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The main European regulations include the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive and the Nitrates Directives, both of 1991, and the Water Framework Directive of 2000. (globalwaterforum.org)
The Water Framework Directive of 2000 relies heavily on economic instruments to achieve the sustainable management of water resources. (globalwaterforum.org)
UK Environment Minister Michael Meacher has revealed that 21.5% of the 4277 significant 'consents to discharge' to water courses issued by the Environment Agency to industry in 2000 breached agreed limits. (edie.net)
The new figures also reveal that 10% of consents were reviewed in 2000 - meaning we are missing out on the chance to reduce pollution levels to reflect technological innovation and increasing concern over the health of our watercourses," says a statement by the EIC. (edie.net)

Water Air & Soil Pollution. (apis.ac.uk)
WATER, AIR, AND SOIL POLLUTION: FOCUS includes articles on all aspects of pollution and solutions to pollution in the biosphere, including chemical, physical and biological processes affecting flora, fauna, water, air and soil. (periodicals.com)
Littering in the mountains is a real scourge for nature : water and soil pollution, direct impact on wildlife and negative visual impact on tourism (2,700 tons of plastic in Switzerland per year according to the Federal Office for the Environment). (theuiaa.org)

The strategy moves the debate on from the old Department of the Environment Transport and the Regions' 1997 consultation paper, Economic Instruments for Water Pollution , which considered the use of economic instruments to address point source discharges such as those made by industry. (edie.net)

Meacher's written response also showed that between April 1999 and July 2001 there were only 21 prosecutions for breaches of trade effluent discharge consents. (edie.net)

Nonpoint source pollution is a significant cause of water quality impairment in Rhode Island. (wwdmag.com)
2001. National Management Measures Guidance to Control Nonpoint Source Pollution from Marinas and Recreational Boating . (ca.gov)

If the water pollution stems from sewage (municipal wastewater), the main pollutants are: suspended solids, biodegradable organic matter, nutrients and pathogenic (disease-causing) organisms. (wikipedia.org)
Emissions of organic water pollutants are measured by biochemical oxygen demand, which refers to the amount of oxygen that bacteria in water will consume in breaking down waste. (nationmaster.com)
This is a standard water-treatment test for the presence of organic pollutants. (nationmaster.com)
The collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers on 11 September 2001 resulted in the dispersion of many potentially harmful pollutants, including heavy metals (Lioy et al. (medscape.com)
Under the Water Resources Act 1991 it is an offence to "cause or knowingly permit" pollutants to enter controlled waters - rivers, estuaries, coastal waters or groundwaters - without permission. (edie.net)
Increase in acid levels due to industrial pollutants has affected lakes, rivers, and the waters surrounding Japan. (nationsencyclopedia.com)

Local Government (Planning and Development) General Policy Directive (Shopping), 1998 (Revocation Order), 2001. (irishstatutebook.ie)
The information was provided in a written response to a Parliamentary Question on the state of the UK's regulation of discharges to water courses, and highlighted a fall in compliance compared to 1998. (edie.net)
In 1998, about 8,400 tonnes of pesticides were sold in Sweden, about 20% of which (1,688 tonnes) was used in agriculture (Fogelberg, 2001). (europa.eu)

Of 216 ground and surface water samples collected, 86% had lead levels higher than the World Health Organization maximum acceptable concentration of 10 ppb. (who.int)

Trade Marks Act, 1996 (Section 66) Regulations, 2001. (irishstatutebook.ie)

Water Research, 119770 (2023). (uni-bayreuth.de)

Water Sci Technol (2017) 75 (8): 1804-1811. (iwaponline.com)
Her interest in water quality stemmed from a prolonged drought in California from 2011 to 2017. (nih.gov)

Organic substances that enter water bodies are often toxic. (wikipedia.org)
An important reduction in pollution should have been achieved in the loads of organic matter, nitrogen and phosphorus because of the urban wastewater treatment plants, and a reduction of heavy metals and chemical substances from industries. (globalwaterforum.org)
Substances of emerging concern in Baltic Sea water: Review on methodological advances for the environmental assessment and proposal for future monitoring. (io-warnemuende.de)

Matyssek R. and Günthardt-Goerg M. (1994): Beech foliage as a bioindicator of pollution near a waste incinerator. (wsl.ch)

