Sentence examples for degrade water from inspiring English sources

Where possible, states, tribes, and other jurisdictions identify the pollutants that degrade water quality and indicators to document water quality degradation.

Lastly, the plant can degrade water quality by changing the amounts of dissolved oxygen, pH and other water characteristics.

The new regulation changes a standing prohibition against mining within 100 feet of a stream if it will degrade water quality.

The encroachment of urban areas on reservoirs is a major problem in São Paolo, for trash, sewage, and polluted runoff from the favelas can degrade water quality.

When it melts, it "could degrade water quality of the aquifers," said Rob Smith, regional staff director at the Sierra Club.

The obtained results open new perspectives for the synthesis of novel nano-TiO2-based photocatalysts capable to degrade water or airborne pollutants under visible light irradiation.

But they also degrade waters with pollution, obliterate natural flow cycles and block the migration routes of fish and other aquatic life.

Furthermore, it causes high evaporation rate and loss of water and degrades water quality.

Water quality influences were isolated by excluding taxa with low tolerance to degraded water quality conditions.

A mounting backlog of public investment can lead to poor transport, congestion, a degraded water supply and, apart from those practicalities, an unattractive and deteriorating city environment.

China's Ministry of Environmental Protection said water pollution was a serious concern, with industrial spills, farm runoff and untreated sewage all factors in degrading water quality.