Essays on Water Pollution

Introduction

Water pollution is a term that refers to the contamination of water in water bodies. These water bodies include the oceans, lakes, rivers, aquifers, and groundwater. Ideally, water pollution occurs when pollutants are discharged in a direct or indirect way into the water bodies without appropriate measures of treatment to eradicate them (Goel 14). Some of these pollutants are categorized as chemicals, as well as, other foreign substances that are deemed to be detrimental to the general plant, animal and human health. Precisely, some of these substances include fertilizers, pesticides that are evolved from the runoffs in the agricultural Continue reading...

List of Figures

Figure 1 Torrey canyon supertanker and surrounded with oil spills 6
Figure 2 A-Geographical location of the disaster. B-Route at the time of accident 9
Figure 3Torrey Canyon and Air strike: World’s first ever environmental disaster 11
Figure 4 :The Renown Torrey quarry 11
Figure 5: Dead bird in Torrey Canyon query 12
Figure 6Plumes emitting from burning Torrey Canyon 13

Abstract

On 18th March 1967, the ship Torrey Canyon, carrying a load of 120000 tons of crude oil dashed against Pollard's Rock of the reef of Seven Stones near Cornwall, England. The resultant oil spill contaminated beaches, caused Continue reading...

Water is one of the fundamental elements that exist within the aquatic ecosystem. Ideally, clean and plentiful water is the basis for a prosperous community. Most creatures in the general ecosystem rely on water for survival. However, there are some factors that have totally effective changes in the recommended ecosystem balance. This research cites the climatic changes as one of the factors that are threatening the purity and abundance of water in the ecosystem (Geiger 89). In addition, the less water that remains in the system is tainted with pollutants, which makes it hazardous for consumption. This research will Continue reading...

Pollution results to over 100,000 deaths. This is according to research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Research from the institute’s laboratory conducting studies in the environment and aviation bases its findings that most emissions emanate from road transportation. It also emerges that road transportation is the single cause of pollution, and also results to premature death. In Baltimore for instance, Maryland is the city with highest deaths due to pollution, with over 100,000 deaths linked to air pollution as a result of industrial smoke. Pollution from transport sources is high. This is because most Continue reading...

Environmental factors and Health Promotions Pamphlet

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Part I: Environmental factors and Health Promotions Pamphlet

Preventive Measures Against The Environmental Factors That Can Affect The Health Of Infants.
Preventive Guidelines
Introduction:
Infant care is the huge responsibility of parent and care givers. The environmental factors are the fundamental elements that are to be monitored to secure the potential hazards of the health and safety of infants. The most evident factor in this lieu is the water consumption. Polluted and contaminated water can cause massive harm to the health of the infant. The immune system of the infants is not developed to survive the consumption of polluted or contaminated water. Hence, the Continue reading...

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is known as the largest oil spill in history. On April 20, 2010, the explosion of the oil rig killed 11 people working on it and resulted in underwater cameras revealing the British Petroleum pipe leaking of over 4.9 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. A long distance from the coastal line (approximately 42 miles from Louisiana) and the marine nature of the spill resulted in its longevity – the well was capped in only 87 days after the accident ("Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico 2010."). The scope of the spill Continue reading...

Abstract

This report delineates the water quality and contamination of groundwater based on different water samples in three experiments. The water quality was monitored by adding laundry detergent, oil and vinegar in one experiment. The effectiveness of filtered water was evaluated in the second experiment by passing the contaminated water through filter layers containing sand, gravels and charcoal. The filtrate showed clear water compared to raw water. The third experiment was conducted to make a comparative analysis of water samples obtained from tap water with two types of bottled water samples. The samples obtained from Dasani and Fiji bottled showed Continue reading...

- Global Statistics on Oil Spill and the Nigeria River Delta
Despite recent advancements in shipbuilding technology, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has become one of the most recently publicized environmental fiascos in 2010. In the 1970s the number of oil tanker accidents has decreased significantly (i.e. below 138,000 tons of oil inputs in the ocean). The results were even better in 2009 where the amount of oil entering the ocean is estimated at about 63,000 tons (Jernelov, 2010).
However, mishaps in tankers are not the only source of oil spill in the ocean. Continue reading...

Background

British Petroleum (BP) is an oil company based in London, England that has business operations in more than 80 countries. With the production of approximately 3.8 million barrels of oil per day and more than 22,000 service stations, BP is considered the fourth largest global company in terms of revenue (Reuters, n.d.).
However, BP is also responsible for causing the worst environmental disaster that is attributed to oil and gas companies. On April 20th 2010, the Deepwater Horizon Rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded. The explosion killed 11 people and the drilling rig proceeded to spill approximately Continue reading...

