Where
Niger and Papua New Guinea
Where are the most polluted cities
__________ can be a serious threat to a freshwater ecosystem because of how much it is being used to get rid of rodents, weeds, and unneeded fungi.
What are pesticides.
Protects our drinking water from bad chemicals
What is The Clean Drinking Water Act. Passed by Congress in 1974.
When farming and factory runoff floods rivers with more chemical such as nitrogen and phosphorus, these nutrients very often cause toxin producing plants called algae blooms that then create ____ zones.
What are dead zones
Most water contamination comes from ____
What is suburbs, cities, and factories.
____ tried to replace pipes with a very toxic lead infused metal with non-toxic non-lead pipes.
What is The Clean Drinking Water Act.
Almost ____ of the tap water in the United States is contaminated with chemicals known as forever chemicals (what is blank)
What is half.
________ are _______ that lead from the main pipe to houses, apartments, etc, etc.. Most of these lines were made out of lead therefore contaminating the water.
What are service lines and pipes
Already affects around one seventh of all river stretches in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
What are the effects of not proper plumbing in different areas.
Municipal, (suburb and cities) industrial (toxic waste, and trash) and agricultural waste (wasting water), wastewater and nutrient run-off, power generation, heavy industry, automobiles, and others.
What is the pollutants of freshwater
The time when freshwater pollution started becoming a bigger, more common problem.
What is mid 19th century
Water regulation (saving water), waste treatment (how we get rid of waste and trash)
What are positive ways to preserve freshwater ecosystems
The first insecticide was first recorded by the heartland of Sumer Lay and is between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers. True or false?
True!
Supply water for drinking, growing crops, manufacturing, energy and transport.
Why is freshwater important.
An important habitat for many aquatic organisms.
What is a freshwater ecosystem.
Businesses are increasingly moving to sustainable water practices. true? or false?
True!
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Of all the water on Earth, just ___% is fresh water.
2.5%
It is commonly considered a fundamental right for all humanity.
What is freshwater?
The first recorded use of insecticides was about _____ years ago.
4500 years ago which shows why some water is away from society and still polluted.
Because farming industry and even our LIFE! depend on it.
how is freshwater so valuable