Water Pollution Case Studies Samples For Students

Abstract

Gulf Mexico oil spill also known as the Deep-water Horizon oil spill, BP Oil Disaster or the Macondo Blowout is considered to be the largest oil spill in the history of mankind. Such oil spills cause a lot of environmental as well as economic damages. Laws are in place to urge oil drilling companies to keep provisionary measures on the face of such disasters. But many situations went wrong causing a massive oil spill, a part of which still floats around in the seas. The following article is a discussion of the Gulf Mexico BP Oil Spill incident and what could have been ...

- What are the ethical issues in this case?
There are different ethical issues evident within the BP Oil Spill case. In the case study the main ethical issue is the impact the oil spill had on mental health of various stakeholders. Despite the significant impact of the spill on the mental health of various people, the organization responsible, British Petroleum, did not take the right measures. Therefore, other than the consequence of the oil spill on the mental health being an ethical issue, the other ethical issue is the lack of response on the same despite the ...

Exxon Valdez Crises and the BP Crises

The BP Oil Spill of 2010 and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in 1989 are among the major oil spills in history. Many similarities can be drawn from the two crises, with BP having the better chance of learning from the events that followed the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Two major similarities can be identified from the two crises, especially in terms of public relations blunders. One similarity regards the response to the crisis. According to Mulkern (1), after the spill, both companies put emphasis on science over people. For example, after the spill, Exxon blamed Alaska for not ...

PART I

British Petroleum Company Profile
BP plc, formerly known as British Petroleum, is a UK based multinational oil and Gas Company with its headquarters located in London, England, United Kingdom. As of 2012, BP is the world’s sixth largest energy company in terms of market capitalisation, fifth largest company by revenues, and sixth largest oil and gas company by production (BP. Financial and Operating Information, 2008-2012). BP is a vertically integrated organisation and it has a strong presence in all areas of the gas sector, including exploration and production, refining, promotion, distribution, power generation, and trading. The company also operates in the ...

British Petroleum (BP) is an energy company, ranked as the third largest in the world. It undertakes oil exploration, refining, and the sale of oil products. The energy industry exposes the company to numerous risks and uncertainties in the exploration, extraction, refining, and sale of products (Bamberg, 2000 p.34). BP has however managed to maintain its top position in having a 100% oil reserve replacement for 17 years. Despite the efforts to maintain safety precautions, unfavorable events have followed the company’s operations. One instance is the explosion in the Gulf of Mexico where the company was drilling in ...

This Case Study paper includes four examples of cases concerning agricultural runoff and water pollution, preceded by a section defining NPS pollution and detailing its various known causes. The four case studies were intentionally chosen from different parts of the world with quite different environmental conditions. First was the Lower Bhavani River basin in India – an extremely rural area where fairly primitive agricultural methods are employed by villagers living in basic conditions. The second example was the Rhine valley in Europe; a highly developed and industrialized part of the world. Third of the examples used was the Lower Fraser Valley in ...

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Part 1

Question 1. A. What are the key steps of the investigation of an outbreak?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, epidemiologists follow a systematic approach in order to pull off a “quick and clean” outbreak investigation (CDC, 2012). The following procedure includes the ideal system in carrying out an outbreak investigation: (1) field work preparation, (2) confirm the existence of the reported outbreak, (3) vet the current diagnosis, (4) conduct a working definition of the case, (5) start recording individual cases, (6) apply descriptive epidemiology, (7) construct a hypothesis, (8) verify the hypothesis, ( ...

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At the end of the case study, the scholar will be able to:
Identify the steps of the investigation of an outbreak;
Describe the characteristics of an outbreak in terms of time, place and person;
Use descriptive epidemiological data to generate hypotheses;
Use analytical epidemiological data to test hypotheses;
Formulate recommendations for the control of an outbreak.
Part A cluster of acute hepatitis in Provo, Utah
Provo is a large municipality located in the North of Utah, close from the border with Wyoming and Idaho. The population of Provo was 6,185 in ...

Question 1

The United States Congress amended the United States Constitution on the Fourteenth Time on July 9, 1868. The goal of the amendment was to grant citizenship for freed slaves. The amendment also gave these newly freed US citizens protected civil rights. For business these had several implications, the most important of which was the movement away from the feudal system of business which was practiced by Europeans. The land-lord and slave labor system existed as an economic system, with often detrimental results. The Fourteenth Amendment also created an imbalance between the states in the north and the states in ...

