Banishment of Heavy Metals

      For many decades, the world has been very dependent on technology including the younger generations. Everything we use today comes from companies that use a lot of metal since the late 1970s of the Industrial Revolution. Moreover, in South China along the banks of the Nansha mangrove, the Pearl River Estuary has been known to be one of the most polluted bodies known to mankind. The metals are so great that the plants surrounding have soaked them up into their system! This complicates things for researchers as well as environmentalists.

Sampling points in Nansha mangrove, South China

After analyzing 20 samples from one side of the river, scientists have realized that there is one great way in removing all, if possible, of the metal. In order to have the authorities that are concerned of the ecological risk, they must have “regulation of discharge standards of industrial sewage (Wu, et al., 2014).” This can have some problems in the environment as well for it humans will need to come up with a sewage plant that will burn the metals from the plants; therefore, it was cause an even greater greenhouse. However, the river will now be rid of the poisonous metal, creating a clean crisp flow of freshwater.

References

Earth, G. (n.d.). Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. Elsevier. Nansha mangrove. Retrieved from http://origin-ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0147651314000943-gr1.jpg

Wu, Q., Tam, N. F., Leung, J. Y., Zhou, X., Fu, J., Yao, B., . . . Xia, L. (2014, March 25). Ecological risk and pollution history of heavy metals in Nansha mangrove, South China. Retrieved from ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651314000943

September 25, 2014
By: Abigail E. Carrizales