The police are looking for more effective ways to COMBAT drugs gangs in the city.
Hikers and campers often become infected by drinking water from CONTAMINATED streams.
Recycling helps CONSERVE natural and often limited resources.
Environmental problems relating to the factory have yet to be ADDRESSED.
Television has such an IMPACT on our kids.
The organization has been the subject of SEVERE criticism for the way it treated its staff.
Thousands of lives will be AT STAKE if emergency aid does not arrive in the city soon.
start trying to solve the problem
likely to be lost or damaged if something fails
to protect something and prevent it from changing or being damaged
to try to stop something bad from happening or getting worse – used especially in news reports
the effect or influence that an event, situation etc has on someone or something
to make a place or substance dirty or harmful by putting something such as chemicals or poison in it
very bad or very serious