But two independent reports found that the effluent probably killed off weeds on which the swans feed.
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Currently some of the effluent discharged into the Irish Sea does not meet with marine protection guidelines.
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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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.
AgCert builds sealed pools to contain the pig-effluent in Brazil and Mexico, captures the methane it produces and burns it to produce electricity.
Unlike soy or other meat-surrogates, in vitro meat could shift the economic playing field entirely from a land use issue to the non-effluent based urban indoors.
In similar situations elsewhere, developers have simply marched in, paid off the right people and built a factory that pumps raw effluent straight into the fishing grounds.
We feed them animal waste, and they convert it from manure to digested effluent, eating the carbohydrates and producing biogas that contains methane.
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.
We will also look at trade effluent because it is the dirty water and normally needs to be licensed and manage very carefully.
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.
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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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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Singaporean leaders, it seems, would rather drink their own purified effluent than rely on Malaysia for anything, while their Malaysian counterparts cannot resist the temptation to pick a populist fight with their former compatriots.
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.
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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