Toxic Chemicals in our Water
A place where our sewage goes to to clean the waste out of the water.
What is a sewage treatment plant?
the Clean Water Act of 1972 protects this?
What is water quality of surface and ground water?
This can entangle and kill animals, and it will not decompose.
What is plastic?
What is the most littered item in the world.
What is cigarette buds?
Human created liquid pollution that comes from our homes and businesses.
What is sewage?
In _____(year) The safe drinking water act came into effect.
What is 1974?
Water which carries the pollutants into rivers, lakes, and other water bodies.
What is Runoff?
Cans and bottles in the water ways are an example of this pollutant.
What is Conventional Pollutant?
When people eat fish, they are putting this into their bodies.
what is mercury?
In 2009 he co-founded Water.org, a microfinance organization that enable families in developing countries to build clean water and sanitation systems.Water.org has made 1.6 million small loans affecting 7 million people around the world.
Who is Matt Damon?
This occurs when harmful substances are emitted directly into a body of water.
What is Point Source Pollution?
Discharges from wastewater treatment plants, operational wastes from companies, and combined sewer outfalls, are all examples of this type of pollution?
What is Point Source pollution?
On april 20, 2010 some considered to be the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry
What is the deepwater horizon oil spill?
This part of the ocean has very few fish and around eutrophication (little oxygen).
What is the dead zone?
When in water, it feeds algae, which grow out of control in water ecosystems and create imbalances, which destroys other life forms and produces harmful toxins.
What is phosphate?
Pesticides used for farming and oil, grease and toxic chemicals from urban runoff are two examples of this type of pollutant?
What is nonpoint pollution?
This can causes brain, liver, and kidney diseases.
What is bioaccumulation?
What percent of our planet is water?
What is 70%
Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
What is eutrophication?
Oil spills and radioactive substances are examples of this type pollution.
What is Non Conventional Pollutant?