Numerous rivers, once the source of human prosperity and rich wildlife, are now heavily polluted.
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It said enough evidence had been produced before the court to prove that the environment was being polluted.
Polluted water kills more people than all wars, crimes and terrorism combined, according to the U.N.
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Argentina argued the mill polluted the river, while Uruguay said strict environmental codes were followed.
This cover acts as a giant sponge, absorbing rainfall and reducing polluted storm-water runoff.
Environmental officials have recently been offered cash rewards by locals to swim in polluted rivers.
In India, for example, more than 400 million people live along the highly polluted Ganges River.
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Typically, a public nuisance is just that: polluted air or water, say, or traffic.
In 2006, Blacksmith started cataloging hyper-polluted hot spots around the world to draw attention to their poisonous effects.
Michigan's Kalamazoo River is polluted by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), highly toxic chemicals banned in the 1970s.
Rivers that used to be some of the nation's most polluted flow through the Olympic grounds.
There isn't much beauty to be seen, unless you include some polluted sunrises and corny naturism.
Cadmium is frequently found in leafy vegetables such as spinach and choi sum grown in polluted conditions.
At a time when contaminated waterways and polluted air threatened too many of our communities, John H.
Chesapeake says it has offered to install water filtration systems to 20 Pennsylvania homeowners with polluted water.
Headhunters say that requests for corporate departures to lesser-polluted cities outside China have snowballed in recent months.
The partly enclosed Baltic Sea is known as one of the most polluted seas in the world.
So today, many cities are looking for more innovative, cost-effective approaches to managing their polluted storm water.
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Plus, the Bay of Panama is polluted with industrial waste and sewage and is unsafe for swimming.
There have been concerns for some time that lochs and rivers were being polluted by salmon farms.
Rules and a degree of co-ordination among authorities are inevitable because regeneration often involves heavily polluted sites.
That could mean that fish distributions are being affected, as fish avoid places polluted by man-made noise.
Every year those volunteers donate 500, 000 hours to clean up polluted rivers, restore fish habitat and fish populations.
There are now an additional six miles of streets that have been deemed officially polluted in the capital.
There are now hundreds of these new types of polluted index funds and hundreds more in SEC registration.
Military property contains a lot of unexploded ordnance and polluted groundwater, two of the trickiest types of contamination.
Together, the two gases form a good index of how polluted the airstream is on a given day.
But many cities are already so congested or polluted, or both, that they're experimenting with ways to restrict vehicles.
Most cities that topped the ALA's most polluted lists for particle and ozone pollution have seen their levels decrease.
Gorgie Road, London Road and some of Easter Road also make up the additional six miles of polluted streets.
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