Ethical Issues with Water Pumps in Industrial Plants

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Industrial processing plants are present all over Australia. Pumps of varying

types and purposes are then of extensive use in these plants. Because of the

large deposits of liquid wastes from the material processing methods, a

number of radical environmentalists have raised questions as to how such

deposits can be further regulated, and how pump use must even be limited.

Corresponding ethical issues have then arisen in response to the

environmentalists’ claims. As for the innocently looking manufacturers of

water pumps, all they can say is that they have been being environment-

friendly as far as they could, employing only materials which they say can be

properly disposed of when used as directed.

Well, the matters may be complicated but they can be broken down into

smaller pieces. First, there is this issue on the manufacturers. Second,

there’s another issue on the users, namely, the industrial plants. Third and

last, the environmentalists themselves can also face this issue against them

on their apparent inconsideration of the tasks being carried out by minds

which are rather geared towards technological and industrial innovation.

As for the first issue, it might be rightly said that manufacturers have

actually the least reason to defend themselves, not because they are the

real culprits, but because they are in fact innocent. The evidences can even

increase as the latest models for the vacuum pump or the speck pump can

now be found under the label, “eco-pumps, ” reaffirming how pump-

manufacturers have tried their very best to become eco-friendly. Sufficiently

descriptive manuals have also been provided in order to make sure the users

would, as much as possible, return to them the craps once the pumps have

given up from years of service.

The larger issue then is actually directed to the industrial plants that make

use of the manufactured pumps. Liquid waste is actually disposed into rivers

using these equipments, and the equipments suffer from the accusation as a

result. The equipment itself, i.e., the pump, is of course very neutral. The

problem, really, is on the industrial use and on how environmentalists have

so much reacted against the industry.

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So then, as far as how the issues have quieted as in olden times, it’s the

industrial innovators and the strict environmentalists who should reach a

point of consensus. Again, there will have to be a balance on how much, how

far, and to what extent should human beings exploit the environment in

order to sustain the presently half-technologically-developed planet.