The film “Erin Brockovich” points out a numerous of ethical issues from the point of view of Erin Brockovich. The legal drama film Erin Brockovich is based on the true story of a woman who helped win the largest settlement ever paid in a direct-action lawsuit. Brockovich portrayed by Julia Roberts is a struggle mother of three, who meets attorney Ed Masry after being in car accident near his firm. Brockovich compromises her personal injury lawsuit causing her to lose the case, desperate for income she convinces Masry to hire her. Masry employs Brockovich as a legal clerk, while filing a case she ponders the reason for medical records of residents in the town of Hinkley, CA paid by Pacific Gas and Electric are in the file.…
It is a known fact that the water from the hydrant is the main source for most cities. In the department that I work for hydrants has to be tested twice a year and on odd years the hydrants are tested and painted. This intel’s using a gauge to test the flow and the static pressure of a hydrant. City water works also test the flow and static pressure of the hydrants. The fire department will keep weeds cut from around the hydrant and report any issues, if any is found the stations inform the water works that a hydrant is out of service.…
First, there are several problems of colors. Brown, red, orange, or yellow water is usually caused by rust. The different colors can be attributed to varying chemical oxidation states of the iron (rust) and by varying concentrations of the rust in the water. Moreover, blue or green color is generally a result of copper in your water supply, or copper pipes and corrosive water. And milky white water, also commonly described as cloudy, hazy, soapy, or foamy, is almost always caused by air in thewater.…
Therefore, evaluation of negative impacts of pollutants on living organisms in the form of toxicity testing is routinely used to produce baseline data for environmental hazard and risk assessment of chemicals.94 Daphnia magna, an important link in the food chain of aquatic ecosystem, which is highly sensitive to toxic substances has been used to understand the toxic effect of waste effluent.94 To date, some explicit studies to understand effects of multiple stressors on aquatic ecosystem have been reported that are hints of how mange the freshwater in the wake of multiple stressors.95–98 The current project helps understand and compare toxicity of different stage of wastewater from influent to effluent in their intact and unaltered form.…
The proposition in which I chose to conduct research on is California Proposition 65. This proposition is also known as the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986. This proposition was issued by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. According to the website prop 65 clearinghouse this proposition does not allow a person who is doing business in California to expose chemicals that can cause cancer or reproductive toxicity without giving a warning. Also chemicals are refrained from being near the presence of any drinking water.…
The status of Long Island groundwater, its biggest threats and contaminants, and the resulting problems. Long Island is especially venerable to groundwater contamination because Long Island’s aquifers are resident’s only water source. Development and agricultural use of the island have greatly contributed to contamination. The two main contaminators are: • Nitrogen (as nitrates)…
The water quality of the U-High Creek is excellent. However, not all bodies of water are excellent like the U-High Creek. Some creeks, lakes, rivers, streams, etc. have bad water quality. This poor water quality can come from eutrophication. Eutrophication is the process of runoff water from land entering a body of water that contains an excess amount of nitrates and phosphates, polluting the water of these chemicals.…
In figure one, we see the first week of observation in this lab. In jar TO1 there is nothing but the water in it and there is no noticeable particles on the bottom. There is also no particles on the bottom of TO3 as well. However in jars TO2 and TO4 there are particles and this is due to the fact that there is fertilizer in these jars. As seen in figure 1 there is no growth of any microcosms.…
Complex issues such as health problems, environmental issues, or environmental health problems, such as air and water pollution, hazard wastes sites, lead poisoning and species instability are all liked together and are fixed in communities in which they occur. These kinds of complex problems that occur in communities are said to be “wicked problems” where different stakeholders cannot find scientific solutions in order to fix these complex issues. These problems are seen throughout the world, many strategic plans need to be developed in order to tackle these issues, but sometimes researchers come up short (Kreuter & De Rosa, 2004). The Great Lakes ecosystem is the largest body of freshwater in the world.…
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring is an environmental science handbook whose concern is the environment and life on earth. The author uses her book to turn in to the harmful effects of pesticides on the environment. Rachel mainly handles DDT and pesticides administered to American environment through aerial spraying in attempts to control insect populations over large areas. This paper seeks to summarize Carson’s Silent Spring and capture its informative nature in a global perspective. The essay will also indicate the book's relevance to the chemical industry.…
These tests were commissioned by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in response to a proposed chemical plant being built over an important groundwater supply. This report will summarize the finding of the potential damages of a chemical spill and attempt to address how in the event of a chemical contamination in the groundwater should be dealt with. The proposed site for the chemical plant is divided into five different layers of sediments that vary in grain size and thickness. Layers one and four were both approximately one-inch-thick and consisted of medium-grained sediments, while layers two and five were around two inches thick and were made up of coarse-grained sediment.…
Pollutants are becoming more prevalent in the field of horticulture due to the mass production of harmful chemicals, and other toxic material that somehow find their way into the ground. With this in mind botanists are ever increasing their knowledge of how to combat against the ever looming threat of toxicity by using microbes. Microbes are living bacteria that are found naturally on pretty much everything you have ever touched. So using microbes instead of harmful pesticides, and fertilizers might be the wave of the future we are looking for to reduce the amount of chemicals we use today, while increasing the efficiency we grow plants. Two scientist from the University of Delaware are working together to combat pollutants in a major species…
Once lead is extracted from its ore by reduction with carbon, the waste often has traces of lead even after filtration that poisons water systems once dumped. This causes plants to die and causes animals and humans to get sick or even die. Yet even though there are positives, the negatives have much more a significant impact that comes with great consequences; therefore it is recommended that only environmentally-friendly chemical processes be carried…
Millions of gallons of water are used daily for domestic uses, irrigating crops, and industrial processes, not to mention miscellaneous activities such as swimming pools and water-sports centers. Despite the dependence on water, society uses pristine waterways as a dumping ground for all sorts of waste, and do very little to protect such a vital resource. Several factors contribute to why water pollution is becoming such a large issue in the world. The biggest contributors to water pollution come from the…
Coal Industries Coal-fired power plants are the leading contributors to the crisis of water pollution. The coal industry has dumped more toxins into the waters across the country than the other top nine industries combined (Closing the Floodgates 2013). A total of 5.5 billion pounds of water pollution have been released into the water by coal power plants each year. Millions of gallons per day of water laced with arsenic, mercury, selenium, and lead are dumped into rivers, streams, and lakes across the United States. These contaminated waters are directly exposed to unharmed waters through leaky ponds, which are used by many coal plants to store toxic slurries of coal ash and smokestack scrubber sludge (Closing the Floodgates 2013).…