Sentences with phrase «water runoff contaminated»

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The research team builds a strong case for the need to effectively remediate BPA - contaminated water, especially industrial waste streams and landfill runoff, and they offer a simple solution.

Currently, BPA - contaminated water such as industrial waste or landfill runoff may or may not be treated before it's released into the environment or to wastewater treatment plants.

Rain water is shunted into storm drains, pushing the contaminated sediment downstream and delivering a fresh load of toxic runoff and snowmelt from city streets to Little Black Creek.

Otherwise, storm runoff gets contaminated with benzene and other harmful chemicals and can infiltrate into adjacent soil patches or form stormwater that may end up in natural bodies of water.»

The scientists estimated that the amount of contaminated water flowing into the ocean from this brackish groundwater source below the sandy beaches is as large as the input from two other known sources: ongoing releases and runoff from the nuclear power plant site itself, and outflow from rivers that continue to carry cesium from the fallout on land in 2011 to the ocean on river - borne particles.

Across the state of California, over 300 systems carry water that has been contaminated by agricultural runoff or naturally occurring pollutants like arsenic and uranium.

When pesticides and herbicides are used on fields, the runoff contaminates the soil and local water with arsenic.

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.

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.

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

Discharge from sewage treatment plants and runoff from agricultural fields contaminate bodies of water with excess phosphorus, leading to eutrophication.