It reached a crescendo in Pavillion, Wyoming where EPA has been investigating whether the fracking process polluted the drinking water there.
Residents point to a spot where they say the factory dumps polluted water at night, which flows into the Three Gorges Reservoir.
Local economies also suffer when villagers can't sell their grain or eat the crops planted along the river because the water is so polluted.
The new regulations were originally introduced by President Obama to better protect the environment from polluted water and potential earthquakes.
This goes for the fracking process itself, as well as the procedures for collecting and treating water polluted with fracking water that flows back up the hole.
The problems of putrid water and polluted air are largely but not inevitably the result of rapid industrialisation and urbanisation.
He has a point: Polluted water is the planet's deadliest foe, killing 14, 000 people a day, according to the World Health Organization.
But there is some concern that the river water is too polluted.
With diminished ways to make a living, many were -- and still are -- forced to eat food and drink water from the polluted areas where they live.
Seneca has been withdrawing polluted water from the Arnot No. 5 coal mine in Tioga County since late 2010 and piping it some 6 miles to the well pad.
The environmental protection chief of Cangxian county in northern Hebei has quit after initially dismissing villagers' complaints over the deaths of around 700 chickens from drinking foul-smelling polluted underground "red water" in the region since last November, notes China Daily.
Sark's Agriculture and Environment Committee also claimed the water supply could be polluted by pesticides and fungicides if more vines were planted.
Environmental concerns dominate the media in China as newspapers warn of the dangers of toxic smog and polluted underground water.
Many of the environmental complaints, such as claims that the mine has polluted Cajamarca's drinking water with cyanide or mercury, look specious.
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While not all mine water is chemically suitable for fracking and a mine discharge has to be close enough to a well pad to make transport via truck or pipeline economical experts believe Pennsylvania has more than enough polluted mine water to meet the needs of the drilling industry.
"This resulted in a 33km stretch of the brook, the River Cledan, the River Irfon and the Wye being polluted with silt, impacting on water quality, " said an agency spokesperson.
Shale gas has brought the USA cheap energy but it has also caused polluted water supplies in places and caused earth tremors.
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Polluted water increased health risks and harmed the ecology of the river, resulting in the deaths of large numbers of fish in "extreme cases", he told MPs.
"Toxins, bad air, polluted drinking water -- all these are the problems China is facing, " says Ho Wai Chi of the international environmental group Greenpeace.
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Fueled partly by billions in government incentives, the industry is creating millions of solar panels each year and, in the process, millions of pounds of polluted sludge and contaminated water.
An October 2012 article in the semi-official Global Times documents how river water, polluted by human remains and mixed with well water, is unsafe for drinking.
Internet users earlier posted tip-offs on the web that some factories in Weifang have allegedly been pumping polluted water some 1, 000 metres below ground, Global Times and Xinhua report.
Far from being a source of legitimate comparative advantage, low environmental standards are an abuse of the human rights of those people usually the poor who have to suffer their direct consequences through polluted water supplies and poisoned air.
It is believed the decision relates to concerns that the site is not lined, which means there is a danger of polluted water seeping underground.
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Mr. SAWLIS: And it has to be high salty, brackish-type water, as opposed to our other friend, the house mosquito, which likes foul, stagnant water, high-polluted content.
Others are spooked by stories of housing shortages, towns overrun with strangers, torn-up roads and claims of polluted water and worry that drilling would forever alter the serenity, beauty and very character of an area they consider special.
To avoid people drinking polluted water, portable water testing kits were introduced, designed to monitor the countries 1.3 million wells.
The Aswan high dam, for example, is often cited as a cautionary example, a quixotic construction that now reduces the mighty Nile to a dribble before it trickles to the sea, leaving behind an explosion of water hyacinth, outbreaks of bilharzia, polluted irrigation channels and a build-up of sediment inland that would otherwise compensate for coastal erosion from Egypt to Lebanon.
It requires engagement with local communities, protecting them from the negative impacts of logging (i.e. roads and bridges damaged, water polluted, etc.) and encouraging active hiring of local service providers, local technicians, and local labor.
In the meantime, Sanchez-Navarro is working to implement a network of water testing sites in Tulum to find out exactly how many of the cenotes are polluted and how bad the pollution is.
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