Indoor Air Pollutiuon Facts: What is Indoor Air Pollution and How to Reduce it
Indoor Air Pollution Facts: What is Indoor Air Pollution and How to Reduce it How is the Air Quality in your Home?
Indoor air pollution has been described by the EPA and Congress as America’s number one environmental health problem and indoor air pollution can be four to five times worse than outdoor air and even greater. The Department of Consumer Affairs states that children and the elderly are the ones most affected by polluted indoor air.
We spend about 90% of our time indoors and all this gets breathed into us and our children. Air pollutants can and do cause allergies, sick building syndrome, bacterial infections and spread viruses to name a few. The American College of Allergists state that 50% of all illnesses are caused by polluted indoor air. They state that 10 to 12 million people in the US suffer from asthma and that asthma is the single largest cause of hospital visits by children. Continue Reading Indoor Air Pollutiuon Facts: What is Indoor Air Pollution and How to Reduce it Here
Categories: Air Pollution, Green Health Tips, Home Interiors, Household, Personal Health, Pollution Tags: air, cleaners, health, home, indoor, indoor air pollution, outdoor, pollutants, pollution, quality, sources
What is a Water Treatment Plant?
What is a water treatment plant
On the other hand, there are treatment plants for waste-water, which treat human waste and other contaminants which were created by us, as when you flush the toilet, that then goes to a treatment facility where it is treated so it is safe to go back into the environment without creating an environmental disaster. What they primarily do is take out all the solids and other contaminants and make it safe to re-enter the environment again. In what is a water treatment plant, we are primarily concerned with treatment facilities that make water supplies safe for human consumption and use.
At these facilities, they provide treatment of the water which includes the steps used to make water safer and remove water contaminants. These water can then be safely used as drinking water, industrial processes, medical and many other uses. The goal of all water treatment processes is to remove existing contaminants in the water, or reduce the concentration of such contaminants so the water becomes fit for human consumption, or safe for its other uses. One such use is returning water that has been used back into the natural environment without creating adverse ecological impacts, such as untreated sewage.
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Environmental Policy What is an Environmental Policy and What We Need To Focus On
Environmental Policy - Expect More - Do More
It is useful for us to consider that environmental policy comprises two major terms: environment and policy. Environment primarily refers to the ecological dimension (ecosystems), but can also take account of the social dimension, or quality of life, and as an economic dimension correlating to resource management. The term policy can be defined as a course of action or principle adopted or proposed by a government, party, business or individual. That leaves us with the combined definition that an environmental policy focuses on problems arising from human impact on the environment, which retro-acts onto human society by having a negative impact on human values such as good health or a healthy, robust environment.
Environmental issues which are typically addressed by standard environmental policies include (but are not limited to) air and water pollution, waste management, ecosystem management, biodiversity protection, and the protection of natural resources, wildlife and endangered species. More recently however, environmental policy has expanded into the communication of environmental issues. Continue Reading Environmental Policy What is an Environmental Policy and What We Need To Focus On Here
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Toxic Waste – What is Toxic Waste – Do We Clean it Up or Illegally Dump it Overseas?
Toxic Waste - What is Toxic Waste - Do We Clean it Up or Illegally Dump it Overseas?
What is Toxic Waste
Toxic waste are poisonous byproducts of manufacturing, farming, construction, farming, city sewage and septic systems, automotive garages and repair shops, laboratories, hospitals, along with other industrial processes. The hazardous waste may come in the form of liquids, solids, or sludge and contain dangerous chemicals, heavy metals, radiation, dangerous pathogens, among other toxins. Households even generate hazardous waste from such common items as old batteries, old computer equipment and other electronics, old paints and pesticides to name several.
There are, in fact, many items in your household that can, and are considered to be toxic waste. To find out which items in your house classify as hazardous waste you can consult the Household Products Database which lists most, if not all of the potential toxic substances in items commonly found in homes. Continue Reading Toxic Waste – What is Toxic Waste – Do We Clean it Up or Illegally Dump it Overseas? Here
Categories: Environmentalism, Green Politics Hot Topics, Man Made Disasters, Toxic Waste, Water Pollution Tags: chemicals, dumping, environment, environmental, epa, hazardous, sites, toxic, toxic waste, waste, world
List of Drinking Water Contaminants & Their Maximum Contaminant Level: Disinfection Byproducts
List of Drinking Water Contaminants & Their Maximum Contaminant Level: Disinfection Byproducts
These byproducts are formed when disinfectants used in water treatment plants react with bromide and/or natural organic matter (i.e., decaying vegetation) present in the source water. Different disinfectants produce different types or amounts of byproducts. Byproducts from the disinfection process for which regulations have been established have been identified in drinking water, including trihalomethanes, haloacetic acids, bromate, and chlorite. Continue Reading List of Drinking Water Contaminants & Their Maximum Contaminant Level: Disinfection Byproducts Here
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List of Drinking Water Contaminants & Their Maximum Contaminant Level: Disinfectants
List of Drinking Water Contaminants & Their Maximum Contaminant Level: Disinfectants
What are EPA’s drinking water regulations for disinfectants?
In 1974, Congress passed the Safe Drinking Water Act to control drinking water contaminants. This law requires EPA to determine the level of residual disinfectants in drinking water at which no adverse health effects are likely to occur. These non-enforceable health goals, based solely on possible health risks and exposure over a lifetime, with an adequate margin of safety, are called maximum residual disinfectant level goals (MRDLG). Contaminants are any physical, chemical, biological or radiological substances or matter in water. EPA sets MRDLGs based on the best available science to prevent potential health problems. Continue Reading List of Drinking Water Contaminants & Their Maximum Contaminant Level: Disinfectants Here
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