Among the other environmental issue, the most pressing health issue in Maryland that I selected as being the top priority and most essential is “Saving the Chesapeake Bay”. The Chesapeake Bay is an estuary, a body of water that is formed where freshwater from streams and rivers flows into the ocean, mixing with sea water. The nation’s water is in jeopardy to 10,000 miles of Maryland streams affected by the polluting industries that carved loopholes in the Clean Water Act.1
"Save the Bay" campaign is the Chesapeake Bay Foundation – the largest conservation organization in Maryland that their mission focus on reducing pollution, restoring and protecting the wetlands and forests. Some of the major issues saving the Bay are not only of saving the 200-mile-long inlet that runs from Havre de Grace, Maryland to Norfolk, Virginia, also the 50 major rivers and streams that pour into the bay each day, and the creeks that feed those rivers and streams.1 A …show more content…
• toxic chemicals dumped into waterways have the potential to extremely impact human health leading to cancer.
• the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), industrial pollution has left more than 17,000 miles of rivers and 210,000 acres of lakes, ponds/reservoirs incapable of support such as swimming, fishing and drinking.2.
Agriculture – preserving farms is essential since the land serves as a natural filter for our water. Gradually, the farms are lost due to sprawling suburban, increase in fuel cost, decrease steep share and diminished profits.2
Chemical issues – Contamination of toxic, harmful chemicals such as PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls)- man- made organic chemicals, mercury, and PAHs (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons), - enters through streams and rivers via storm waters, waste water, air pollution and agriculture, impacting not just humans but birds and fish as
"Save the Bay" campaign is the Chesapeake Bay Foundation – the largest conservation organization in Maryland that their mission focus on reducing pollution, restoring and protecting the wetlands and forests. Some of the major issues saving the Bay are not only of saving the 200-mile-long inlet that runs from Havre de Grace, Maryland to Norfolk, Virginia, also the 50 major rivers and streams that pour into the bay each day, and the creeks that feed those rivers and streams.1 A …show more content…
• toxic chemicals dumped into waterways have the potential to extremely impact human health leading to cancer.
• the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), industrial pollution has left more than 17,000 miles of rivers and 210,000 acres of lakes, ponds/reservoirs incapable of support such as swimming, fishing and drinking.2.
Agriculture – preserving farms is essential since the land serves as a natural filter for our water. Gradually, the farms are lost due to sprawling suburban, increase in fuel cost, decrease steep share and diminished profits.2
Chemical issues – Contamination of toxic, harmful chemicals such as PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls)- man- made organic chemicals, mercury, and PAHs (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons), - enters through streams and rivers via storm waters, waste water, air pollution and agriculture, impacting not just humans but birds and fish as