sewer water emptying into our lakes and streams polluting the water.
Our waters are bad enough as it is and they're still on a decline in sanitary cleanness. Like we've been talking about in school this can easily be preventable just by not throwing a piece of trash on the ground or in the sewer which will eventually end up in the rivers, lakes, and oceans. Dumping oil is also a horrible thing for our environment that's why more auto store need to recycle oil like pep boys does to save money and to save our environment. Pollution is becoming more and more a global problem and we need to help preserve our earth and stay "green" which means just clean up after yourselves, find a trash can, and recycle.
1. Why haven't more stores looked into recycling oil?
2. Why aren't they making the sewers smaller to prevent trash being thrown in them?
3. What are some ideas that communities have come up with to help prevent polluting in their community?
I agree with Luke and his question about "Why haven't they made sewers smaller to prevent trash being thrown in them?" I mean it would be a logical idea to do that in the sense that, little kids don't know what it is and they think it's some trash can so they throw their trash down it. If they make the sewers smaller and they talk to the kids in school to help prevent it, it could help. Also, if you made the sewers smaller then the water flow could be faster like we talked about it in class.
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1) Have we tried to talk to farmers and such and give them information about what they are doing to our environment or have we been blowing this problem off for quite some time instead of fixing it?
2) How come we haven't really touched base on these items in school? It seems like such a big deal that we should expand our knowledge to help prevent more pollution in the future. If we grab kids attention at a younger age, then they will pay attention more when they're older.
3) Are we trying to find a solution to the run off problem and how it's a big problem within construction sites? We are going to keep building and building and constructors are never going to go away, so I feel that in the future that's going to be a big problem and we should find a solution earlier so we can stop it.
Water pollution is one of the most prevalent ecological issues occurring today, and people need to start doing something about it. I think that a big problem here is that people just don't care when they pollute. They don't know the severity of the environmental effects and they think that "one piece of trash won't hurt."
ReplyDeleteTo answer Lauren's second question, I think that we actually are covering these topics in school; for example, this class. Today's adults haven't had "environmental science" class to learn about these things, so they still litter. But when our generation and generations to come grow up and learn about this then there will be less polluting our waters.
I'm sure the number one reason sewages cant be made smaller is because that would lower the amount of water able to go through them. I also agree with Dan's answer to Lauren's second question. The adults right now are too lazy to understand the real importance of "going green" and they don't realize the impact littering has on the planet. For companies and farms that don't do anything about pollution, littering, and sewage runoff, there should be consequences. Higher taxes could possibly get them to change their ways. If they continue to treat the land around them poorly it will eventually affect the entire world.
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