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When it rains, these chemicals seep into the ground, or run off into our waterways, poisoning our water too.
Mega agricultural operations often are responsible for poisoning our waterways and our land, and it produces this incredibly unhealthy product that costs us billions in healthcare and lost productivity.
While it may appear to be a completely chaotic place, when you see it from above, there seems to be a whole grid of waterways and canals connecting each and every home.
In temperate climates, the cycle of seasons freezes and thaws these waterways, cracking pavement and concrete foundations.
Water hyacinth coat the waterways of Shanghai in a thick green carpet.
This is an example of a map I made, and this is the dirtiest waterways in New York City.
Well, it's kind of a little weird, but I looked at the level of fecal coliform, which is a measurement of fecal matter in each of our waterways.
What you see is inland waterways.
And inland waterways are, in general, dirtier.
Right now, nitrification, overuse of phosphates in our waterways are causing tremendous algal blooms.
First step: Get out into the waterways and harvest the water hyacinth.
But as it turns out, we know a lot more about space than we do about the underground waterways coursing through our planet, the very lifeblood of Mother Earth.
Forty percent of municipalities self-report dumping raw or partially treated sewage into our waterways.
The other bummer going on here is that we're quickly moving all the drugs we take into our waterways.
Similar stories are playing out everywhere, where people are reclaiming not only old railroads, but also degraded urban waterways and obsolete roadways, reinventing all of the infrastructure in their lives.
So we plant it later, along the waterways to filter the water, provide the raw products just in time for when the timber becomes available.
The Mediterranean cultures at the heart of the Roman Empire had large warships that controlled the sea, and cargo ships that transported goods along the waterways.
Now buy shampoo or laundry detergent that has social plastic packaging, and you are indirectly contributing to the extraction of plastic from ocean-bound waterways and alleviating poverty at the same time.
The canals and waterways put you on the edge of your seat.
Indeed, US military spending exceeds the sum of federal budgetary outlays for education, agriculture, climate change, environmental protection, ocean protection, energy systems, homeland security, low-income housing, national parks and national land management, the judicial system, international development, diplomatic operations, highways, public transport, veterans affairs, space exploration and science, civilian research and development, civil engineering for waterways, dams, bridges, sewerage and waste treatment, community development, and many other areas.
Energy, transport infrastructure – roads, railways, and waterways – and crime prevention have all benefited.
By developing a joint vision for the development of international waterways, these regional cooperation initiatives work towards common ownership of the resource, thereby reducing the risk that disputes over water use will escalate into violence.
Most international waterways have such frameworks for dialogue, albeit at different stages of development and levels of achievement.
The most obvious signs of that cost flow through the country’s waterways and contaminate its air.
At the same time, the plastic waste that is produced needs to be managed better, in order to prevent it from ending up in waterways.
We cannot rely on singular global policies to solve the problem of managing our common resources: the oceans, atmosphere, forests, waterways, and rich diversity of life that combine to create the right conditions for life, including seven billion humans, to thrive.
By interfering with the carbon, nitrogen, water, and phosphorus cycles, human activity changes the atmosphere, oceans, waterways, forests, and ice sheets, and diminishes biodiversity.
Consolidating a strong transport network of road, inner waterways, air, and sea would produce a cascading effect while offering significant – and immediate – economic gains by helping to optimize supply chains.
The park’s waterways contain one-tenth of the world’s remaining 1,000 giant river otters, along with black and speckled caiman, pink river dolphins, and capybaras.
Western boats plied China's internal waterways.
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