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Taking stock 13 : North American pollutant releases and transfers

17 Mar 2011

"Like other regions of the world, North Americans are increasingly aware of the challenges facing the sustainability of our most unique and precious natural resource: water. Water is responsible for stabilizing Earth's atmosphere, moving matter throughout the global ecosystem, and providing a unique substance and environmental service that supports the processes of life itself. Increasingly, as our cultures are organized today, this resource is made to yield to the demands of industrial and agricultural production, transportation, recreation, and waste disposal. This year's Taking Stock report, the thirteenth in the CEC's series on pollutant releases and transfers from industrial facilities in North America, features a special analysis of such releases to surface waters. This is based on the most comprehensive, continental-scale data reported by facilities to the pollutant release and transfer registers (PRTRs) of Canada, Mexico and the United States. This analysis also presents releases of pollutants of special interest (such as known or suspected carcinogens and developmental or reproductive toxicants) - with a focus on lead and mercury compounds discharged to two international watersheds, the Columbia River on the Canada-US border, and the Rio Grande/Río Bravo on the US-Mexico border"--Preface.
pollution water environmental monitoring pollutants factory and trade waste
ISBN
9782923358963 9782923358970
Pages
91
Published in
Montréal, Québec

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