The term pollution in the simplest and most basic meaning refers to the condition, situation and circumstance where harmful and toxic materials and substances find their way to the environment thereby making human life inhabitable and unhealthy. In the recent history and empirical evidence has confirmed that human activities have contributed to pollution to the environment and in effect exposing the human race to danger and threats. They hazardous human activities are evident in the most developed nation in the planet, whereby the industrial refuse are deposited to water bodies. With the above background in mind, marine or water Continue reading...

Water Quality and Contamination

Introduction
Water is one of the basic needs of living organisms. Without water, life would be impossible. Humanity is dependent on water for their day to day activities. Basically, the foremost use of water is for drinking. Living organisms like humans have to take in water for their bodies to survive and sustain the various cellular activities. Aside from drinking, man use water for cooking, washing, recreation, cleaning, and keeping plants alive.
Water used for drinking needs to be essentially clean. It must be free from germs and chemicals for the good health of man. Contaminated water is one Continue reading...

Environmental concerns are always addressed in stable nations like the United States, but in countries with socio-economic and political problems such as Egypt, the government never takes care of the environmental issues. Water pollution in Egypt is one of the most threatening environmental concerns of the country. Water pollution affects the people’s healthy living standards as it reduces their ability to obtain and use water. Egypt is listed among the ten countries that are threatened by water crisis by 2025 due to the rapidly increasing rate of pollution in the water of the Nile River . About 97% of Continue reading...

The Valdez Oil Spill and the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill

Exxon Valdez was an oil tanker ship that measured 987 feet, this tanker had an oil spill on 24th of March 1989 in Prince William Sound of Alaska. This oil spill, at that time was deemed “the most devastating human caused accident, which shook every pillar of the environmental ecosystem.” (Raunekk and Swagatam, 2010). Another oil spill occurred in recent future events that cause devastating damage to the environment, on the 20th of April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig had an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Oil spills according to Sevhoo (2013), are caused, at least Continue reading...

The problem involves deep water pollution by oil spill from the BP Company in the Gulf of Mexico. The spill claimed death of much marine wildlife as well intense damage to many of their habitats. Some of the short term effects that cropped in include; many birds lost their buoyancy following the coating of their feathers by the oil. As a result, the birds died since they sunk in the water. In addition, the spill led to the death of many sea corals and also caused internal bleeding and ulcers to mammals that ingested the oil. On the other Continue reading...

Chemical in water pollution

Water pollution is a problem that has caused negative effects to human health and environmental disorders. The most affected is in industrial areas like the chemical affluent as waste is released into the rivers. It has caused damage to downstream users of the water, aquatic animals and plants. When the chemical affluence is concentrated in the water body, it causes an adverse effect on the entire ecosystem and the inhabitant.
There are short term effects that result from water pollution. The chemical from the industries causes damage to surrounding wildlife, residents and watershed. It makes water to be unsafe Continue reading...

INTRODUCTION

Water is an essential element of the ecosystem. In fact, it controls all processes related to the ecosystem. It acts as a base upon which all human, animal and plant life survives. The food consumed and the habitats of all animals and humans are all part and parcel of the positive impacts this natural resource holds over life. However, there have not been significant measures designed to protect this natural resource so as to keep it in its original form without placing an undue imbalance within the ecosystem (National Resources Defense Council, 2014). Environmental activists have come out several Continue reading...

ENGLISH 115

11-23-2013
Introduction
Both salty and fresh water take up to seventy-five percent of our planet’s surface. Thus, if polluted, the effects are likely to affect every life form interconnected to the ecosystem. These include humans, plants, marine, and terrestrial wildlife among others. In general, water pollution results from of the emission of organic, toxic, thermal, and non-organic wastes into water bodies. The causes can further take the form of two major levels: point source, and non-point source. Point source pollution targets water pollution agents that flow directly into large water bodies through rivers and streams. On the other Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

Introduction

The problem of air and water pollution has been a great concern not only to the people of New Jersey but throughout the world. This has been a problem to the whole world for the past over a hundred years and it still remains a challenge today though several efforts have been made to curb it. From the period of the second half of the 20th century several countries including the United States have tried to come up with certain rules and regulations to help reduce the level of pollution. The United States through the United States Environmental Protection Continue reading...

