how does water pollution effect our enviornment?
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It smells and alot of the water in rivers ends up being your drinking water
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Take your pick:\n\n1.What are the affects of pesticides on our rivers and streams?\n2.Explore two endangered species. \n3.Is global warming increasing the frequency of hurricanes?\n4.What are the affects of deforestation on the tropical rainforest?\n5.How does extinction affect a food web?\n6.How can forest fires be good for a forest ecosystem?\n7.What is ozone depletion and how can we protect the ozone layer?\n8.Explore how frogs can be biological indicators.\n9.Discuss the role of decomposers in a forest ecosystem. \n10.How does recycling help improve our environment? \n11.How can deer hunters improve a forest ecosystem? \n12.How does water runoff from pavement affect the surrounding environment?\n13.What impact have humans had on global climate? \n14.Why is it important to save our wetlands? \n15.What affect does acid rain have on the environment? \n16.What is smog and how can it be dangerous? \n17.Discuss the dangers of Radon.\n18.How can air pollutants damage the ozone? \n19.Discuss the disadvantages of being dependant on Middle East oil. \n20.Why are coral reefs important to an aquatic ecosystem? \n21.What are the positives and negatives of nuclear power? \n22.How can an oil spill destroy a marine ecosystem? \n23.What are emission checks and how do they help improve air quality? \n24.How does a water treatment plant clean our drinking water?\n25.What is the EPA and how does it work to improve our environment? \n26.Discuss ways that people can help endangered species. \n27.Discuss the dangers of asbestos. \n28.What are the risks of radiation? \n29.What are estuaries and why are they important? \n30.How can indoor air pollution cause health problems? \n31.What are the positives and negatives of landfills? \n32.What is a watershed and why are they important? \n33.What is the greenhouse effect and how does it influence climate? \n34.What affects can volcanoes have on global climate?\n35.How does El Nino affect global climate?\n36.What is the Georgia Wildlife Federation, and how do they protect wildlife?\n37.How was Lake Lanier built and what influences does it have on local ecology?\n38.Trace the path of the Chattahoochee River and explain its importance to Georgia’s ecosystem. \n39.How can advances in the medical field increase human carrying capacity?\n40.What is biodiversity and what role does it play in a tropical rainforest?\n41.How will human population affect food production in the future? \n42.Propose an argument on why the government should drill for oil in Alaska. \n43.Propose an argument on why the government should not drill for oil in Alaska. \n44.What are some advantages in using solar power, wind power and hydro-electric power? \n45.How does over-consumption relate to our available resources?\n46.What does ‘Renewable Resource’ mean, and how does it relate to over-consumption? \n47.What are the pros and cons of genetic engineering?\n48.What is sprawl and how does it relate to the environment?\n49.Discuss how ocean temperatures influence the strength of hurricanes. \n50.Discuss how a meteor could impact our environment.
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Of course its bad... I mean it harms our lungs and it has carbon monoxide which can kill us by taking oxygen.\n\nAir pollution also causes Acid Rain and it harms the Ozone Layer. So with Air Pollution our lovely Earth's being destroyed.
