The issue with waste is that it has to go somewhere. Where does the waste go? Well, it tends to go to the local streams and rivers. When the waste goes to the local streams and river, the waters become contaminated. Cities and counties rely on these local water sources to provide fresh drinking, bathing, and cleaning water to the populace. This in turn becomes a huge problem.
For the longest time people thought that dilution was the cure for contaminated water. Improvements in science and technology have made it possible to study such things and learn more about the contamination. The following paper discussions the waste management of my local city, the City of Fredericksburg, VA. The city is a hotspot for tourism because of the Civil War battlefields, George Washington’s boyhood home, popular medical colleges, just to name a few.
The issues herein are not just from chemical spills and vehicle pollutions but also from natural sediment deposits. These sediment deposits also play a role in the contamination of
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The quality of the local water must remain of superb quality or the City of Fredericksburg could lose economic benefits that tourism brings to the town. The local water is also used for providing the population with drinking water, water to bath, and other human use purposes.
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Conclusion In conclusion, the waste management movements, laws, and demands have improved the overall health of the waters in and around the City of Fredericksburg. Plant and animal life has also benefited from the water quality improvements. Even though this may be true, the process is always being performed, calculated, and improved. The laws being in place still will not be enough for the “fix-it-all” status for the local waters. Local populace diligence will be key for improving and maintaining the health of the local
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Entire towns and rural households that lack wastewater treatment systems discharge raw wastewater directly into rivers and streams through open lines known as “straight pipes.” (O’Dell, 2005). The lack of proper wastewater disposal promotes environmental degradation and creates potential health hazards, including contamination of drinking water sources.
Water is one of the most vital essentials that helps support all of life. In the article “Water Works” by Cynthia Barnett, she talks about the “Growing Vine Street” project in how it has helped clean up the pollution in water. The project changes the flow of the water so it flows into the ground rather than through streets, parking lots, and roofs because it soaks up harmful things that goes into the gutter and cause pollution in many other places. Barnett believes we should upgrade the water system even though it will cost a bunch of money because the current water system is aging and needs to repair, replace, and upgraded. Upgrading the water system will help clean the water more effectively and reduce the amount of pollution in the
The Danieley River in McMichael, North Carolina has recently become polluted due to the large amounts of industrial factories in the area surrounding the river. The Danieley River in the past has been polluted, causing fish to become sick in the salt water aquarium that had been installed on top of the river, using river water. The pollution in the river could have come from any number of potential industries, and we were tasked with finding out which industries were causing the pollution in the Danieley River.
"Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink” written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is often an accurate saying when it comes to water. This saying is not accurate just because All over the world people struggle to find clean water to drink. Without access to clean water they suffer from illnesses and diseases from drinking and using dirty water. Water pollution is the primary cause of many health and environmental problems. Eliminating water pollution would prevent many dangerous diseases and illnesses. Eliminating water pollution would also result in animals and their environments not being harmed. In Flint, Michigan, a crisis came into existence after people learned the water they were drinking had been contaminated by the lead pipes
properly carried out there is possibility of toxic material entering the stream of SOLID WASTE.
Human activity can influence the quality of our water in the environment. Sewage is a major problem because billions of people are disposing of waste. Although, there has been an improvement on being able to obtain clean water, yet little has been done on upgrading the global sanitation. Sewage disposal has an immediate effect on people’s environment and leads to water related illnesses such as; diarrhea and cholera.
