Treatment and Interventions

particles mainly used in personal care products such as facial scrubs, shampoos, soaps, lip gloss, toothpaste. The reason why they are such a threat and area of concern because microbeads are smaller than 5 micrometres in size that most wastewater treatment plant technology does not hold the ability to remove it from the waste steam. Factual Background Australia has planned…

Lakes tend to be better sources of freshwater opposed to rivers because the volume of water is generally much greater than a river, meaning pollutants are heavily diluted to smaller concentrations per volume unit of water. This means different treatment methods can be used, which can save money. Had the source selected in Flint been Lake Huron from the beginning, the concentration of chloride ions would have been significantly lower because the concentration is diluted in a greater volume of…

Bottoms Up is an insightful and entertaining article that presents the advantages of drinking filtered sewage water. Written by Olive Heffernan, Bottoms Up focuses on the City of San Diego Public Utilities Department and its battle for public and governmental approval on reusing sewage water. In the article, Heffernan interviews many officials and experts on the subject to assess the risk of using sewage water. She also expresses the concerns of those who oppose it. But, with the collected data…

condition called Hypercalcemia. Blue’s parents, after stumbling across the Ashley Treatment case, believe GAT will improve her life and are seeking permission to have her undergo the procedure. However, permission requires…

10 Observations/Questions 10 Generalized: 1. Observation – Some trees around campus have tags on them stating the species of tree. Question – Why does Manchester tag the trees? Does the tagging of trees affect the trees at all? 2. Observation – One of the trees between Oakwood and the Administration building has had its branches cut/trimmed for aesthetic purposes, I assume. Question – How does the tree respond to this? Can those branches grow back? Or will it remain a nub? 3. Observation –…

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.…

The quality of the water in the creek was excellent. Even though the water quality in the U-High creek was excellent doesn’t mean that all creeks have great water quality. One way that water can be polluted is through fertilizers and pesticides. This happens because farmers use many fertilizers and pesticides to help their crops grow. Then when it rains, those chemicals can be washed through the soil and into rivers and creeks. If this happens and large amounts of chemicals are washed in the…

The past solutions that we researched were dealing with the Valleycrest Landfill Superfund Site and the Powell Road Landfill. The first past solution that we researched about was the Valleycrest Landfill Superfund Site. The Valleycrest Landfill site is 100 acres and it is separated into two sections by Valleycrest Drive: the east and west section. The Valleycrest Landfill is located on 950 Brandt Pike in Dayton, Ohio, right above the Great Miami Aquifer. This aquifer is the sole source of…

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…