Water Pollution
Type of pollution where excess nutrients cause algal blooms in water
What is Nutrient Pollution or Eutrophication?
The water footprint of this type of diet is half that of a meat-eater.
What is vegetarian or vegan?
Only 3% of water on this planet is _____.
What is fresh.
This oil spill remains one of the world's worst environmental disasters. 11M gallons of crude oil contaminated nearly 1,300 miles of shoreline and affected wildlife, including sea otters, salmon and bald eagles.
What is the Exxon Valdez?
More than a quarter of Maine schools' water tested positive for this dangerous element.
What is lead?
Unlike point source pollution, this pollution comes from scattered sources like runoff.
What is Nonpoint Source Pollution?
Driving increases your water footprint; this is the reason.
It takes a lot of water to produce gasoline.
78% of the world's freshwater is trapped here.
What are glaciers/ice caps.
More than 10,000 children in Flint, Michigan were poisoned by lead in their public water supply. This is a major concern because lead is a _____.
What is a neurotoxin?
This type of electricity provided 30% of Maine's renewable generation last year and consistently out-performs all other renewable energy sources.
What is hydropower/hydroelectricity?
This type of pollution occurs when water temperature changes harm aquatic life.
What is Thermal Pollution?
Xeriscaping is incorporates using landscaping with plants that don't need a lot of water. What kind of environment would xeriscaping be best for?
Where is the desert?
*Locations like AZ, FL, CA are also acceptable.
If you have a private well, this is where your water is from.
What is groundwater.
Beginning about 1960, the Aral Sea’s water level was systematically and drastically reduced, because of the diversion of water from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers for this purpose.
What is irrigation?
*In this case, for cotton fields.
Sebago Lake's water quality is so good that these bubbly businesses donate to the Sebago Clean Water fund.
What are breweries?
*Ex: Both Allagash & Rising Tide donate $ for every barrel of beer they brew.
Oil spills are a severe example of this category of water pollution.
What is toxic chemical pollution?
The reason shopping increases your water footprint so much.
Water is required to grow crops like cotton and plants for dyes.
This is the process which renews Earth's water supply.
What is the water cycle?
According to the former head of the Maine CDC, “The least expensive and safest water we know is what comes [from] ____________."
What is your tap/faucet?
Some residents and environmental groups allege that BlueTriton (formerly Nestlé) Brand's water extraction activities have led to the depletion of local aquifers and drying out of wells in this Maine town.
Where is Fryeburg?
Biological pollution is caused by bacteria in water, often from fecal matter. What are these disease-causing organisms called?
What are pathogens?
Water “hidden” in the products, services and processes people buy and use every day; it often goes unseen by the end-user of a product or service. Ex: shopping.
What is virtual water?
Many parts of the world use water faster than it can be resupplied. We call countries like this (South Africa, Mexico and Australia for example) ______ ______.
What is water stressed?
All the wetlands north Lake Okeechobee in Florida were drained as a result of the Army Corps of Engineers transforming this 103 mile river into a straight 56 mile canal.
What is the Kissimmee River?
Maine's only 'raw water' company claims their “water is harvested...from an ancient geologic spring so naturally pure that it is officially exempt from all processing requirements.” Ironically, every bottler in Maine tests their water except this company.
What is Tourmaline Spring?