The tar sands consume more water than any other oil process, three to five barrels of water are taken, polluted and then returned into tailings ponds, the largest toxic impoundments on the planet.

Lake, reservoir

Apparently the water flows through an underground reservoir... and Evans City is supplied with artesian systems out of that.

Sewage.

I mean . . .

The water runs downward to the pond.

So I've gone and got some stuff to add into it.

The consequence?

It's in the water.

Similarly, many other issues concerning public safety is a hot topic on the Internet.

There is little water in the pond.

He was contemplating the water of the pond.

An old pond. A frog jumps in. The sound of water.

There is an old pond. There was a frog that jumped in. I could hear the splash.

SemCrude, just one of the licensees, in just one of their tailings ponds, dumps 250,000 tons of this toxic gunk every single day.

People are suffering from the contamination of the water supply.

The town is supplied with water from a reservoir in the hills.

A squirrel is taking a bath in the pond.

But the nearest would be glory, a reputation.

No, the basic idea is to utilize water that falls on our area.

They pour huge amounts of pollutants into the ocean.

into our atmosphere,

The water was fouled by oil.

F4 are those sort of guys? No way!

There have been some threats to blow up the city reservoirs.

Madam. Thank you for coming.

Standing pools gather filth.

There is much water in the pond today.

You, um... you might try the Oak Pass or the Stone Canyon Reservoir.

Hollis was... always fascinated by tide pools.

A little mercury switch, 9volt battery five or six ounces of C4, that's how those cartel boys party.

I urged the audience to consider getting behind some of these big, wild causes

The lake is notorious for its contamination.

Go ahead if you can stand that filthy stuff.

They could contaminate drinking water on a massive scale.

How they planned to make it out of emptying reservoirs, that I don't know.

If people work for oneself there wouldn't be the electric light, there wouldn't be engines of power vehicles.

And it is no more ambitious and no more crazy for us to consider doing that today, than it was for our ancestors to consider throwing railroads across the Sierra Nevada and building huge reservoirs and waterworks to bring water and power to California.

You can make a biocensor out of yeast to detect pollutants in water.

That's not dirty enough. Let's just stir that up a little bit.

It was perhaps eight feet tall, 40 feet long, and 10 feet wide.

We're gonna make this tank so filthy... the dentist will have to clean it.

The pond dried up last summer.

The house has pipes under the ground to carry dirty water away.

Puddle