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    The city of Oakland, California lies at the center of the Pacific Coast between Canada and Mexico. Oakland is on the east side of San Francisco Bay, 19 miles of coastline to the west and flatland/hills to the east. The community surrounding Oakland occupies a total area of 78.0 square miles, land of 55.8 square miles and water of 22.2 square miles (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010). According to the city data, cities adjacent to Oakland include Berkeley (north); San Leandro (south); Alameda across the estuary;

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    Bioremediation: A potential solution to reduce our footprint Industrialized societies are now tormented by several pollution problems that were largely unknown prior to WWII. Prominent among these problems is environmental pollution of xenobiotic synthetic chemicals that fail to be recycled by microorganism and may be biomagnified with destructive effects. Also, deforestation, land conversion, overhunting and the burning of fossil fuels are other human’s activities that impact negatively our ecosystem

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    High rates of surface runoff and erosion of land covered by annual crops have high levels of turbidity in receiving water specially in spring when vegetation cover is minimal. • Wetlands used in removal of bacterial contamination in rivers , act as biofilter which increases the turbidity. • Turbidity is negatively related with the forested areas and positively with the annual crops and urban land use. • Annual crops have more turbidity than the perennial crops.so the when annual crops are converted into

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    Environment and Health Management: Bioaerosols Aerobiology is the study of passive air transport, covering all aspects of aerial dispersal, distribution and impact of biological particles present in outdoor and indoor air (Mandrioli and Ariatti, 2001). This involves the movement and dispersal of material (once-living or living) and microorganisms (viruses, bacteria and fungi, pollen grains) in the air, which as a result may be detrimental to human health. Bioaerosols are known as aerosols that

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    Our Role in Consumption and Recycling Essay

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    Our Role in Consumption and Recycling We all know that this country produces quite a lot of "stuff." Goods and services, we’re the economically-dominant country in the world. U.S. corporate power makes, the world takes. But with all this production, all these goods, comes a need to dispose of what we consider to be no longer useful. Some of it is in fact useful, some of it isn’t. But the fact is, we throw away a lot of stuff. Compared to the rest of the world, we dispose of goods much like we

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    The natural environment must be restored. Development of the world has seen the establishment and growth of various types of industries. However, even as these industries produce many needs of the world’s societies, they have at the same time produced an incredible amount of wastes that are polluting and harming our environment. As such, modern societies have been forced to think about how to develop indicators to measure and handle these wastes in order to protect the environment and ensure human

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    I. Clarity and Brevity of Background and Context Israel is a very well developed country, which helps them acquire the resources needed to meet Millennium Development Goals. The country is slightly larger than the state of New Jersey. Located in the Middle East, it borders the Mediterranean Sea, Gulf of Aqaba, and Sinai Peninsula (Middle East: Israel, 2014). Israel has been a topic of consistent power struggle regarding its borders, and over the past years, the “Gaza Strip.” The Gaza strip is

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    Pollution Introduction Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into an environment that causes instability, disorder, harm or discomfort to the ecosystem i.e. physical systems or living organisms. Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy, such as noise, heat, or light. Pollutants, the elements of pollution, can be foreign substances or energies, or naturally occurring; when naturally occurring, they are considered contaminants when they exceed natural levels. Pollution became

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    Living Machines, Constructed Wetlands and Sustainable Water Resources Thesis: Conventional waste treatment plants, Living Machines and constructed wetlands can all be used for water purification, but only living machines and constructed wetlands will provide the human race with a sustainable future. Introduction Our liquid planet glows like a soft blue sapphire in the hard edged darkness of space. There is nothing else like it in the solar system. It is because of water (Miller 311)

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    Waste Water Treatment

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    Sewage treatment The objective of sewage treatment is to produce a disposable effluent without causing harm to the surrounding environment and prevent pollution.[1] Sewage treatment, or domestic wastewater treatment, is the process of removing contaminants from wastewater and household sewage, both runoff (effluents) and domestic. It includes physical, chemical, and biological processes to remove physical, chemical and biological contaminants. Its objective is to produce an environmentally-safe

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