This contributed to reducing discharges of excessive nutrients from farms to the lake.

"But there is much more public pressure for us to reduce discharges, and we are reducing them."

The industry is also developing cleaner technology and working with environmental authorities in Alaska to reduce discharges in waters there.

The city has agreed to enlarge its program to reduce industrial discharges of toxic pollutants by including companies that had not faced limits before.

The Committee on the Environment' s present proposal to reduce discharges to close-to-zero is, in my view, to be welcomed and worthy of emulation.

We cannot delay environmental work by going into inordinate detail rather than working on reducing total discharges of hazardous substances into the environment.

The contracting parties agreed to report by autumn 1999 on the measures they had respectively planned to reduce discharges, emissions and losses of radioactive material.

The proposed changes are, in fact, aimed at reducing discharges of nitrogen, phosphorus and pesticides used in agriculture.

The purpose of the other Annex is to reduce discharges from ships.

Environmental groups have been pressing New York City for several years to reduce discharges of various heavy metals into harbor waters.