I would ensure that I maintain supply of seafood by establishing an alternative source market. I would abandon the supplies from the Gulf coast and opt for others from foreign markets. This, however, would decrease my profit margins, but satisfy my customer needs. I would also let my customers know that I have changed my source, to reduce their fear of unsafe seafood.
The oil spill would increase the prices of seafood. This is because there would be a few places where to harvest the commodity. The demand for seafood would exceed its supply, causing the few places with Continue reading...

Introduction

Various environmental problems affect the entire world. These environmental problems in reality are the harmful aspects of the human activity on biophysical environment. The major current environmental problems include pollution, climate change, resource depletion, environmental degradation among others. It is disturbing to note that various human activities are responsible for the many environmental problems that we face throughout the world. For instance, there are various industrial activities that directly affect the environment. This report focuses on water pollution from the industrial activities in Sydney Harbor, New South Wales.

Environmental Problem.

Water pollution is an environmental problem that occurs after water bodies Continue reading...

A Case Study of the British Petroleum (BP) Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico

Abstract
British Pteroleum’s Deepwater Horizon disaster was the worst oil spill in American history. Such was the magnitude of this disaster that its repercussions were felt throughout the global oil industry. In the aftermath of the spill, investigations were conducted into the incident to identify the causes that led to the spill, the reasons behind the poor response to the disaster, as well as to formulate ways in which safety standards could be improved so as to prevent similar disasters from taking place in the future. This study reviewed extensive literature pertaining to the prevalent Health, Safety and Continue reading...

What is water

Water is one of the most important sources of our life. The human body consists of from 78% to 55% water, depending on body size. All living things need water even more than food; hence, water is very valuable resource. Water covers over 70 percent of the earth, 96.5% of all water in our planet is in oceans. But only 2% of all Earth's water is drinkable ( ga.water.usgs.gov). In fact, people need water to drink, to wash our hands, to cook, in industrial use and many other things. Any changes in water quality adversely affect living organisms or make Continue reading...

Ancient Greeks believed that everything was made of Water, Earth, Wind, Fire. The four essentials, on which based the whole world. One of the most important is aqua. There is no life without this component. Water covers more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, but only 3% of that water is fresh water. It is hard to imagine but with the attitude to the water resources we have nowadays, we might run out of fresh reserve within the time frame of 100 years.
Indeed, water is endangered by the industrialization and technical progress of the mankind. Water pollution Continue reading...

Introduction

The purpose of this project is to provide Flagstaff residents with adequate clean water which they could use for domestic purposes. This initiative is prompted by the needs of the many residents in the area who constantly lack regular supply of clean water in their houses on a daily basis. This project entirely focuses on meeting the needs of the citizens who by and large need this precious resource in their livelihoods. In order to decrease waterborne diseases in this city, a water treatment program will be implemented by the development and research groups. This project will ensure efficiency Continue reading...

- 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 fact Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

Water pollution denotes the contamination of water by other foreign chemicals that make water become detrimental for plants and animal use. There are several causes of water pollution. These pollutants fall into two main categories namely; indirect and direct contaminants. Water pollution through indirect contaminants occurs when they enter the water supply from the atmosphere through rain or from the groundwater. Direct contaminants are produced by refineries and factories. Water pollution causes a plethora of problems. Water pollution is a threatening concern as it poisons both food animals and drinking water for animals and humans. Another significant problem is Continue reading...

Pollution is the process of introduction of contaminants in the environment. These contaminants lead to a negative impact to the living things in the environment. The original condition of the environment is made harmful to the living things. Pollution can be of different forms. The main pollution forms are the air, water and soil pollution. The intent of this paper is to discuss the air and water pollution, elaborating on their causes or pollutants and description of their effects on living things. Specifically, the paper will discuss the air and water pollutants and their possible remedies. The air and Continue reading...

Gulf of Mexico oil spill is one of the largest naval oil spill occurred in the history of oil industry. The accident took place in April 2010 in Gulf of Mexico where British Petroleum was operating. The explosion cost life of eleven people working on the location and injured various other people. The oil spill from the well for three consecutive months and exploded around 4.9 million barrel crude oil in the sea. After the incident the oil well was declared un-operational by the central government. The oil released during the accident spread over a large area and cost Continue reading...

Introduction

What geologic factors are needed for fracking and how does it impact water quality?
Franking is defined as the extraction of gas reserves from the underground with the use of hydraulic fracture of shale rock and involves high pressure in liquid so that it can release a gas or gases. The process of fracturing is considered harmful to the environment. Fracking refers to the wrenching of open rock that lies beneath the surface of the earth and leads to the freeing of the underlying natural gas that is trapped in between. Fracking is faced with a lot of environmental Continue reading...

