All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.
Quotes about freshwater (14 Quotes)
For beginners, I suggest trying freshwater first. The maintenance is basically the same. What differs is the cost of the fish. Freshwater fish start around 25 cents apiece, but saltwater are more like 5.
Saltwater tanks aren't harder to create than freshwater tanks. They are just a heck of a lot less forgiving. You can't neglect a saltwater aquarium like you can fresh.
We need to know the species identities in order to understand how freshwater communities are changing over time, as a response to climate change, pollution or invasive species. We're hoping that by studying the biology of the rare males, we can learn more
Freshwater supplies in the Middle East now are barely sufficient to maintain a quality standard of living.
My advice ... is that in selecting fish, perhaps at this juncture, it would be wise to select freshwater fish and other chilled fish from other parts of the world,
Because the same MF hormone affects a broad range of crustaceans, any insecticide that mimics MF also may affect a large number of species in freshwater communities.
Some of these collections have taken years to accumulate. We had five species of freshwater stingray. We had dozens of breeding projects over the last 15 years. We had a jellyfish gallery 10 years in the making. All that's gone.
Unfortunately, this decision once again demonstrates that private interests of a group of oil industry officials in our country have more weight than the law, opinions of scientists and Russian citizens, and than the future of the world's most unique freshwater lake.
This is a unique aquarium in that a large portion of its collection features freshwater species, and it specializes in fish, amphibians and reptiles from the southwestern part of the country. The River Journey exhibit transports visitors from the Appalachian highlands through ponds, rivers and swamps, all the way to the seacoast. The recently added Ocean Journey exhibit allows visitors to sample a variety of saltwater environments.
Good governance is essential for managing our increasingly stretched supplies of freshwater and indispensable for tackling poverty.
No doubt one of the most pressing problems, and one that is significantly underestimated these days, is the unsustainable growth of freshwater withdrawal.
We've seen some troubling signs. Like almost every fish and shellfish that uses the bay, Pacific herring depend on a clean estuary with plenty of freshwater inflow to create productive brackish conditions. But as we ship more and more water south from the
The chemistry and dynamics is a lot like freshwater tanks.