• The Legionella bacteria is commonly found in sources of water, such as rivers and lakes.

    BBC: Legionnaires' Disease bacteria

  • Mines and factories that make paint, batteries or electroplated products discharge waste water into local rivers and lakes.

    WSJ: Review & Outlook: China's Toxic Rice Bowl

  • The Orthodoxies celebrate it as the day of John the Baptist, when believers bathe in rivers and lakes.

    BBC: Pagan holidays in modern Ukraine

  • Last, the project will try to work out how thawing permafrost will affect the numerous streams, rivers and lakes of the Arctic.

    ECONOMIST: Global warming and the permafrost

  • Epiphany, celebrated in January, helps wash sins away - in icy rivers and lakes - but not before another healthy dose of fortunetelling.

    BBC: Pagan holidays in modern Ukraine

  • Thousands more pipes could discharge raw sewage into the sea, rivers and lakes than was previously thought, the Marine Conservation Society has said.

    BBC: Charity warning over raw sewage discharge levels

  • Characterised by porous limestone geology and countless underground springs, the region is a wildlife-filled paradise of turquoise rivers and lakes, forested hills and massive subterranean caverns.

    BBC: Livin�� la vida Bonito

  • Budget legislation passed last month by Canadian lawmakers will reduce environmental safeguards for rivers and lakes and make it easier to sell reserve lands, critics say.

    BBC: Canada PM meets chiefs amid Teresa Spence hunger strike

  • "We have a real problem with plastic and we are linking this with our efforts to protect our rivers and lakes, " Ms Mugorewera told Reuters news agency.

    BBC: Rwanda gets tough on plastic bags

  • But conservation groups point out that if farmers, householders or businesses take more water from rivers and lakes that are already poorly supplied, wildlife will feel the effects.

    BBC: Hosepipe ban to be imposed in drought-hit parts of UK

  • There is a strong suspicion that if this oestrogen is not removed during sewage treatment (some works do, some do not), it causes serious damage to rivers and lakes.

    ECONOMIST: Human contraceptives are bad for fish

  • She would always be able to find a patch of water, she told herself, but even when she was studying the rivers and lakes in the road atlas she knew she was procrastinating.

    NEWYORKER: Alone

  • The Unep assessment said the concentration of mercury in the top 100m of the world's oceans had doubled over the past century, and estimated that 260 tonnes of the toxic metal had made their way from soil into rivers and lakes.

    BBC: Nations agree on legally binding mercury rules

  • The Unep assessment says that the concentration of mercury in the top 100m of the world's oceans has doubled over the past century, and estimates that 260 tonnes of the toxic metal have made their way from soil into rivers and lakes.

    BBC: UN: Rising mercury emissions increase risk to humans

  • But Austin, the Brookings analyst, said economic revival also depends on doing more to make the region's 10, 000 miles of Great Lakes shoreline and many rivers and inland lakes a draw for tourists and for service companies that want a beautiful setting.

    WSJ: Great Lakes region pins economic hopes on water

  • Example: In 2003 Tom's of Maine began donating to the Oregon-based River Network, a nonprofit dedicated to making the public aware that 50% of America's drinking water comes from rivers, and yet 40% of all rivers, lakes and estuaries are too dirty even for fishing or swimming.

    FORBES: A River Runs Through It

  • Simply put, it's time to move forward with these common sense standards to protect children's health and our rivers and Great Lakes for all.

    WHITEHOUSE: Energy and Environment Latest News | The White House

  • On a hunt or on a hike: Using a separate TOPO U.S. 24K DVD or microSD card brings you the highest level of topographic detail available, with maps comparable to 1:24, 000 scale USGS maps, featuring terrain contours, topo elevations, summits, routable roads and trails, parks, coastlines, rivers, lakes and geographical points.

    ENGADGET: Four new Oregon touchscreen GPS devices pop up on Garmin's website (updated)

  • The bacterium legionella pneumophila and related bacteria are common in natural water sources such as rivers, lakes and reservoirs, but usually in low numbers.

    BBC: The water fountain at Northampton's market square

  • In 2011 alone, these programs prevented 3.4 million pounds of nitrogen and 97, 000 pounds of phosphorus from flowing off of farms and into lakes and rivers.

    FORBES: The $8 Billion Bargain: How Watershed Payments Save Cities, Support Farms And Combat Climate Change

  • Some terrifyingly large beasts hang out in the rivers, creeks and lakes.

    BBC: Driving Australia��s desolate Stuart Highway

  • In contrast to flowing rivers, lakes and reservoirs have long water residence times, an indication of the average time water will spend in a lake.

    UNESCO: Summary

  • Less ice on rivers, lakes and the sea will lead to more evaporation, probably increasing cloud cover at mid-levels, which should have a cooling effect.

    ECONOMIST: The science

  • To create and maintain a database on water and the environment by use of official, validated national data complementary to the EUROWATERNET, related to transboundary water bodies (rivers, lakes and coastal waters).

    UNESCO: UNITWIN

  • The Water Framework Directive will require all rivers, lakes and canals to be returned to "good ecological quality" within 15 years - and the measure of quality will be far tougher than it is now.

    BBC: English and Welsh rivers 'improving'

  • In river basins, soils, groundwater, riparian zones, streams, rivers, lakes and reservoirs act as successive filters in which the hydrology, ecology and biogeochemical processing are strongly coupled and together act to retain a significant fraction of the nutrients transported.

    UNESCO: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission

  • "Rivers, streams and lakes are measurably cleaner than they were before the Clean Water Act, but we still have a long way to go, " said Bob Irvin of the World Wildlife Fund, the world's largest privately funded conservation organization.

    CNN: Challenges ahead for a changing Earth

  • Water is a major attraction at Yosemite, and most visitors swim and otherwise safely enjoy its lakes and rivers, Gediman said.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Camera boats equipped with cellular phones and speakers stalk the anglers on the lakes and rivers.

    FORBES: No urinating on-camera, please

  • Although government regulators insist that Malathion is relatively benign to humans and pets, environmental regulators have measured its presence in swimming lakes and rivers at many times the level officially considered safe.

    ECONOMIST: Florida agriculture

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