Treatment and Interventions

Creative writing: Persuasive work sample essay. Rough draft 1 Rain, flooding, washouts, and landslides are all too normal for most Gladstone residents. Rain mixed with twigs and leaves block storm drains creating major traffic problems along city roadways. Flooding caused by the rapid evacuation of water from our city leads to a fast flowing river that causes landslides and destruction. This could all be prevented by installing a new system of water management called Bioswales.…

If it weren’t for John Snow, Henry Whitehead, William Farr, and Edwin Chadwick, it is very likely cholera would not have ended when it did, and other public health issues would have taken even longer to be addressed. Even though they did not all work directly, their work benefited one another and led to the end of the cholera epidemic of 1854. John Snow had an enormous contribution to the end of this cholera epidemic. John Snow was a doctor, anesthesiologist, author, and a detective, just to…

April 25th, 2014 in Flint, Michigan the city switched its water supply. When switching the water supply, lead and debris began to seep into the drinking water. Almost instantly the majority of citizens in poverty started to complain about the water. The city and state officials began to deny that anything was wrong with the water supply. Yet the water had an odd smell, looked discolored, and had a funny taste. When the city and state officials finally acknowledged the problem in 2015 they went…

With the fashion industry being of the major pollutants of the bodies of water, the textile-processing exposes people and the nature to harmful chemicals. In fact, there are 72 emitted toxic elements during textile manufacturing as recognized by the World Bank (Anguelov, 2016). According to Kant, that out of the 72 toxic elements, 42 of these can be under the partial purification process that does not eliminate their toxicity level rather minimize it (as cited in Anguelov, 2016). Obviously, 30…

Water quality in Peru is a major problem. According to water.org, 4 million Peruvians don’t have access to clean water. Tap water in Peru must be boiled for at least one minute or purified using other methods to be safe for drinking. According to Scientific American, as water shortages cause crop failure, people in rural Peru move to the cities. Unemployment and poverty in these urban areas lead to problems involving mental health, alcoholism and domestic violence. Modern technology is providing…

Greywater is used water from the sinks,tubs,showers,and washing machines. Basically any water other than toilet water that drains down the faucet after use from a household. They often contain traces of trash such as grease,hair, food, dirt, and some household cleaning products such as body wash. Even though they contain these materials, they are reusable, and we use it for watering our plants. “While greywater may look “dirty,” it is a safe and even beneficial source of irrigation water in a…

Water is an extremely important resource; it is used by everyone one on a daily basis. A 2011 study of single-family water consumption, estimated that the average California household used more than 360 gallons of water per day (kqed.org). That is a lot of water being consumed every single day; that statistic does not include the water used by businesses and agriculture. There are many ethical issues regarding the use of water, and the apply to different groups of people. When it comes to the…

advances is that the humans are polluting and destroying the natural resources surrounding them. Water pollution is one of the natural resources that have been contaminated due to the discard of various pollutants in the water bodies without receiving treatment to remove the harmful compounds. Water pollution does not only have an effect on the aquatic plants and animal, but it also has a huge impact on the humans and the ecosystem. Water pollution is one of the main problems in India. The cause…

For example, alcohol has many of the same side effects of marijuana. Alcohol buffers the central nervous system and is known to kill brain cells. A joint of marijuana is known to produce more tar than a cigarette, but on the average marijuana users do not consume enough marijuana to surpass the tar build up of a person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day. June Crown and W.D.M. Paton state that "Further, one should realize that different cannabis smokers select different levels of intoxication"…

Final My Own Sustainable Town Every town has its own characteristics, making it different from other town. I am living in my own town and I have a responsibility to save and protect it. As citizens in our village, we need to protect and make it grow. The necessity, we need to save right now is natural resources (water, trees, etc). Because water is a limited resource, if people continue to waste it, there wont be enough water for the town in one day, and people could die because of it. My…