Sentences with phrase «reduced water quality»

Recent intensification of permanent agriculture has had numerous negative environmental consequences: Erosion has accelerated and stream sediment loads have increased where repetitive cultivation is performed on steep slopes without appropriate conservation methods; permanent conversion of hill slopes and road building have increased the risk of landslides; irrigation of cash crops in the dry season has desiccated streams; and use of pesticides and fertilizers to sustain commercial agriculture has reduced water quality.

Threats to marine biodiversity in the U.S. are the same as those for most of the world: overexploitation of living resources; reduced water quality; coastal development; shipping; invasive species; rising temperature and concentrations of carbon dioxide in the surface ocean, and other changes that may be consequences of global change, including shifting currents; increased number and size of hypoxic or anoxic areas; and increased number and duration of harmful algal blooms.

Tar Sands and Unconventional Fossil Fuels In a previous post «Silence Is Deadly» I wrote, «The environmental impacts of tar sands development include: irreversible effects on biodiversity and the natural environment, reduced water quality, destruction of fragile pristine Boreal forest and associated wetlands, aquatic and watershed mismanagement, habitat fragmentation, habitat loss, disruption to life cycles of endemic wildlife particularly bird and caribou migration, fish deformities and negative impacts on the human health in downstream communities.»

Increased heat wave intensity and frequency, increased humidity, degraded air quality, and reduced water quality will increase public health risks.

«Study quantifies effect of «legacy phosphorus» in reduced water quality.»

Sarasota Herald - Tribune: Environmentalists Say The Changes «Were Tailor Made For Polluters Like Georgia Pacific, Just As Were Earlier And Failed Efforts To Reduce Water Quality Standards On The Lower St. Johns.»

They say the weakening changes were tailor made for polluters like Georgia Pacific, just as were earlier and failed efforts to reduce water quality standards on the Lower St. Johns.»

In addition to economic value lost in the timber sector, drought reduces water quality, harms the quality of recreation activities, decreases rangelands suitable for livestock grazing and boosts wildfire risk.

Dams can prevent or impede fish passage and degrade the habitats upstream by inundating formerly free - flowing rivers, reducing water quality, and altering fish communities.

All that extra dirt can reduce water quality.

Aquatic species richness and abundance can decline, and in extreme cases salinization can prevent lakes from mixing - causing low oxygen conditions that smother aquatic life and reduce water quality.

Bleaching can be caused by a host of human - induced and natural factors such as (top) intense sunlight combined with elevated water temperature; (middle) diseases caused by bacteria, fungi, and viruses; and (bottom) coastal pollution that reduces water quality and increases susceptibility to bleaching.

As water quantities slow with less precipitation, a concentration of nutrients and sediments reduces the water quality.

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The conditions require that sediment entering the marine park be reduced by 150 percent over the long term — a «net benefit» to water quality — and that $ 81 million be contributed to reef conservation programmes and specific measures observed to protect marine flora and fauna.

A program dealing with San Francisco Bay that received $ 4.8 million last year would be eliminated, as would initiatives for reducing diesel emissions and beach water quality testing.

While many men continue to shave with cheap, canned creams, body soap, or worst of all, with nothing but water, the fact is that using a high quality shaving soap can easily help you get a closer shave and also reduce or eliminate razor burn, skin irritation and other common problems.

We are called to be stewards of God's creation (Genesis 1:26), and President Obama has taken steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mercury pollution, protect water quality, and promote clean, renewable energy.

«Our cooperative has made great strides in protecting soil and water quality, improving energy efficiency and reducing fertilizer usage,» SMBSC says.

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Farmers using climate - smart practices understand that trees do a lot on farms: they can act as windbreaks, reducing soil erosion; they can enrich soil; they can filter water, resulting in higher water quality; they provide shade for workers and shade - loving plants; they create habitat for wildlife and wildlife corridors; they suck up and store greenhouse gasses — the list goes on.

The greenhouse growing system allows growers to recycle water and nutrients, reduce or eliminate pesticide use, and produce a year - round supply of high quality produce.

We're particularly enthusiastic to show companies how much environmental and profit benefit they can achieve by investing in waste - to - energy solutions that permanently reduce the expense of fossil fuels while radically improving environmental impacts on air and water quality.»

The prerequisites include practices that protect air and water quality, conserve water, promote energy efficiency and reduced pesticide use, and preserve ecosystems and animal habitat, among many others.

«You can reduce your fuel usage, make fewer trips to the field, do no - till farming, improve water quality and improve yield.»

One of the United State's newest dairy processing plants features advanced waste water treatment technology that not only radically improves biomass recovery and effluent quality, but also harnesses green energy from waste streams to drive production processes and reduce its carbon footprint.

Sustainable winegrowing practices help reduce water and energy use, minimize pesticide use, build healthy soil, protect air and water quality, recycle natural resources, maintain surrounding wildlife habitat, provide employee education, and communicate with neighbors about vineyard and winery operations.

