Sentence examples for contaminate beaches from inspiring English sources

In recent decades offshore oil drilling, which can pollute water and contaminate beaches, has endangered the one major cash-generating resource Caribbean residents can claim as their own: tourism, with its vision of island life as state of natural purity and innocence.

Seagull droppings can carry disease-causing microbes like Escherichia coli and Enterococcus, which can contaminate beaches and water.

Experts have been trying to dispel worries stemming from a burst of online videos and blog posts in recent months that contend radiation from Fukushima is contaminating beaches and seafood and harming sea creatures across the Pacific.

We constructed a simulation model to compute the incidences of highly credible gastrointestinal illness (HCGI) in recreational bathers at two intermittently contaminated beaches of Orange County, California.

We could have applied our technology there and cleaned up significant areas of the contaminated beach.

As oil began to contaminate Louisiana beaches in May, it was manually removed; more difficult to clean were the state's marshes and estuaries, where the topography was knit together by delicate plant life.

Toxic chemicals, oil, and waste contaminate our beaches and coastal waters, hurting the tourism industry and creating dead zones like that in the Gulf of Mexico, which covered an area the size of New Jersey in 2010.

Additionally, Cape Wind will help prevent situations like the oil spill in Buzzards Bay that killed hundreds of seabirds, contaminated the beaches and closed shellfish beds for a year.

Because Dr. Bik did not have measurements of how contaminated each beach was before the spill, there is no way of definitively linking the fungi to the oil's presence.

Electricity is erratic, drinking water is contaminated, the beach in town is littered with trash and nearby rivers are either clogged with an invasive weed or plagued by silty agricultural runoff that threatens the fish on offshore reefs.

This loss would force more than 100,000 people to move, erode beaches, contaminate fresh water supplies and decimate or degrade the tourism industry on which most countries have come to depend.