Sentences with phrase «water pollution problems»

Also, fertilizer used in wheat production can cause major water pollution problems, which can then negatively impact the trees and the bees.

The image at right is from a gallery of graphics describing some of the issues that persist despite extraordinary progress against water pollution problems in recent decades.

Regulatory agencies regularly utilize our monitoring data to target and prioritize their pollution prevention efforts, and our field investigations have identified and led to the clean - up of numerous water pollution problems.

The authors write that overuse of fertilizer, particularly in China, where chemical fertilizers are heavily subsidized, is generating large amounts of air pollution, including the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, and big water pollution problems.

Reliance on such fossil - fuel inputs not only sustains oil dependency but also represents a major water pollution problem when they run off into rivers.

# 3: Growth in monitoring programs like the Blue Water Task Force helps identify water pollution problems.

Besides giving off GHGs, those messes are causing expanding water pollution problems as it is getting impossible for sewage and waste operations to stop spills and leakages.

And more than 5,510 miles of the state's streams are impaired by discharges from 220,000 acres of abandoned coal mine lands, Pennsylvania's worst water pollution problem.

That would get about 50 % of the carbon into inert charcoal while destroying germs, drugs and most toxics greatly reducing water pollution problems.

«They release nutrients into the bay that don't belong there, and it exacerbates the water pollution problem we have,» she said.

Instead, Borge sent emails to the Times Union retracing the village's handling of the water pollution problem over the past year and its decision to hire outside attorneys and the public relations firm.

To the local community, the right to remain employed was of primary importance, and improving the water pollution problem was secondary.

«In one of our curriculum simulations, we investigated a water pollution problem.

The Nation has thrown massive resources at the water pollution problems since 1972, only to witness the «relative failure of the regulatory and technical solutions it chose.