ABSTRACT
The results of unregulated waste disposal into bodies of water fails to coincide with the attributes of an ideally functioning market system. It is in regard to research on costs and optimal design, and factors underlying the generation of wastes, that the social sciences, working with sanitary engineering and related scientific disciplines, may be expected to make their major contribution. Since water quality is likely to become one of the most important considerations in many future system designs, it is especially important that procedures be specifically adapted to handle the complexities of waste-disposal system design. Pollution poses a problem in designing an efficient, interdependent system of waste disposal, one in which social cost is held to a minimum. Public health presents a series of difficult and important but elusive problems that overlaps political, economic, and technical areas. The most important challenge to physical and biological research concerns the plant nutrient, algae growth, photosynthetic oxygen complex of effects in receiving water.
