tailieunhanh - The Impact of Feedlot Waste on Water Pollution under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)

The deterioration of water quality in China seriously affects the inhabitants. For example, the residents in Chongqing and Guangyuan are suffering from diseases due to water pollution from industrial wastewater (Searchina 2004ab). Another serious problem is unsafe drinking water. According to Chinanet (2005), 300 million people in China cannot drink water which passes the standard for safe drinking, and some people in villages are suffering from diseases due to unsafe drinking water, like in Chongqing and Guangyuan. This problem that people are drinking unsafe water does not occur only in rural areas. Even in urban areas, sources of. | William Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review Volume 33 I Issue 3 Article 7 The Impact of Feedlot Waste on Water Pollution under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System NPDES Kate Celender Repository Citation Kate Celender The Impact of Feedlot Waste on Water Pollution under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System nPdES 33 Wm. Mary Envtl. L. Pol y Rev. 947 2009 http wmelpr vol33 iss3 7 Copyright c 2009 by the authors. This article is brought to you by the William Mary Law School Scholarship Repository. http wmelpr The Impact of Feedlot Waste on Water Pollution under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System NPDES Kate Celender Introduction Meat recalls have become such a common place news topic that an announcement from the United States Department of Agriculture USDA recalling 143 million pounds of ground beef the largest recall in history 1 hardly sparked much public interest. Like many other farming practices raising and slaughtering livestock has become an industrialized Upton Sinclair s seminal book The Jungle first brought the lurid details of the industry to the forefront of national attention in 1906 and prompted President Theodore Roosevelt to task the United States Department of Agriculture with the inspection of animal carcasses and The USDA s focus in inspections has shifted to a prevention-based program that establishes sanitation requirements for While regulations promulgated under the prevention-based program have arguably provided a minimum level of . Candidate 2009 William Mary School of Law . Political Science and Criminal Justice 2006 University of Georgia. Special thanks to my loving husband Matthew Celender for his unwavering support. 1 See Andrew Martin Largest Recall of Ground Beef is Ordered . Times Feb. 18 2008 available at http 2008 02 18 business . Approximately 50 million .