Thermal pollution is a rapid change in temperature ... A 2016 study found that half of the global freshwater heat emissions come from nuclear and coal plants from the 1970s and 1980s.

Water pollution—along with drought, inefficiency, and an exploding population—has contributed to a freshwater crisis, threatening the sources we rely on for drinking water and other critical ...

The Ministries have directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB ... of the plants when the power sector is mandated to reduce freshwater consumption, he argues. It is, therefore ...

With our new approach we can use the unique molecular fingerprint of different sources of pollution in freshwater to identify their source," said Dr Andrew Tanentzap at Trent University School of ...

Thermal power plants (TPPs ... paddy straw burning emissions in Punjab and Haryana highlights the scale of SO2 pollution. Thermal power plants in NCR emit 281 kilotonnes of SO2 annually—16 ...

This is known as thermal pollution or thermal discharge ... According to the U.S. Geological Survey, about 48% of all freshwater and saline-water withdrawals for 2000 were used for thermoelectric ...