How Do Sewage Facilities Affect Someone Else's Feces?

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Feces, acid, and cancer are jeopardizing the lives of the human and marine species around the world quite possible destroying the entire planet. Maybe it is many years away, but why just sit around and wait for it to happen? Sewage facilities and manufacturing industries are the primary culprits behind disease repleted water, acidic oceans, and cancer causing agents in tap water, either follow proper regulations or getting around them. There are many means to limit the costly effects that sewage facilities and manufacturing industries cause without limiting our lives, so why should the planet suffer due to their mistakes? (pathos)
Swimming in someone else’s feces does not sound ideal, right? Right, yet it is not implausible. Ubiquitous sewages are drained straight into the oceans. In some cases, sewage treatment facilities have “accidently” drained contaminants into the water. The feces may not actually be seen, yet neither are the pathogens they produce. Ever heard of Naegleria Fowleri? It is a brain-eating amoeba. It lives within contaminated water, and
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Instead of sewage systems streaming into oceans, proper disposal units could be established. The government should apply stricter regulations for sewage facilities to result in a more robust marine environment. Manufacturing industries are shrinking marine life and our population by burning fossil fuels and not taking the proper disposal measures for waste. A way to slow down the affects industries are causing is to find alternative resources during the manufacturing process. Finding new resources will not be easy, but is killing of the population worth it? Industry owners need to follow the correct disposal laws or face the consequences. Hard or not, these issues need to be solved before our ecosystems crumble. This is not just an American issue, it is worldwide, so let us start here and eventually impact the entire

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