- Industry: NGO
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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Water withdrawn or diverted from a groundwater or surface-water source for public water supply, industry, irrigation, livestock, thermoelectric power generation or other uses.
Industry:Environment
Infectious disease of the tropics and subtropics, caused by a virus and transmitted by a mosquito. It can be fatal but may be prevented by vaccination with attenuated viruses.
Industry:Environment
Presence in water of harmful and objectionable material - obtained from sewers, industrial wastes and rainwater run-off - in sufficient concentrations to make it unfit for use.
Industry:Environment
Radioactive heavy-metal element used in nuclear reactors and for the production of nuclear weapons. Its isotopes (reflecting different atomic mass) are U-233, U-235 and U-238.
Industry:Environment
Break or fracture in the upper crusting of the earth, involving permanent dislocation and displacement within the earth's crust. Earthquakes often occur along fault lines.
Industry:Environment
Erosion of river beds due to undercutting by fast-flowing streams during sudden floods. It can be controlled by providing vegetative or mechanical protection of erodible banks.
Industry:Environment
Increase in crop yields based on cultivation of high-response varieties of wheat, rice, maize and millet, and intensive use of fertilizers, pesticides, irrigation and machinery.
Industry:Environment
Organic material used to fertilize land, usually consisting of barnyard and stable refuse (livestock excreta), with or without accompanying litter such as straw, hay or bedding.
Industry:Environment
Heavy, pungent, colourless gas formed primarily by the combustion of fossil fuels. It is harmful to human beings and vegetation, and contributes to the acidity in precipitation.
Industry:Environment
Limit for environmental disturbances, in particular from ambient concentration of pollutants and wastes, that determines the maximum allowable degradation of environmental media.
Industry:Environment