Waste management is the operation of how waste materials are handled. The affair of waste management is relevant to everyone world-wide. Wastes are materials that have no further economic use, and when disposed of, are hazardous to humans and the environment. Wastes include solid waste, liquid wastes, and air pollutants created by humans and cannot be naturally recycled. Current waste management techniques need to be completely overhauled because funding in government budget is not enough to meet standards, landfills are reaching their maximum capacity worldwide, and nuclear waste storage must be handled correctly. Waste management has been a highly thought about complication for global authorities. Due to
A single water drop traveling from any river to any ocean is influenced with more than one hundred toxic chemicals and thousands of industrial pollutants. This is what people call water pollution, occurring in any state, country or continent. Unfortunately, throughout the centuries, water pollution has been an ongoing problem, mainly caused by the release of industrial toxins and chemicals. People around the world believe that plastic and metal make up the vast majority of this issue, but as years have come and gone, the quantity of chemicals released by small and large facilities are now the leading cause of water pollution. Although industries need to release waste somewhere, they should avoid putting it in waterways because it impacts the
Groundwater contamination can have serious effects on the environment, economy and human health. Serious health consequences can be seen by infants, pregnant women, and the elderly who regularly consume contaminated groundwater. Additionally, marine wild life can be hazardous to human health if they are harvested from an area of contaminated water. The source of groundwater contamination can come from many different causes such as chemical or pesticide use as well as agricultural run off. These chemicals can be carried through the air and can contaminate groundwater via rain or snow. Groundwater contamination can occur as a result of improper storage of chemicals or septic tank leaks. There are many things community members can do to lessen
During the summer and winter, the wastewater treatment plant in Alfred has to bring water to the facility if there is not enough flow into the system so bacteria can continue to grow during secondary treatment. The best time to work at the treatment plant is when flow is at a maximum during the fall and spring when college is in session. However, many pollutants are not removed from wastewater by treatment or by the environment. The most effective way to ensure everyone in the Village of Alfred is receiving clean potable water is to not pollute in the first place. Because we live in a materialistic world, another way to improve water quality is by increasing wastewater treatment plant efficiency by conserving water. Simply by reducing water use, life expectancy of treatment systems increases, prevent system failures, and minimize system costs, potentially saving hundreds of dollars. Some ways Alfred State College can reduce water use around campus
Pollution is the main product of waste constantly being created. They are many negative effects of not recycling, ranging from environment to economy. Firstly, the pollution of the environment is due to improper disposal of waste. Wastes materials are improperly disposed into rivers, leading to pollution. Some countries do not have the advanced technology to treat large amounts of water before letting it back in the river leading to water pollution. It has negative effects on the economy because certain items are expensive to create compared to their cost of being recycled. Therefore, it will be less expensive to recycle. Without recycling, the world will be full of waste. Apart from that, there will be depletion of important materials because it is constantly used to produce new materials instead of using recycled materials. Furthermore, global warming will become even serious, especially when trees are being harvested for production of papers, causing the air temperature to rise. Refusing to recycle just does not affect the humans, but also the animals in many
Today's waters are constantly being treated like sewage dumps or trash cans. We use them as garbage cans every day polluting the water more and more. "Pollution is often by way of rivers, drains and outflow pipes." Causing an outflow of sewage into our ocean waters. This is not only affecting the community but also the marine life and other sea creatures living in the ocean." This pollution includes human sewage and domestic waste water, factory outflows of acids and poisonous metals, engine oil from roadside drains and garages, farm chemicals washed off the land by rain, building-site rubble, nuclear waste from power plants, and oil from wells, refineries, and tankers." Stating that most of today's waste is from factory or factory ran products that shouldn't be polluting the water
Solid waste pollution will always be an issue as long as human population increases everyday .solid waste is not only cause by household only, the industries as well have hand on environment pollution. And due to improper disposal system solid waste end up on the road. Solid waste have a huge effect on human life and can also cause death in animals as well, as people clean their houses everyday litter their trash everywhere this problem will not stop. But the most dangerous waste are those coming from the industries, because those waste end up in stream, rivers where it poisonous and have bad impact on the marine life. Industrial waste are the source of toxic metal and hazardous waste that effect soil characteristic and productivity of soil when dumped in ground. And the problem lies where some of the waste do not decompose. These solid waste are hazardous, Pesticides poisonous which is not health and life threatening to both humans and animals. People are very much aware of recycling to reduce pollution yet they still fail in doing so. Silt build in freshwater water ecosystems, caused by the unnecessarily agricultural activities smothers aquatic organisms. To reduce solid waste they should be recycled in such a way that do not harm the both the environment, water, air and human health. There are animals such as
Efficient waste managing approaches help with reducing and avoiding unpleasant impact on the environment and human health, while allowing financial development and progress in the quality of people’s life. People do not even imagine what is the size and capacity of their activities and the impact they produce on the environment. Garbage is an important ecological problem. It is seems amazing that approximately all of the citizens of the world identify rubbish as a major environmental problem and yet these people still litter. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (2008), an American produces 250 million tons of garbage per year (para.2). There are different circumstances that are based on the society, environmental conditions, occupation and size of each of the different family. As Richmond (2010) stated, if no administration organizations has the responsibility or resources to concentrate their efforts on the waste disposal, then the responsibility to do that is on ...