Wastewater

Question 1 (a) The electronics industry is one of the most important industries in the world. It has grown steadily in recent decades, generates a great number of jobs, promotes technological development and, at the same time, fuels a high demand for raw materials that are considered scarce or rare. This development affects the environment in two ways: first through the large and growing amount of equipment that is discarded annually and second through the extraction of natural raw materials…

This argument is deductive since the premises are strongly connected to the conclusion through reasoning. Both Premises depict how the treatment of the animals and the farms effects on surrounding area make it unethical to allow these farms to continue under the current standards. The first premise can be explained by exposing what a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) is. These are operations concentrated to meet the demand of low cost high quantity amounts of food. For years,…

shale with the massive pressures from pushing the sand and chemical laced water a mile or so down a well bore into the shale (Bowman, Charlie.) But fracking companies don’t just get their methane gas, they not only get their millions of gallons of wastewater back up with it. This water contains all the chemicals that the fracking companies can disclose, such as: Hydrochloric Acid, Formic Acid, Methanol, Potassium Hydroxide, Quaternary Ammonium Chloride and many, many more (What Chemicals Are…

Introduction The amount of soil and groundwater contamination is enormous. There are many documented cases of groundwater contamination in Australia and all other parts of the world. Experience from Europe and North America suggests that it will become a serious problem in the future. Groundwater is water below the earths surface. Groundwater contamination occurs when man made products like oil, gasoline and fertilisers get into the groundwater and causes it to become unsafe for human use.…

Ancient Greco-Roman Impact On My Life The Greeks and the Romans have had a big influence on many civilizations throughout the ages because of their great empires, unique inventions, and types of battle strategies. Over 2000 years later and we’re still inspired by many things they have made and some we still use today in our current lifetime. Throughout the ages their discoveries have changed the tide of war, the livelihood in cities, and even forms of transportation and we still use some today.…

activities include these things such as cooking, laundry, using the toilet, showering and many other activities that use these things are connected to the cause of this issue. In an article by Adam Vaughan he points out, “In many developed communities, wastewater and soluble waste which is called sewage is treated, cleaned and dumped into the waters. Even though they are treated, they are never the same as fresh water. But In some undeveloped countries, the sewage is not treated as well and…

The rise of the superbugs Imagine being in hospital sick with a bacterial infection, with doctors not being able to do anything to stop the infection from spreading. This is a superbug scenario. Superbugs are a worldwide worry that people don’t know much about. “At Least 23,000 people in the U.S. each year. Each year, more than two million people in the United States develop some sort of superbug and at least 23,000 of them die as a result.” (Maron). According to Professor Matt Cooper,…

The pH of something can be determined by using the specific pH scale. The scale is based off of numbers ranging from 0 to 14. The lower the number is the more acidic something will be and the higher the number is the more basic something will be. It is important to note that 7 act as the neutral number, where neither it is considered acidic of basic (5). It is found that rain water that is unpolluted is coincides with carbon dioxide and has a pH of 5.6. Often, the pH around the world of…

Civilization is an advancement state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry and government has been reached. The Indus Valley Civilization which is known as The Harappa Civilization was the most fascinating civilization. Unlike Egypt and Mesopotamia are famous with Pyramids and Ziggurats, Mature Harappa’s city uniformed with just well-fired bricks, sewerage systems and buildings. This Civilization rose between 2600-1900B.C. in the region that is now Pakistan and…

Uranium and its decay products can be found in the environment through a wide array of anthropogenic activities such as mining, nuclear and power generation industries and the production of phosphate fertilizers .(Sprynskyy et al. 2011) They pose a severe, long term ecological and public health threat (Khani 2011, Landa 2003) and therefore there is a considerable effort in the removal of these pollutants before their final discharge in the environment, as well as their recovery as an energy…