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Heavy pollution cuts into the usable water supply, but treatment equipment is expensive.
ECONOMIST: China
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Smog also spread across central and eastern regions as a yellow haze alert was issued yesterday, and "heavy to severely heavy pollution" was recorded in Beijing, China Daily reports.
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Following the heavy pollution of the beach, the local population of this starfish fell from more than a hundred and fifty to just thirteen, pushing this particular colony to the edge of extinction.
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It bore bleach marks, possibly from exposure to pesticide or heavy-metal pollution.
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The coalition of NGOs, according to Ma Jun, has made it clear to the government that these organisations are keen to assist in its efforts to control heavy-metal pollution.
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Natume believes Yamato struck a chord with readers who were just learning about the heavy price of industrial pollution.
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Oxidation catalysts and other emissions controls can be installed to reduce the polluting effect of diesel generation and it must also be considered that peak-shaving DR resources will displace peaking units which are the most pollution-heavy resources on the supply-dispatch curve that are also closest to load centers.
FORBES: Connect
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The environmental programs will certainly open up long-standing splits between legislators from industrial states and those from suburban-heavy areas more sympathetic to cracking down on pollution.
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The problem is most acute in the Central Valley, where nearby mountains tend to trap the pollution sent to the skies from heavy auto traffic and other machinery.
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Russia, Belarus and Ukraine then further delayed the endgame of the conference with an argument over so-called "hot air" - the pollution permits they were given to allow their heavy industries to thrive.
BBC: Science & Environment
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Other countries, too, have problems such as creaking education systems, ageing populations, ill health, pollution, poverty, bad bureaucrats, regional tensions, uncompetitive heavy industries, cash-hungry public services and terrorism.
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