Currently some of the effluent discharged into the Irish Sea does not meet with marine protection guidelines.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban said it was "very likely" that an entire wall of the reservoir would collapse, releasing a fresh wave of chemical effluent.
These gigs are lucrative, but ITT takes on more risk--by not only selling the hardware, but sometimes installing it and guaranteeing the quality of the effluent and the power usage.
In October 2011 the previous owners Selonda (UK) pleaded guilty to permitting the discharge of "trade effluent and chemicals" in a prosecution brought by Environment Agency Wales.
"A lot of these industries are yet to put in place onsite effluent treatment plants - a prerequisite that we ask of these industries, " LSepa's general manager explains.
Luka Erceg, the boss of Simbol Materials, a start-up that produces lithium and other metals from brines and effluent, reckons he has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal and other fees applying for funds from the federal stimulus package.
However in the case of Neal Soil Suppliers - where dairy and food effluent was spread over a field - there had been "substantial and serious pollution".
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On the Firth of Forth, says Northumbrian Water's Mr Spray, large populations of scaup, a diving duck, vanished after the effluent was cleaned up.
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Your report measures watershed quality and I assume that runs well north of the city where small towns may not do as good a job depositing their treatment plant effluent.
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Algae also offer the potential of aiding in the curbing of CO2 emissions from power stations and cement factories, and in cleaning nitrates and phosphates from agricultural runoff water and effluent from sewage plants, while simultaneously furnishing useful fuels such as biodiesel and ethanol according to how the algae are processed.
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