Fresh Water
What percent of earths water is freshwater?
what is 2.5%
What is a river basin?
What is an area where all water drains into 1 river
What is the first step to the water treatment process?
what is drawing water from a body of water
Why is dissolved oxygen important for the ecosystem?
What is because fish breath through dissolved oxygen in the water
What government agency is responsible for setting potable standards for our drinking water?
What is the United States Environmental Protection Agency
what percent of fresh water is on the surface and accessible ?
what is 0.3%
What is a watershed?
What is a area of land that drains into a low-scale water source
What is FLOC?
what is a mass of particles separated from water.
What is a good bio indicator level.
what is lots of them.
What is the connection between dissolved oxygen and temperature?
What is high temperature can lower dissolved oxygen
Of the freshwater in the world, where is the most located?
what is Icecaps and Glaciers
how does runoff effect a watershed?
It can carry things from all over that area of land into the watershed
what is the purpose of chlorination in the water treatment process?
What is kills pathogens.
What is the sun/industrial plants.
What takes up the most percentage of fresh surface water?
What is lakes
Why is groundwater from an aquifer often cleaner than surface water?
what is because of natural purification
What is the difference between a river basin and a watershed?
What is a river basin is a bigger watershed
What is the purpose of filtration in the water treatment process?
What are nitrates?
What is measure of oxygen in water.
What is potability?
What is how drinkable the water is
What does the Clean Water Act do for our drinking water?
What is regulate our drinking water
how does pollution effect a river basin/watershed
What is the final step to the treatment process?
What is the disinfection step
What are the 6 indicators of potability?
What is; dissolved oxygen, pH level, bioindicators, Turbidity, Temperature, and Nitrates