Whatever the source or cause, some of the pollutants enter the soil, contaminant it, and percolate down to contaminate the ground water.
However, unexploded cluster munitions still contaminate the ground around her home.
Floating solid cakes of pesticide chemicals (or spraying these areas) will contaminate the ground water and, therefore, our drinking water.
When it was found that M.T.B.E. was susceptible to leaking into the ground, contaminating the ground water supply and causing tap water to smell like turpentine, many states, including New York and California, banned the product.
They pay workers poverty wages, contaminate the ground and water supply with agrochemicals, encroach on protected areas, and take land away from producing food for people here to eat," she said.
Indeed, expanding the availability of water may actually increase disease, since it may lead to stagnant pools in which mosquitoes breed, and then spread malaria or dengue fever; or perhaps excess water will run through human or toxic waste and thus contaminate the ground or a nearby stream.
By February the jury had found Monsanto/Solutia guilty of contaminating the ground, water and air in Anniston; for knowing that it was doing so; and for keeping too quiet about it.
In agricultural and industrial areas, where hazardous wastes, pesticides or fertilizers contaminate the ground surface, the vadose zone may act as a buffer zone, i.e., protect the underlying aquifers (Zimmermann et al. 1967).
