The smelt problem was a powerful indicator of the environmental fallout from the delta's water system, which was constructed over 50 years ago for a far smaller population.
In handy colour-coded maps it predicts the economic and environmental fallout of any proposed land-use change.
There are worries about the environmental fallout of the new mining, and about how sustainable a mining-led recovery might be.
UNEP also said Sochi organisers were procrastinating on political decisions that would mitigate and compensate for the unwanted environmental fallout of the games.
That's mostly good news, as you won't be dealing with the pain, cost, and environmental fallout of cycling through AAAs.
The confluence of economic (collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991), environmental (fallout patterns and local soil-to-milk transfer ratios) and sociological (local food consumption patterns) factors resulted in significant variations in individual exposure.
The government has also created, and started filling, a strategic reserve, which should eventually hold 30 days' worth of imports, says the IEA.The environmental fallout from China's burgeoning demand for natural resources is another source of concern.
The environmental fallout included radionuclides of iodine, primarily iodine-131 (I), which concentrates in the thyroid gland (United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation 2000).
Many critics of the EPA's response have pointed to the lack of cooperation between agencies in dealing with environmental fallout that will span at least three states and the sovereign Navajo Nation.
"One of the issues there is the pit is not secure," says Koop, who authored a 200-page report critical of the mine's engineering history, its management, and the environmental fallout since the Mount Polley disaster.
