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Following the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972, the government of Bangladesh founded the Department of Public Health Engineering and passed the Water Pollution Control Ordinance in 1973. In 1977 the Environment Pollution Control Cell was created with 26 members.
Increased population and industrialization after World War II meant that water quality across the United States was in a downward spiral. Catalyzed by the publication of Silent Spring and a Time (magazine) article on the pollution of America's waterway's featuring pictures of the Cuyahoga River on fire, public opinion began to shift decisively in favor of strong governmental action to abate ...
In 1948 Congress passed the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA). [14] The law authorized the Surgeon General and the Public Health Service to develop programs to combat pollution that was harming surface and underground water sources, but did not create any new regulatory or enforcement authority for pollution control. The FWPCA also ...
Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974; The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) cess act, 1977; Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 [2] Biological Diversity Act, 2002; Environment (Protection) Act, 1986; Forest Conservation Act, 1980; Hazardous Waste Handling and Management Rules, 1989; Indian Forest Act, 1927
Nonpoint source (NPS) water pollution regulations are environmental regulations that restrict or limit water pollution from diffuse or nonpoint effluent sources such as polluted runoff from agricultural areas in a river catchments or wind-borne debris blowing out to sea. In the United States, governments have taken a number of legal and ...
The primary state legislation regarding water pollution is the "Water Pollution Control Act." [13] [14] The Water Pollution Control Act prohibits the discharge of any pollutant into the waters of the state without a valid permit. [15] The NJDEP enforces the "Water Pollution Control Act" through the New Jersey Pollutant Discharge Elimination ...
1972 – Federal Water Pollution Control Amendments of 1972 (P.L. 92-500). Major rewrite. 1972 – Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (amended by Food Quality Protection Act of 1996) 1972 – Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972; 1973 – Endangered Species Act (amended 1978, 1982)
Operators must use the BAT to control pollution from their industrial activities to prevent, and where that is not practicable, to reduce to acceptable levels, pollution to air, land and water from industrial activities. The Best Available Techniques also aim to balance the cost to the operator against benefits to the environment.