Leetha Rowe 3R

By Leetha
  • 500

    500 BC, Anicent Civilzations

    Romans were the first to build aquaducts to carry out human waste from the city
  • 500

    500 BC, Middle Ages

    500 BC -- Romans were the first to build aquaducts to carry out human waste from the city
  • 570

    Ancient Civilzations - 570AD

    There was no environmental laws, no concerns about the air or water quality. People Threw human waste into the same streets where they sold their food.
  • May 7, 1300

    Middle Ages 1000-1600

    Realization about diesases. Some regulations being made, but not much still being done.
  • May 3, 1388

    Parilament - Middle Ages

    1388 -- Parliament passes an act forbidding littering in ditches, rivers, and any water source.

  • Eastern Europe - Enlightenment Era

    1721-1728 -- In Eastern Europe during these years there is a rabies epidemic.

  • Enlightenment Era, 1700-1811

    They were cleaning up their mess. Finding new medicatal things.

  • Enlish scientist, Enlightenment Era

    1775 -- English scientist Percival Pott finds that coal is causing cancer among chimney sweeps.

  • First Gas Lights, Industrial Revolution

    1812 -- First gas lights. It was the first time using gas instead of fire, for lights.

  • Constitutional Code, Industrial Revolution

    1820 -- The Constitutional Code, including proposals for reforming London medical assistance system and water, sewer and public works districts.

  • House of Commons Factory Commission, Industrial Revolution

    1831 - House of Commons Factory Commission- Checks on the condition on workers. It’s helps create the 10 hour law. Manly because of Stunted, diseased, deformed degraded, they pass across the stage.

  • Progressive Era, 1831 - 1900

    Getting stuff done, inventing and making life better.

  • Cholera Outbreak, Progressive Era

    1892 -- Europe's last great cholera outbreak. In one widely noted incident, the disease takes a heavy toll in Hamburg, Germany but spares neighboring Altona. The difference is that Altona has a water purification system.

  • Wild Buffalo Population, Progressive Era

    1900 -- Wild buffalo population drops to fewer than 40 animals from an estimated 30 million a century beforehand. Most are killed in the years just after the Civil War, when the US Army hopes to remove the buffalo in order to move Indians onto reservations. (See Smits, 1994 and Isenberg, 2000).

  • Water Pollution Lawsuit,Progressive Era

    1900 -- Water pollution lawsuit begins in Supreme Court. The state of Missoui sues the state of Illinois and the City of Chicago's sewer system for polluting the Mississippi. Eventually, US Supreme Court allows the Chicago city sewer department to maintain a canal draining city sewage into the Des Plaines River and, eventually, the Mississippi River.

  • US Water Power Act, Roaring Twenties

    1920 - US Water Power Act permits Federal hydroelectric projects. The water power act was another way to coordinate the making of hydroelectric projects.

  • Oil Pollution Act, Roaring Twenties

    1924 - Oil Pollution Act, does not allow any discharge for any ship within a 3 mile radius, unless by accident.

  • Norbeck-Anderson Act, Roaring Twenties

    1929 - Norbeck-Anderson Act, Under the Federal Protection over 100 wildlife conservation areas were secured.

  • Control on air pollution, WWll

    1947 -- Los Angeles set a control on air pollution. the first air pollution control bureau in the nation.

  • WWll & the 50's

    There was a lot of pollution.

  • Air Pollution Control Act,WWll

    1955 -- Congress passes Air Pollution Control Act.

  • Clean Air Act,70's

    1970 -- Clean Air Act is passed. It was to address the hazards of air pollution. It regulates air emissions from stationary and mobile sources.

  • Bottle Recycleing Bill Passes,1970's

    1972 -- First bottle recycling bill passes in Oregon. It was an effective way to get people to recycle. They would get 5 to 10 cent a can/bottle for recycling them.

  • Nuclear Waste Policy Act,80's

    1981-- Nuclear Waste Policy Act. They made it to where there was certain areas to dump waste.

  • Coastal Barries Resources Act Passed,80's

    1981 -- Congress passes Coastal Barriers Resources Act. It made it to where the government could not build along our water sources for safety issues

  • envirornmental Justice Act,90's

    Environmental Justice Act of 1992
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    Air & Water Timeline

  • Environmental Working Group,21st Century

    2001 -- July 6 -- Environmental Working Group Announces that some drinking water in California is contaminated with Perchlorate, a chemical that affects child development and can possibly cause thyroid cancer.

  • Supreme Court, 21st Century

    2011 -- June 6 -- US Supreme Court does not review General Electric v EPA, a challenge to the CERCLA law about the liability for cleanup of toxic wastes. The decision to make them clean it up is left with EPA.

  • Industrial Revolution, 1820 - 1890

    Discovering new inventions to make life easier and better.

  • Public Health, Ancient Cilvilzations

    2500 BC -- Mohenjo Darro civilization reaches high for clean public health.