Water pollutionis not a recent phenomenon. For instance, the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, has presented several instances of fire hazards due to pollution such as debris and oil slicks as early as 1868. While there are other instances of river pollution, the Cuyahoga is the most well k...
Browse Articles Article Type Year All Water industry strategies to manufacture doubt and deflect blame for sewage pollution in England In the past 5 years, a huge amount of untreated wastewater has been released into English waterways. An analysis of the communication used by the water utilities ...
Poorer water quality means water pollution.We know that pollution is a human problem because it is a relatively recent development in the planet's history: before the 19th century Industrial Revolution, people lived more in harmony with their immediate environment. As industrialization has spread ...
This ongoing development creates new challenges in relation to waste and wastewater handling, pollution control, human health, management of contaminated land and protection of the water supply. A recent survey on the status of water and sanitation in the circumpolar Arctic reports a significantly ...
and control pollution sources dedicated to environmental restoration in the recent decade37. Contributions of the investments on the improved surface water quality (characterized mainly by COD and NH+4-N concentrations) and the regional difference were quantified in a recent study46. Notwithstanding a ...
However, non-segregated numerous, unstructured, impulsive use causes water pollution, affecting the wellbeing of users, particularly the poor, who have no other source of water. In recent years, freshwater aquatic bodies have experienced the greatest decrease in quality as well as quantity in every...
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and food tasters are still used by some heads of state. These so-calledsentinel specieshave been known and used for decades if not centuries. But recent projects using clams to detect water pollution are providing real-time electronic feedback. They are using the speciesActinonaias ligamentina,...
Surface water pollution is generally caused by pathogens, nutrients, plastics, chemicals such as heavy metals, pesticides, antibiotics, industrial waste discharges, and individuals dumping into waterways. From: Algae and Aquatic Macrophytes in Cities, 2022 ...
Recently, the DWS of South Africa has expressed concern over the levels of sewer pollution in the country’s freshwater resources, mainly due to the poor state of South Africa’s wastewater treatment facilities (DWS, 2017). The dysfunctional state of many of the country’s wastewater treatment ...