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Over the years, the government has taken steps to address the problem, including regulating low-frequency noise like water pumps, and reducing maximum decibels.
BBC: Taiwan's noise pollution dilemma
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Key recommendations in Defra's report include a legal requirement for vessels to use "pingers", a device which will emit a noise under water to warn dolphins off.
BBC: Dolphins plan dismissed
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"After my last dive, after I came up from the water, I heard the noise and saw the total and that is when the happy emotions swept me, " said Zakharov.
WSJ: Social Media
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We arrived on the banks of the Comoue and the spot is idyllic - green, sunny, with the gentle noise of running water, basically the perfect breeding site for black flies.
BBC: Burkina Faso: Beating river blindness by fly-catching
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Less noise, less water, less labor-intensive.
NPR: Excerpt: 'The American Meadow Garden'
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Third, the industry needs to continue to make good faith efforts to reduce adverse impacts across the board, in terms of water pollution, health and safety, noise, erosion, road damage and so on.
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And there would be no noise over Kent because the noise footprint would be over the water.
BBC: Kent island airport 'best solution' to meet flight demand
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This means the Viper's exhaust goes into a silencer where the noise is damped by means of water spray.
BBC: Key tests for Skylon spaceplane project
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France has commissions for noise, for the air, for water, for cold, for the polar regions, for rubbish and more.
ECONOMIST: France's government
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So large a quantity of them enters into this river that at night one is unable to sleep, so great is the noise they make in falling upon the water.
ECONOMIST: Salmon fishing
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As hydraulic fracturing for natural gas has boomed in recent years, so too have the ranks of local activists, spurred by the new noise, air, traffic, and water pollution in their backyards.
FORBES: Can No-Water Fracking Quiet Critics?
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The code of conduct requires tenants to pay rent on time, register for council tax, gas, electricity and water in their own names and not to cause excessive noise or anti-social behaviour.
BBC: Medway landlords urged to take benefit tenants