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Satellite image of Hinkley, Barstow and Harper Lake, California. From 1952 to 1966, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) dumped about 370 million U.S. gallons (1.4 × 10 9 liters) of chromium-tainted wastewater into unlined wastewater spreading ponds around the town of Hinkley, California, located in the Mojave Desert about 120 miles (190 kilometers) north-northeast of Los Angeles.
Sources of water pollution are either point sources or non-point sources. [4] Point sources have one identifiable cause, such as a storm drain, a wastewater treatment plant, or an oil spill. Non-point sources are more diffuse. An example is agricultural runoff. [5] Pollution is the result of the cumulative effect over time. Pollution may take ...
1. Strong health messaging. Everyone’s daily water needs vary, which is why the FDA and CDC don’t provide specific hydration recommendations. Previously, the rule of thumb was to drink eight ...
The fashion industry, particularly manufacture and use of apparel and footwear, is a significant driver of greenhouse gas emissions and plastic pollution. [1] The rapid growth of fast fashion has led to around 80 billion items of clothing being consumed annually, with about 85% of clothes consumed in United States being sent to landfill.
The Aguán River (Spanish pronunciation:); also commonly known by its Spanish name, Rio Aguán) is a river in Honduras.It rises in the Yoro region to the west of San Lorenzo and briefly runs south before turning east-northeast, passing San Lorenzo, Olanchito and Tocoa before entering the Caribbean Sea east of Puerto Castilla.
It is estimated that 1.1 to 8.8 million tonnes of plastic waste enters the ocean from coastal communities each year. [8] It is estimated that there is a stock of 86 million tons of plastic marine debris in the worldwide ocean as of the end of 2013, with an assumption that 1.4% of global plastics produced from 1950 to 2013 has entered the ocean ...
[3] [4] Similar pursuits are information visualization, data visualization, statistical graphics, information design, or information architecture. [2] Infographics have evolved in recent years to be for mass communication , and thus are designed with fewer assumptions about the readers' knowledge base than other types of visualizations. [ 5 ]
Bajo Aguán (Lower Aguán) refers to the lower part of Honduras' Aguán River Valley, in the north-eastern Colón Department and Yoro Department; the entire valley covers 200,000 hectares. [1] The area was at one time farmed by banana companies, but was abandoned in the 1930s, after which infrastructure deteriorated and the population sharply ...