The Clean

Cleveland declared war on pollution! It was described as “... a skin-like substance on the water’s surface, so thick that people could write their names in it.” writes Heather Brady of The New York Times. In an immense act to clean up, People from all over helped to clean up Lake Erie and farmers…

action to deal with storm water, but within the high speed urbanization during modern time, impervious surface-especially in urban area-has increased dramatically, which made storm water management a problem that can’t be ignored anymore. In 1972, Clean Water Act started to take effect, and National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System is authorized by EPA in the same year. Cities had been requested to put effort in stormwater management. After that, a lot of US cities started to charge…

federal agencies as a probable human carcinogen. As New York City grew along the Hudson river, the sewage discharged increased. In 1965, NYS voters passed a Pure Water Bond Act to fund sewage treatment, which fund a billion dollars. In 1972, the Clean Water Act provided a billion more and made cleanup a national priority. Right off Manhattan, 150 million gallons of raw sewage entered the river until 1986, when…

In the 1960, lake erie was very polluted because of heavy industry by the shores of cleveland. Because of these pollutants high levels of Phosphorus and nitrogen. “A common refrain in 1960 was "Lake Erie is Dead.” In 1972, the congress passes the clean water act. Farmers created new farming techniques to get rid of as many chemicals as possible. They did this by modifying and getting rid of any phosphates or nitrates in the chemicals, to make it a lot more safe if it accidentally got into Lake…

A death can be a messy event. Most people do not know that cleaning up after a murder or suicide is the responsibility of the family. They must clean up the blood, body fluids or other reminders that their loved one has passed. For many people, this task is too painful to consider. No one wants to think of their loved one in that state. No one wants their last memory to be like that. Working with a company that offers murder cleanup or suicide cleanup spares grieving family that task.…

Right now, developing countries barely have water access. With the access to clean water; education, health, hunger, and poverty rates within every community will improve tremendously. In developing countries, children miss days and days at a time away from school because they spend most of their day searching for water or they have become ill from water-borne disease. With access to clean water, children can spend more time in the classroom than outside searching for water miles away from their…

moment or with a well carried out plan. The revenge, however, doesn't always bring that closure that is expected. Committing an act of revenge is deemed morally wrong. In “Clean” by Edward J. Delaney, the unnamed protagonist murders a peer out of jealousy in drunken rage, spur-of-moment decision. Though the protagonist in “Clean” gets away with committing an act of murder, he lives with the constant reminder of his actions. Edward J. Delany uses characterization, flashback and tragedy to…

is a very interesting writer and she wrote about a very interesting subject. Starting the book, I had no expectations for what it was going to be like and the first chapter took me by surprise. Day one at her new job, she had to give an old man a clean shave. Normally, people learn the ropes of the whole business for the first few days but she was thrown in right away to shave a man’s face. Luckily, she said she did a great job from the evidence that the family did not notice if she had shaved…

change, and its impact on the environment. There’s no denying the fact that human are the leading cause of carbon emissions; a problem that must be fixed for the sake of future generations. Many believe clean energy is the answer, and seemingly always point toward solar or wind. While these forms of clean energy are very effective solution to the greater problem, nuclear power isn’t nearly as relevant topic of political discussion as it should be. A nuclear plant works very similar to a…

The topic of clean and safe water is one that needs to be of high priority, as it is what keeps us alive and holds such value to the environment. This is why it is a shame that “Canada is (along with Australia) only one of two Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member states that does not comply with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommendation that all countries have national, legally binding drinking water quality standards.” (Dunn, Bakker, and Harris, 2014, n…