Sentence examples for extent of the pollution from inspiring English sources

But a foreign diplomat in Kuala Lumpur uses a "three hills and a tree" system to gauge the extent of the pollution.

To some environmental experts and community activists, the high percentage of contaminated sites raises questions about the full extent of the pollution, its threat to public health and how it will be cleaned up.

For years, the Party hid the true extent of the pollution.

Direct discharge of the human wastes from the nearby settlements into the lake has further aggravated the nature and extent of the pollution.

The present study uses environmental isotopes (2H, 18O) and in particular tritium (3H) to assess the extent of the pollution in the shallow aquifer within 700 m downstream the landfill.

There is widespread belief that the real extent of the pollution may be far worse.

This latest admission about the extent of the air pollution problem reinforces the case against more road building in London and for the introduction of pay as you go driving to bring down fares and reduce traffic".

And while the extent of the biological pollution caused by farm-bred salmon is a matter of hot debate, some scientists believe that interbreeding is at least partly responsible for the decline of wild Atlantic salmon stocks.

Research conducted in Romania in recent decades has clearly shown the extent of the anthropogenic pollution of soil and plant food (both of these mining areas as well as of the large urban areas) with various heavy metals [8 13].

In an epidemiological context, the extension of the present study to the whole of the United Kingdom would be of interest to policymakers, as it would give the UK government a national rather than a regional picture of the extent of the air pollution problem.

The athletes, world keirin champion Jennie Reed among them, were said simply to have been overly concerned about the extent of the air-pollution problem.