Waterway

land formation the contaminants run into the nearby streams or rivers. It can also pick up the leaked motor oil in parking lots, pesticides, fertilizer, or detergents. If this problem is untreated, these harmful pollutants can make their way into waterways carried by the runoff from rain or…

Endangered species are such a huge problem that needs to be solved because they are part of an ecosystem and play key roles in that system. People can help by showing and giving support to the government such as the EPA and the DNR they can donate money, get involved with these organizations, and raise awareness. People can look up and endangered species such as endangered birds or small animals and plant habitats and foods for those animals so they have a place to live. People can fund…

either the local, state, tribal, or federal levels. The Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) was set forth by the United States Congress in 2002. Contained in the MTSA are rules and regulations designed for port facilities, vessels, and waterways, to provide an extra level of security for potentially vulnerable…

containers and wrappers, and other human trash is commonly found polluting the ocean, all of which comes from people’s carelessness and littering. Industrial contaminants such as cleaning, gardening, and automotive products also often end up in waterways, polluting the water. Some laws intend to prohibit dumping garbage in waters, transporting objects in America that are going to be dumped in waters, and other acts that may lead to polluting the ocean, such as the Marine Protection Research and…

equipment on the isthmus” (Schwartz 31). Furthermore, the United States continues to send ships through the canal daily because the canal made a waterway between the Atlantic and the Pacific ocean. This is one of the reasons why the U.S. wanted the canal to be built along with Roosevelt wanting to expand American strength over seas. Since the canal created a waterway, “Many U.S. exports and imports travel through the Canal daily (over 10% of all U.S. shipping goes through the Canal)” (“Economic…

In December of 2014, a company called Energy Transfer Partners LP proposed the plan to make a pipeline, formally called the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). The pipeline was planned to span across four states, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois, and would cost an estimated $3.78 billion to complete (Miller). The purpose of the pipeline is to carry 570,000 barrels of crude oil per day from two oil sites, Bakken and Three Forks, to an oil tank farm near Patoka, Illinois. Though the…

Project. In 2012, Maryland passed a law to help protect their local streams, rivers, and waterways by curbing runoff thereby reducing the level of runoff that reach the river, according to the website potomac.org*. This law made is possible for Maryland to collect a fee, based on the amount of paved or hardened surfaces on a property that collects pollution, from the community which they then used to fund local waterway clean-up efforts. (Potomac.org) These efforts have led to reduced…

The recent protests in North Dakota has turned the world’s attention to the Standing Rock Sioux Nation reserve, where a section of the Dakota Access Pipeline will be built if approved. Native Americans argue that the proposed pipeline will damage their vital water sources and affect the whole reserve, making their water undrinkable and harming their health. Crude oil pipelines, usually buried underground, can easily contaminate water (“How Can You Identify Pipeline.”), which in turn toxifies the…

THE WATER CYLE AND CLIMATE CHANGE Among the most serious Earth science and ecological approach issues challenging society are the potential changes in the Earth’s water cycle because of environmental change. The science community agrees that the climate of Earth is now changing due to natural variability; it includes solar variability and increasing concentration of greenhouse gases. Moreover, it is noticed that these changes may strongly affect atmospheric water vapor concentrations,…

A landfill is a designated disposal area carefully managed and engineered for the municipal population’s trash. landfills are not “dumps’'. A "dump" is when trash and waste are thrown illegally onto ground or waterway without following proper disposal or recycling regulations and procedures. These kind of "dumps" are completely illegal in the provence of Ontario.(1) What exactly is a landfill? A landfill isn’t Simply a mountain of trash buried in the ground. Landfills have to be carefully…