In October of 2015 a local pediatrician reported high lead levels in children and expressed the long term damage of lead. ... As a result, thousands of children were poisoned and will face life-long repercussions. ... The switch from the Detroit water system to the Flint River was approved by government at all levels. ... One large cost savings was switching the water supply from Detroit to the Flint River. ... However, the government did not admit problems or take action when water quality was poor and children were poisoned. ...

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The most life-threatening situation is placed into Murray-Darling River Basin in the southeast Australia, one of the biggest catchments area in the world. ... It was the sequence of incorrect government policy that divided up the river among the consumers and "allowed the participants to trade water and market water rights ". ... It came to the "Mighty Murray", one of the Australia's major river, is on the verge of collapse: in some places, children can jump over it. ... This action was a part of "Water for the Future " - 10-year national water plan. 10 billion dollars have already alloca...

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Another example of misuse of water in this region involves The Colorado River. ... There is no question that the Colorado River is significantly over allocated. ... The river once flowed plentifully with fresh water to the sea. ... The problems are not just in the lakes, rivers or oceans. ... We need to get people aware that rapid and wasteful use of water with too little emphasis on pollution will inevitably come back to haunt us or at least our children because we never really throw anything away. ...

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Another example of misuse of water in this region involves The Colorado River. ... There is no question that the Colorado River is significantly over allocated. ... The river once flowed plentifully with fresh water to the sea. ... The problems are not just in the lakes, rivers or oceans. ... We need to get people aware that rapid and wasteful use of water with too little emphasis on pollution will inevitably come back to haunt us or at least our children because we never really throw anything away. ...

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Deep within that mountain ran a river. The river was a river of hope, of dreams, and of purity. Wise shamans told of it, children dreamt of it, and men wept over it. It was the river of Gods and Goddesses. ... The mouth of the great lion was open wide and from it pored the river in a amazing aqua blue waterfall. ...

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Water pollution happens when toxic substances enter water bodies, such as lakes, rivers and oceans, without enough treatment to get rid of harmful compounds. A great example is our river Poltva, which runs under our city. ... By doing this, children and students will learn about the importance of recycling and will involve their families, too. ...

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An example is when a pipe pours out toxic chemical into a river. ... The animal then produces waste and some of it gets washed away into the river which pollutes the water because it contains bacteria. ... Many power plants use rivers and lakes to dispose waste heat that is generated by the power plant. ... The acid rain falls into rivers and lakes lowers the pH and destroys the sea life. ... A lot of diseases and viruses are in the water which is why millions of children die every year because they don't have clean drinking water. ...

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In fact, the scarcity of clean drinking water is responsible for the deaths of 2,000 children a day; dehydration and poor sanitation. ... Some plants choose not to dam the water though, and use the river's natural flow to create "run of the river " power generation. ...

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Surface water is water that is visible above the ground surface, such as creeks, rivers, ponds and lakes. ... Of children who need to be watched yet there are relatively few who choose to baby-sit from the already decreased amount of the babysitter work force. ...

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These external transactions may include industrial output and energy consumption, as well as the unpaid work of women and children hauling water or fuel-wood, the burning of rainforest to clear land on which to grow food for one's family, drug-trafficking and other crime, traditional barter, and cooperative labor exchange. ... River systems and aquifers have been seriously depleted by water withdrawals. ...

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People who ingest polluted water can become ill and if they"re exposed for a long time, may develop cancers, or have children with birth defects. ... Children exposed to lead in water can suffer mental retardation. 4. ... Thermal Pollution - water is often taken from rivers, lakes, or the ocean to be used in factories and power plants. ...

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People who ingest polluted water can become very ill and if they are exposed for a long time, they might have a slight chance to develop cancer or have children with birth defects. Some effects of water pollution are poisonous water, poisonous food animals, unbalanced rivers and lake ecosystems that can no longer support full biological diversity, deforestation from acid rain, and many other effects. ... Children exposed to lead in water can suffer mental retardation. ...

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The Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio burst into flames several times because it was so polluted. ... Our drinking water comes from lakes, rivers, and groundwater and when these bodies of water get polluted, it affects the safety and quality of the water we get in our homes. ... Babies, young children, pregnant or nursing women, and some older people are at a much higher risk of getting nitrate poisoning because their blood often won't carry oxygen well. ...

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Massive flooding and rivers that are well above their normal levels are threatening the crops and homes in the area. ... In my lifetime I know that I won't see anything too drastic happen due to global warming, but there is a chance that my children and grandchildren will. ...

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Theodore Roosevelt said "To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase it's usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very property which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed" (Nature Node). ... We continue to rape our rain forests of their very life, we buy huge sport utility vehicles that pollute our air like the factories of the industrial revolution, and at the same time endlessly pollute our lakes, rivers, and oceans. ...

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We dispose of human wastes, animal wastes, and chemical substances into the environment at such a rate that even the largest lake and river systems have difficulty cleansing themselves and sustaining life. ... Regulations exist under some federal water- related legislation, for example the Fisheries Act, and the International River Improvements Act. ...

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Specialties:• Water quality, quantity, its purification, conservation and augmentation; • Air quality monitoring; • Solid waste management (through vermi-composting, city farming,waste paper recycling, Anti-Polythene campaign) • Green cover, biodiversity (Tree plantation and nurturing, Herb Garden with medicinal plants) • Birding • Eco-Festivals (Natural Holi colours, Eco-Diwali, Eco-Visarjan:eco-friendly idol immersion) • Energy, Carbon Footprint • Climate change:Adaptation and mitigation measures 'When the last tree is cut and the last fish ki...

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Coca-Cola has been discharging their wastewater in to the fields across the communities and also into the rivers. The Ganges River, once a medical water source where they bathed and drank from, now carries high risk of infection. ...

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ACID RAIN ACID RAIN "Statues dissolving and guns rusting, children choking and soil becoming poisoned, trees withering, rocks blackening. ... When the bridge over the Ohio River collapsed and killed 46 people, the explanation was corrosion due to acid rain. ...

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They are, "used in hundreds of products, such as vinyl flooring, adhesives, detergents, lubricating oils, automotive plastics, plastic clothes (raincoats), and personal-care products (soaps, shampoos, hair sprays, and nail polishes)," Phthalates are used widely in polyvinyl chloride plastics, which are used to make products such as plastic packaging film and sheets, garden hoses, inflatable toys, blood-storage containers, medical tubing, and some children's toys (Cdc.gov, 2015). ... An estuary is a coastal area where fresh water rivers and streams mix with salt water from the ocean in b...

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