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Significant issues that lead to water pollution are surface water contamination by squanders and unreasonable water utilization. Water contamination is associated with human movement, such as industrial waste, municipal waste, waste from health centers, and surfaces waste from agri-production. Waste management problems are a big contributor to ...
“Twenty-four coal-fired units in Georgia have either shut down or converted to firing natural gas since the beginning of this study, resulting in a 98.4% reduction of mercury emissions from coal ...
Topsoil runoff from farm, central Iowa (2011). Water pollution in the United States is a growing problem that became critical in the 19th century with the development of mechanized agriculture, mining, and manufacturing industries—although laws and regulations introduced in the late 20th century have improved water quality in many water bodies. [1]
Under RCRA, the EPA can not only obtain all state enforcement authority for solid waste control, but they can also force the state to create its own entity to control and monitor solid waste pollution. Although notification to the state by the EPA is required by law, the timeline of the notification is not strictly defined, allowing the EPA to ...
As Georgia Power prepares to shutter a massive Middle Georgia coal power plant over the next decade, it also faces several lawsuits from residents over the plant’s impact on their drinking water.
Forty-five young professionals from across Georgia spent almost a year in Muscogee County analyzing the community’s biggest challenges. Topping the list: how to retain the city’s young ...
Climate change will also cause more severe flooding, droughts, and heavy rainstorms in Georgia. Warmer temperatures will evaporate water faster, leading to dryer conditions and a diminishing supply of available water. Soil in non-coastal areas will become dryer. These conditions are likely to affect farmlands. [3]
A gene was discovered in the water that can make the top antibiotics to stop working. University of Georgia professor Issmat Kassem and infectious disease expert Dr. Monica Gandhi join The Doctors ...