How did growing factories and industrial urban cities affect the landscape of america?

Growing no of factories and industrial urban cities make adverse affect on landscape of america. These factories or industrial cities produces large amount of pollutants in the form of pouted air, pouted water causes environmental degradation. This rises to hurricanes, flooding, forest fires, global warming, etc.

One of the Sumerians greatest advances was in the area of hydraulic engineering. Early in their history they created a system of ditches to control flooding, and were also the inventors of irrigation, harnessing the power of the Tigris and Euphrates for farming.