Japan's Basic Law for Environmental Pollution Control was enacted in 1967 and the Environment Agency was established four years later. (nationsencyclopedia.com)

The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is making grants up to $500,000 available for communities, state and regional government agencies, and nonprofit groups to support water quality restoration. (wwdmag.com)
The grants, which are financed through the funds of the Federal Clean Water Act, must be used for water quality restoration projects or implementation of onsite wastewater management programs that prevent, control or abate water pollution caused by nonpoint sources. (wwdmag.com)
Restoring water quality often requires actions to be taken at the local level,' said DEM director Jan Reitsma. (wwdmag.com)
This financial assistance program is an important way that the DEM can work with local entities to achieve water quality improvements. (wwdmag.com)
Eligible activities for water quality restoration may include, but are not limited to, projects that address stormwater, wastewater management, wetland loss and degradation of aquatic species habitat. (wwdmag.com)
We analyzed information on waterborne outbreaks occurring between 1974 and 2001 in order to identify apparent trends, review the current status of monitoring and reporting, and gain a better understanding of the impact of drinking water quality on public health and disease burden. (nih.gov)
NPDES, Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board, Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service and Shasta-Trinity National Forest on discharge prohibition for Lake Shasta. (ca.gov)
Water is a precious resource in California, and maintaining its quality is of utmost importance to safeguard the health of the public and the environment. (ca.gov)
Classifications and standards of quality and purity assigned to fresh surface waters and tidal salt waters including certain tidal waters of the interstate sanitation district within the Lower Hudson River Drainage Basin from mouth to Northern Westchester - Rockland County Lines except the Saw Mill River Drainage Basin and the Sparkill Creek Drainage Basin : assigned and adopted by New York State Water Resources Commission, pursuant to article 12, Public Health Law. (epa.gov)
Classifications and standards of quality and purity assigned to fresh surface waters within drainage basins of streams entering the Hudson River in Albany, Columbia, Greene and Rensselaer Counties, except waters contained within boundaries of state-owned forest preserve lands : assigned and adopted by New York State Water Resources Commission, pursuant to article 12, Public Health Law. (epa.gov)
This article summarises some of the principal water quality problems in European water bodies. (globalwaterforum.org)
The analysis of water quality is an important issue in Europe given the large degradation of river basins in recent decades. (globalwaterforum.org)
It seems that water quality is improving very slowly in Europe. (globalwaterforum.org)
Modeling of water quality indicators in the western Baltic Sea: Seasonal oxygen deficiency. (io-warnemuende.de)
In the heavily industrialised North East just 49% of discharges were monitored, whereas in Wales, where water quality is much higher, 89.8% were monitored. (edie.net)
Each consent is based on an objective set by the Agency for the quality of the stretch of water to which the discharge is made, as well as relevant EU directives. (edie.net)
The Government's planned new Water Quality Strategy is an important opportunity to tackle the problems with industrial water pollution by putting in place tighter standards and ensuring that they are properly enforced. (edie.net)
Among the conclusions of that paper the Government noted: "For a given quantum of expenditure, a national pollution charge would be unlikely to deliver the same level of environmental benefit as the sort of targeted improvements in regulatory control being sought via the investment programmes being reflected in the Periodic Review of water company prices and other action being taken by the regulatory agencies to secure improvements in water quality. (edie.net)
The impact of climate variability on runoff water quality is illustrated with an empirical stream water model that builds on artificial neural networks for reproducing patterns in the observations of TOC, N tot and P tot at Hietajärvi, and also at Valkea-Kotinen, an Integrated Monitoring site in southern Finland. (tkk.fi)
If enforcement is slack, chiefly because of too few inspectors, many builders take short cuts that damage water quality. (sciencedaily.com)
They also studied fish populations and measured water quality and leaf decomposition rates at work sites before, during and after construction. (sciencedaily.com)
As expected, extensive laboratory work and data analyses showed better water quality in Orange County than in Wake and better water quality in Wake than in other District Four counties. (sciencedaily.com)
Two phytoplankton genera, Anabaena and Ceratium were identified as the problem-causing phytoplankton due to their ability to interfere with the water treatment process and negatively impact on water quality. (scielo.org.za)
Pollution and eutrophication lead to the presence of high concentrations of organic and inorganic compounds, which enhance phytoplankton (including Cyanophyceae) blooms and concomitantly decrease water quality (Venter et al. (scielo.org.za)
This initiated an avalanche of water pollution control activities in the USA, such as the Clean Water Act and the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. (feedreader.com)
The EPA was authorized by Congress to set national air quality, auto emission, and anti-pollution standards. (feedreader.com)
It aimed at allowing the different administrations responsible in Kazakhstan and Russia and the International Commission for the management of the Irtysh, to better plan their investments, in order to improve water quality and follow up the progress which has already been made. (oieau.fr)
IOWater was leader of the project and directly in charge of setting up the system aiming to produce and disseminate the information on water quality and quantity, expected by the Irtysh Sub-Commission, including for public information through the Web, and for enhancing data production and modelling results. (oieau.fr)
This pollution not only degrades the quality of the atmosphere, water bodies, and agricultural outputs, but also threatens the health and well-being of both animals and human beings, particularly by way of the food chain [ 2 - 4 ]. (eeer.org)
Criteria for and approaches to water quality management in developing countries / prepared by UN/DTCD. (who.int)
The drought worsened some of the water quality and water access challenges faced by vulnerable communities, which are predominately communities of color and rural communities," said Morello-Frosch. (nih.gov)
The need to respond to water quality and water access challenges was jointly identified by the UC Berkeley SRP Center CEC-WESS and the Community Water Center (CWC), an organization whose mission is to support community-driven water solutions in California. (nih.gov)

