Your company has been contacted by the regional governing board of a small city

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Your company has been contacted by the regional governing board of a small city known as Old Town. It is in a semi-arid region, but exists on the coast with a small river running through town and a scenic bay. The surrounding hills have been an agricultural region for a long time, including high levels of fertilizer, pesticide and herbicide additions. There are several large dairy farm operations along the river, just above entering the city. In the ocean, there is a newly developing aquaculture business that would like to “farm” tuna using swimming pens. Your task is to design a system to protect the city, beaches, and ocean from 1) the inflow of dairy effluent and chemicals from agricultural waste, and 2) increases in antibiotic resistance of pathogens, while allowing the river to provide clean water to support the city and the aquaculture business. Part of your goal is to reduce the city’s carbon footprint (consider NEP in your answer). Describe and justify your solution. Draw in the relevant nutrient cycles (C, N, P, etc.) and how they are impacted by the activities in the region, AND how you would modify them to ameliorate the situation. List the groups of organisms involved with remediation in each case, and their biochemical pathways that contribute to the solutions you propose. Finally, be sure to describe the risk factors, environments of particular concern and possible mitigations for antibiotic resistance genes and pathogens.

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As we all know this that our Environment is going to be polluted if we do not stop doing the activities which make the pollution and create an unhealthy ecosystem for human as well as other organism which are living on this planet earth. In the above case it is given that there is a city which exist near the coastal region and a river is flowing through there. Now this river water is polluted by the chemicals used in the agriculture. And also by the influenced of dairy byproducts. On the other hand the ocean beach is polluted by aquaculture. This all make a huge pollution contribution to the ecosystem and Our Environment. We need to reduce the percent of carbon from the atmosphere which is responsible for the global warming. This can be done by reducing the source of carbon emission.

The activities such as agriculture, dairy farming and aquaculture when release the toxic compounds they contaminate the water bodies. We need to stop this by modify the system. We need to make such changes which can eliminate all these and this will be the remedie for this.

This are all the safety factors as plant more trees. Stop polluting water body. Do not run any chemical releasing workshops near water bodies. Use cycle instead of your peraonal motor vehicles so that reduce co2 and correspond air pollution. In this way we can protect the Environment because the pathogen and disease caused by this are long term so we need precaution for this.

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