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    Summary: Water pollution remains one of the most visible and persistent signs of our impact on the natural world. Cleanup of some older pollutants has been offset by new contaminants that threaten freshwater ecosystems and foul our drinking water. The sight and smell of grossly polluted waterways provided some of the original impetus to the environmental movement in the 1970s. Nearly a century before that‚ the dangers of polluted water to human health drove what became known as the "sanitary

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    Overuse Injuries

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    pitchers tend to overwork themselves‚ and the parents encourage the intense training because they are blinded by competition. Intense training or overworking is more formally known as overuse. According to Dr. Eric Parks‚ the author of "Prevention of Overuse Injuries in Young Baseball Pitchers‚" the definition of overuse is the repetitive micro-traumas a player experiences (Parks and Ray 514). Eric Parks is

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    Water Misuse

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    Water use and misuse OUR pot of water woes is brimming over. That does not seem surprising‚ according to Ramaswamy R. Iyer‚ since even though India is one of the few countries in the world which is blessed with an adequate quantity of water‚ there is a tremendous amount of mismanagement of water resources. While the country has over 4‚000 billion cubic meters (bcm) of annual rainfall and almost 2000 bcm of river flow‚ the reality remains that we have had constant lamentations about the shortage

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    Research Journal of Recent Sciences __________________________________________________ ISSN 2277-2502 Vol. 1(3)‚ 31-40‚ March (2012) Res.J.Recent Sci. Use of Moringa Oleifera (Drumstick) seed as Natural Absorbent and an Antimicrobial agent for Ground water Treatment Mangale Sapana M.‚ Chonde Sonal G. and Raut P. D. Department of Environmental Science‚ Shivaji University‚ Kolhapur‚ INDIA Available online at: www.isca.in (Received 6th February 2012‚ revised 13th February 2012‚ accepted 15th February

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    Overuse Of Antibiotics

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    An ongoing‚ and unfortunately growing‚ problem in the United States is pediatric overuse of antibiotics. The audience to whom the responsibility of this problem falls includes pediatricians and family practice physicians who are in the position to prescribe and administer antibiotics to children. Antibiotics have been one of man’s greatest discoveries in the medical realm; saving thousands of lives that would have otherwise succumb to harmful‚ disease-causing bacteria.1 However‚ with the discovery

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    Programming concept: The computer‚ though it may seem as an extra-intelligent marvel‚ is actually a dumb machine at its core! All a computer does is follow the instructions given to it beforehand. The instructions are given to the computer by a person who makes or codes the "programs" for a computer. The computer cannot understand the language that we talk. It has its own set of languages‚ called a Machine Language. Machine Language are in the form of Binary codes‚ i.e. it takes 0 and 1 as a positive

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    Misuse of Plastic

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    activities done for his development and welfare have been causing seriously negative impacts on the virgin environment he has been blessed with. We can prepare a long list of human activities that have been disturbing‚ destabilising and degrading the natural environment. The explosion of human population has enhanced the negative impacts of human activities on environment. Man has adopted such a life style which has no room for conservation and preservation of environment as he has become just a consumer

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    Grondwater and Overuse

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    Groundwater Use and Overuse The biggest reservoir of fresh‚ liquid water on earth is groundwater. There is more than 20 times as much water stored within the ground as in all the lakes and rivers combined. In many parts of the world‚ agricultural‚ industrial‚ and domestic water demands can only be met by pumping water out of the ground. As you’ll see in the diagram below‚ wells work only if they penetrate the water table - the name given to the subsurface boundary that separates saturated and

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    Misuse of medication

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    Essay: Misuse of medication Dirk J Booysen Introduction. The extent of the problem of medication misuse can perhaps be realised most fully when considering that it involves not only prescribed drugs and medications‚ but also polypharmacy (using more than one drug concurrently)‚ self-diagnosis which leads to over the counter (OTC) self-medication or the dispensing of medication by a pharmacist without an accurate diagnosis or recommendations for the correct use of the medication‚ and the nonmedical

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    Overuse of Computer

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    What are the effects of the over-use of computer on people’s health In modern society ‚ the computer has become an indispensable tool in people’s lives and work ‚ but it also increasingly becoming a ‘double-edged sword’.When it bring people’s live and work quickly while also quietly endanger people’s health. According to the survey‚ those who over-use the computer feel tired eyes accounted for 83%‚low back pain accounted for 63.9%‚ loss of appetite and headaches accounted for 56.1% and 54.4%‚

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