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    What are Antiniotics?

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    antibiotic contamination Antibiotics can go through the atmosphere by way of waste water treatment plant effluents, hospital waste processing plant effluents, farming waste, and outflow from waste-storage and landfills. Pollution from total municipal sewage may be correlated to the rise in bacteria resistant to the most powerful antibiotics. Water discharged into lakes

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    better fit to survive in their environment will survive. Based on his theory and research, it can be concluded that challenges to the environment directly affect the organisms. Research shows that in particular water pollution; hospital wastewater and sewage wastewater, is shown to cause antibiotic-resistant microorganisms, excess nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus as well as heavy metals that harm the aquatic life present in the body of water. Antibiotic-resistant microorganisms refer to organisms

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    Water Pollution

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    Abstract India’s vast and developing population is putting quite a stress on all of the country’s natural resources. Most sources of water are polluted by unmanaged sewage and agricultural overflow. Even though the country has made some progress, water contamination is still a big issue throughout the country. Although access to clean drinking water has improved, the World Bank calculated that 21% of communicable diseases in India are still related to contaminated water. According to water.org

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    not in the correct ways. Located outside of Beijing is a secret company who buy plastic bottles from people and turn these water bottles into chemical fibers that are then dumped into water. The water is then polluted because they do not have proper sewage or filtration systems. This is causing more harm than good. People selling their plastics to this company don’t realize they 're hurting their country and people more because all they are educated on is the money they will receive from selling the

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    Wastewater Technician

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    Not many people know where the water that we use in our everyday lives goes to and how it gets treated and comes back to us. Wastewater technicians are specialized technicians who treat wastewater or process or dispose sewage. These technicians are very important to the environment because they purify the water and bring it back to the environment making it a healthier and cleaner place. One of the most popular cities for wastewater technicians is Providence,RI. Wastewater technicians are needed

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    built with an intend to oversee wastewater in order to minimize and/or expel organic matter, solids, nutrients, disease-causing organisms, pollutants and different toxins, before it re-enters a water body. The concentrations were assessed from two sewage treatment units; the largest STP situated at 1 Town with handling capacity of 38 MLD took after by Arilova STP of 13MLD capacity. It was uncovered from the execution, examine that effectiveness of the two treatment plants was poor concerning expulsion

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    The Huang He River

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    Esteemed members of the UNESCO Board. The Huang He River, commonly referred to as the Yellow River is a riverine landscape that flows from the West of China to the East, through nine Northern Provinces. (Huang He Britannica, 2011) The rivers source (the Kunlun Mountains) are located at 36°N and 84°E and its mouth (the Bohai Sea) is located at 38.7°N and 119.9°E. Located in China, this river should be under the state of investigation by UNESCO due to the bad pollution the region is receiving. The

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    today. There won’t be any living organism on our planet without water. Water Pollution occurs when a body of water is severely affected due to addition of large amount of materials to the water.[Missouri Botanical Garden] Pollutions such as sewage and fertilizers contain nutrients such as nitrates and phosphates. At high levels, nutrients can over stimulate the growth of aquatic plants and algae. Excessive growth of these types of organisms consequently clogs our waterways, use up dissolved

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    the highest probability of experiencing phytoestrogen exposure in their natural habitats. Additionally, when considering phytoestrogens’ ability to cause reproductive and developmental malfunction in fishes, waterborne phytoestrogen’s presence in sewage treatment plants’ liquid waste, runoff from agricultural areas utilizing manure and wood pulp mills ' liquid waste is concerning. B) Behavioral effects of exposures to short term genistein, equol, β-sitosterol, and 17 β-estradiol on B. splendens

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    ”One would believe that with such a staggering increase in sewage, from thirty-eight thousand million liters per day in 2009 to sixty-two thousand million liters per day today, that the sewage treatment plants would increase their capacity, but surprisingly, have not (Vashishtha 2015).” Even in 2009, India did not have the treatment capacity to provide adequate services. Now, with sewage doubled, the capacity to treat the polluted water has remained constant. ”According to

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