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.
The sea is heavily polluted, heroin abuse is growing, and for people like Mohammed, there are no jobs.
Polluted water kills more people than all wars, crimes and terrorism combined, according to the U.N.
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Its average incomes are dismally low, and much of its air and water is heavily polluted.
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.
The World Bank has said China has 16 of the world's 20 most polluted cities.
In India, for example, more than 400 million people live along the highly polluted Ganges River.
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China's lakes, rivers and underground water supplies have all been badly polluted by lightly regulated industry.
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.
After the celebrations, they will have to transform their polluted, traffic-congested capital into something altogether more inviting.
So today, many cities are looking for more innovative, cost-effective approaches to managing their polluted storm water.
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Take my word for it corrupted advice, like polluted drinking water, can be harmful to your (financial) health.
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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.
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