Municipal Waste Treatment Plant Research Articles

Environmental Action

“Most of the politicians and businessmen who are jumping on the environmental bandwagon clearly do not have the slightest idea what they are getting into. They do not yet understand that we see this as a long and serious fight for a profound change in what this country is all about. They are talking about emission control devices on automobiles; we are talking about bans on automobiles. They are bursting with pride over plans for inadequate municipal waste treatment plants; we are challenging the ethics of a society that, with only seven per cent of the world's population, accounts for more than half of the world's annual consumption of raw materials.”

Water Quality Standards

This article discusses the implementation of standards currently being developed to enhance and preserve water quality. Specific programs, such as monitoring streams for standards compliance, monitoring effluents from municipal and industrial waste treatment plants, and periodic review of progress being made to construct needed treatment facilities, will be expanded through joint efforts of state and federal programs. One of the biggest needs in pollution control is efficient municipal and industrial waste treatment plant operation. Specific programs to train treatment plant operations and surveillance of plant operation are needed if stream water quality criteria are to be satisfied. New or expanded activities to deal with pollution from erosion, vessels and marinas, mine drainage, heat discharges, land and agricultural drainage, and nutrient enrichment will challenge the state and federal programs.