RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook water pollution Thesaurus Legal Encyclopedia Wikipedia Related to water pollution:air pollution,noise pollution Contamination of rivers, lakes and seas by fertilizers, pesticides, sewage, and oil or toxic waste from ship...
total, settleable, filterable and dissolved solids, color, taste, odor, and temperature. Biological quality refers to protozoan, bacterial, and viral pathogens. Biological contamination is often an immediate health risk: crippling outbreaks of typhoid...
contaminate – v. to make (something) dangerous, dirty, or impure by adding something harmful or undesirable to it – noun contamination negative – adj. bad or disagreeable; lacking good qualities toxic – adj. containing poisonous...
poor sanitation, sewage disposal..., leakage of... 和 contamination with industrial 为并列成分。 contamination [kənˌtæmɪ'neɪʃən] n.污染;污秽;(语言的)交感;(文章,故事等的)混合 eg:Contaminationpreventionisoneof the important problems to be solved for research, development and...
The state with the most widespread contamination, according to EWG, is Texas, where "more than 3,500 utilities serving more than 22 million people – about 80 percent of the state's population" reported finding radium. In tiny Brady, with 5,500 residents, radium in some wells is nine time...
Progress and challenges in heterocyclic polymers for the removal of heavy metals from wastewater: a review Abstract: Water contamination by heavy metals has emerged as a global environmental problem. Their toxicity, non-degradability, and persistent nature make them a serious...MORE ...
Many of the challenges in the US were the same as today – with ageing water and wastewater infrastructure, water quality and chemical contamination all hot button issues. Managing capital costs and operational costs with declining revenues were ongoing stressors across the last decade, and conversat...
Concern was expressed regarding chemicals or contamination of water sources, particularly due to fear from health department letters [22]. Taste and cost can similarly be both a positive and negative beverage attribute for water [22]. Taste as a negative attribute may be related to municipal ...
Rural areas are most affected by often lacking a stable water supply, being more susceptible to the impact of drought events, and with greater risk of contamination due to the lack of appropriate water treatment systems. Decentralized greywater treatment systems for water reuse in rural areas can...
An earlier version of this story did not make clear that an analysis of USGS data by environmental groups found that the data are consistent with but do not confirm - with EPA conclusions about water contamination due to fracking. This has been clarified. ...