The Pollution of East Kazakhstan

The most polluted lake is in Russia. It is called Lake Karachay. It can kill within an hour of being near its vicinity. It was the place where russia dumped all of its radioactivity. The lake now posses caesium-137 and strontium-90. powder is produce from caesium because it can easily bond with chlorides. Strontium-90 also produces a large amount of radiation with a half life of just under 30 years. Many residents were uninformed of the radioactivity and drank the lake water. Leukemia risen over 40% and cancer risen over 20%. This was around the surrounding vicinity. It also cause a rise in birth defects.

There is greater awareness of the issues and hazards of the dumping of chemical waste and there are laws restricting the dumping of this waste. Since many individuals rely on groundwater for drinking water, many of them are drinking contaminated water. Due to this, there are many health risks including, hepatitis, poisoning and cancer when exposed to polluted water. As well, the wildlife can be harmed from the contaminated ground water.

Most of it is salt water and now more than ever it is being contaminated with pollution from pesticides. The pollution of water comes from many forms. Radioactive wastes, nuclear explosions, domestic waste, and especially from chemical sprays. In Silent Spring, Carson discusses that people still did not know all the bad effects of chemicals in the environment, yet they continued to use them in massive quantities. The problem with the chemicals is increased when they are combined. Chemicals in rivers are mixing to such a degree that scientists can’t even analyze them properly to figure out what the multiple combinations have created. Some chemicals are put in water deliberately to destroy plants, organisms, and even unwanted fish. Some chemicals even seep into the rivers from forest spraying. Most are residues of all the millions of pounds of chemicals that are put on farmlands. These residues have gotten into the underground water streams and moved slowly to the rivers and into the ocean. However, the contamination of groundwater is by far the most significant threat when it comes to polluting water because nature doesn’t operate in closed and separate compartments, it’s not only the water that’s being contaminated. Thus, the pollution of groundwater is the pollution of the entire

Recently in Eastern Europe, there has been warnings about Western Europe bringing over the unrestricted burning of high-sulfur brown coal and fumes from diesel fuel. This unwanted pollution is blacking cities all throughout Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Dying forests and fish-less lakes are being wrought away by these dangerous toxins. Some say that “Pollution is the price of progress”. Pollution is not progress, pollution is destroying Eastern Europe as well as the rest of the Earth. We need to find a solution to this problem, and quick!

Science is developing everyday. There are numerous amounts of products coming out from the companies and being wasted everyday. Interesting fact is even though people are brilliant at making new products, but they do not have solution how they are going to do with the waste after being used. Most of the wastes are ship to developing countries in Asia. The major country would be China. Since China has 3rd largest land scale in whole world there are numerous amount of trash to be buried or burn. Also, there are a lot of companies around the world have factories in China, because they have cheap labor and huge land. Major company would be Apple, Omega watch, and other huge companies we know. Since china takes numerous amount of percentage of human population around the world there are food problems in China, which affects the sustainability in environment.

Water pollution is affecting many forms of life directly and indirectly throughout the globe; likewise, it can be disastrous for the future generations. For example, one of the most disastrous and harmful “types of” pollution deal with the factor of it being direct

Ukraine is distinct for being home to some of the richest natural environments and resources in Europe while at the same time being one of the most heavily polluted countries in the region. Ukraine is one of the least energy efficient countries in the world (Bank, 2007). World Bank (2007) composed an inventory in 1998, and estimated that total emissions from Ukraine were 246 million tons of CO2, and in 2002 the total emissions were 487.7 million tons of carbon equivalents. Ukraine has a severely high level of air pollution. This pollution is caused by emissions from road traffic, industries, and the energy sector. In 2005, over 200 cities in Ukraine exceeded the levels established by the World Bank health standards for annual

