The pollution problem prompted Webasto to launch a campaign to raise awareness of the idling issue.
It's not just flood water, it's sewerage coming up too and it's a serious pollution problem.
The country also has an impressive local air pollution problem that it is looking to renewables to help solve.
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Floating pigs aren't Shanghai's only water-pollution problem this year, despite years of effort by local authorities to improve local waterways.
Siberia is ablaze with the surplus gas from oil wells just burning off into the sky, adding to Russia's pollution problem.
The president said each nation should establish for itself what methods it will use to rein in the pollution problem without stunting economic growth.
Chinese state run media have reacted strongly to the pollution problem.
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You will end up with less gasoline than you paid for, and that would also contribute to the air pollution problem that summer gasoline was designed to avoid.
The city council is extending its existing three air pollution problem zones: central, St Johns Road and Great Junction Street and adding two new ones at Inverleith Row and Glasgow Road.
Although the Beijing city government has in the past tried to conceal its pollution problem by manipulating air quality data, public pressure has forced it adopt a radically more open stance.
But Beijing faces an uphill fight to solve its notorious air pollution problem by August, and the government is preparing to order traffic off the streets to try to keep skies blue.
Increasing development and a population of four million, plus unregulated factories and a 17% increase in vehicles per year, has created an air pollution problem that the Nepalese government is desperate to solve.
There's no example of an air pollution problem anywhere in the world that has been solved without a cap or legal limit on how much of that pollution can be dumped into the sky.
"We do have a pollution problem and a traffic problem in Bodmin and that's obvious to anybody because we have a main road that goes through to Wadebridge from the A30 and the A38, " Mr Trendall told BBC News.
In the river's holiest place, Varanasi, the permanent population has soared in the last 30 years to around 3m, and a chronic pollution problem (mostly caused by human detritus) becomes uncontrollable whenever electricity fails and sewage treatment plants break down though that does not seem to deter pilgrims from bathing in waters they see as eternally sacred.
Air pollution is another serious problem: the sky above the Strip is sometimes so dirty that you cannot see the mountains for the haze.
The Environmental Protection Agency's announcement contains the simple assertion that greenhouse gas pollution is a serious problem now and for future generations.
And by the way, we can -- by doing this, we can also reduce the problem of carbon pollution and we can still invest in clean coal technology.
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"We thought why don't we start a company that addresses this possibility of using capitalism as an aggressive way to solve the glaring problem of water pollution, " he said.
Carnegie Mellon's CREATE Lab is working on a few interesting solutions to the problem of localizing pollution data with a trio of devices aimed at making the process accessible and affordable for regular people.
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While air pollution has remained a nagging problem since then, Beijingers have learned to live with the situation, and there have been enough blue sky days in the capital city to keep the Air Quality Index (AQI) out of the news until last week that is.
And it calls on the insurance sector to help our country adapt, and to tackle the problem of climate change pollution head-on.
The conservation group says the problem is responsible for pollution, shrinkage of coastal wetlands and the tapping of non-renewable groundwater in some regions.
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"The MCS recognises that Combined Sewer Overflows (CSO) are necessary to avoid sewage flooding roads or people's houses, and that diffuse pollution is an entrenched and difficult problem, " Mr Bell said.
Already, pollution has made respiratory illness the leading health problem in China.
But today's problem of non-point source pollution is more difficult to control.
Janice Nolen, national policy adviser at the American Lung Association, says that rather than dealing with the harmful effects of air pollution, the focus should be on tackling the problem at source.
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