Increase in River Waste Dumping

In light of the Trump administration changing economical laws, cities now have permission and plan to increase the amount of sewage dumped into rivers over the following years. Cities see this as a large benefit as the laws now allow them to be much more flexible with how waste is treated. However, environmental scientist worry about how it may effect ecosystems and future ecological dumps. Washington DC in an effort to move away from this is digging excess sewer tunnels under the city to store these extra dumps but these are believed to risk health problems, flooding, and cause degrading stability below the city. Overall, these new regulations may cause more longer term damage then they help. While an ease of disposal has been brought to light in front of the cities it does pose a much larger problem to the ecosystem.

As a whole i think the bill poses a large worry to the current global scale of pollution. Washington is not the only city planning on increasing its river dumping and as a whole the lot of the US could be polluted overtime if not monitored. I think the current state of the conservation should be worrying to all as its going to become a large scale problem if many continue with it.


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  1. AnonymousFebruary 14, 2020 at 8:39 PM

    I think it is upsetting to see all the steps back we've been taking when it comes to the protection of the environment due to the Trump administration. It's really disheartening to see what people will do in order to make a quick profit, knowing that what they are doing could have lasting and devastating consequences if it continues.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 28, 2020 at 6:55 AM

    I think that no one should be able to dump any amount of waste into rivers, this is going to be the cause of more water pollution, and to i agree that it is very sad that people would do such things to just make a little money.

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