Posts Tagged ‘ water ’

The World’s Most Polluted Rivers

Jul 4th, 2013 | By
The World’s Most Polluted Rivers

Take a break and check out Weather.com’s compilation of the world’s most polluted rivers. The post describes basic river facts (length, economic importance, types of pollution, etc.) and provides powerful photos of contaminated wastewater discharges and people working in the polluted rivers. According to this post, the most polluted rivers are 1. Ganges River, India
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New Study: Fracking Water Stress

Jun 9th, 2013 | By
New Study: Fracking Water Stress

According to a new report released by Ceres, nearly half of more than 25,000 oil and gas wells evaluated in the United States are in water basins with high and extremely high water stress. Future growth of the unconventional resources sector in the U.S. depends on better water management planning and accelerated water recycling. “These
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