“Pollution is the introduction of substances or energy into the environment, resulting in deleterious effects of such a nature as to endanger human health, harm living resources and ecosystems, and impair or interfere with amenities and other legitimate uses of the environment. The major forms of pollution include; Air, water, noise, light… etc” (edtech.kennesaw.edu) .The evolution of technology in the 20th century led to a sharp increase in the oil consumption around the world. Extraction huge oil quantities from the Earth spicily from Pacific area used source of energy and essential raw material in various industries, especially chemical industries. Some time the companies stand behind illiygal decuomant that it show them droup illegal material on the water. According to Welch S on Officials try to stem illegal dumping of company ,“The companies covered up the illegal dumping by ordering crew members to hide evidence, obtain fake waste-disposal receipts, paint over brackets used to bypass pollution controls -- even lie to grand juries. One chief engineer pleaded guilty last month to discharging 20 tons of oily sludge on one voyage from Japan to Vancouver, Wash. No one knows how often such discharges occur, but investigators say dumping is so common they may be just scratching the surface.”.
The second reason effect the water pollution in the Pacific is smoke from factories. Air pollution is it the gravest disaster facing the earth. Air pollution deteriorating environment due to a flaw in the constituent elements, so air material lose their ability to play their natural work. There are a lot of things that we use it and make this problem to air, and the great example of this is factories because factors contributing toward the growing air pollution problem. For example; many factories around the world made a lot of lofty vapors; these vapors have specific gas; the name of this gas is carbon. As we know carbon is very dangerous and keep the temperature up for long time moreover, when carbon mixed with air and start rain the rain became dirty, this rain name is carbon rain. Carbon rain is very dangerous because when the sky starts rain it's affecting destroying vegetation, polluting oceans and affecting wildlife. Acid rain has long been argued by society s most formidable minds also Acid rain makes the Pacific lose their leaves. It indirectly destroys ecosystems that surround forests and lakes. People use something else; they use cigarettes. The cigarette has a lot of carbon and there are a billion of people who use cigarettes every day, and this made a lot of carbon.
The third reason effect the water pollution in the Pacific is traffic from ships. “The illegal traffic of ships that become waste under the convention”. (ban.org). According to ban.org, “To be very specific Greenpeace and BAN calls upon the Parties to start systematic monitoring and enforcement program to stop illegal traffic in ships as waste where it occurs and where applicable. We specially call upon ship dismantling states to enforce the notification and consent provisions of the Basel Convention for all incoming ships that either have no inventory or are known to contain hazardous materials in their construction.
Abandoned ships are waste as they are simply disposed of as a whole. Government owned ships become waste as soon as the intent to dispose has been made public. Single-hulled tankers become waste by law as soon the requirement to leave the oil market by the provisions of national law resulted in a decision to dispose the tanker. According to (marinelog.com) (2006), pollution from nine ships and false pollution log entries in three additional ships, in six U.S. ports around the nation. OSG will pay a record $37 million -- the largest-ever criminal penalty involving deliberate vessel pollution -- and plead guilty to charges related to illegal dumping of waste oil, criminal violations of the Clean Water Act/Oil Pollution Act and the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships, conspiracy, false statements and obstruction of justice. This multi-district investigation was conducted in Boston, Mass.; Portland, Maine; Los Angeles; San Francisco; Wilmington, N.C.; and Beaumont, Texas. Also there is another example for this problem, According to Justice's Web site, “The government’s investigation was initiated after the Coast Guard in Boston received a referral from the Marine Safety Branch of Transport Canada, indicating that records for the M/T Uranus showed that bilge waste was being disposed while the official Oil Record Book failed to account for the disposal of waste. It was determined that these illegal discharges occurred within U.S. waters off-the-coast of Maine and Massachusetts. During this time, crew members discharged approximately 150,000 gallons of oil-contaminated waste while “tricking” the Oil Content Meter designed to detect and prevent discharges containing more than 15 parts per million oil, the international limit established by the MARPOL Protocol, an international treaty implemented by the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships.”
However, Oil companies stand behind the controls on the future of the world and they have common interests with oil companies in determining. So we face big problem to discuses with these companies that they affect on the pacific water.
In conclusion water pollution in the pacific effect by Company is illegally dumping pollution, smoke from factories and traffic from ships. I believe that we can stop pacific pollution and ground level smog be being more efficient in the way we live. I hope that after you heard about the causes, effects, and solutions to pacific pollution you will want to help prevent it. So do what you can and conserve the pacific today.
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earth911.org, (n.d.). The Water pollution in the pacific earth911.org
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edtech.kennesaw.edu. (n.d), Introduction of Substances or Energy Into the Environment. kennesaw.edu Retrieved June 22, 2007 from kennesaw.edu
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CRAIG WELCH "Officials try to stem illegal dumping of ships' oily". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,The. May 11, 2003. Retrieved June 27, 2007. from http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_20030511/ai_n10876962
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