CHAPTER III

Introduction
The high incidence of oil spills have led to the adoption of different clean up techniques that help in the remediation process. However, the adoption of a specific method for the remediation of oil spill requires the systematic reviewing of the different literatures available and meta-analysed by the researchers. According to Graham (2010), the range of the different clean-up efforts varies widely depending on a number of factors that include oil type and density, water temperature, the volume of spill, proximity to shorelines, waves, currents, weather and speed of response among others. The systematic reviewing of the research Continue reading...

Question 2: Environmental Issues

Environmental issues can be defined as harmful aspects of human activity on the biophysical/natural environment. This ranges from plants, and animals, to different ecosystems that are in existence. Environmental issues include energy, climate change, over population, and pollution, to list but a few. In this particular case, pollution, and particularly water pollution will be detailed.

Water Pollution

Water pollution is any change in the quality of water, whether physical, biological, or chemical, that may cause harm to any living thing that consumes it or lives in it. Water pollutants include disease-causing agents (e.g. protozoa, bacteria), oxygen demanding wastes that are dumped Continue reading...

Safe drinking water is one of the powerful environmental determinants of health. Assurance of safe drinking water is the foundation of control and prevention of waterborne diseases. Helena city in Montana is very committed to serving water that is safe and that meets the highest quality standards. The community gets water from two treatment plants; one plants treats groundwater collected from deep wells and the other treats surface water from the Bell Canyon Reservoirs (James 109).
The most important public health concern with the water quality across Helena is contamination. As this water travels over the surface or underground, Continue reading...

Water Pollution

Aside from the problem in the atmosphere and the increasing temperatures caused by global warming, a potable and clean water source is becoming a problem due to the continuous effects of water pollution. According to Cordy (2001), several tests are done in bodies of water to consider if they are fit for human consumption or if they are contaminated with harmful substances. Water quality standards are determined in three factors: biological, chemical, and physical. These three factors cover characteristics that would determine if it is safe to drink the tested water. In biological attributes, scientists determine the number and Continue reading...

1.0 Introduction
The explosion of British Petroleum’s (BP’s) Macondo well in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico on the 20th of April the year 2010 is by far the largest accidental oil spill ever to be experienced in the universe. The fact that the oil spill occurred in a record period of three months demonstrates the magnitude of the spill. In fact, empirical evidence has ascertained that the oil spill as a result of the explosion far exceeds the one that was experienced as result of the combined effects of the Ixtoc blow out of Continue reading...

British Petroleum – Perspectives on Gulf of Mexico’s Oil Spill

Introduction
The Deep Horizon oil spill caused by British Petrouleum’s improper operations in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, marked an environmental catastrophe, although BP has tried to minimize its effects and its outcomes. In her article, “BP’s Deep Secrets”, Julia Whitty investigates precisely the outcomes of the oil spill on a long term, focusing mostly on the Gulf ecosystem and following how are the flora and fauna from this area are affected by this catastrophe.
The current essay, based on Julia Whitty’s article will be supported by other sources that have treated this Continue reading...

Introduction

Arguably, the global pollution is tremendously in the rise. Many people visit the coastal region of Southern California Beach; hence, pollution is increasingly threatening the waters, which individuals play, and swim exposing them to the risk of illness. Studies show that approximately three beaches in Southern California were ranked the most dirtiest beaches in the nation, these included L.A County’s Avalon, Doheny Beach, and Cabrillo Beach. Undeniably, beach vocations form an annual event among many people and families in the United States. As a matter of fact, beachgoers at most polluted beaches in Southern California bring back a Continue reading...

Outline
I. Introduction
Thesis Statement: In the issue of clean water supply and abundance, the United States government should issue strict laws against water pollution because it contaminates agriculture, causes human diseases and poisons animals.
II. Agriculture Contamination
The chemicals are mixed with water which runs off.
Water runs off with some of the soil nutrients
The land becomes less fertile and unproductive.
B. Contaminated water is not fit for farming
Water contamination makes water unfit for agricultural use
Using the water for irrigation affects the plants negatively.
III. Human diseases
A. Water borne diseases can result from the use of contaminated waters.
Diseases such as typhoid, cholera, and other water borne diseases that affect humans
The diseases are brought Continue reading...

The issue on having an abundant supply of clean water has been one of the major frontiers of environmental advocacy since the early 1950s as the globe now feels the consequences of man’s quest for technology and improvement. Global Warming and Pollution are two of the most prominent issues on the environment that affects two of the important resources human kind now slowly reduces – air and water. Water is the fountain of life as it sustains every living organism with nutrients needed for development. Like air, living organisms depend on water to provide nutrients and energy. In the Continue reading...