1. The Ballast Water Management Convention (BWMC) Ballast water management is defined as the “mechanical, physical, chemical, and biological processes, either singularly or in combination, to remove, render harmless, or avoid the uptake or discharge of Harmful Aquatic Organisms and Pathogens (HAOP) within Ballast Water and Sediments. (IMO, 2004) In February 2004, the IMO adopted the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments (the Ballast Water…
Dr. W. Edwards Deming’s philosophy on improving quality is about focusing on continuous improvements in products, and service quality by minimizing uncertainty and variability in design, manufacturing, and service processes, to be led by top management leadership [SIM, 2014]. Deming’s 14 points on total quality are: 1. Create and publish a company mission statement and commit to it. 2. Learn the new philosophy. 3. Understand the purpose of inspection. 4. End business practices driven by price…
Essay #2 What is the perfect blanket? This is all in my personal opinion by the way. I think the perfect blanket is a blanket that covers your entire body. The blanket has to be able to wrap around you, and the blanket should also be able to cover a bed in case it is cold in your room and you want to put the blanket on your bed. The perfect blanket also has to be lightweight in case you want to take it anywhere and you have a lot of heavy items to carry around. It should be heavy enough so…
Every summer algae blooms destroying Lake Erie as it goes. In 2011 lake Erie's algae covered a sixth of the waters. The more rain we intake that year leads to how much algae there is. In the 1960’s relentless dumping of sewage was experienced and that's when lake Erie earned the name “North America's dead sea” ( MICHAEL WINES) Climate change is a big problem with algae. The more wet and warm days you have the more algae you have. Runoff pollution is one cause that needs to be solved for helping…
Golfers often have a love-hate relationship with water features. Depending on your lie, they can be diabolical hazards or attractive landscape features. No matter how you choose to view them, streams, wetlands, ponds and lakes are integral components of many golf courses that serve a number of important functions; they provide water for irrigation, mitigate flooding by holding stormwater and can serve as important design features. Water features are rich, complex, living ecosystems that provide…
Water is very important to the human body, but if it is contaminated, what is the replacement for water? In the city of Fruitvale, there was a leak in Strawberry Creek of No-Bug Pesticide. If No-Bug Pesticide gets to 5.0 ppb (parts per billion), the water is unable to drink. Therefore, I think that bioremediation is the best solution to clean up Strawberry Creek because it poses no health problems, you can fix conditions if they are improper, but the conditions are hard to get through. First…
This fight over water in Israel was like the fight for oil. (Hanan) Water scarcity is becoming a bigger and bigger issue for our world. People are dehydrated and dying from chronic diarrhea. The earth is 75% water of that 97.5% of it is saltwater. Of the 2.5% drinkable freshwater, less than 1% of it is accessible to humans. A study has shown 1.1 billion people in this world don't have access to safe, clean drinking water. It's become such a problem that United Nation has gotten involved.…
new technologies and save states’ administrative costs when companies reduce their pollution emission. Although there are still legal and practical obstacles proposed by the EPA that need to be solved, the effluence trading programs show that water quality is improved effectively. Therefore, the watershed approach identifies the problems of a lack of resources and technological information and achieves a more successful result than the non-regulatory…
The western region of the United States has faced several droughts over the years. Recently, the region has been inflicted with one of the most severe droughts since the dust bowl period. Citizens of the state are now being forced to use conservation efforts in order to reduce water usage and it’s been successful to an extent. However, among all this, Nestlé and it’s Arrowhead brand of bottled water have recently been under fire for extracting over 25,000,000 gallons of water each year for $524…
The prevention of the Asian Carp in the United States has been long standing battle. While first introduced as a food-fish and now for sport, Asian Carp is now viewed as an invasive species. In the summer of 2007 the U.S. Department of the Interior invoked the Lacey Act. In 2012, Congress implemented the “Stop Invasive Species Act”. This act charges the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers to increase the speed of their strategies of controlling the invasion. Urgency is required due to the fact that the…