Essays about: "factors of water pollution"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 54 essays containing the words factors of water pollution.

  1. 16. Enabling Circular Economy in Local Solid Waste Management - The Case of Muang Kalasin Municipality, Thailand

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Pornpimon Somneuk; [2020]
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    Abstract : The volume and complexity of solid waste have increased locally and globally. Waste pollution has environmental, social, and economic impacts on every country, such as mistreatment of waste caused air quality and water contamination, plastic particles from human activities are carried out to the seas and harm marine creatures, people can face health problems from polluted air and water as well as plastic-contaminated seafood. READ MORE

  3. 17. Upgradation of lifeboat

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för maskinteknik

    Author : Venkata Naga Saras Chandra Daliparti; Naveen Sai Surya Ayyappa Bellamkonda; Venkata Vamsi Krishna Kola; [2020]
    Keywords : Accidents; Lifeboats; Passenger cabin; Ships;

    Abstract : In today’s rapid development in world and globalization, transportation had become an important aspect in life. People transport through means of air, water and land. This made drastic increase of transportation and as a result the pollution levels are increased and so does the deaths due to accidents. READ MORE

  4. 18. Household air pollution exposure in sub-Saharan Africa and assessment of disease burden attributable to risk factor

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialmedicin och global hälsa

    Author : Festina Balidemaj; [2020]
    Keywords : Air pollution; household air pollution; burden of disease; acute lower respiratory infection; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; ischemic heart disease; lung cancer; stroke; sub-Saharan Africa; Medicine and Health Sciences;

    Abstract : BACKGROUND: One of the major environmental threats to human health is air pollution. It contributes to premature deaths of millions of people worldwide. Air quality issues are growing exponentially in developing countries (West et al. 2016). READ MORE

  5. 19. Records of environmental change and sedimentation processes over the last century in a Baltic coastal inlet

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

    Author : Hanna Nilsson; [2019]
    Keywords : Baltic Sea; eutrophication; coastal areas; archipelago; laminated sediments; nutrient inputs; carbon and nitrogen content; biogenic silica; sedimentation; environmental impact; marine geology; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : The marine ecosystem in the Baltic Sea is affected by multiple stress factors, e.g. eutrophication and deoxygenation, overfishing and anthropogenic pollution. Here we evaluate the short-term trends of dissolved oxygen in bottom waters and changes in the primary productivity within a coastal inlet in the Baltic Sea. READ MORE

  6. 20. Sustainable Drainage Systems Assessment and Optimisation-A case study for Lussebäcken Catchment, Helsingborg

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Teknisk vattenresurslära

    Author : Bernard Nsabimana; Néstor Utande Estallo; [2019]
    Keywords : Hydraulics; hydrology; Sustainable Drainage Systems; urban; Modeling; MIKE URBAN; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : Increase of urbanization and climate change are one of the factors that have been highlighted to influence hydrography. This is resulting in an increase in peak flow within an urban watershed. Downstream flooding and increased pollution are the problems that arises. READ MORE