Water pollution is either surface water pollution or groundwater pollution. (wikipedia.org)
The risk of groundwater pollution by on-site sanitation in developing countries : a literature review / W. John Lewis, Stephen S. D. Foster, Bohumil S. Drasar. (who.int)

Celtic Sea (Prohibition on Herring Fishing) Order, 2001. (irishstatutebook.ie)

Do not discharge gray water into marina waters, inland lakes, and sensitive ecological areas. (ca.gov)
Environmental damage by industrial effluents has slowed since the promulgation of the Water Pollution Control Law of 1971, but there is still widespread pollution of lakes and rivers from household sources, especially by untreated sewage and phosphate-rich detergents. (nationsencyclopedia.com)
It is suspected that that high level of mercury transport may be leading to accumulation of mercury in major water bodies and lakes downstream. (degruyter.com)

However, as human use of coastal land and water increases, so does the incidence of aquatic-borne disease from contact with contaminated water and eating contaminated shellfish. (stroudcenter.org)
The overall objective of DISMAR is to develop an advanced information system for monitoring and forecasting marine environment to improved management of pollution crises in coastal and ocean regions of Europe, in support to public administrations and emergency services responsible for prevention, mitigation and recovery of crises such as oil spill pollution and harmful algal blooms. (eucc-d.de)
Laboratory Coordinator, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. (sccwrp.org)

However, these water-based instruments to abate pollution do not seem to be good enough to curb nitrate pollution since the pollution driver is fertilizer rather than water. (globalwaterforum.org)

The source of high levels of pathogens in water bodies can be from human feces (due to open defecation), sewage, blackwater, or manure that has found its way into the water body. (wikipedia.org)
The final data set consisted of 288 outbreaks of disease linked to a drinking water source. (nih.gov)
If retained, gray water must be included in a separate waste retention capacity for the vessel (source: Coast Guard Regulations, 33 CFR 151.05). (ca.gov)
You can view reports for public drinking water source areas below. (wa.gov.au)
Drinking water source protection reports for other areas are also available. (wa.gov.au)
Emission loads from agriculture into water bodies are characterized by being nonpoint pollution at the source. (globalwaterforum.org)
This type of pollution is linked to an important problem of information and knowledge because of the impossibility of identifying the agent generating the emissions, the spatial location, and the amount of emission loads at the source. (globalwaterforum.org)
Seven phytoplankton groups were recorded in the source water supplied to South Africa's largest conventional drinking water treatment plant (DWTP). (scielo.org.za)
80%). Ineffective removal of Ceratium by coagulation, flocculation and sedimentation (and subsequent penetration to the sand filtration step) will negatively impact on filter run times when these phytoplankton genera are present in high concentrations in the source water. (scielo.org.za)
2011). The occurrence of these blooms in the source water for drinking water production is of critical importance to drinking water providers as phytoplank-ton can have both a physical impact (e.g. clogging of filters) and chemical impact (e.g. production of cyanotoxins, disinfection by-products and taste and odour compounds) on the treatment process (Du Preez et al. (scielo.org.za)
Removal of phytoplankton is a challenge during conventional water treatment as it is often inhibited by various factors such as: (i) the specific phytoplankton species present, (ii) the concentration of the phytoplankton in the source water, (iii) the optimisation (or lack thereof) of the coagulation, flocculation and sedimentation unit processes as well as (iv) the effectiveness of the sand filtration process. (scielo.org.za)
Mercury has been ingested where it has been used to preserve crops, through the point and non-point source discharge into the surface water, and consequently entering the food chain. (degruyter.com)
The mountains are also a source of water. (theuiaa.org)
ABSTRACT Excess lead in drinking water is a neglected source of lead toxicity in Pakistan. (who.int)

