Minimizing the Effects of Industrial Pollution Draft

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I. Industrial Pollution

Industrial pollution is the pollution and waste by-product directly connected with

industrial manufacturing. Industrial pollution represents the leading worldwide cause of pollution

in general and probably the most toxic to all life and nature. Because industrial pollutants are

produced in such large capacity from manufacturing worldwide and because they last so long

before breaking down, this kind of pollution is a toxicity risk for the entire planet.

Industrial pollution is the pollution that is directly linked to the industry. This form of

pollution is the leading causes of pollution worldwide. Industrial pollution became a serious

problem worldwide, especially rapidly industrializing countries, because of its scope.

There are numerous forms of industrial pollution. The most common is the water

pollution caused by throwing industrial wastes in our waterways that may cause leakage and

contamination in our groundwater. Other forms are air pollution and soil pollution.

II. Presentation of facts and cases

Modern industrial pollutants don't use smokestacks nearly as often as in the past, but

there is a far greater presence of liquid chemical pollutant produced. With the refining of

manufacturing came new ways of melting, cleaning, acidifying and steaming products. That

created another rainbow of pollutant by-product. Water pollution is now one of the biggest

industrial pollutants, with waste water pumped daily from factories that use it for washing and


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cooling among other uses.

There are many facts and cases that cause industrial pollution one of it is the high levels

of industrial pollutants shown in the ice cores from Antarctica and Arctic where it deeply

illustrates the distance which air pollutants can travel and traces of industrial pollutants have

been identified in isolated human, animal, and plant populations too.

Another is the improper use of pesticides in the United States. Americans use

approximately 2.2 billion pounds of pesticides every year. Seventy-three different kinds of

pesticides have been found in groundwater, which is potential drinking water and more than 100

active pesticide ingredients are suspected of causing cancer, birth defects, and gene mutation.

The use of nuclear weapons in some countries causes a lot of destruction in some problems. The

cost of one nuclear weapons test alone could finance the installation of eighty thousand hand

pumps, giving third world villages access to clean water which is a great benefit but The

Environmental Protection Agency showed an estimated the costs of cleaning up the 24,000

contaminated federal nuclear facilities that ranges from $100 billion to $400 billion. And

according to The Gale Environmental Scorecard, each year industrial factories spew 3 million

tons of toxic chemicals into the air, land, and water. The compounds are over one-half billion

tons of solid hazardous wastes that get dumped across the nation for our generations for one day

clean up.

Industrial pollution hurts the environment in many ways that gives a negative impact on

human lives and health. The pollutants kill animals and plants that cause imbalance ecosystems,


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degrade air quality, damage buildings, and lastly degrade quality of life. Factory workers in areas

with uncontrolled industrial pollution are especially vulnerable.

Many industries today are not allowed to release industrial pollutants willy-nilly. They

either ship them off to destruction vendors or recycle them. This situation creates a lot of storage

of by-product waiting for final treatment. Many times leaks or accidental breaks in storage

barriers can cause these pollutants to spread into the immediate area with significant damage and

poisoning of the environment. Chemicals released in landfills or slurry coal ash pits that break

loose are common examples of industrial pollutants causing widespread damage to

neighborhoods.

III. Assumptions or Possibilities

Point source pollution enters a water body at a specific site and is generally readily

identified. Potential point sources of pollution include effluent discharges from sewage treatment

works and industrial sites, power stations, landfill sites, fish farms, and oil spillage via a pipeline

from industrial sites.

Point source pollution is generally readily prevented since it is possible to identify where

it is coming from and, having done so, those responsible for causing the pollution can take

preventative measures through immediate remedial action or longer-term investment in treatment

and control facilities.


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Diffuse pollution arises where substances are widely used and dispersed over an area as a

result of land-use activities such as urban development, amenity, farming and forestry.

These activities may be recent or have been carried out in the past. It is often difficult to

identify specific sources of such pollution and therefore take immediate action to prevent it,

since prevention often requires major changes to land use and management practices.

IV. Alternative courses of action

Pollution preventionis an exceptionally major global concern because of pollutions

harmful effects on the persons health and on the environment.There are new alternative ways to

reduce air pollution. The most alternative way is to reduce toxic air pollutants. Toxic air

pollutants, or air toxics, are suspected of causing cancer, birth defects, reproduction problems,

and other serious illnesses. Exposure to certain levels of some toxic air pollutants can cause

difficulty in breathing, nausea or other illnesses. Exposure to certain toxic pollutants can even

cause death.

Factories and industrial plants are largely responsible for pollution of the air, water and

land. The waste they discharge into the rivers and land will destroy both. The smoke they emit

pollute the air. What they must do is to find ways to reduce their wastes. Also they have to treat

their wastes so that they are less harmful. Then they have to find ways to reduce the smoke they

emit. All these things are required if we are to see any reduction of pollution. At the rate things

are going however, we see increase in pollution instead.


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Whether we can really reduce pollution and thus save our planet is up to us. Pollute it

more and we shall perish.

V. Recommendation

One factor that we may do to minimize the pollution is to control the location of

industries that causes the pollution. The main object of an industrialist for locating his industry at

a particular place is his profit. The town planning authorities should be concerned in location of

an industry from the view point of the public interest. The success of measures adopted to

control location of industries will depend on the adjustment of these two motives or interests.

As a future civil engineer, it is a must that we know how to minimize the pollution that

causes that causes a big burden in the world that tortures all the living things within the pollution

boundaries.

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