Wastewater

Many different timber and other forest products can be grown in this kind of large-scale plantations. They are also being used for treating wastewater and improving water quality (Minhas et al., 2015), rehabilitating deforested watersheds and degraded landscapes (Parrotta, 1999). Monocultures for wood and fibre products are dominated in the tropics (Kanninen, 2010). Fast-growing, exotic and low-density…

lot of people sleeping in one small area. The houses were very dirty, with mold and other things on the walls. People had to buy a space to sleep there for the night, and if one person got sick everyone would get sick. He saw kids sitting in the wastewater that is on the streets, near dead or rotten things. In one of the pictures he took, there was a bunch of kids playing in the street, where a rotten horse lays dead about 3 feet away from them. Because of his work, ¨It inspires Roosevelt to…

and Energy Efficiency by Sectors” 1). Industrial water consumption can also be reduced through the reuse of water. Reclaimed water can be used in cooling towers, boilers, technology manufacturing, and prepared food manufacturing (Abel 106-110). Wastewater from industrial use can be treated and reclaimed for future use. Through the use of environmental buffers and treatment plans consumed industrial water can be returned to the environment and natural resources for further use in other sectors…

Futuristic: It is important for the taxpayers of the United States to consider the options of the oil drilling industry. Supported by the prior research and evaluation, the continuation of conventional oil drilling throughout the United States will not only improve its economical and environmental futuristic aspects, but will ensure the survival of the United State’s global dominance in the oil industry. OPEC has faced severe drops in profits from the competition of booming private American oil…

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, hydraulic fracturing or fracking is a “well stimulation process used to maximize the extraction of underground resources.” The resource most commonly extracted using hydraulic fracturing is natural gas. The practice of hydraulic fracturing is highly controversial as proponents and opponents debate its environmental benefits and costs. To begin, the use of hydraulic fracturing has greatly increased in the twenty-first century. The…

Water supply on earth is finite. The United Nation’s world water development report, Water for a Sustainable World (2015), illustrated the 55% increase of global water demand by 2050. Without effective countermeasures, the word will encounter a 40 percent shortage of water within two decades. In Canada, water waste is the potential trigger of water shortage. Despite the great abundance of reserved water, Canada has a fixed average precipitation around 537 millimeter per year, less than 1/3…

Ecological design is a major part of our coming future and is necessary for the prosperity of our species as caretakers for the world. Sim Van Der Ryn and Stuart Cowan, in their book Ecological Design, address five principles in design that will help to move society in the right direction. These principles are: solutions from your place, ecological accounting, designing with nature, everyone is a designer, and making nature visible. It has been over the course of the last century that building…

Polymer - A word, which is connote for large molecules (that a molecule made from simple repeating units called monomers). The monomers are main building block of polymers. Polymers play an essential and ubiquitous role in everyday human life because of the extraordinary range of properties. Polymers are among the most widely used and important type of materials today. Polymers have been with us from the beginning of time; they form the very basis (building blocks) of life. Animals, plants all…

Companies in the food industry are seemingly meant to provide the best products for consumers, those that are free from toxins and produced in sound facilities. While this is what most people would like to believe, the fact of the matter is that the big names of the food industry produce their goods using the most efficient and cheapest methods possible, even if they may not be the most ethical or appealing. Among the big names in the industry is Tyson Foods, Inc., a global processor of meat…

Hydraulic fracturing, also known simply as fracking, is a process used to extract natural gas and oil from beneath the earth’s surface. This process is accomplished by drilling a well and pumping pressurized water, proppants such as sand, and chemicals into that well; the result of this process is that fractures occur within the targeted layer of shale rock, which allow for extraction of the desired gas and oil (Hyder and Lerner 2250). As a cleaner burning fuel, natural gas continues to be an…