Air & Water Quality

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Air quality has been affected by increased emissions from industrial sources, vehicular traffic, and open burning of household and commercial wastes. The major industries contributing to air emissions include oil refining, bauxite-alumina processing, mining and quarrying cement manufacturing, sugar processing and power plants. Ground water becomes polluted by infiltration from sewage, saline intrusion and the leakage of caustic residues from the older red mud disposal sites. In Kingston and St. Andrew, aquifers have been extensively contaminated by sewage, while saline intrusion on the south coast results primarily from over-pumping of ground water. Pollution of surface waters is much more significant, with many more pollutants contributing to the problem.

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