Recently, E. G. Simmons Regional Park in Hillsboro County, Florida was issued a warning due to high levels of enterococci bacteria being found in the water. As a recreational park offering fishing, swimming, and camping, this is a serious problem. To understand why this is such an important issue, it must first be understood exactly what enterococci bacteria is, and the health risks that elevated levels of these bacteria can pose. Enterococci bacteria are fecal bacteria often used to measure the pollution levels of water. A.M. Hammerum, a scientist at Serum Institute describes enterococci bacteria as completely normal. Enterococci bacteria live not …show more content…
Furthermore, A. M. Hammerum suggests that the antibiotic resistance of enterococci may contribute to antibiotic resistance in other bacteria (2012 p. 619). This means that those individuals most likely to become infected such as persons with compromised immune systems or small children and the elderly can become severely ill either from initial exposure to enterococci or from a different bacteria that has had its antimicrobial resistance boosted by enterococci.
Regardless of the commonality of enterococci in everyday life, elevated levels pose a serious health risk. An outbreak in bacterial illness from recreational waters will cause parks to miss out on visitors and lose income, as no person wants to go somewhere that is known to cause illness. Further investigation into ways to quickly lower already elevated levels of enterococci bacteria in water and sand must be done
Unfortunately, this impact cannot be managed very effectively or else it means reducing the number of visitors, therefore, decreasing the park’s popularity.
Building a dog park will be a very costly project that will impact the public, which in turn can raise taxes. This impact will not go well with taxpayers, especially, with the economy steady raising taxes for other city projects and needs.
The evidence used in order to find out if the cases are connected would be the groups of people exposed to the contaminant.
Today in medicine doctors are rapidly isolating and distinguishing the many pathogenic microbes encountered daily within the environment. Public health has been affected from the faster identification of microorganisms by delivering an accurate analysis to patients in order to receive treatment of the disease in a timely manner. Due to the growing understanding of these organisms more have been easier to indicate to improve water quality. Also more methods have been developed for better treatment options from fecal bacteria in public water systems. Scientist has developed such specific methods of identifying the unknown organism to tell if the contamination has come from either a human, bird, or mammal. (Achtman et al., 2008)
Although there are many management plans put in, most of the public doesn’t know or understand why and how these plans are put in to actions. Somethings are small, like littering but it could become a big impact to the park if more than one person in the society does it. I think that there should be events and programs informing the people in the society about the protection of the park, so everyone will be contributing regardless of age and
Reflect: It is factual information. Foremost, it’s important because it supports the credibility of the claim and it proves that it is a real and current issue to the audiences. Therefore, people could easily justify on whether they should pay attention to the issue or not. Typically, the public will care more about the problem that is going to impact the public good and all matters that could devalue their living and also well-being. By this reason alone, I believe the material will support my claim and get audiences’ attention.
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This may seem controversial as some people may not be able to understand how public parks benefit anyone. Public parks may seem purely aesthetic and ornamental, adding no true value to society, therefore some would argue that the government has no justification for taking their property.
That summer, there was an E. coli advisory. The town added chlorine to try to insure adequate
This has caused a decrease in park visitors over the past few years, and profits for national and state parks have decreased along with it. This provides a rational argument for Republicans in their reasoning for selling these parks. If the parks are losing profit then it is due to the government's incapability to manage them, and it would be costly for us to continue maintaining them on a federal level. Now, if privatizing the parks was a viable solution to this issue, then any alternative agendas may be considered irrelevant. As if it truly were better for the parks to have them managed by industries and corporations, then this could be something supported by both sides. However this is not the case. Because of the inherent nature of parks and profit-for-sustainability (ie non-profit), profit driven privatization goes directly against their mechanism. As Priest mentioned earlier, privatization traditionally promotes increases in profits through the introduction of
The water supply was officially switched in April of 2014, and shortly after, residents began to complain about the smell and color of their water. Months after resident’s complaints were essentially ignored, E. coli and coliform bacteria were detected in the water (NPR, 2016). Residents were advised to boil their water until pipes were flushed and water was treated with chlorine. The exact same scenario occurred for a second time in September.
However, a good or service that is provided but it is difficult to exclude those how have not paid for it is nonexclusivity. The light posts in the park can also be used again because the HOA paid for it as a means to deter crime. It would be hard to charge individuals to use the park since it is open
As Schlosser proves with his alluring facts, E. Coli is one of the most popular infections to be recognized throughout the nation. With his in-depth research, he provides the stories of the average everyday American who has been infected or passed away with such a horrid disease. Furthermore, Ingrid Abboud, from nittygriddy.com states, “Studies revealed 50% of fountain drink dispensers were found to be contaminated with fecal bacteria”.
The Issue of National Park conservation has become a widely controversial issue today. With the National debt reaching 17 trillion dollars some politicians think it is alright to either sell off national park land to commercial foresters, miners, and even foreign nations or to just close some parks entirely to make up some of the national debt. They are completely unaware that the parks arent just a “pretty area of land for tourists”. Many cities depend on the parks for their well-being. A quote from a local newspaper in California supports this “National parks don’t boast concession stands or charge tax, but data indicates they bring in millions of dollars to local economies each year”(Tree). Supporters of cutting the parks include big CEO’s of major companies and some of them not even in this country.
Visitors and traffic management: Reducing the impacts on sensitive natural areas would enable the local communities to protect and sustain for future generations. The Peak District National Park could be shown as an example, as they have visitors from all around the world and it has enormous impact on social life’s as well as the landscape of the visiting places. By restricting, the visitor numbers would essentially lead them to cover most of the areas and it will reduce the traffic. They can minimise the risks by enforcing external visitors to visit at certain time, which will create an opportunity for protection and other things.