water quality

collocation in English

meaningsofwaterandquality

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water
noun
uk
/ˈwɔː.tər/us
/ˈwɑː.t̬ɚ/
a clear liquid, without colour or taste, that falls from the sky as rain and is necessary for animal and ...
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quality
noun
uk
/ˈkwɒl.ə.ti/us
/ˈkwɑː.lə.t̬i/
how good or bad ...
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(Definition ofwaterandqualityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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As a result, public health concerns based on assessment of tapwaterqualitymay substantially overstate health concerns about public water supplies.
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The importance of buffer strips has long been recognised, especially for filtering sediment and other forms of pollutants from entering streams, thus maintainingwaterquality.
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The water was not chlorinated andwaterqualitywas monitored regularly for coliforms.
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Farmers were not only losing their share, but thewaterqualitywas also deteriorating every year due to the increasing use of pesticides.
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For example, payments to improvewaterqualityfor fisheries may also benefit local water consumers.
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Many of these services, such as erosion control, storm protection, flood control, andwaterqualitymaintenance, are not valued in the market at all.
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However, raw and finished drinkingwaterqualityindices and water treatment processes and operation have not changed significantly since before the outbreak.
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Section 2 includes chapters from developers and users of widely used watershedwaterqualitymodels.
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A randomized, blinded, controlled trial investigating the gastrointestinal health effects of drinkingwaterquality.
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Many of these environmental problems were related towaterqualityissues.
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It established its first air andwaterqualitymonitoring stations in the mid1970s.
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Cultures for bacterial indicator organisms were carried out to evaluate thewaterqualityand specifically to look for evidence of faecal contamination.
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In part, this could be due to the fact that we have a rather crude measure ofwaterqualityin our data set.
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It is mandatory for the industries to make investments in pollution control to meet the national standards for thewaterquality.
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Research is needed on policies and institutions that allow those benefitting fromwaterqualityimprovements to compensate those that experience added costs.
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In the survey, there are two possible proxies for the household's perceivedwaterquality(the variable x in section 3).
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These have become major policy issues in many countries, with the main polluting effect being onwaterquality.
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