Essays on Water Pollution

Every second of every day, thousands of people buy and open up plastic bottles of commercially produced water, adding up to about eighty-five million bottles a day in the United States only. Peter H. Gleick starts out with these statistics, making it absolutely clear that…

The following stated is the balanced chemical equation for complete combustion of a saturated long-chain hydrocarbon: As we see in the graph, over the period, which is from 1910 to 2000, the amount of oil produced has increased abundantly. This is the result of the…

Water is the most important and vital issue in our everyday life, it has a significant effect on our well-being, hence most governments have tried to provide clean and safe drinking water to its inhabitants. However, a rising global consumption of plastic bottled water has…

An area that I previously lived near was the Pacific Ocean, and this place was located approximately two miles from Newport and Huntington Beach, California. I lived near these two Southern California beaches for twenty years and visited them both frequently. I feel fortunate to…

Introduction Due to mining water quality in Northern Territory has been affected. Mining involves digging up the ground during this process plants are often removed and killed in the process erosion occurs especially after the mine has fully been harvested, erosion causes soil particles to…

Introduction It is of the utmost importance to have access to clean drinking water, no matter how far one resides from developed society (Hall, Van Koppen & Van Houweling, 2014). In ‘Arsenic groundwater contamination in Middle Ganga Plain, Bihar, India: A future danger?’ – Environmental…

Introduction Water is a source of life and regarded as the most essential of natural resources. Increasing contamination of freshwater with thousands of industrial and natural chemicals is one of the key environmental problems in today’s world. Among other pollutants, the Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)…

Introduction This paper will examine the impact on oceans due to the release of one billion gallons of sewage by the cruise ships. Initially this paper would explain the situation in terms of externality theory and its impact on the community. Later it will explain…

Humans have become more powerful than we ever were before, especially in this millennium, but not in a good way. Sure, most of the crops we have can resist diseases and pests, and we know how to restart someone’s heart. However, everything humankind has accomplished,…

Water being a need is key to the survival of humans, animals, plants, and all living organisms in general. Its usage among humans range from agriculture, industrial to domestic. The estimated volume of water on earth is about 1.4×1018 cubic meters. Approximately 3% of earth’s…