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500
Ancient Civilizations
No sanitation. Everyone was dying of diseases from water and air pollution. Even when everyone was getting sick no one was stopping the contamination. -
500
Ancient Civilization
Soil erosion causes siltation to fill in the bays and mouths of rivers. -
500
Ancient Civilization
Sewers and Aqueducts are built in Rome to get safe drinking water to the city and nasty waste water out. -
Period: 500 to
Time Line
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May 4, 1000
Middle Ages
Everyone is getting sick over the air pollution and it is starting to become a big big problem. Some individuals are trying to end it and make a difference. -
May 4, 1350
Middle Ages
Bubonic plague kills 75% of the population in Europe and Asia, which starts the first fights to enforce public health. -
May 4, 1388
Middle Ages
An act is passed that forbids anyone from throwing waste and trash into ditches and rivers. -
Enlightenment Era
Everyone is noticing the air and water pollution and the diseases that are coming along with it. People are still dumping waste and contaminating the water. Some people are still working in order to stop the contamination. -
Enlightenment Era
Benjamin Franklin petitions to stop industries from dumping waste into the waters. He puts up a great fight and wins, but the dumping still goes on. -
Enlightenment Era
Benjamin Franklin leaves money in his will to build new fresh water pipelines in Philadelphia. -
Industrial Revolution
Everything is being developed fast. Factories are up and running. Rules and regulations are being passed dealing with pollution, but more and more pollution is still happening. Sewer lines are being developed but still dumped into the rivers. -
Industrial Revolution
The first gas light is produced. Manufactured gas is the new thing, but cuases more pollution to the air. Remains a problem still today in the 21st century. -
Industrial Revolution
House of Commons Factory Commission is created and Michael Sadler shows how harmful working in factories are to children and women as he has them walk across a stage showing off their disformed bodies. -
Industrial Revolution
1833 - Report of the Board of Health, which an outbreak of cholera affects many British towns and cities and begins an investigation, which ended up totaling 32,000 victims affected by the desease. -
Industrial Revolution
The Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britian issued a report for the results of an inquiry about the practice of burials in towns. -
Industrial Revolution
Royal Commission on Employment of Children in the Mines: A report that shows every view on the living conditions and employment of the children who worked in the mines. -
Industrial Revolution
Homes are announced that they have to be connected to sewer lines. The sewer lines constantly overflow in peoples backyards and basements. -
Industrial Revolution
Pennsylvania legislature rejects bill to regulate water pollution and the problems still continue with water pollution and diseases. -
Industiral Revolution
American Public Health Association:Scientific advance helped reveal the causes of disesases and then ensured that food and water is cleaned properly -
Industrial Revolution
1875 - British Public Health Act: Made sure that other acts concerning public health was amended and being followed -
Progressive Era
Everyone is making a change to the envirnoment. Everyone is finally seeing how bad pollution is and are trying to clean up their acts. New laws and regulations are finally passed. -
Progressive Era
Aubrey Eneas founds Solar Motor Company and built solor-powered motors that replaced steam engines and reducing coal production and air pollution. -
Progressive Era
Sewage cleanup in London brings back species of fish -
Progressive Era
Coal Smoke Abatement Society formed to fight to have government agencies enforce pollution laws. -
Roaring Twenties and Depression
Acts are finally passed in order to keep public health in line and to stop air and water pollution -
Roaring Twenties And Depression
Water Power Act is passes allowing hydroelectric projects to be produced. -
Roaring Twenties And Great Depression
Oil Pollution Act is passed, which prohibits any discharge in rivers and water ways. -
Roaring Twenties And Depression
Public Health Act expands Alkali Acts, which controls chemical processes that are harmful to the enviornment causeing pollution. -
WWII & Fifties
Laws and Acts are finally passed to control air and water pollution and bring back the wild life that was destroyed due to the pollution problems. -
WWII & Fifties
Congress passes the water pollution control act or other wise known today as the clean water act to help regulate and handle the pollution that occurs in our drinking water and rivers. -
WWII & Fifties
Parliament passes clean air act, which is passed to regulate the emmisions from factories and mobile sources that are causes pollution harmful to the environment. -
WWII & Fifties
Since everyone was being harmed by radiation from the pollution in the air the Price-Anderson Act was passed, which is a big fund that is given to individuals and their families to ensure that they are taken care for the damage that has already been done. -
70's
More laws and acts are passed to ensure that water pollution is being taken care of and no one is being harmed. -
70's
Federal Water Pollution Contral Act is passed known today as the clean water act helps ensure that discharge from facilities is being controlled and regulated -
70's
1974-- Congress passed the Safe Drinking Water Act
Safe Drinking water act is passed, which protects the quality of our drinking water and ensures that it is safe and no longer contaminated. -
80's
Again more acts and laws are passed to ensure the safety of the people and the environment when it comes to pollution. Also laws and acts are passed to ensure that the american people know about everything that is being leaked into the environment for their own safety -
80's
Nuclear Waste Policy Act is passed to ensure that nuclear waste is safely stored underground and is not leaked into the environment -
80's
Right to know act is passed, which requires all factories and plants to report when they release or spill toxic chemicals into the environment. -
90's
More acts and laws are passed to ensure air quality and the publics health -
90's
Clean air act pushes it's laws towards electric power plants on SOx and NOx, which in the end also helps reduce acid rain -
90's
Environmental Justice Act is passed to ensure that the public health is protected and put above everything else. -
20th Century
It is founded that we are having more and more pollution problems in the world. -
20th Century
Massey energy company dam collapses and spills 300 million gallons of sludge in the mississippi rivier. -
20th Century
There are reports that the drinking water for more than 7 million indivduals is contaminated witha a chemical that puts halts in child development and eventually cause thyroid cancer. -
The Future
There will be many new things that are developed and invented to stop all pollution and heal the environment. -
The Future
There will be a bacteria founded or created that will soak up/eat oil. If we have an oil spill no worries it will be no harm to the environment since it will be easy to clean -
The Future
There will be mushrooms created that can save forest and also have a certain jean in them that kill ants and termites so you no longer have to worry about the bugs. -
The Future
There will be an easy and inexpensive way created to convert ocean salt water into clean fresh drinking water so we will never have to worry about water. -
The Future
Econol will be created and available to everyone which is a gas that lowers sediment and ash levels in the air. It will one day save the environment. -
The future
Instead of using coal and putting harmful fumes into the air we will go all renewable resources and save the environment with water and solar energies.
