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World water pollution at an all time high endangering public health.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is a gyre of marine litter in the central North Pacific Ocean located roughly between 135° to 155°W and 35° to 42°N.
Most current estimates state that it is larger than the U.S. state of Texas The Patch is characterized by exceptionally high concentrations of pelagic plastics, chemical sludge, and other debris that have been trapped by the currents of the North Pacific Gyre.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Eco-Ola/168036436569442 This photo shows Eco Ola team members building charapita pepper planter beds.
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Here is the work of recent graduate student from the UK, Mandy Barker.
Entitled SOUP and named after the term given to plastic debris in the sea, this series of images aim to engage with, and stimulate an emotional response in the viewer by combining a contradiction between initial aesthetic attraction and social awareness.
Written by Cyril Foiret A key problem is that the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration cannot send garbage trucks to flooded areas while 9.4 million people in those areas were expected to generate about 500 kilograms of rubbish each over a number of weeks.

How Do China’s Industries Conceal Their Water Pollution?.
Over the years, the investigation has exposed a variety of methods used by various industries to conceal their water pollution discharge.
Two sewers were found in Gao Ping Industrial Park, which is located in the Triangle town of Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province.
Greenpeace volunteers found this sewer tile when they were investigating in the vicinity of the Jilin Petrochemical Company.
A sewer tile was draining toxic water under the cover of darkness.
The sewerage of the chemical plant was discharged into the sea while the tide was flowing.
A large amount of purple effluent poured out of the sewerage pipe, and directly flowed into the Fenghua River.
Greenpeace) A huge pipe continuously discharged effluent into the Qiantang River.
Greenpeace) A pipe extending into the deep sea was found to have flowed into the sluice from upstream.
Greenpeace (China) ) The washing effluent from the Tianmashan gold mine was found to have flowed into the Yangtze River through the Heisha River.

Sunoco Pipeline Construction Resumes in Chester County Amid Water Contamination Concerns.
Sunoco Pipeline LP resumed construction of its new underground liquid natural gas line in Chester County, Pennsylvania Saturday after it was suspended due to water contamination concerns.
Twelve residents in West Whiteland and Uwchlan townships reported problems with water coming from private wells starting Monday, a Sunoco Pipeline spokesman said Friday.
Some had water service interrupted while others said water from the tap was murky.
Valerie Ross, one of the residents, told NBC10 she’s not only concerned about the construction but also what could come down the line.
They also tested 20 private wells for contamination and are waiting for full results.
The 20-inch pipe and a second 16-inch line cuts through 23.6 miles of land in Chester County and 11.4 miles in Delaware County, county planners say.
The pipeline has been the subject of ire and protest across the state.
Crews were conducting horizontal drilling Monday when the water issue began, Sunoco said.
The company resumed construction Saturday.

Sunoco Pipeline Construction Resumes in Chester County Amid Water Contamination Concerns.
Sunoco Pipeline LP resumed construction of its new underground liquid natural gas line in Chester County, Pennsylvania Saturday after it was suspended due to water contamination concerns.
Twelve residents in West Whiteland and Uwchlan townships reported problems with water coming from private wells starting Monday, a Sunoco Pipeline spokesman said Friday.
Some had water service interrupted while others said water from the tap was murky.
Valerie Ross, one of the residents, told NBC10 she’s not only concerned about the construction but also what could come down the line.
They also tested 20 private wells for contamination and are waiting for full results.
The 20-inch pipe and a second 16-inch line cuts through 23.6 miles of land in Chester County and 11.4 miles in Delaware County, county planners say.
The pipeline has been the subject of ire and protest across the state.
Crews were conducting horizontal drilling Monday when the water issue began, Sunoco said.
The company resumed construction Saturday.

News Nature Doesn’t Need Us, We Need Nature: NGT Chairperson.
The Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and NITI Aayog on Friday (7 July) organized the National Conference on Air and Water Pollution which included multiple sessions revolving around the various facets of innovations in regulation, abatement, and monitoring air and water pollution.
"Nature doesn’t need us, we need nature", said Kumar, further adding that there is "a need for incentive based implementation of environmental law".
"The NGT has always involved government consultation to structurally solve environmental problems", said Kumar, citing the case of Yamuna river as an example.
In a very simple form, this requires enforcing an absolute technology-based or performance-based standard with severe penalties upon non-compliance.
Subramanian spoke about issues of governance, and questioned who should be attributed responsibility for Delhi’s pollution.
Mehta, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change spoke about how "information can lead to behavioural change", while Kate Logan, Green Choice Outreach Director, Institute for Public and Environmental Affairs, China spoke about her experience in China in mapping out pollution.
"There needs to be continuous monitoring from a reliable source, public awareness campaigns and data management to understand the source of pollution better", said Sarath Guttikunda, Co-director, UrbanEmissions, while VM Motghare, Joint Director (Air), Maharashtra Pollution Control Board spoke about the experience in Maharashtra and the role information plays in abatement of air and water pollution there.
This was followed by sessions on legal framework, monitoring and enforcement and market-based regulations, successes and challenges.
The speakers included Shibani Ghosh (Fellow, Centre for Policy Research), Keshav Chandra (Environment Secretary, Government of Delhi), Shruti Bhardwaj (Joint Director, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change), Mark Templeton (Associate Clinical Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School), Cynthia Giles (Former Assistant Administrator for Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, US EPA), Akhila Swar (Senior Environmental Engineer OSPCB), Chirag Bhimani (Deputy Environmental Engineer, GPCB), Chandra Bhushan (Deputy Director General, CSE), Nathaniel Keohne (Vice President, Global Climate, Environmental Defense Fund) and Anant Sudarshan (India Director, EPIC).

