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Ancient civilization
- Roman Senate passes a law to protect water stored during their dry periods so it can be released to clean the street and sewer.
- Cloaca Maxima (big sewer) is built in Rome by Etruscan dynasty of Tarquins. As Rome grows, a networks of sewers and aqueducts are built.
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May 3, 1000
1000-1600 the middle ages
-Rapid industrialization in England leads to heavy deforestation and increasing substitution of coal for wood.
- bubonic plague killed 75 % of europe and asia which forced the first laws about human health -
Enlightenment Era
-Beginnings of first modern municipal sewers in London, but water supply is still frequently contaminated
- Sanitation and pure drinking water was a part of his lifelong concern for the improvement of Philadelphia in small matters. -
Industrial Revolution
-Water carried disease but no one knew exactly why until the 1880 Some concerned reformers
- a London physician traced a part of the cholera epidemic to a contaminated water pump.
-Norway tracks first signs of acid rain on its western coast
- British Parliamentary committee expresses concern that steam engines and furnaces could work in a manner less prejudicial to public health.
- New york bans the use of batteries in duck hunting.
- London officials charges again a coal factory. -
Progressive Era
-1892 1000 people die in smog incident.
-1892 Inventor Aubrey Eneas founds Solar Motor Company of Boston to build solar-powered motors to replace steam engines powered by coal or wood
- 1895 Sewage clean up in London so some of the fish species return. Cleaning up and getting rid of sewage in areas so fish can live there without be contaminated and dying. -
The Roaring 20’s and the Great Depression Era
-1921- US supreme court allows New Jersey to dump sewage into New York harbor.
-1922- National Coast Anti Pollution League formed by state and municipal officials at Atlantic City, New Jersey to stop oil dumping.
- 1938- Final Congressional approval of the Federal Stream Pollution Bill, Help keep water clean. -
WWII And The Fifties
-1941- 25,000 - 60,000 rooftop solar water heaters are being used at the time, but the need for metal and war materials kinda slowed the industry expansion.
-1948- Federal water pollution control act- the start of active House and senate public works committee interest in water pollution.
- 1947- Los Angeles air pollution control district formed. -
The Seventies
-1977 clean air act requires of all ambient air quality standards.
-1979 16 90 mill gallons of radioactive stuff was spilt in church rock A.Z. -
The 80’S
-1983- us passes iep act international environmental protection act
-1987- plastic pollution research forbids ocean dumping of plastic -
The 90's
1993 Moratorium of toxic waste incineration in the U.S.
1990 EPA makes environmental equality work group. -
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Air and water timeline
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The 21st century - now
-2001 A science magazine publishes some Nasa satellite pictures of over 2,000 glaciers melting.
- 2002 The U.S. wind energy industry won passage of an extended production tax credit for electricity generated by wind. -
The future
make more wind farms
we need to look into solar and how to make it cheaper
we are looking into using the ocean currents to power the us
we need to use less oil and stop importing it
make less non compostable plastics and styrofoam
