Sentence examples for polluted from from inspiring English sources

Its waters were long thought by local people to be artificially polluted from centuries of copper mining.

We cannot go swimming along most of the coast because it is too polluted from people using it as a toilet.

THE East River is still polluted, from sewage runoff and a long-ago oil spill, according to the city's Department of Environmental Protection, so it is probably not quite fit yet for doing the backstroke.

I'm making a political and social statement because I see farms going out of business and water you can't drink because it's polluted from farms that use too much pesticides".

The water system starts with a big handicap: its main source of supply, the Indus River, is heavily polluted from huge cities like Lahore by the time it reaches the Arabian seacoast.

The Suzhou River (the lower reach of Wusong River) and the Huangpu River (a tributary of the Yangtze), which flow through the city, are severely polluted from industrial discharges, domestic sewage, and ships' wastes; nonetheless, the Huangpu is Shanghai's main water source.

Dirty factories can buy the right to pollute from cleaner factories.

The scheme, which would have paid big polluting industries $AUS30bn in compensation, did not require a reduction in domestic emissions to meet its targeted cuts, because Australia could have met the target by purchasing permits to pollute from overseas.

The US, which produces a quarter of the world's greenhouse-gas emissions although it only has 5% of the world's population, wanted to buy the right to pollute from other countries through unfettered emissions trading.

This is to be achieved through national reduction targets which vary among the 27 countries, and through a Europe-wide carbon trading scheme in which industries and power plants buy permits to pollute from 2013.

Speaking at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., Clinton proposed an international "emissions trading system" that would allow companies in developing countries to buy the right to pollute from companies with cleaner technologies.