Evaporation ponds are used to prevent pesticides, fertilizers and salts from agricultural wastewater from contaminating the water bodies they would flow into. In California, selenium in agricultural wastewater has been especially problematic, causing birth defects in waterfowl.

Susan Isaacs (b. 7 December 1943 (1943-12-07) (age 65)) is an American novelist and screenwriter. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, educated at Queens College, and worked as a senior editor at Seventeen magazine. She married Elkan Abramowitz, a lawyer, in 1968 and in 1970 left work to stay at home with her newborn son, Andrew. Three years later, in 1973, she gave birth to her daughter Elizabeth. She freelanced during this time, writing political speeches and magazine articles. She now lives on Long Island with her husband.

Her first novel, Compromising Positions, was published in 1978. It was chosen as a main selection of the Book of the Month Club and was, like all of her subsequent novels, a New York Times bestseller. Her fiction has been translated into thirty different languages all over the world. In 1985, she adapted her own novel for the screenplay of the film Compromising Positions, which starred Susan Sarandon and Raul Julia. She wrote and co-produced Touchstone Pictures’ Hello Again, a 1987 comedy starring Shelley Long and Judith Ivey. In addition to writing books, essays, and screenplays, Isaacs has reviewed books for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and Newsday. Issacs has also written about politics and First Amendment issues.

Issacs serves as a chairman on the board of Poets & Writers and is a past president of the Mystery Writers of America. She is a member of the The Creative Coalition, National Book Critics Circle, PEN, the International bumociation of Crime Writers, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the Adams Round Table. She sits on the boards of the Walt Whitman Birthplace bumociation, the Queens College Foundation, the North Shore Child and Family Guidance bumociation, and the Nbumau County Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

Media in Kerala are widely accessible and cater to a wide variety of audiences. Kerala is the smallest of four states in South India.

Dozens of newspapers are published in Kerala; they are printed in nine major languages.[1] The principal languages of publication are Malayalam and English. The most widely circulating Malayalam-language newspapers include Mathrubhumi, Malayala Manorama,Madhyamam, Deepika, Kerala Kaumudi, and Desabhimani. Among major Malayalam periodicals are India Today Malayalam, Chithrabhumi, Kanyaka, and Bhashaposhini.

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Broadband internet is available in selected towns and cities and is provided by the state-run Kerala Telecommunications (which is run by BSNL) and by other private companies. Dial-up access is provided throughout the state by BSNL and other providers.

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In Kerala, Radio had a very vital role in communication. After AIR Malayalee audiences hear a new genre of radios. Radio Alakal, the First Community radio, started in Trivandrum. Kerala’s First private FM Radio started In Calicut, followed by Trichur.