Air and Water Pollution

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses the fact that polluting of water, regardless of the source whether from industry, agriculture or household, ultimately finds its way into the environment, causing substantial damage to health and to the environment. The paper relates that air pollution is responsible for premature deaths and includes pollution from road transport, industrial sources, forest and agricultural fires.

Outline:
Effects of Air and Water Pollution and Its Relation to Environmental Laws
Climate Change
Environmental and Emission Laws
Future Trends of Air and Water Pollution
Analysis of Future Trends

From the Paper:

"Figures of WHO reveals that air pollution is responsible for 8,00,000 premature deaths from lung cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases apart from the rising incidence of chronic bronchitis, severe respiratory illness, asthma, heart ailment and damage of lung function. The bulk of this pollution includes road transport, stationary combustion sources such as coal burning in households, industrial sources, incinerators and waste disposals, fossil fuels power plants and also non-combustion sources such as construction, quarrying and mining and lot of other sources such as forest and agricultural fires. The principal pollutants seen in the air we breathe covers particulate matter, PAHs, lead, ground level ozone, heavy metals, sulphur dioxide, benzene, carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxides."

Sample of Sources Used:

• European Commission. Climate Change. 2007. <http://ec.europa.eu/environment/climat/home_en.htm>
• European Public Health Alliance. Air, water pollution and health effects. <http://www.epha.org/r/54>
• European Public Health Alliance. World facing increasing threat of arsenic poisoning. <http://www.epha.org/a/2750>
• Freedman, Martin; Jaggi, Bikki. Air and Water Pollution Regulation: Accomplishments and Economic Consequences. Quorum Books. 1993.
• Hunter, Susan; Waterman, Richard. W. Enforcing the Law: The Case of the Clean Water Acts. M. E. Sharpe. 1996.N. A. Air Pollution cost the EU 161 million euros annually. <http://www.epha.org/a/1778>

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