It diminishes soil productivity, reduces food production, deprives the land of its vegetative cover, and negatively impacts areas not directly affected by its symptoms, by causing floods, soil salinization, deterioration of water quality, and silting of rivers, streams and reservoirs109.

Learn how to work with nature to enhance your community while protecting water quality and reducing flooding.

This is also unnecessary since the tidal Thames effectively complies with the EU Directives on water quality and there are options, proven in several US cities and on the continent, not only to reduce the occasional storm water flows into the Thames, enough to collect perhaps 5 % sewage on the way, but also retain rain water for other greener uses.

He's reduced taxes and debt twice, continued to make water quality a signature issue, and addressed his long - standing concerns over the lack of affordable housing on the East End by working with developer Georgica Green Ventures and community members to gain town board approval for a 38 - unit workforce housing project in Speonk.

«While these cuts have necessitated reducing the size of the Office of Water Resources, Suffolk County has adequate resources to protect water quality and remains committed to its core public health mission.&rWater Resources, Suffolk County has adequate resources to protect water quality and remains committed to its core public health mission.&rwater quality and remains committed to its core public health mission.»

In the Southern Tier; Chenango County Soil and Water Conservation District was awarded $ 77,255 to work with 6 farms to implement cover crops, which are planted to improve soil quality, reduce erosion, and to increase soil organic matter to improve resiliency during periods of flood and drought.

Kellogg said that for her and her running mates, the big challenges facing Hurley are, «Making a change in our local government, protecting the quality of life that we have in Hurley as development pressures move up the Thruway, protecting our water and the beautiful scenic qualities of our town, and maintaining our low tax rates as NYS mandates additional responsibilities to the localities without providing funding (at the same time that they cap our annual budget increases) and as we get additional pressures from New York City to reduce their tax contributions for the reservoir property.»

«Operation Ripple Effect works in conjunction with repair and rehabilitation projects being completed throughout the system to reduce the amount of unnecessary inflow and infiltration,» said Steven P. Devan, P.E., commissioner of the Oneida County Department of Water Quality and Water Pollution Control.

The new HSR facility will help ensure better maintained and cleaner equipment, safer inspections, reduced noise and emissions, and improved water quality.

Through the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative and the U.S. Department of Energy's Weatherization Assistance Program, work has already been conducted in the home to reduce indoor air quality issues, including repairs to the property's chimney, hot water tank, windows and walls.

Operational releases are designed to siphon off muddy water in order to protect the quality of the New York City drinking water, reducing the need for alum to purify drinking water, since the EPA has determined that excessive alum is harmful to human health.

ALBANY, NY (11/12/2010)(readMedia)-- Governor David A. Paterson today announced $ 61.5 million in aid to local communities across New York to improve water quality, reduce pollution and restore vital habitat.

• $ 775,000 for Willsboro, Essex County, to stabilize 2,000 feet of shoreline; a project that will reduce the deposition of contaminated sediment and improve both the water quality and the fish habitat of the Boquet River and Lake Champlain.

Landowners can practice conservation by planting seedlings and wildflowers to provide wildlife food and habitat, shelter crops and landscape, reduce heating / cooling expenses, protect water quality, reduce air pollution, and stabilize erodible land.

That's why it's important to prevent contaminants from getting into the source water in the first place, for instance by installing wood chip bioreactors on farms to reduce nitrates in runoff water, says Michelle Soupir, a water quality engineer at Iowa State University in Ames.

Gaseous ammonia is a natural part of Earth's nitrogen cycle, but excess ammonia is harmful to plants and reduces air and water quality.

Dag Hessen underlines that the reduced sulphur pollution and acid rain reduction are environmental victories, even though the unwanted long term effects on the water quality shows that it can take a long time to get back to normal.

It also reduces the drinking water quality.

These may be local and short - term, like testing water quality, or as widespread and complex as reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Under the next White House Administration, Holdren said, science - based challenges that will require sustained, robust investment include efforts to ensure safe and sustainable food, water, and energy for everyone, reduce greenhouse gases, minimize harm from climate change already underway, combat diseases such as Zika, defeat cancer, improve quality - of - life for those who are aging, prevent devastating asteroid impacts, and send humans into space «not just to visit, but to stay.»

The panel recommended, for example, that the U.S. Geological Survey investigate the impact that reduced tillage has had on water quality.

From a model of Malta's underground reserves, French government scientists recently concluded that water quality would continue to deter - iorate unless pumping rates are reduced by at least 10 per cent.

The methods for achieving greater water productivity, Grant and his colleagues suggest, are threefold: substituting higher - quality water with lower - quality water, regenerating higher - quality water from lower - quality water through treatment, and reducing the amount of high - quality water that is used to generate goods and services.

This «purification» function is carried out by the microorganisms present in their water column and sediments and, with it, they improve the general quality of the water and reduce the nitrogen load by promoting denitrification.»