"' Environment-current issues "': soil degradation ( salination ); inadequate supplies of potable water; water pollution from raw sewage and industrial waste; urbanization.
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It recognises that soil degradation is a serious challenge and states that by 2020 land is supposed to be managed sustainably in the entire Union.
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This, combined with improper waste disposal, increased erosion and instability of river and stream slopes, and the opening of underground caves, is responsible for soil degradation.
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Waste management including sewage treatment, the linked processes of deforestation and soil degradation, and climate change or global warming are the major environmental problems in Nigeria.
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The United Nations has commissioned a Global Assessment of Human Induced Soil Degradation ( GLASOD ) to further investigate the causes and state of the soil.
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North Korea has been testing missiles for years in both land and sea, and it has led to serious soil degradation and the death of biodiversity.
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Morocco already is producing competing products with even fewer environmental restraints than in Andalusia, and the soil degradation here is being replicated in the oases over there.
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In many instances poaching increases, soil degradation occurs as new farmers take up agriculture for subsistence, and various other environmentally disastrous practices occur as a result of displacement.
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Environmental issues include sewage pollution into Valencia Lake, oil and urban pollution of Maracaibo Lake, deforestation, soil degradation, and urban and industrial pollution, especially along the Caribbean coast.
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On the contrary, the impact of human activity, combined with consecutive periods of hot, dry climatic conditions have only served to aggravate soil degradation up to modern times.
