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Worried About Water Pollution? Plant a Tree
You should plant trees as often as you can. You can go carbon neutral by plating twenty trees a year. If that's not a good enough reason, you can plant them to increase the energy-efficiency of your home or use them to reduce runoff.
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TreeHugger — ... Heat This may not seem like such a bad thing—after all, hot water and cold water even out eventually, right? Right—but until then, discharging hot water while cooling power plants means changing the temperature of the water source, which can encourage the species density to change and alter the biology of the water. Thermal pollution , then, can be just as damaging as bacterial or sediment pollution. More on the water crisis How to Go Green: Water Peak Water Worried About Water Pollution? Plant a Tree [image] Follow @TreeHugger on Twitter & get ...

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