Sewage treatment

According to this article, the tap water in Flint, Michigan became toxic due to the governor’s office and the state Department of Environmental Quality. They were aware of how toxic the water of the Flint river is but decided to ignore the issue and did not treat the water properly. One of the reasons of why they decided to to switch their water supply from Lake Huron to Flint river was because Flint was declared to be in a financial state of emergency and so they took a budgetary control.…

When people mention the state of Michigan there is nothing really positive that comes to mind because as a whole, the state is not doing very well for itself. Especially with Flint, Michigan being all over the news because of the unsafe water issue, most people think of it as another issue going on in the already suffering state. People fail to realize that Flint; Michigan was actually a thriving city at one point because it is where General Motors was founded. The nation fails to realize that…

South Sudan’s Water Story Water is a necessity for all, yet only a limited amount of people have access to water in South Sudan. Even in that limited amount of people, a fraction of them have access to potable water. Only nineteen countries in Africa are estimated to meet the Millennium Development Goals (Saliu). Oftentimes, the people of South Sudan are forced to consume contaminated water thus this water and sanitation crisis consequently resulted in 400,000 water-related deaths in Africa…

2.1 Introduction In this career episode, I shall describe major project performed during course of my employment in Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resource “RCRWR” which functions under Ministry of Science and Technology, Federal Government of Pakistan. I was appointed as Assistant Director and I am going to describe the project KHUSHAL PAKISTAN PROGRAMME (Devolution Support Program) for the provision of safe drinking water. This career episode took place from March till October 2007…

mentally ill. The first asylum was Bethlehem Hospital, which was founded in the early fifteenth century in London. The hospital was given to the city of London by Henry VIII and its sole purpose was to detain the mentally ill. Instead of receiving treatment, though, patients endured alarming amounts of cruelty. For example, patients were lined up and whipped in order to inhibit violence. As a result of this, the asylum became a popular tourist attraction. The general public was enthusiastic to…

New Belgium Brewing has been one of the more socially responsible brewing companies in the world as exemplified by the award given by the Business Ethics Magazine. They have been focused on both profitability and responsibility ever since the inception in 1991 by using the triple bottom line approach. The triple bottom line approach looks at business through economic, social, and environmental aspects and this influenced the core values that the company follows to date. New Belgium Brewing has…

“You can 't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.” (Deepak Chopra)5 The environment plays an enormous factor whether an innovation is introduced or not. The effects an innovation has on the environment can either make or break the entire project. If the effects are negative, then it is likely the project will not reach it’s next stage. However, technology is a brilliant thing. Many people in todays society do…

The world is running out of water, 75% of the planet earth is covered with water out of that 97.5% is the ocean, 2.5% is freshwater but 70% of that is ice, 30% is groundwater and much of that is polluted. Which leaves only 1% safe water and out of that, 70% is used for irrigation, 22% for industry and 0.8% for domestic use that consists of basic tasks like sanitation, drinking etc (Heimbuch,2010). This issue is known as water scarcity it is the lack of sufficient water for daily needs, without…

“But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.”(Morrison). Simply said by Morrison, The way to fixing this crisis is likely to be solved by having the people want a change themselves. This will only happen if the insight is put into them making them wish for a better future for themselves. If we can make them think of their future for themselves then they may actually have a brighter future than we have seen before. Giving the mindset of having…

Since Rand believed in free enterprise, she could have been an advocate for privatizing the water treatment process. If a business depended on satisfied customers, no business owner/employee would want to make several unethical decisions to lose profit. Rand believes that it is a business’ decision whether or not to make ethical decisions, but recognized…