Industrial pollution is a key contributor to a wide range of environmental issues that we face today. Both the structure and scale of today’s industrial production present serious ethical problems from an environmental perspective. The global scale of industrial production coupled with the large amounts of hazardous materials generated imposes substantial risks on the society and natural environment. Industrial companies are considered the prime cause of environmental degradation. This is because these firms exploit natural resources on a large scale and release highly toxic substances and wastes. Industrial pollution is, therefore, a critical ethical issue that needs to ...

Introduction

The Deep Water Horizon is one of the most compelling disasters that have ever been recorded in the US in so far as oil spills and fire tragedies are concerned. The explosion had far-reaching implications because the spills negatively condemned the immediate environment and effectively rendered most of the people not employed because of the manifestations of the disaster. The spill majorly affected the ocean to the extent that the aqua system was put in jeopardy because of the oil infiltration. This team compromising of Dustin, Adrianna, Daniel and Mohammed seeks to analyze the problem and its implications not ...

Eric Schlosser tries to inform the reader on the effects consumption of meat from growth hormone boosted animals and genetically modified foods. He also explains about the impact of these foods to the food business generally, to the population’s health, to food supply, and to the environment. Schlosser advocates that Americans need to stop eating fast food since they have negative effects on human health, animal health, and the environment directly or indirectly and he uses a tactful approach of appealing to emotions, logic, and ethics in arguing his points.
When appealing to emotion, Schlosser describes the poor ...

1: BP’s Contributory Ethical Aspects to the Oil Spill

One of BP’s ethical violations includes the lack of implementation of the safety measures that would have prevented the occurrence of the incidences and the deaths. Some of the failures are visible through the absence of proper machinery controls like remote switching that would have enabled the crew to take charge of the situation in the rig. A majority of this mistakes stem from the fact that BP was cutting corners in its processes to ensure that it made savings on its investments while putting its employees at risk. The company also failed to adhere to environmental regulations ...

Introduction

Emergency management has a place in the history of not only the US but its environs as well. The period between 1900 and 2010 has seen disasters that have ranged from earthquakes, drought, and hurricanes just to mention a few of the natural disasters that have marred the country. There are those disasters that have faced the country only that this time, they were deemed to be artificial in the sense that human factors had a hand in them. These include oil spills, terrorism, and human arsonists. It is critical to note that in the earlier times when disasters ...

Abstract

This report provides an in-depth analysis of corporate social responsibilities and how they are accounted for by organizations. The report uses the CSR activities of British Petroleum to highlight how such initiatives have impacted the lives of different stakeholders. The report recommends a more guarded management approach to managing CSR funds to keep off unscrupulous officials who use them for their personal gains.

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Introduction.1
Analysis2
Driving Safely in Oman2
Water and Energy Management in Abu Dhabi..2

Encouraging Students to take Science3

Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill4
Impact of CSR to Company and the Society4
Benefits to the Corporations5
Benefits ...

Business Financial Problems:

Executive Summary _________________________ 3
Brief History _________________________ 5
Statement of the problem _________________________ 6
Conclusion _________________________ 15

Works Cited _________________________ 17

Executive Summary
Capital budgeting is one of the key functions that a business needs to underatake in order to establish effective and efficient ways of allocating its funds in various investments and projects. In that respect, businesses apply some basic methods of evaluating their prospective projects with IRR, Payback period and NPV forming the most widely applied methods. However, the evolving world of business is increasingly demanding a consideration of other factors beyond the conomic factor which is the key ...

Abstract

The issue of free will (freedom) versus determination has been around for a long time. It has continued to be a puzzle for philosophers ever since. Philosophers face such trouble with the issue of freedom versus determination because without freedom morality would be unheard of among the humankind; and such there would be no good, no wrong, or evil. All of humankind’s behavior would be priory determined, and; therefore, man would be left with no choice or creativity (Fischer 1994).

Introduction

Ted Trainer conducted a study in 2010 at the UNSW on the consumption of non renewable resources by first- world countries. ...