How To Keep Sewage In Victoria's Ugly Stain

This issue was becoming so bad that businesses would donate or pay to have better sewer systems because the water they used to cook/boil food was polluted and not healthy for people to digest.

This is again a very weak and unsupported claim as the argument does not demonstrate evidence how many complains do they receive or from how many people or from how long ago. May be, the only few people complain about it or repeatedly complaining about it. May be, they have complained long time ago and now the water quality improved and offensive smell removed naturally. If the argument had provided evidence that lots of people from all parts of the city adjacent to the river are complaining then the argument would have been a lot more

The article Victoria’s ugly stain is about the sewage treatment in Victoria. Over the past few years, Victoria population has placed over 34 billion litres of sewage into lakes and oceans. At this moment, it’s not effecting environment, but it can hazardous to environment in future years. It can also become dangerous for living beings such as aquatic life and animals in forests. For example, writer talks about the metals found in the human waste such as copper, mercury and lead are contaminating ocean water. Also toxic byproducts from motor oil and vehicle

The author uses the aspect of how the children’s health deteriorating to have the audience moved through the concept of devastation, making them sway in his argument. He even fuels the audience anger by stating how the government, for years, have not funded the people to help with water, causing the people to get stuck with using contaminated water. Using these points to make the audience feel a certain way after reading the article and want to help with what is going in

To address the issue of unregulated fertilizer pollution in water supplies, Glennon quantitatively analyzes the amount of fertilizer that is used in the United States: “According to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the agricultural industry annually applies 110 billion pounds of fertilizer to one-eighth of the landmass of the continental United States” (69). With this statistic, Glennon creates opportunities in his piece to include new and compelling evidence that demonstrates the dangers of water pollution and its impacts on the nation. Along with this statistic concerning fertilizers, Glennon further expands his claim to describe the issue of runoff from other chemicals, such as perchlorate, in water supplies: “…the contamination plume from the Kerr-McGee plant contains 20 million pounds of perchlorate dissolved in more than 9 billion gallons of water” (69). By including the words “million” and “billion” in his data about chemical runoff, Glennon intimidates the reader into believing that these contamination issues affect populations on an enormous scale. He also frequently uses authoritative figures to strengthen his claim: “[A 2004 EPA report] alarmingly predicted that as many as 355,000 hazardous waste sites would require cleanup over the next thirty years, costing $250 billion” (75). Glennon attempts to alarm the reader and expose the detrimental costs of water pollution and its widespread consequences. However, while Glennon usually cites his evidence, he also includes information from unknown sources, which causes the reader to question the validity of some of his claims. In one argument concerning TCE, another industrial chemical, Glennon declares the dangers of the chemical without

The book begins at the source of the original problem; Boston Harbor having raw sewage dumped into it causing it to be “the dirtiest harbor in America” or as it was called “The Harbor of Shame”. Therefore, came a solution the second largest state of the art sewage plant would be built so the treated remains would go through the 9.8-mile tunnel under the sea floor and be discharged out into Massachusetts Bay. Well, as the book explains in great detail it was not that simple neither was the content of the book. As I explained above, it starts with the contaminated Boston Harbor and with an astounding

The story takes place during an epidemic outbreak that spread rapidly as well as vigorously. Steven Johnson begins the book in London during the nineteenth century (1854). The book discusses the contaminated conditions in England. More than two million people were living within a 10 mile radius. In particular, he starts by painting a picture of the lower class. He calls them rag-gatherers, deredgermen, bone-pickers, myud-larks, night soil men, and more. The main character in the story is a man named Dr. John Snow. While everyone is convinced that people are dying because of the terrible smell, Snow spends his time trying to prove that the smell isn’t what’s killed people. He didn’t know it at first, but research and proof supporting his research proved time and time again that it was a bigger deal than smell. In his book, Johnson says,“Great breakthroughs are closer to what happens in a floodplain: a dozen separate tributaries converge, and the rising waters lift the genius high enough that he or she can see around the conceptual obstructions of the age.” (pg. 149). His belief was that cholera, a disease commonly spread through water is what’s causing all the deaths. Johnson gives the reader a view of Snow’s day to day efforts of proving himself. And although, Dr. Snow played a colossal part in this story, Reverend Henry Whitehead, whose expanded knowledge of the

To begin with, humans can become very sick due to chemicals in the water.As more farmland is being made, many people grow sugarcane. When they harvest the crop, the fertilizer chemicals can enter the water In the

After taking samples, and running tests on the water of the U-Creek, the conclusion was made that the water quality of the U-Creek is excellent. Water quality is not excellent in all cases, but keeping good water quality is very important for life of the organisms in the water. One way that humans could change the water quality, or pollute the water is through runoff. Rivers are a very convenient place for the companies or farms to get rid of waste. For example, farmers put pesticides and fertilizers on their crops to protect them from bugs, or to help them grow better. Fertilizers contain nitrates and phosphates, if large amounts of these two things end up in the water it will lead to an overgrowth of plant life, and algae growth. Over time as the algae starts to rapidly grow, the algae will start to use up all of the dissolved oxygen in the water. Dissolved oxygen is very important to organism life so if it is all gone then organisms will start to die. Another way that humans pollute water is through chemical water deposits. Chemical waste is discharged from industrial processes, that can end up in rivers or streams. An example of a

problems for the people living in that area. She talks about problems created “by contaminating

The author lists the series of events that followed in a rather matter of fact tone. Boyle’s excellent use of dark satire gives the narrator a remarkable way to spin the story in favor of his company. His attempt to persuade the reader to agree with the choices made. The original desired outcome, to kill the malaria ridden mosquitos, is accomplished. That in turn, created the next problem. The satirical commentary of the narrator make each new incident seems ridiculous. The chemical company then fixes that problem. By now, the audience is waiting for the next incredulous incident to

The article "China's Poisonous Waterways" by Sheng Keyi is an article explaining how China's rivers are dead because they are being destroyed by factories who are polluting them. The cancer rates in China are rising, yet the citizens are continuing to drink, bathe, and gather food from the water. The paper I read written by a former student explains in more detail about Shen Keyi's story. She does a great job picking out important details about the article and showing how this problem can be related to her and her country of origin Kenya.

Communities located along the Strait of Juan de Fuca are being affected by something that’s hidden in the water. It is something which communities have attempted to fix; however, there is still a lot that needs to be done to completely reverse the effects it has made. This hidden thing is the pollutants humans have intentionally and unintentionally dumped into the Strait of Juan De Fuca. The dumping of sewage, the leaking of industrial waste, and the flushing of household waste are all contributing to the build-up of toxic pollutants in the Strait. Individuals will discovers the ways the Strait has been affected by certain pollutants, will learn about the plans communities ' have started in an attempt to mitigate the impact, and will find

This book was written in 1962, and since then the problem of polluted water has only increased. It was clear to me that Carson was extremely concerned with environmental problems that were happening in that time period, and she wanted to let people know that it needed to end soon, or else the problem will only get worse. In my opinion, although I was not around in the 1960’s, things have gotten worse since then. Not only are individuals still using household pesticides to kill unwanted insects, but now larger industries are adding to the pesticides in the water by dumping other chemicals and toxins in it. Since the population is constantly increasing, so are towns and industries which lead to an increase of pollutants, toxins, and wastes. I have read that the amount of wastes that are trying to be filtered through pipes is more then those pipes can handle, therefore

Water dumping is categorized into a three-part list. It is a gradient list, which begins with the black list, merges to gray, and finished with white. All variant degrees of pollution with different