tailieunhanh - The Citizens’ Guide to Pollution Prevention

In addition to the creation of more wastewater, urban areas add to poor water quality in a number of ways. The high concentration of impervious surfaces increases runoff from roads and can carry numerous pollutants such as oils, heavy metals, rubber, and other automobile pollution into waterways and streams. The reduction in water percolation into the ground can also affect the quantity and quality of groundwater. Stormwater runoff in urban areas can overwhelm combined stormwater and wastewater treatment systems when high volume flows exceed treatment capacities. With more people, there will be a need for increased agricultural productivity. Enlargements in irrigated. | The Citizens Guide to Pollution Prevention A PROJECTOR THE Sfnce dcpuii 1970 CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY LTNSTITUT CANAD1EN DU DROIT ET DE LA POLITIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT Acknowledgements The publication of this Guide was made possible through the financial support of the National Office of Pollution Prevention of Environment Canada. A great number of people contributed expertise advice and comments to the Guide. The Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy CIELAP thanks the Canadian Centre for Pollution Prevention C2P2 for their research and writing team Kady Cowan Tania Del Matto Deb Foster and Chris Wolnik. Thanks also go to Josephine Archbold for writing the introduction to this Guide. And thanks to the members of CIELAP who contributed variously to this Guide Alison Chafe Susan Holtz Anne Mitchell Iana Nikolova and Jolanta Rasteniene. CIELAP would like to thank the reviewers Heather Birchard and Lynne Robinson-Lewis from the National Office of Pollution Prevention of Environment Canada Ray Côté Professor of Environmental Studies and Director Eco-Efficiency Centre Dalhousie University and Elise Houghton Environmental Education Ontario. For more information concerning this publication contact Anne Mitchell Executive Director Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy 130 Spadina Avenue Suite 305 Toronto ON M5V 2L4 info@ ISBN 1-896588-51-4 Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy 2005 CIELAP is an independent not-for-profit environmental law and policy research and education organization founded in 1970 as the Canadian Environmental Law Research Foundation. Our mission is to provide leadership in the research and development of environmental law and policy that promotes the public interest and sustainability. Part I Introduction Contents Part II What is Pollution Prevention P2 4 7 Part III How Does P2 Work in the Industrial Commercial and Institutional Sector in Canada .20 Part IV Pollution and .