Through recent studies, scientists have noticed that political issues have actually made the air in the Middle East cleaner. Scientists have discovered this because of the significant changes they can see from space. These scientists looked at 10 years of recorded data taken by NASA’s Aura spacecraft which records the Ozone levels such as nitrogen oxide. Nitrogen oxide emissions have dropped because of the civil war in Syria, movement of refugees, new environmental safety laws and the amounts of fossil fuels used in the Middle East. Scientists have found that 58% of nitrogen oxide emissions around the world are cause by the burning of fossil fuels. Since the Middle East has more fossil fuels, they produce more nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide. In places such as Saudi Arabia, within 5 years, their general energy consumption rose along with their nitrogen oxide levels. During those five years, Saudi Arabia passed a law that was aimed toward reducing the country’s environmental footprint causing the consumption to continue to rise while the nitrogen oxide emissions dropped. Other Middle Eastern countries such as Kuwait started putting their own air quality standards into play proving that air control is successful. These standards were leading other countries like the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa to pass a Clean Air Law. The result of the Clean Air Law was as successful as the law passed in Saudi Arabia. Other causes for the drops in emission levels were not as

This essay intends to first introduce the disappearing Aral Sea, which due to the extensive agricultural activities devised by the Soviet government in the region, the former fourth-largest lake of the world is now the world's eighth largest lake. This has resulted in perhaps the world's most prominent man-made ecological disaster, giving its location and background knowledge with a map, and then describe its future in terms of how it is going to be utilized and what the consequences are, and then finally state what can be done about this “crisis”.

There are two major problem regarding groundwater. First, groundwater contamination which also caused by surface water contamination. Pollutants from surface water, such as fish kills, discoloration and odor, is brought downward by water travelling through soil which cause the groundwater contamination (Kenski 3). Because groundwater is less visible compare to surface water, it is hardly noticed and cleaned. Consequently, groundwater quality becomes poor and needs another long procedure to revert it back to usable freshwater. Groundwater contaminations happen around the world that contribute to world’s water shortage.

Ground and surface water are the main sources for water providers. Many of these nation’s waters are contaminated by pollutants. There are several federal and state regulations to address the issues of pollution of the waterways by industrial and other sources.

The point pollution sources in this present report were the wastewaters from the animal lot and residential lagoon systems. The diffuse pollution sources were from upstream areas of the sampling points. The concentrations of detected PHCs in this study are summarized in Table 4. Four pharmaceutical compounds (ENRO, OTC, TYLO, and TC) and metabolite / impurity (EHTC) were detected out of seventy four target compounds in all samples. ENRO, TC and OTC are broad-spectrum antibiotics. ENRO, a fluoroquinolone inhibit bacterial DNA replication process through the DNA gyrase enzyme. It is used in livestock production to treat diseases. The tetracylines are used to inhibit bacterial cell

The Volga River is under investigation because dams upstream have altered the natural flow regime of the river. Another reason is the mass amount of fishing and lastly the river is under investigation because of the poor water quality.

There are many types of water and air pollutants. In this text, I will concern myself with the various forms of both water and air pollutants. In so doing, I will amongst other things subject the selected pollutants to an analysis in an attempt to determine their sources and effect on the environment.

The recent development of water supply projects in the cities and townships has not met the increasing demands of urban population and huge investment is necessary to improve water supply facilities in the cities. 212.Water drainage Most urban centers are served by various forms of open drainage such as ditches and street gutters. Only a small percentage has access to sewerage systems. The lack of wastewater treatment in the cities constitutes a major health hazard during periods of storm and flooding, when coliform and fecal pollutants from human wastes are easily spread through contaminated floodwaters.Water logging problems in the main cities are due to the dilapidated drainage systems and an aging culvert system, parts of which dated since the French administration. The inadequacy of drainage systems causes flood in many areas in the cities and all the wastes flow together with the rainy waters into canals and lakes. Maintenance of existing systems has not kept pace with the increasing influx of population. 213 Water pollution. Water pollution is the most serious environmental problem and with a growing urbanization, many cities are ill equipped to provide their growing populations the safe water and sanitation they need. a / Sources of water pollution. It may come from: . wastewater from industries and minor handicrafts which have