FACING UP TO FRESHWATER POLLUTION.
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FACING UP TO FRESHWATER POLLUTION.
INTRODUCTION
THE STATE OF FRESHWATER IN NIGERIA IS LIKE A TALE OF TWO CITIES. It is the finest of times because, in the later half of the twentieth century, we reversed our widespread disrespect for aquatic bodies.
Our country banded together in the face of combustible rivers, bodies of water exploited as dumping for industrial waste and municipal sewage, and an annual loss of about 450,000 acres of wetland.
Waterways are substantially healthier today because a prior generation of leaders had the foresight and determination to insist on it. However, it is the worst of times because development has effectively plateaued
falling well short of the national goal of having fishable and swimmable waters, which was established in the first section of the 1974 Clean Water Act. Furthermore, the law’s purpose of eradicating pollution discharges has been reduced to a relic of the past.
There are various warning signals of complacency. The United States continues to rely on technologies created decades or, in the case of wastewater treatment, nearly a century ago.
Our sewer lines have fallen into disrepair, allowing raw and partially processed sewage to run into rivers since it never reaches the treatment plant. At our present investment rate, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) predicts that sewage contamination will be as high in 2025 as it was in 1968, prior to the implementation of the Clean Water Act.
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