She outlined the reasons for a more cautious approach, which included the ban or moratorium placed on fracking in other countries, concerns cited by NI Water for the effect of pollution on water supply, and the dangers of well blowouts and earth tremors.
What makes this prosecution particularly senseless is that the Safe Drinking Water Act was adopted to prevent the pollution of water supplies, yet the evidence at trial convincingly demonstrated (and the trial judge so held) that the water King injected into his irrigation wells contained absolutely no contaminants.
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In 1972 the Clean Water Act further broadened the law, as Congress became concerned about pollution and water quality, spurred by high-profile incidents such as the Cuyahoga River catching fire in 1969.
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As countries like China and India become more industrialized, it's likely that their economies will also soak up more fresh water while contributing more pollution to existing water sources.
If these needed protein sources were to come primarily from livestock there is the very real potential for catastrophic pollution of water and land, not to mention the exponential increase in carbon emissions.
Not surprisingly, the countries are wealthy and among the world's greenest as well, according to the Environmental Performance Index, a joint product of Columbia University and Yale University, which measures performance against 25 indicators, such as measures of air pollution, water supply or use of natural resources.
Another recent innovation could also help: watershed management, which means managing water supplies across political or management borders can better control pollution and track water withdrawals.
Contaminated water has been abstracted and treated from the mine since 1992 following an drainage burst which caused visible pollution from mine water coloured orange by the high iron content.
The film highlights key water quality problems such as lack of access to safe water and sanitation, inefficient wastewater management in urban areas, water pollution caused by intensive use of nutrients and chemicals in agriculture, the invisible threat of new and emerging pollutants in water and the economic costs of water quality degradation.
Singapore's hawker centres started partly for hygiene reasons, and to keep our water pollution in control.
China also missed its target for chemical oxygen demand, a measure of water pollution.
Irresponsible industrial practices have wrought terrible environmental abuses in forms of air, land and water pollution.
The high-growth countries had less, and faster-declining, water pollution than the other two categories.
Water pollution can cause a range of infections for bathers, including gastroenteritis, says the Good Beach Guide.
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The court could consider civil penalties under the Clean Water Act, which permits fines for water pollution.
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We obviously have response assets ready for deployment should we receive reports of pollution in the water.
How can we reduce the real threat to our health and ecosystems caused by ever-increasing water pollution?
The contribution of diffuse sources of pollution to bathing water failures, both rural and urban, is being investigated.
When EPA was formed 40 years ago, water pollution was generally something that could be seen, touched, and smelled.
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Such a scenario could result in severe air and water pollution, he said.
In addition, most industries in the region continue to generate water pollution, as enforcement of relevant regulations lags behind.
"I guess it's a question of water pollution or air pollution, " he said.
To such people, urban sprawl and water pollution come as a nasty shock.
And in the US, where the process is most advanced, there have been cases of water pollution linked to fracking.
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That means a big tab for citizens, but it's also a concern for business: Such pollution gets into water supplies.
There was special emphasis on reducing energy consumption, improving conservation and solving the country's serious air, soil and water pollution.
Such findings have come to light more than a year after Japan's amended Water Pollution Prevention Act came into effect.
In some senses, they are right: over the next five years, for example, water pollution will cause more harm worldwide.
Some of these technological solutions are causing their own problems fertilizer causes water pollution and groundwater is dwindling in a lot of places.
The same boom has brought drilling rigs, and the fears of air and water pollution that accompany them, into densely-populated urban areas.
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