Sentence examples for polluting drinking water from inspiring English sources

This dismays the Sierra Club and other groups which, for decades, have been able to use the unfair-business law unique to California to protect consumers and prosecute polluters (oil companies, for example, were sued for polluting drinking water).

In Arkansas and Maryland, residents have accused chicken farm owners of polluting drinking water.

Residents of Weliweriya town, northeast of the capital, Colombo, and surrounding villages were protesting discharges of chemical waste from a factory that were polluting drinking water.

Fracking has been heavily criticised by environmentalists in the US, who say the process can end up polluting drinking water in the surrounding area.

BEIJING — When 39 tons of the toxic chemical aniline spilled from a factory in Changzhi in China's Shanxi province at the end of December, polluting drinking water for hundreds of thousands of people downstream along the Zhuozhang River and dangerously fouling the environment, it seemed a grave enough disaster.

Urban flooding also increases health risks such as causing epidemic disease break out, polluting drinking water and damaging the living environment.

City governments, overwhelmed by polluted drinking water, looked to private companies.

Campaigners have warned that the drilling could pollute drinking water and scar the landscape.

And worries are growing that the techniques used to blast through shale rock to release gas could pollute drinking water.

Some environmental groups fear that hydraulic fracturing will pollute drinking water, and Congress is considering tighter regulation of the practice.

The way things now stand, there's nothing to prevent us from getting wasted mountains and polluted drinking water, and a ruined climate to boot.