Water pollution is a serious environmental issue in most developing countries. Most river and lakes in these countries were destroyed under the pressure of industrialization. The sad thing is, million of people in these countries drawing the polluted water for their daily life. There are environmentalist claim that industrialization is the culprit of the damage.
Actually, human being themselves should be responsible for the damages, not the industries. Peoples bring industries in to the society mainly for their own economical benefit.
There are no industries in the world today can be classified as pollution free. More or less, it discharges certain level of waste to the environment. However, the impact of the waste to the environment could be control at a significantly low level with the aid of advance technology available.
A good example I like to quote is the BP Whiting refinery plant in Michigan since 1890s. Look at the water in Lake Michigan; do you believe there is an oil refinery plant set up near by who discharged waste water continuously into the lake for the past 117 years?
BP position themselves as an energy company who care the environment. Beside money being invested in searching for new energy source, hundred of million of dollar also allocated for keeping the Lake Michigan clean.
Through BP’s Whiting Refinery environmental protection initiative, waster quality of Lake Michigan being protected. Besides increasing in discharges, BP remains within compliance to the federal pollutions guidelines.
BP’s case shows industries by itself cannot control the level of environmental pollution, people play the main role to determine the level of pollution generate by the industries. It is up to you to control, you have the option choose.
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