Water pollution

Ocean Pollution The Ocean covers approximately 70% of earth’s surface. All that ocean provides humans with food, water, and plants. Unfortunately, those large bodies of water that are helping us live on earth, are being turned into landfills by the wastes that are being created and polluted by humans. Water pollution is showing what is capable of year by year. If we don’t start making a push towards cleaner oceans earth will no longer be able to provide us a home. It wasn’t until the 1800s…

ecosystem in the coastal area. The environment pollution monitoring using mussels was established in North America coastline and estuarine. It’s followed by other countries like Australia, Japan, France, Taiwan, India, and Mediterranean (Goldberg, 1975) in (Widdows and Donkin, 1992). The environmental tolerance ability, abundance, population stability, contaminant metabolism ability and living behavior are the advantages of using mussels in pollution monitoring (Widdows and Donkin,…

throughout Florida our waters are heavily polluted by the great amount of tourism in our state. In the Florida Keys and the Caribbean, there has been a vast decline in staghorn and elkhorn corals leaving the reefs scattered since the 70’s. As I continued to observe and research this topic, I noticed that humans overlook the effects that they cause and focus on the benefits they receive. The negative human impacts on the ocean…

Mexico that is noted for oxygen depletion is called the “dead zone”. A dead zone, also known as a hypoxia zone, is an area with little to no dissolved oxygen in the water. It is believed that these areas are depleted of oxygen because of the pollution in the runoff delivered by the mighty Mississippi River. A fair amount of this pollution comes from fertilizer runoff from Midwestern farms that leach into…

"Fertilizers as Water Pollutants." Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Natural Resource Management and Environmental Department, May 2013. Web. 12 July 2016. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) provides a considerable amount of statistical information, along with an extensive analysis on how chemical fertilizers contribute to water pollution. While there is no specific author, this text was constructed by FAO 's Natural Resources Management…

Eutrophication, a form of water pollution, threatens freshwater ecosystems and is the cause of many frightening deteriorations within freshwater environments. An influence on eutrophication is nutrient loading. To be able to examine the relationship between nutrient loading and eutrophication, one must: understand the basis of nutrient loading, the human contribution to nutrient loading, the problems nutrient loading poses to freshwater ecosystems, and the process of nutrient loading management.…

employee orientation, a strategy was developed to tackle pollution prevention projects at the plant. The first project is the reduction of brine discharge into the plant wastewater discharge stream. The aim is to reduce the chloride concentration from 649 mg/L to 500 mg/L. It is important to note that incdences like brine overflow, floor cleaning and equipment cleaning can result in brine levels as high as 1000 mg/L, putting the Junction City waste water treatment facility at a risk of…

The Ganges River runs over 1500 miles long through India: rising in the Himalayas, and falling in Bangladesh. For the majority of this area, the river is not only a source of water, but it also is mother to the millions of Hindus in India who believe that she is pure and holy. The Ganges river is also subject to have hundreds of carcasses of animals, bodies of humans, and gallons of waste thrown into it on a daily basis. Unfortunately, the cleaning of the Ganges is not an easy process as there…

Wastewater can be formed from domestic, industrial, agricultural, commercial activities or any combination of these. Rainwater runoff is also considered as wastewater. This wastewater is full of chemicals, bacterial, viruses and other contaminants regardless where it comes from. Based on this reason, wastewater treatment is needed and crucial for converting the wastewater into an effluent that can be either discharged to the environment or reused. However, wastewater treatment plant posed safety…

Water Shortage: Waterborne Diseases The aspect of water security I choose to focus on is water pollution, specifically waterborne diseases. Waterborne diseases such as polio, cholera, hepatitis, and dysentery are awful diseases and considerably debilitating and in some cases fatal. These diseases are caused by highly pathogenic waterborne bacteria such as Clostridium botulinum, Vibrio cholerae, Shigella dysenteriae, and Salmonella typhi. The World Health Organization attributes the mortality…