Some iodine radiation-contaminated water from the site was also found to be running into the ocean.
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Diarrheal diseases caused by drinking contaminated water kill 1.5 million children under 5 each year.
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The company estimates roughly 12 tons of contaminated water may have escaped into the ocean.
The diseases caused or carried by contaminated water kill children the world over in huge numbers.
The virus is highly contagious and spreads through the faecal-oral route - via contaminated water or food.
Drinking contaminated water can lead to cholera, vomiting, diarrhea and other ailments that can quickly incapacitate and kill.
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Carried by contaminated water or food, it causes severe dehydration through diarrhoea and can prove fatal if untreated.
Contaminated water levels at a flooded disused mine in mid Cornwall have improved, the Environment Agency has said.
We've been told to use buckets as we can't flush the toilets in case any contaminated water leaks out.
Use of sewage and industrially contaminated water for irrigation has drenched Punjab's soils in heavy metals and other poisons.
Workers wading through contaminated water complain that their boots have holes in them.
The Environment Agency said no signs of contaminated water from the fire had been found in the nearby River Wye.
While reluctantly agreeing, Kazakhstan said it feared that highly toxic fuel had contaminated water and soil over a huge area.
The Environment Agency had to reintroduce oxygen in the canal to prevent more fish from dying due to the contaminated water.
The disease gets into the body when people drink contaminated water, which contains water fleas that have ingested Guinea worm larvae.
If a company doesn't have its own treatment equipment, then it will send contaminated water to be stored at an approved dump.
Legionnella is a flu-like illness that can spread through contaminated water systems.
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Outbreaks of malaria, measles and diarrhoea have been worsened by contaminated water.
Residents are "surrounded by flowing raw sewage, " and many have been forced to resort to drink contaminated water from rivers, the group said.
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As many as 500, 000 people may have been exposed to the contaminated water over a period of 30 years, the Marine Corps said.
And yet both are dependent on an infrastructure of electricity and transportation that leads to oil spills, high asthma rates, contaminated water, etc.
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Contaminated water is being pumped out of nuclear reactor units 1 and 2, but not yet being pumped out of units 3 and 4.
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Contaminated water from an abandoned mine in mid Cornwall could spill into a nearby river if levels continue to rise, says the Environment Agency.
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The government of the day lost popularity over a scandal about contaminated water, but Jordan's political institutions were unable to cope with the crisis.
The suspected leak was detected at the plant's number one pool, the destination for contaminated water from the number two pool, which was also leaking.
Drinking E. coli-contaminated water can lead to serious illness and death.
It is contracted by breathing in small droplets of contaminated water.
Health officials say the water-borne disease is spreading fast because of the poor sanitation or contaminated water which Zimbabweans are using for drinking and to prepare food.
Other impacts associated with inadequate sanitation include an estimated 260 million people infected with schistosomiasis, a potentially fatal parasitic infection spread through contact with contaminated water.
These will be much more effective at filtering contaminated water because the beads will have greater surface area for the arsenic to bind to than the plastic chips.
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