Water Pollution

The three primary origins of groundwater contamination are (1) urban living, (2) industrial operations, and (3) agricultural activities. Urban living creates groundwater contamination primarily through the use of water as a medium for carrying sewage effluent and the subsequent return of the water to the supply pool. Urban living also creates groundwater contamination through automobile and household lawn wastes carried to the supply pool through surface runoff.

Industrial operations create groundwater contamination through the discharge of contaminants and wastes from industrial processes, and through the use of water as a part of industrial processes. In the former case, contamination occurs through the addition of harmful substances to groundwater (such as chemicals suspended in tailings from mining operations), while, in the latter case, contamination may occur through either the addition of harmful substances to groundwater, or thermal pollution. Industrial processes may contaminate ground water by discharging contaminan

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nderson and Leal (1991, p. 45) also contend that government should not be the owners of resources and other property. The general contention in this context is that governmental bureaucracy cannot effectively manage resources. As an example, Anderson and Leal (1991, p. 51) suggest that pollution from motor vehicle traffic could best be eliminated by placing all highways and streets in private ownership, and assessing those private owners for costs associated with pollution. The crux of this arguments is that sufficiently heavy penalties levied on the private owners of highways and streets would cause them to raise their prices to such an extent that the use of private vehicles would largely be abandoned in favor of public transportation, and, in turn, pollution of the environment would be reduced. Left unstated by the authors is that such outcomes would deprive automobile owners of the use of their property without compensation and without an offsetting reduction in transportation costs (as the transfer from private automobiles to public transportation occurred, the private owners of the roadways would be required to raise fees in order to remain profitable). Applying this reasoning to the protection of the purity of groundw
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