Abstract
This world is a challenged place. It would be a blatant lie to say that the vast majority of global problems don’t arise from causes that can be solely attributed to the human race. We, as a society, both historically and presently, are the maintainers of poor habits that have led to outstanding pollution rates and costs to the international economy that are on the verge of unrecoverable. However, stepping out of this dim light and looking toward a brighter future, there is a progressive attempt to right our ancestors and our own wrongs. Like never before, the struggle to maintain our polluted world is being pushed in the right direction. One of these drives is that of the effort to reduce the pollution caused by Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) in various locations across the continent. In the following explanation and argument(s) I will detail the causes, effects, and reversibility of Acid Mine Drainage.