Water pollution (or aquatic pollution) is the contamination of water bodies, usually as a result of human activities, so that it negatively affects its uses. (wikipedia.org)
Water pollution results when contaminants mix with these water bodies. (wikipedia.org)
The following compounds can all reach water bodies via raw sewage or even treated sewage discharges: Various chemical compounds found in personal hygiene and cosmetic products. (wikipedia.org)
Regardless of the efforts to protect and reduce water degradation, the damages sustained by European water bodies are still quite significant. (globalwaterforum.org)
The huge investments resulting from the Wastewater Directive which included investments in excess of 100 billion, should have reduced pollution in European water bodies. (globalwaterforum.org)

Some microorganisms sometimes found in contaminated surface waters that have caused human health problems include: Burkholderia pseudomallei, Cryptosporidium parvum, Giardia lamblia, Salmonella, norovirus and other viruses, parasitic worms including the Schistosoma type. (wikipedia.org)
Reduce the amount of fuel and oil from boat bilges and fuel tank air vents entering marina and surface waters. (ca.gov)
Prohibit the use of soap/detergents and emulsifiers to eliminate oil sheen on the waters surface in the bilge of a boat. (ca.gov)
This raised public concern over diffuse pesticide pollution from agricultural fields to ground- and surface waters. (europa.eu)
It also prompted the launch of the Vemmenhög project: an initiative aiming to reduce pesticides in surface waters by providing farmers with information on correct pesticide handling and application. (europa.eu)
The Vemmenhög project was launched in 1990 by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) with the aim to reduce pesticide concentrations in surface waters in a small agricultural catchment in Scania with over 90% arable land (Kreuger and Nilsson, 2001). (europa.eu)
The project also investigated how pesticides were transported from the fields to surface waters and entailed close collaboration with farmers to gather information on crops, and fertiliser and pesticide use (Kreuger and Nilsson, 2001). (europa.eu)
Annual meetings were held with farmers to report on pesticide concentration trends in the surface water. (europa.eu)
To date, pesticides in surface waters are still being monitored through a national monitoring programme that is also used to evaluate the effects of other campaigns, such as a recent one focusing on the herbicide diflufenican (Boström and Gönczi, 2021). (europa.eu)
But state regulators consider those permit violations minor and monitoring reports provide a clean bill of health for the surface water in the area. (minesandcommunities.org)
This paper makes detailed calculations regarding such factors the single-factor assessment (P i ) and Nemerow's multi-factor index (P N ) of heavy metals found in the surface water of the Yangping River. (eeer.org)
This study aimed to compare lead levels between untreated ground water and treated surface (tap) water in 18 different districts. (who.int)
Mean lead concentration in ground water [146 (SD 119) ppb] was significantly higher than in surface water [77.1 (SD 54) ppb]. (who.int)

The efforts to restore and maintain the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of the property should be commended, in particular the State Party of Zambia's voluntary reduction in the amounts of water diverted from the falls for hydro-electric power generation during the critical dry-season months. (unesco.org)
She also took a critical look at pollution in the United States, which jump-started the environmental movement, worldwide. (feedreader.com)

