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  • noun Plural form of wastewater.

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  • In part one of the series, the Times highlighted the lax regulatory framework governing fracking and raised troubling questions about disposal practices for the huge volume of potentially radioactive wastewaters that are left at the end of the drilling process.

    Rocky Kistner: New York Times Report on Fracking Offers Lessons for New York Rocky Kistner 2011

  • In the light of this, the scientific community is categorically against the relaunching of the mill, with the discharge of its wastewaters [going] directly into Baikal.

    Biodiversity 100: actions for Europe Guillaume Chapron 2010

  • In part one of the series, the Times highlighted the lax regulatory framework governing fracking and raised troubling questions about disposal practices for the huge volume of potentially radioactive wastewaters that are left at the end of the drilling process.

    Rocky Kistner: New York Times Report on Fracking Offers Lessons for New York Rocky Kistner 2011

  • In part one of the series, the Times highlighted the lax regulatory framework governing fracking and raised troubling questions about disposal practices for the huge volume of potentially radioactive wastewaters that are left at the end of the drilling process.

    Rocky Kistner: New York Times Report on Fracking Offers Lessons for New York Rocky Kistner 2011

  • In part one of the series, the Times highlighted the lax regulatory framework governing fracking and raised troubling questions about disposal practices for the huge volume of potentially radioactive wastewaters that are left at the end of the drilling process.

    Rocky Kistner: New York Times Report on Fracking Offers Lessons for New York Rocky Kistner 2011

  • Untreated domestic and industrial wastewaters are on the rise, affecting coastal areas, where 50 per cent of the people live.

    Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 6 2008

  • He pioneered research on the recycling of wastewaters in wetlands, developed the concepts of “net energy” of renewable and non-renewable energy sources, and created the field of “emergy” analyses.

    Tributes to Howard T. Odum 2007

  • Technically feasible solutions for recovery of phosphorus from animal wastes, wastewaters and secondary sludge have increasingly emerged; some have even been put into practice in a few European countries and North America.

    Phosphorus use in China 2007

  • A soil-amelioration plan should be developed to transform the soil by opening up drainage ditches and flood diversion channels and canals to direct mountain floods and toxic wastewaters from mines away from the fields and underground water.

    Chapter 4 1995

  • Appropriate technology for the treatment of wastewaters for small rural communities.

    Chapter 12 1992

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