Honesty Needed – Letter.
“The Water Pollution Abatement Trust, using dollars from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, gave Falmouth an interest-free loan of $4.85 million for the construction of Wind 2.
“In 2013 officials with the trust told the town that if the turbine ‘ceases to function as an energy-efficient project,’ it would require Falmouth to pay principal and interest on the loan.” Town officials would like you to believe this and have done nothing since 2012 to stop perpetuation of this myth.
after Superior Court, decision by decision, began crippling turbine operations.)
The truth about the $4.85 million repayment came to light in a sworn deposition of a Water Pollution Abatement Trust representative during wind turbine litigation.
The Water Pollution Abatement Trust representative, under oath, stated that the Water Pollution Abatement Trust, to date, had never been approached regarding whether the loan had to be repaid.
Those numbers are also in town budgets from years covering wind turbine operation (2009-2017).
The town manager’s job requires working with these budgets all the time.
It is beyond credible that Town Manager Julian M. Suso can say that wind turbine revenue numbers are not known.
The public needs to demand it.

Hyderabadis rank city as most polluted place to live.
Hyderabad: A recent pollution index has put Hyderabad at 219th spot out of 296 cities in the world, making it one of the most polluted places to live in.
The rankings were put out by an online database website called Numbeo.
They also use inputs from WHO pollution indices.
According to the rankings, air quality and water pollution were the most negatively ranked aspects of pollution in the city, with over 70 per cent people saying these two aspects were highly polluted.
The survey noted that people were highly dissatisfied after spending time in the city.
This doesn’t come as a surprise as the average pollution levels of PM 2.5 were between 50-150 points, according to the Air Quality Index website.
The worst amongst Indian cities was Ghaziabad, right at the bottom, fetching 295th spot.
Amongst south Indian cities, the worst performance was that of Bengaluru at 229, followed by Chennai at 222 spot.
Experts on pollution say these rankings are poor because the city has gotten its planning wrong.

State program provides septic system repair funds to eligible homes.
Madison Tromler The Chronicle-Telegram ELYRIA — Five Northeast Ohio counties, including Lorain, are receiving funding from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency’s Water Pollution Control Loan Fund to assist homeowners in remedying failing home septic systems.
Lorain, Cuyahoga and three other counties each are receiving $200,000 to $300,000 in principal forgiveness loans and eligible homeowners will receive 100 percent, 85 percent or a 50 percent share in principal forgiveness based on their household income.
Counties will identify households with failing sewage systems and Ohio EPA will make the money available to repair septic systems, replace systems or fix the connection to the sewer to stop untreated sewage from contaminating streams and groundwater.
“We are excited to see applications coming in, and we feel that many people can be assisted in this program,” said health educator Kate Bevan of the health district.
“Public health is all about prevention.
We recognize that by assisting these repairs we are able to prevent public health issues from happening.” When the application comes in, the health district will evaluate the septic system and work with the homeowner to see what must be done.
It then will contact a contractor.
Residents with any questions can call the health district at (440) 322-6367.
Contact Madison Tromler at 329-7155 or ctnews@chroniclet.com.

County spending $283M to upgrade Water Pollution Control Plant.
UTICA — A project to upgrade Oneida County’s Water Pollution Control Plant on Leland Avenue has three goals: * Eliminate sanitary sewer overflows into the Mohawk River.
One of the biggest changes is that instead of incinerating the sludge from the facility, the plant will produce methane gas and make electricity for the facility, said Steven Devan, commissioner of the Oneida County Department of Water Quality and Water Pollution Control.
Planned work to be completed through 2021 includes: * 2016-2019: Bio-solids handling technology upgrades, including the installation of new anaerobic digesters.
What happens is when the sludge gets out of the tank, we put it in the thickener and that’s what makes it denser before we have to process it.” Upgrades also are being done on the Sauquoit Creek pumping station in Yorkville, giving it new screening facilities, pumps, a bigger generator and a new force main, Devan said.
Devan recently gave Oneida County legislators a tour of the facility to show them where the estimated $283 million the county is borrowing for the project is going.
Legislator Mary Pratt asked for the tour mainly so she could educate herself on the project but also because she wanted to know what the county was spending so much money on.
… It’s one thing to hear about it and another to see it.” The project is expected to take five years, which will transform the more than 60-year-old plant into a more environmentally sustainable and technologically advanced facility, Devan said.
The upgrades are designed to help eliminate overflows into the Mohawk River, satisfy New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Consent Order requirements, and assist the city of Utica with treatment elements of its Long-Term Control Plan.
Efforts to reduce sanitary sewer overflows into the Mohawk River began in 2007.

Pollution and damage to San Juan Creek from a neighboring horse-riding park in San Juan Capistrano are at the heart of a lawsuit filed against the city by environmental nonprofit Coastkeeper. Coastkeeper filed the lawsuit in federal court Wednesday, July 5, alleging some 9,000 violations of the U.S. Clean Water Act over a five-year period by the city-owned Rancho Mission Viejo Riding Park to the nearby environmentally sensitive San Juan Creek. “We’ve never seen a site with more violations than this one,” said Coastkeeper Senior Staff Attorney Colin Kelly. For its part, the city said it has been working with the firm tasked with managing the equestrian center and the lawsuit from the environmental nonprofit came as a surprise. “Rather than participate in these collaborative efforts, Coastkeeper has opted to pursue legal action against the city, without warning or opportunity to work in partnership with our equestrian community,” said City Manager Ben Siegel in an email. “This rush to involve attorneys based on exaggerated claims is disappointing and will result in the expenditure of taxpayer funds that could be better committed to protecting the local watershed and our city’s natural open spaces.” Among the allegations Coastkeeper levied against the city and Blenheim Facility Management, the firm that…