Control of water pollution requires appropriate infrastructure and management plans as well as legislation. (wikipedia.org)
An Act further to amend the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess Act, 1977. (helplinelaw.com)
1) This Act may be called the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess (Amendment) Act, 2003. (helplinelaw.com)
The government officials will be available on Tuesday, November 27, 2001, at the City of Portland Water Pollution Control Lab, in the St. John's area, 6543 N. Burlington Avenue, Portland. (cdc.gov)
European Communities (Aquaculture Animals and Fish) (Placing on The Market and Control of Certain Diseases) (Amendment) Regulations, 2001. (irishstatutebook.ie)
These problems explain the difficulties in the design and implementation of policies to control nonpoint pollution 1,2,3 . (globalwaterforum.org)
Hydrodynamic control of sediment-water fluxes: Consistent parameterization and impact in coupled benthic-pelagic models. (io-warnemuende.de)
The Environment Agency can also serve notices on consent holders requiring action to be taken to prevent breach of a consent under Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) legislation. (edie.net)
While I understand that building dams on streams can sometimes be useful in flood control, the creation of water reservoirs necessary for sustaining life, or for the production of electricity, we must be careful to balance our use of those resources to ensure that we do not lose all our natural treasures by altering them. (ontheissues.org)
Water pollution control : guidelines for project planning and financing / Ralph C. Palange and Alfonso Zavala. (who.int)

Once gray water is put into a MSD it is no longer considered gray water, but sewage (i.e. black water). (ca.gov)
Gray water is NOT sewage and may be discharged overboard without passage through an MSD or a holding tank. (ca.gov)

This form of pollution can lead to many problems, such as the degradation of aquatic ecosystems or spreading water-borne diseases when people use polluted water for drinking or irrigation. (wikipedia.org)

Disinfection by-products found in chemically disinfected drinking water (whilst these chemicals can be a pollutant in the water distribution network, they are fairly volatile and therefore not usually found in environmental waters). (wikipedia.org)

47 In practice, indicator organisms are used to investigate pathogenic pollution of water because the detection of pathogenic organisms in water sample is difficult and costly, because of their low concentrations. (wikipedia.org)

These breaches of pollution limits not only harm the environment, but also undermine responsible companies that invest to meet their legal requirements," said the EIC. (edie.net)

Water and wastewater management for developing countries : selected proceedings of the IWA International Conference, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 29-31 October 2001 / issue editor, Z. Ujang. (who.int)

These policies appear to be ineffective in curtailing the large nonpoint pollution loads in river basins around the world. (globalwaterforum.org)

Encourage boaters to discharge of gray water outside of marinas, mooring fields, and sensitive ecological areas. (ca.gov)
If your marina is in an inland lake or area with very little flushing, prohibit the discharge of gray water. (ca.gov)
The untreated waste water discharge is responsible to not only afflicted the fish but also the birds which feed on this fish. (degruyter.com)

These can have adverse impacts even at very low concentrations on the natural biota and potentially on humans if the water is treated and utilized for drinking water. (wikipedia.org)
With good removal of intact cyanobacteria cells during coagulation, flocculation and sedimentation, geosmin concentrations in the final water could be kept to accepted organoleptic levels of 5-10 ng/ℓ in the final water. (scielo.org.za)

We determined maternal and umbilical cord blood total mercury of nonsmoking women who delivered at term in lower Manhattan after 11 September 2001, and measured birth outcomes and child development. (medscape.com)
Blood mercury was not significantly raised in women living or working close to the WTC site in the weeks after 11 September 2001. (medscape.com)
Other sources of pollution include DDT, BMC, and mercury. (nationsencyclopedia.com)
Gold mining leads to an increase in mercury concentration in soil and river waters flowing in this region. (degruyter.com)

These chemicals dissolve the oil and fuel in the water so both can be pumped overboard into the water. (ca.gov)

Since marine monitoring and management of pollution crises is operated very differently in European countries, DISMAR will contribute to the harmonisation and the standardisation of observing systems, models and management systems to be used for prevention, mitigation and recovery of pollution crises. (eucc-d.de)

This change affected to some extent the propagation of the extremely big flood in 2001 that occurred immediately thereafter. (witpress.com)

How can we tackle the devastating consequences of water pollution - both in fresh water resources and in our deep, relatively unexplored oceans? (nobelprize.org)
Through water, our mountains in Europe's water tower are directly connected to the oceans. (theuiaa.org)
It could also potentially alter regional environments and convert deserts to forests by removing large amounts of fresh water from the oceans, postulated Mulhall. (nih.gov)

