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environmental quality
State of environmental conditions in environmental media, expressed in terms of indicators or indices related to environmental quality standards
Source : Environment
Source Detail : Compendium of Enviroment Statistics
environmental quality standard
Limit for environmental disturbances, in particular from ambient concentration of pollutants and wastes, that determines the maximum allowable degradation of environmental media.
Source : Environment
Source Detail : Compendium of Enviroment Statistics
erosion
Wearing away and transport of the soil by wind or running water, glaciers or waves. Erosion occurs naturally but is often intensified by human land-clearing activities related to farming, residential or industrial development.
Source : Environment
Source Detail : Compendium of Enviroment Statistics
escherichia coli (E. coli)
Bacilliform (rod shaped) bacterium living in the intestinal tracts of humans and other warm-blooded animals. Its presence in water indicates faecal pollution. There is a maximum number of coliforms (coli number) above which water is no longer suitable for drinking or bathing.
Source : Environment
Source Detail : Compendium of Enviroment Statistics
establishment
An establishment is an enterprise, or part of an enterprise, that is situated in a single location and in which only a single (non-ancillary) productive activity is carried out or in which the principal productive activity accounts for most of the value added.
Source : National Accounts
Source Detail : Gross Domestics Product (GDP)
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