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    Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies (e.g. lakes, rivers, oceans and groundwater). Water pollution affects plants and organisms living in these bodies of water; and, in almost all cases the effect is damaging not only to individual species and populations, but also to the natural biological communities. Water pollution occurs when pollutants are discharged directly or indirectly into water bodies without adequate treatment to remove harmful compounds. Contents [hide] • 1 Introduction

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    Cassidy Selep Love AP Language 1 May 2015 Coal Craze: Need for Coal Produces Environmental Damage I sat quietly in the large van. Everyone was quiet. We were swaying back and forth as the car rounded each bend, moving with the mountain. The car slowly climbed up, revealing more peaks. I took in the atmosphere with every breath. The mountain rose and fell like sand dunes. Fog blanketed the mountaintop illuminating the green tree tops and emphasizing the dark leaves of others. The van continued in

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    Proceedings of the First Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society Symposium, 1999, pages 261-274 © 2000 Ohio Biological Survey Freshwater mussels and water quality: A review of the effects of hydrologic and instream habitat alterations G. Thomas Watters1 Ohio Biological Survey and Aquatic Ecology Laboratory; 1315 Kinnear Road, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43212 ABSTRACT: Hydraulic impacts represent a suite of habitat alterations that, although having different causes, often have similar

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    Microorganisms have developed multiple direct and indirect mechanisms that protect them against the environmental stresses they encounter. One of the most severe and widespread problems facing crop production is the degradation of soil quality due to desiccation and salinity, and almost 40% of the world’s land surface is affected by salinity-related problems (Zahran 1999, Veron, 2006). Water, and its availability, is one of the most vital environmental factors to affect the growth and survival of

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    Reliance Industries Limited: The Reliance Group, founded by Dhirubhai H. Ambani (1932-2002), is India's largest private sector enterprise, with businesses in the energy and materials value chain. Group's annual revenues are in excess of US$ 66 billion. The flagship company, Reliance Industries Limited, is a Fortune Global 500 company and is the largest private sector company in India. Backward vertical integration has been the cornerstone of the evolution and growth of Reliance. Starting with textiles

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    TITLE PAGE NO.  General Information 5  Production Department 32  Marketing Department 39  Finance Department 44  Personnel / HR Department 72  Mini Project 89  Literature Review 90  Research methodology 104  Data analysis and interpretation 107  Results & Findings 121  Conclusion 123  Recommadation 125  Appedies 127  Bibliography 133 Reliance Industries Limited: The Reliance Group, founded by Dhirubhai H. Ambani (1932-2002), is India's largest private sector

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    HEAVY METAL CONCENTRATIONS IN TISSUES OF COMMERCIALLY EXPLOITED FISH (Oreochromis niloticus baringoensis, Protopterus aethiopicus, Clarias gariepinus) FROM LAKE BARINGO, KENYA MBUTHIA JUDY WANJIRU Thesis Submitted to the Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the award of Master of Science Degree of Environmental and Occupational Health of Egerton University EGERTON UNIVERSITY AUGUST 2015 DECLARATION AND RECOMMENDATION DECLARATION This thesis is my original work

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    conclusions, and supporting decision making. There are multiple facts and approaches, encompassing diverse techniques under a variety of names, in different business, science, and social science domains in data analysis. For data analysis we have to mine the data first for our purpose such that the data we can handle easily. Basically for data analysis our first thing to do our planning, how we are going to collect the data, our going data going to make sense or not, actually data will be meaningful

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    UNIT 2: Natural Resources 2.1 INTRODUCTION 2.2 RENEWABLE AND NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCES 2.2.1 Natural resources and associated problems 2.2.2 Non-renewable resources 2.2.3 Renewable resources a. Forest Resources: Use and over-exploitation, deforestation, case studies. Timber extraction, mining, dams and their effects on forests and tribal people b. Water Resources: Use and over-utilisation of surface and ground water, floods, drought, conflicts over water, dams – benefits and problems. c. Mineral

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    Environmental Issues Webquest Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect Go to http://www.globalissues.org/article/233/climate-change-and-global-warming-introduction and answer the following questions. 1. What is the greenhouse effect? 2. How does it relate to climate change? 3. Draw and label the greenhouse effect. 4. Scroll down to the section “The Greenhouse Effect is Natural. What do we have to do with it?” What are some ways that humans are thought

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