Besides causing severe damage, flooding in the Mekong river delta (MKRD) brings some benefit for this area by washing away acidic and salty water from the soil and therefore fertilizes it by the deposition of sediment. (witpress.com)
Mayflies, dragonflies, stone flies and caddis flies can't take the witness stand in court, of course, but they can provide strong evidence of how well or badly construction workers follow sediment pollution prevention rules, a unique new environmental study shows. (sciencedaily.com)
Chapel Hill -- Mayflies, dragonflies, stone flies and caddis flies can't take the witness stand in court, of course, but they can provide strong evidence of how well or badly construction workers follow sediment pollution prevention rules, a unique new environmental study shows. (sciencedaily.com)
He specializes in the planning and execution of sediment and water bioassays using marine and freshwater species. (sccwrp.org)
During that time, he has been involved in the development of water and sediment bioassays that are used throughout the western United States. (sccwrp.org)

Unusually low water flows were recorded in the Danube, the Rhine and other major rivers, in sharp contrast with the heavy flooding the summer before. (europa.eu)

Another problem is that water pollution reduces the ecosystem services (such as providing drinking water) that the water resource would otherwise provide. (wikipedia.org)

DEM's Office of Water Resources will hold a public workshop to explain the grant program and the application process. (wwdmag.com)

The technology would be best used to treat municipal and industrial wastewaters possessing high ammonia concentration, including anaerobic digester centrate and urine, and offers potential to assist in removing ammonia from environmental waters. (iwaponline.com)

The series of discussions questioned how technology and water management systems can help ensure equitable distribution in the future. (nobelprize.org)
As a result, the main objective of the project "Transboundary management of the Irtysh River" financed by FFEM (French Fund for Global Environment), was to formulate a framework for better international water management. (oieau.fr)

These statistics, however, must modify the threshold value used to assess pollution levels, these indexes are calculated based on measured concentration of samples, values which can not reflect the principal contaminant elements. (eeer.org)

Water resources are subjected to growing quantitative and qualitative pressures from urban, industrial, and agricultural uses. (globalwaterforum.org)

Currently, Morello-Frosch researches drinking water issues faced by California communities. (nih.gov)
In February 2020, the CWC and the UC Berkeley SRP Center CEC-WESS launched the Drinking Water Tool to provide California communities information about groundwater challenges that could affect their access to long-term safe and affordable drinking water. (nih.gov)

Water, pollution, and public health in China. (nih.gov)
Recent public attention on drinking water supplies in the aftermath of waterborne infection outbreaks in Walkerton and North Battleford raises questions about safety. (nih.gov)
There were 99 outbreaks in public water systems, 138 outbreaks in semi-public systems and 51 outbreaks in private systems. (nih.gov)
Most of the current European pollution policies consist of using economic instruments to compensate the private benefits of agents causing pollution damages, or use public funds in financing investments in pollution abatement technologies. (globalwaterforum.org)
The economic argument supporting this collective action approach is that water resources are mostly common-pool resources , thereby requiring cooperation rather than just economic instruments that are harder to implement in the case of public goods 4 . (globalwaterforum.org)
The EPA was established in the first term of the Nixon Administration following public concerns about environmental pollution. (feedreader.com)

Water pollution is another area of concern in Japan. (nationsencyclopedia.com)

Multidecadal climate variability dominated past trends in the water balance of the Baltic Sea watershed. (io-warnemuende.de)

Sources of water pollution are either point sources or non-point sources. (wikipedia.org)
The following list, taken from Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 312(a)(11) (Table 3-2) describes some of common sources and characteristics of gray water. (ca.gov)
Proportion of the population using improved drinking water sources, total. (nationmaster.com)
Common inorganic sources include air and water pollution, some skin creams, and herbal medicines. (medscape.com)
This increased farmers' awareness around avoiding point sources of pesticide pollution and reducing environmental damage. (europa.eu)
The technical assistance especially dealt with the hierarchisation of the impact of different pollution sources on the basin. (oieau.fr)
The main sources of pollution were studied in the 3 towns of Ust-Kamenogorsk, Semipalatinsk and Pavlodar, thanks to a campaign of additional measurements. (oieau.fr)
A cross-sectional survey in 2007/08 was made of water samples from drinking water sources in Karachi, a large industrial city. (who.int)
Une enquête transversale réalisée en 2007 et 2008 a analysé des échantillons d'eau provenant de sources d'eau de boisson à Karachi, une grande ville industrielle. (who.int)

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