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.
With lax environmental protections, polluted water and air kill and sicken people.
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.
Internet users earlier posted tip-offs on the web that some factories in Weifang have allegedly been pumping polluted water some 1, 000 metres below ground, Global Times and Xinhua report.
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.
Far from being a source of legitimate comparative advantage, low environmental standards are an abuse of the human rights of those people usually the poor who have to suffer their direct consequences through polluted water supplies and poisoned air.
Others are spooked by stories of housing shortages, towns overrun with strangers, torn-up roads and claims of polluted water and worry that drilling would forever alter the serenity, beauty and very character of an area they consider special.
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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Take my word for it corrupted advice, like polluted drinking water, can be harmful to your (financial) health.
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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.
"Toxins, bad air, polluted drinking water -- all these are the problems China is facing, " says Ho Wai Chi of the international environmental group Greenpeace.
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While not all mine water is chemically suitable for fracking and a mine discharge has to be close enough to a well pad to make transport via truck or pipeline economical experts believe Pennsylvania has more than enough polluted mine water to meet the needs of the drilling industry.
An October 2012 article in the semi-official Global Times documents how river water, polluted by human remains and mixed with well water, is unsafe for drinking.
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.
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