Community Environmental Issues

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Community Environmental Issue Rebecca Arnold SCI 275 8/11/13 Ryan Ross Environmental Issue I live in New York when most people think of New York the first thing that comes to their mind is New York City. In New York City there are many of environmental issues. There are many environment issues because of the large number of people who live in New York City. When a large number of people live on a small island then there are going to be environmental issues. Some of these issues could include waste issues- to much garbage and no place to put it, quality of air issues-to many vehicles causing smog, and limited natural resources-very few parks or forest areas. These issues are common in any large city in the world for example Tokyo has very bad air quality. I do not live in New York City but rather I live in rural Upstate New York. There are not that many people in a small area; instead there are many farms and homes with large acreage. The population in Upstate New York does not have to worry about waste issues, quality of air issues, or limited natural resources. But there are other issues they have to worry about like water quality. Water quality is an issue because people in rural upstate New York do not have sewer systems they have wells and septic tanks instead, so they do have to worry about the quality of water that they use for drinking, cooking, and recreational purposes. According to the EPA website water quality is an environmental issue that is present in my state. What we have to worry about is potential harm or illness caused by pathogens in bodies of water. This is an environmental sustainability issue because pathogens are carried in runoff water that could be contaminated with animal waste or sewage, this could occur because natural forest are being taken over by humans which this leaves no place for animals or their waste. Whom it

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