Environmental Health-'Net.Hog Watch [less than]http://www.hogwatch.org/[greater than] Sponsored by the Environmental Defense Fund, the "Hog Watch" site provides statistics on hog farms The Hog Farm is an organization considered to be America's longest running hippie commune. With beginnings as an actual collective hog farm in Tujunga, California, the group, founded in the 1960s, by a group of people including Wavy Gravy, evolved into a "mobile, in North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. , as well as a virtual tour of a hog factory information on state laws, suggested solutions to the problem of pollution from hog farms, and an interactive map of North Carolina on which users can identify the hog factories in their areas. For a related story, on the health effects of industrial hog operations, see the EH Update section. Fresh-Water Contaminants Guide [less than]http://www.time.com/time/reports/environment/heroes/contaminants /[greater than] Rivers worldwide are polluted pol·lute tr.v. pol·lut·ed, pol·lut·ing, pol·lutes 1. To make unfit for or harmful to living things, especially by the addition of waste matter. See Synonyms at contaminate. 2. in a variety of ways. This site lists some of the major contaminants. Visitors learn where the contaminants come from and what impacts they have. The list covers animal waste, fertilizers, arsenic arsenic (är`sənĭk), a semimetallic chemical element; symbol As; at. no. 33; at. wt. 74.9216; m.p. 817°C; (at 28 atmospheres pressure); sublimation point 613°C;; sp. gr. (stable form) 5.73; valence −3, 0, +3, or +5. , mercury sewage, contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. sediment, and PCBs. |
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