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The United Nations Organization (UNO), or simply United Nations (UN), is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace.
Water that flows from agricultural fields. Agricultural run-off is a major source of pesticides in water.
Industry:Environment
Weighted average of selected ambient concentrations of pollutants usually linked to water quality classes.
Industry:Environment
Well or pit in which night-soil and other refuse is stored; constructed with either tight or porous walls.
Industry:Environment
1. Artificial manure, especially that made from fish. 2. Natural fertilizer from the excrement of sea fowl.
Industry:Environment
Management of human use of organisms or ecosystems to ensure that such use is sustainable (IUCN/WWF, 1991).
Industry:Environment
Atmospheric transport of air pollutants within a moving air mass for a distance greater than 100 kilometres.
Industry:Environment
Cultivation of plants in water with added fertilizers, the soil substrate thereby being completely replaced.
Industry:Environment
Dipterous (two-winged) insect of the genus Glossina that transmits sleeping sickness caused by trypanosomes.
Industry:Environment
Introduction of air into a body of water to speed up the breakdown of the sewage effluents that it receives.
Industry:Environment
Levels of, and length of exposure to, pollution resulting in adverse effects on human health and well-being.
Industry:Environment
