It can be especially bad if it appears that the company was trying to cover up the problem. That is why self-auditing is such an important benefit to companies.
Unfortunately, many companies choose not to self audit. They do not want to look for problems because they expect to find some. Finding problems means reporting problems, which means paying fines. A lot of companies do not want to pay them, even if they are less when they are found through self-auditing. These companies just leave their pollution problems uncorrected and hope that the EPA won't pay them a surprise visit where they will have to try to hide their problems.
Clearly, the economic benefits and the social benefits of pollution control and the Clean Water Act are quite high, although not everyone realizes how important it is to make sure that the water stays clean; not only for the people and animals who live here now, but for future generations. Companies get rewarded for not polluting, and because companies are not polluting, people, animals, and plants everywhere are enjoying clean, clear water. When companies do not pollute it is a win-win situation for everyone involved, including the federal government, because they do not have to deal with all of the costs associated with companies who pollute the water. Costs can be a big problem for companies and for the government. Regulating pollution control is very expensive.
As with benefits, costs of pollution are both economic and social. There are fines, of course, for companies that pollute the water and show a disregard for the safety and well being of the environment and the people and animals that live in it. Social costs are things like people not buying a company's products because they know the company pollutes the water. There are other costs as well. For example, it is often very cheap, economically speaking, to pollute, and very expensive to make sure that one does not. The kind of equipment needed to keep pollution down to a specific level are very expensive, and not all companies can afford it.
Even some of the companies that can afford it just do not want to spend the money....
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