Sentence examples for waste canal from inspiring English sources
The Ruhr is coming to grips with another legacy of its polluted past: the Emscher, a 52-mile long river that suffered the indignity of being turned into an industrial waste canal at the end of the 19th century.
Traffic dwindled from the streets and shopping areas emptied hours after the discovery Thursday afternoon of Guillermo Luna Varela, Gabriel Huge, Esteban Rodriguez and Irasema Becerra, who had been slain, dismembered and stuffed into black plastic bags dumped into a waste canal.
Once filled with chemical waste, the canal was covered with a clay seal in 1953, and homes and a school were built atop it.
By the middle of the 19th century, problems in the water supply regime grew worse, as expanding urban populations dumped their waste in canals and surface waters.
She says she has seen people drop waste into the canal, which the farmers use to irrigate their crops.
That was a major advance from the cesspools and gutters that carried waste to whatever canal or waterway was closest — though for decades the city dumped unprocessed sewage directly into harbor waters.
Four years ago, the Bush-Cheney spinners persuaded much of the political press corps that Vice-President Al Gore had told a series of fibs — about inventing the Internet, "discovering" the Love Canal waste dump, being the model for a character in "Love Story" — that added up to a "character problem".
They throw solid waste in the canals.
The flushing is necessary because, while most of Amsterdam's 2,800 houseboats have running water, electricity and gas heat, few are connected to sewerage systems and continue to spill their waste into the canals.
Two years ago, when the first shipment of radioactive waste passed through the canal, Greenpeace, the antinuclear group, boarded the vessel to show how easy a terrorist hijacking would be.
The results showed that the high salinity in the Shatt Al-Arab is due to natural factors, including climate change, domestic waste water in the canal, and others related to the management of water resources and the policies of neighboring countries.
