Sentence examples for pollution disaster from inspiring English sources

Bangladesh's garment and textile industries have contributed heavily to what experts describe as a water pollution disaster, especially in the large industrial areas of Dhaka, the capital.

The worst-case scenario for a spill from BP's new well would involve a leak of 75,000 barrels a day for 140 days – a total of 10.5 million barrels of oil, comfortably the world's biggest pollution disaster.

Amid fears of a large-scale international pollution disaster, officials of several countries through which the Danube flows downstream of the pollution entry point, including Croatia, Serbia and Romania, were testing the river every few hours last night, while in Hungary itself emergency crews were trying to dilute the effluent and its damaging high alkalinity.

His treatment seems all the more cruel when you consider that US-based executives from Union Carbide have not been sent for trial in India over the toxic pollution disaster at Bhopal, which killed between 8,000 and 23,000 people.

The senior officials I talk to are just as angry about a pollution disaster or last year's melamine scandal as we would be in America.

* Donora Smog: Worst Air Pollution Disaster.

The leaks, in a country with a history of pollution disasters caused by careless miners, provoked an outcry.

The Guardian can reveal evidence today of a massive cover-up by the British oil trader Trafigura, in one of the worst pollution disasters in recent history.

Japan was hit by the dreadful Minamata disease, caused by mercury poisoning, in the late 1950s; that, and a series of other pollution disasters, gave rise first to citizens' protest movements, and then, belatedly, to new laws to control toxic effluent and air pollution.

While our government and industries may have little control over enormous pollution disasters like the recent oil spill and the health and environmental repercussions they will create, closer regulation of potentially carcinogenic chemicals is within our reach and should be looked at much more seriously.

People investigated included Alberto Acosta, the former oil minister who, with others, had proposed the idea of leaving the Yasuni oil in the ground in 2006, following the Chevron Texaco pollution disasters in the northern Amazon and indigenous peoples' successful resistance to oil extraction in the Amazonian community of Sarayaku in the late 1990s.