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INTRODUCTION\nPollution, contamination of Earth’s environment with materials that interfere with human health, the quality of life, or the natural functioning of ecosystems (living organisms and their physical surroundings). Although some environmental pollution is a result of natural causes such as volcanic eruptions, most is caused by human activities.\n\nThere are two main categories of polluting materials, or pollutants. Biodegradable pollutants are materials, such as sewage, that rapidly decompose by natural processes. These pollutants become a problem when added to the environment faster than they can decompose (see Sewage Disposal). Nondegradable pollutants are materials that either do not decompose or decompose slowly in the natural environment. Once contamination occurs, it is difficult or impossible to remove these pollutants from the environment. \n\nNondegradable compounds such as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), dioxins, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and radioactive materials can reach dangerous levels of accumulation as they are passed up the food chain into the bodies of progressively larger animals. For example, molecules of toxic compounds may collect on the surface of aquatic plants without doing much damage to the plants. A small fish that grazes on these plants accumulates a high concentration of the toxin. Larger fish or other carnivores that eat the small fish will accumulate even greater, and possibly life-threatening, concentrations of the compound. This process is known as bioaccumulation.\n\nTYPES OF POLLUTION\nPollution exists in many forms and affects many different aspects of Earth’s environment. Point-source pollution comes from specific, localized, and identifiable sources, such as sewage pipelines or industrial smokestacks. Nonpoint-source pollution comes from dispersed or uncontained sources, such as contaminated water runoff from urban areas or automobile emissions.\n\nThe effects of these pollutants may be immediate or delayed. Primary effects of pollution occur immediately after contamination occurs, such as the death of marine plants and wildlife after an oil spill at sea. Secondary effects may be delayed or may persist in the environment into the future, perhaps going unnoticed for many years. DDT, a nondegradable compound, seldom poisons birds immediately, but gradually accumulates in their bodies. Birds with high concentrations of this pesticide lay thin-shelled eggs that fail to hatch or produce deformed offspring. These secondary effects, publicized by Rachel Carson in her 1962 book, Silent Spring, threatened the survival of species such as the bald eagle and peregrine falcon, and aroused public concern over the hidden effects of nondegradable chemical compounds.\n\nA  Air Pollution \nHuman contamination of Earth’s atmosphere can take many forms and has existed since humans first began to use fire for agriculture, heating, and cooking. During the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries, however, air pollution became a major problem. As early as 1661 British author and founding member of the British Royal Society John Evelyn reported of London in his treatise Fumifugium, “… the weary Traveller, at many Miles distance, sooner smells, than sees the City to which he repairs. This is that pernicious Smoake which fullyes all her Glory, superinducing a sooty Crust or Furr upon all that it lights.…”\n\nUrban air pollution is commonly known as smog. The dark London smog that Evelyn wrote of is generally a smoky mixture of carbon monoxide and organic compounds from incomplete combustion (burning) of fossil fuels such as coal, and sulfur dioxide from impurities in the fuels. As the smog ages and reacts with oxygen, organic and sulfuric acids condense as droplets, increasing the haze. Smog developed into a major health hazard by the 20th century. In 1948, 19 people died and thousands were sickened by smog in the small U.S. steel-mill town of Donora, Pennsylvani
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When toxic substances enter lakes, streams, rivers, oceans, and other water bodies, they get dissolved or lie suspended in water or get deposited on the bed. This results in the pollution of water whereby the quality of the water deteriorates, affecting aquatic ecosystems. Pollutants can also seep down and affect the groundwater deposits.\n\nWater pollution has many sources. The most polluting of them are the city sewage and industrial waste discharged into the rivers. The facilities to treat waste water are not adequate in any city in India. Presently, only about 10% of the waste water generated is treated; the rest is discharged as it is into our water bodies. Due to this, pollutants enter groundwater, rivers, and other water bodies. Such water, which ultimately ends up in our households, is often highly contaminated and carries disease-causing microbes. Agricultural run-off, or the water from the fields that drains into rivers, is another major water pollutant as it contains fertilizers and pesticides.
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Harmful algal blooms are occurring more often and in more regions across the nation than ever before. These intense population explosions of algae can kill marine life, clog waterways, and create conditions that impact human health. While algal blooms are a natural phenomenon, it is believed that human activities, such as nutrient excess in runoff, may be triggering their increasingly common occurrence.
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Fossil fuel power plants can emit many harmful pollutants, ranging from Nitrogen Oxides and particulates to heavy metals & mercury.\n\nThe radiation from the sun's nuclear fusion is what gives us solar energy, but it can also cause skin cancer.\n\nUse of solar energy generally requires using materials that have caused pollution as a byprodouct of their manufacture.
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First concern:  water pollution.  We need water to live.  Our bodies have very limited ability to tolerate unclean water.  It is very hard and costly to clean up water supplies.\nSecond concern:  air pollution.  We need air to live.  Humans can tolerate some pollution, and it is easier to stop pollutants and allow air to clean itself.
