste products; fresh water, fish stocks, food reserves, fossil fuels, and wetlands are being depleted at an alarming rate; the catastrophic effects of massive over-consumption and unrestrained hoarding of resources can not be sustained much longer by our small, finite, fragile planetary home.

Afterall, the air, land and seas are being relentlessly polluted with human waste products; fresh water, fish stocks, food reserves, fossil fuels, and wetlands are being depleted at an alarming rate; the catastrophic effects of massive over-consumption and unrestrained hoarding of resources can not be sustained much longer by our small, finite, fragile planetary home.

Francis said that wealthy nations and multinational corporations that use foreign debt as a way to control poorer countries, while exploiting their natural resources and polluting their land and water, owe them an «ecological debt» by limiting consumption of fossil fuels and assisting them in more sustainable development.

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan have demonstrated that that moss can be a green alternative for decontaminating polluted water and soil.

Across the United States, coal mining is destroying wildlife habitat, polluting local water resources and dirtying our air.

In addition, they have downplayed the very real likelihood of difficult - to - remediate spills from the pipeline, which would threaten to degrade and pollute land and water resources and have harmful impacts on human health and wildlife.

In contrast, fossil fuels can have a significant impact on water resources: both coal mining and natural gas drilling can pollute sources of drinking water, and all thermal power plants, including those powered by coal, gas, and oil, withdraw and consume water for cooling.

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.

With the exception of salmon, they also tend to have the worst environmental impacts, because producing them requires the most resources - mainly chemical fertilizer, feed, fuel, pesticides and water - and pound for pound, they generate more polluting manure.

Water is one of the most common substances on earth, and one of the most vital; it's a tremendously valuable resource, yet one we squander and pollute prodigiously.

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