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* Water pollution, by the discharge of wastewater from commercial and industrial waste ( intentionally or through spills ) into surface waters ; discharges of untreated domestic sewage, and chemical contaminants, such as chlorine, from treated sewage ; release of waste and contaminants into surface runoff flowing to surface waters ( including urban runoff and agricultural runoff, which may contain chemical fertilizers and pesticides ); waste disposal and leaching into groundwater ; eutrophication and littering.
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Water pollution ; many people get their water directly from contaminated streams and wells ; as a result, water-borne diseases are prevalent ; increasing soil salinity from faulty irrigation practices.
By 2008 there were at least six institutions monitoring lake water health: 1 ) In 2002 the Conservation Law Foundation appointed a " lakekeeper " who criticizes the state's pollution controls, 2 ) Friends of Missisquoi Bay was formed in 2003, 3 ) the Lake Champlain Committee, 4 ) Vermont Water Resources Board
* Water pollution from organic and factory wastes
** The Cuyahoga River fire helps spur an avalanche of water pollution control activities resulting in the Clean Water Act, Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement and the creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency
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Water pollution control requirements in the United States require some industrial dischargers and municipal sewage treatment plants to conduct bioassays.
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* Water pollution from sewage and agricultural and industrial chemicals ; deforestation
* Water pollution by industries that adds poisons to the water, which harm plants, animals, and humans.
: Water pollution from fertilizer runoff ; inadequate wastewater treatment
The corporation was found guilty of Clean Water Act offenses after its sustained pollution of Long Lake, a tributary of the Mississippi River, over a ten-year period.
The groundwater protection standard is consistent with EPA's Safe Drinking Water Act standards, which the Agency applies in many situations as a pollution prevention measure.
Water pollution is also an increasing concern, as cities in the Titicaca watershed grow, sometimes outpacing solid waste and sewage treatment infrastructure.
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WMEAC as well as many other organizations such as the United States Environmental Protection Agency and Clean Water Action are educating people and communities about the problems with storm water runoff and its effects and what they can do in order to prevent further pollution of their waterways from it.
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Westcountry's original shareholders were Brittany Ferries and South West Water ; the latter investor attracted criticism as only three years earlier it was responsible for one of the worst water pollution incidents in the United Kingdom and which occurred within the contract area at Camelford.
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Ring Of Bright Water, by Gavin Maxwell.
`` Ring Of Bright Water '' by Gavin Maxwell is just that -- a haunting, warmly personal chronicle of a man, an otter, and a remote cottage in the Scottish West Highlands.
He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.
In the seventh week after Easter May 878, around Whitsuntide, Alfred rode to ‘ Egbert's Stone ’ east of Selwood, where he was met by " all the people of Somerset and of Wiltshire and of that part of Hampshire which is on this side of the sea is, west of Southampton Water, and they rejoiced to see him ".
Water in these places drills its way downward by dissolving the carbonate rock to form an extensive underground river system.
Footage of the waves of the Andaman Islands also appeared in the film " Thicker than Water ", shot by cinematographer Jack Johnson, who later achieved worldwide fame as a popular musician.
Much of the ACC transport is carried in this front, which is defined as the latitude at which a subsurface salinity minimum or a thick layer of unstratified Subantarctic Mode Water first appears, allowed by temperature dominating density stratification.
Still further south lies the Polar front, which is marked by a transition to very cold, relatively fresh, Antarctic Surface Water at the surface.
* Buffalo or Water Buffalo, British designation for Landing Vehicle Tracked, an amphibious vehicle used by Allied forces during World War II
Water was one of many archai proposed by the Pre-socratics, most of whom tried to reduce all things to a single substance.
Cheddar Reservoir is a near-circular artificial reservoir operated by Bristol Water.
File: WLA metmuseum Water Lilies by Claude Monet. jpg | Water Lilies, 1919, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
* Water purification: All water used for drinking, washing, or cooking should be sterilized by either boiling, chlorination, ozone water treatment, ultraviolet light sterilization ( e. g. by solar water disinfection ), or antimicrobial filtration in any area where cholera may be present.
: Water shortages ; soil eroding into the sea damages coral reefs ; deforestation ; damage caused by Hurricane George
It was the final game branded by Sega of America under the Deep Water label, employed for games featuring adult content such as this and Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side.
** Water ( hydroelectric )-Turbine blades are acted upon by flowing water, produced by hydroelectric dams or tidal forces.
The National Environmental Policy Act ( 1969 ), the Clean Air Act ( 1970 ), the Clean Water Act ( 1972 ), and the Endangered Species Act ( 1973 ) all were enacted with broad bipartisan support, and ultimately signed into law by Republican President Richard Nixon.
Richard Nixon himself initially vetoed the Clean Water Act, citing its projected costs, though he was ultimately overridden by Congress.
By chance he encountered a copy of " Captain Claridge's work on the ' Water Cure ,' as practised by Priessnitz, at Graefenberg ", and " making allowances for certain exaggerations therein ", pondered the option of travelling to Graefenberg, but preferred to find something closer to home, with access to his own doctors in case of failure: " I who scarcely lived through a day without leech or potion!
* Water filter, removes impurities from water by means of a fine physical barrier, a chemical process or a biological process.
The term Greater London was used well before 1965, particularly to refer to the area covered by the Metropolitan Police District ( such as in the 1901 census ), the area of the Metropolitan Water Board ( favoured by the London County Council for statistics ), the London Passenger Transport Area and the area defined by the Registrar General as the Greater London Conurbation.
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