The practice of using confined spaces, hormones to promote rapid growth in livestock, chemical insecticides to protect vegetables and lagoons for storing animal waste are methods that leave much to be desired and are harming our environment. Impact of Corporate Farming On Our Water Chemical insecticides and fertilizers have been leaching into our waterways for years. So has the livestock waste stored in lagoons by corporate farmers, some of which are as large as 200 acres. Once these have entered the ground, they will eventually enter our drinking water and all the streams and rivers that lead to the ocean. Not only is the water unfit for human consumption, it is now destroying the marine ecosystem and this is serious business when you consider how important the ocean's health is to human survival.
Because they are hazardous. As in documentary they showed in an ad that fracking is safe. But what they mean by safe? If water, air and noise pollution are created by fracking then how it is safe! Fracking also created huge natural losses such as it crates pollution, destruction of forests to create its pipe lines.
Drowning in Plastic It’s hard to imagine life without plastic. It’s everywhere: covering our food, holding our purchases, protecting our loved ones, saving patients in hospitals and floating along our waterways and oceans. The thought of living in a world surrounded by toxic chemicals and pollution is a thought which many would rather not think about. Plastics have revolutionised the world in which we live, but with dire consequences. The production of these toxic-filled substances continues to lead the human race on a path of natural destruction; with thousands of animal sea-life dying annually from plastic consumption.
The largest human cause of dead zones is nutrient run off from abundant use of fertilizers, animal waste and sewage. The runoff is a bi-product of our agribusiness, farming practices and growing population. Before immense land development the wetlands acted as a natural barrier and filter. The runoff would be depleted in the soil by the plants before it could reach the rivers and ocean. Human commercial activity and land development have destroyed the natural shield of the wetlands.
Running head: Plastic Oceans 1 Plastic Oceans Ben Smith Oakland University PLASTIC OCEANS 2 Abstract The amount of plastic debris is a growing trend that is becoming increasingly more dangerous by the day. This plastic pollutes and kills innocent animals, and is and at the same time is broken down into tiny inconceivable amounts by photodegradation that are almost impossible to collect. 80% of this plastic comes from land, a source that we most likely can control, with the exception of weather and natural disasters. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is proof that plastic pollution is a growing epidemic and the ocean just continues to resurface the same plastic because of the currents in the gyres. This process begins polluting the ecosystem and harming the food chain from the toxins plastic absorbs and releases.
This act was established to protect all aspects of the nation’s bodies of water (PBS, 2002). Before this law was passed, pollution was dumped directly into lakes, rivers, streams, and even the ocean, making it unsafe to swim in these bodies of water (PBS, 2002). The pollution also disrupted the biological aspects of these bodies of water as well (PBS, 2002). Once it became apparent that this was becoming a safety hazard the nation’s leaders stepped in to do something about it. In 1969 the bacteria in the Hudson River was 170 times the safe limit (PBS, 2002).
Pollution in seasonal wetlands Wetlands are considered habitats that help trap and reduce pollutants that come from all types of sources, such as oils from cars, chemicals from drainage runoff, sprinklers that have fertilizer runoff from nearby grass located around buildings, agriculture runoff, untreated sewage from pets and human waste, and in flow of domestic and industrial wastes. Other harmful chemicals that are human related are antibiotics from animal husbandry, pesticides that act as endocrine disrupters. (Ramsar 2008) These pollution sources all contribute to the negative health of wetlands all over California. Roseville wetlands are being inundated with water pollution from many of these human related sources around them. Wetlands can only handle so much of these pollutants, and with the major habitat loss that has completely changed the dynamics of these once seasonal wetlands, can only limit the ability for these wetlands to filter as much of the pollution as possible.
As smokers, they fill the air around them with harmful chemicals and cause health problems for innocent bystander. Though smoking is very harmful the only way to truly stop it is if smokers themselves stop. The effects of smoking on the environment cause damage to the land, water, and to animals. When smokers are finished smoking and their cigarette butts are left on the ground they end up in lakes and rivers. When the cigarettes reach the water all of the chemicals are then transferred to the water.
To purify polluted water we may use different type of methods according to the pollutants entered in the water. Chemical disinfection of water is one of the most important methods in the process of purifying water; this method can kill lots of pathogens that exist in the polluted water by killing them. http://www.informaction.org/images/graph_ocean-pollutants.jpg Fig 1 Water is made up of two hydrogen’s and one oxygen. Most part of the earth is water that means three fourth of the earth is made up of water but the problem is most of it is not suitable for drinking. https://qed.princeton.edu/getfile.php?f=Water_Pollution_since_the_1960s.jpg Fig 2 water pollution world wide In 1854 the British scientist John Snow discovered that cholera disease was caused by the contamination of water, he also showed that chlorine can be used to disinfect contaminated water to prevent such kind of diseases.
Like the saying goes “Too much of anything is bad”, so is it true in the case of water. In this module, we would discuss about Flood, which is huge amount of water submerging the dry land. It is one of the most common and widespread disasters occurring naturally. We would start with defining a flood and then move on to its cause and effects. Finally we would be coming up with ways to mitigate its effects and what needs to be done during a flood.