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Some good internet sites where you will get these details are \n\n\nhttp://yap.nic.in/delhi-Pollution.asp\nhttp://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/Crisis/River-yamuna.htm\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges_River
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Human Activity\nMunicipal Wastewater and Solid waste\nLand Development\nMaterial Consumption
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These are some of environmental hazards that I can think of:\n>>Changed quality of animal habitat caused by pollution or any interference which is unsafe or unhealthy for animals to live.\n>>Forestfires.\n>>Increased predation by another species.\n>>Diminishing water and food supply resources.\n>>A disease epidemic in a certain animal habitat.♥\n>>
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Wetlands are essential to maintain the balance of the hydrologic cycle; they offer large surface areas of water and thus regulate the amount of water that flows, evaporates and eventually falls down again as rain. In addition, a wetland such as an estuary is the boundary between the sea and the land; they can buffer the influence of the tides and sea currents, and are usually very productive areas (that is, if pollution does not degrade them).\nEspecifically for the San Francisco area, here´s a link to the site for the San Francisco Bay reserve, they discuss the benefits and problems of the area:\nhttp://nerrs.noaa.gov/SanFrancisco/welcome.html\n\nand the local Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program:\nhttp://www.wrmp.org/\n\nand
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river beds dry up\ncrops can be destroyed by parasites that thrive in heat\nshortage of water can cause heat strokes and dehydration in animals and people \nThe crime rate increases as people get agitated in extremes of heat
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It depends on your source of water.  Rainwater, wastewater, pond water, and well water all go through different steps.\n\nThe things that need addressed in one manner or another are particulates (usually cleaned out by a filter in the beginning stages of the process), bacteria and larger life forms (also many of which can be be filtered out with finer filters), and chemicals (usually removed by reverse osmosis or by charcoal or some other cleansing chemical process).\n\nThere are a lot of sources out there.  I have listed a few of them below.  Good luck.
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Almost all countries have this problem ; some big , some small.\nIn many cities in Asia the sewage water disposal system is very badly managed. They are not treated effectively before it is allowed to be discharged into rivers or seas. Some do not have the treatment plant and in some the plants are not maintained propery.\nNear the butcheries where the hides and skins are washed and proceesed , in sugar industries the molasses, in dyeing industries the wastages etc etc are polluting the ground water resources.Earlier the film industry used to pollute the ground water ,.\nMany chemical industries the toxiv wastes pollute the water sources.\nI remember my child hood days when we used to drink the free flowing river waters with our hands. No more now.
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Environmental effects\n\nModern mining companies in many countries are required to follow strict environmental and rehabilitation codes, ensuring the area mined is returned to its original state, or an even better environmental state than before mining took place. Past mining methods have had, and methods used in countries with lax environmental regulations continue to have, devastating environmental and public health effects. The result can be unnaturally high concentrations of some chemical elements over a significantly wider area of surface. Combined with the effects of water and the new 'channels' created for water to travel through, collect in, and contact with these chemicals, a situation is created where mass-scale contamination can occur.\n\nEnvironmental issues can also include erosion, formation of sinkholes, dangerous sites such as deep holes in child friendly communities, destruction of the environment, loss of biodiversity, and contamination of groundwaters by chemicals from the mining process and products.\n\nSome examples of environmental problems associated with mining operations are:\n\nAshio Copper Mine, Ashio, Japan was the site of substantial pollution at end of the nineteenth century \nBerkeley Lake, an abandoned pit mine in Butte, Montana that has filled with water which is now acidic and poisonous. \nScouriotissa, a copper mine in Cyprus that has been abandoned. Contaminated dust blows off this site. \nTar Creek, an abandoned mining area in Picher, Oklahoma that is now an Environmental Protection Agency superfund site. Water in the mine has leaked through into local groundwater, contaminating it with metals such as lead and cadmium. \n\nAlthough such issues have been associated with some mining operations in the past, modern mining practices have improved significantly and are subject to close environmental scrutiny.
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Because water increases your body's electrical conductivity.