Polluted water kills more people than all wars, crimes and terrorism combined, according to the U.N.
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Chesapeake says it has offered to install water filtration systems to 20 Pennsylvania homeowners with polluted water.
Medicines that have been exposed to polluted water should also not be used.
To avoid people drinking polluted water, portable water testing kits were introduced, designed to monitor the countries 1.3 million wells.
The new regulations were originally introduced by President Obama to better protect the environment from polluted water and potential earthquakes.
Residents point to a spot where they say the factory dumps polluted water at night, which flows into the Three Gorges Reservoir.
He has a point: Polluted water is the planet's deadliest foe, killing 14, 000 people a day, according to the World Health Organization.
Shale gas has brought the USA cheap energy but it has also caused polluted water supplies in places and caused earth tremors.
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However, that is something that some civic and environmental groups say is damaging drinking water supplies and allowing polluted water to resurface.
It is believed the decision relates to concerns that the site is not lined, which means there is a danger of polluted water seeping underground.
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More children are drinking polluted water and breathing polluted air.
Polluted water increased health risks and harmed the ecology of the river, resulting in the deaths of large numbers of fish in "extreme cases", he told MPs.
Seneca has been withdrawing polluted water from the Arnot No. 5 coal mine in Tioga County since late 2010 and piping it some 6 miles to the well pad.
If a polluted water sample contains a strain of E. coli that is not found in humans, you can be pretty sure that sewage is not the source of the pollution.
This goes for the fracking process itself, as well as the procedures for collecting and treating water polluted with fracking water that flows back up the hole.
So today, many cities are looking for more innovative, cost-effective approaches to managing their polluted storm water.
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Environmental concerns dominate the media in China as newspapers warn of the dangers of toxic smog and polluted underground water.
Each day, 300 million gallons of polluted mine water enters Pennsylvania streams and rivers, turning many of them into dead zones unable to support aquatic life.
This cover acts as a giant sponge, absorbing rainfall and reducing polluted storm-water runoff.
Typically, a public nuisance is just that: polluted air or water, say, or traffic.
Officials warned residents not to walk in water polluted with sewage and chemicals.
It reached a crescendo in Pavillion, Wyoming where EPA has been investigating whether the fracking process polluted the drinking water there.
It requires engagement with local communities, protecting them from the negative impacts of logging (i.e. roads and bridges damaged, water polluted, etc.) and encouraging active hiring of local service providers, local technicians, and local labor.
Fueled partly by billions in government incentives, the industry is creating millions of solar panels each year and, in the process, millions of pounds of polluted sludge and contaminated water.
But there is some concern that the river water is too polluted.
Local economies also suffer when villagers can't sell their grain or eat the crops planted along the river because the water is so polluted.
With diminished ways to make a living, many were -- and still are -- forced to eat food and drink water from the polluted areas where they live.
Some of that polluted runoff winds up in drinking water, posing special health problems for children and pregnant women.
Sark's Agriculture and Environment Committee also claimed the water supply could be polluted by pesticides and fungicides if more vines were planted.
Mr. SAWLIS: And it has to be high salty, brackish-type water, as opposed to our other friend, the house mosquito, which likes foul, stagnant water, high-polluted content.
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