The water footprint includes both the water withdrawn from surface and groundwater and the use of soil water (in agricultural production).
Industrial waste, much of it toxic, litters the landscape, poisoning the soil, water and air.
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Has there been any discussions on whether that would include decontamination of soil or water?
Indicator organisms are bacteria which are found in soil and water and in the faeces of animals.
More seriously, it can release harmful chemicals into the soil and water when dumped, or into the air when burned.
There was special emphasis on reducing energy consumption, improving conservation and solving the country's serious air, soil and water pollution.
The culprit parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, can get into the food chain via cats faeces causing contamination of soil, water and plants.
China, which suffers from soil, water and air pollution that is damaging public health, wants to use energy more efficiently and cut emissions.
If someone else has planted the seed and provided the soil and water, they deserve a big piece of the future profit pie.
He doesn't accept the view, common among the utopians, that natural endowments like soil and water explain why rich nations are 50 times as prosperous as poor ones.
Microarrays also obtain genetic information from microbes in soil or water, and while less quantitative than qPCR, this method can analyze tens of thousands of genes at once.
Researchers believe the contamination passed not only into the soil and water, but also into the gene pool, with abnormal numbers of children since being born with genetic malformations.
The main question I asked myself when I started was: Would it be possible to catch soil and water to create land and grow crops where this floodwater passes?
Over time, communication improved between the farmers in Awo and other villages about how to capture more soil and water for instance, by changing the shape of the dams and reinforcing them.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation has conducted studies of the Mohawk River basin since the 2006 flood and has been working on a program involving soil and water conservation districts and the Army Corps of Engineers.
Until the 20th Century, the nutrient element only came to Earth in a reactive form that is usable by plants and animals, thanks to certain microbes in soil and water (and to a smaller extent in lightning strikes).
Some 110, 000 people living around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant were evacuated after the massive March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami knocked out the plant's power and cooling systems, causing meltdowns in three reactors and spewing radiation into the surrounding air, soil and water.
But a partnership among The Nature Conservancy, the University of Georgia and the Flint River Soil and Water Conservation District are working to bring down the cost for Flint River farmers by supplementing their contributions with a variety of grants and federal funding sources, including the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.
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That means building futuristic structures that use wastewater and solar power to produce hydroponic (grown in a nutrient-rich water, without soil) and aeroponic (grown in water-saturated air) crops.
Pseudomonas is a tough strain of bacteria that is found widely in soil and stagnant water.
And what prevents soil and surface water contamination from countless units that ultimately wind up in landfills?
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In such circumstances, the Grid would be ideal for analysing local weather, soil models, water supplies and local demographics.
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Farmers plant a warm-season perennial grass and fallow the field for two years, improving soil quality and water-holding capacity.
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We need urgently to stop poisoning our foods, our soil, our water.
Monitoring the soil's water content is not only difficult, but tedious.
These changes are making water supply and quality more difficult to obtain, affecting runoff and soil moisture, increasing water temperatures, decreasing snowpack and lake and river ice, threatening fish and aquatic species, and allowing saltwater intrusion and sea level rise.
Plants grow by taking water from the soil, and when a plant dies it frees water which it would otherwise consume.
Worse still, the plant is built on sandy soil with a high water table.
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