Water Resources
This is the percentage of fresh water that is accessible to us.
What is .77%
This controversial herbicide was banned in Europe but still used in the US.
What is Atrazine?
As of March 2023, this is the amount of people around the world without access to clean and safe drinking water.
What is 2 billion?
The Ganges River is a threat to humans because it exceeds limits of pathogens that include this.
What is fecal matter form humans and animals?
What is Water Stewardship:Public Policy?
This product causes the microbial decomposition of soil.
This accounts for 80-90% or water usage in the US.
What is agriculture?
Prior to Covid, these disease caused the highest number of deaths per year.
What are pneumonia and influenza?
Between 1990 and 2016, 2.6 billion people were given access to clean drinking water, an achievement that met this goal.
What is the Millennium Development Goal for water?
Chemicals that become concentrated when going up the food chain is known as this.
What is biomagnification?
This water policy, passed in 1948, provided technical assistance but nothing else.
What is the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948?
This drug was used for the treatment of nausea in pregnant women in the 1950's and 1960's.
What is thalidomide?
Aquifers are exploited when this happens.
What is groundwater use exceeds recharge?
The largest source of CO2 emissions in the US are from this.
What are fossil fuel-fired power plants?
These pollutants are in water because of humans.
What are pesticides, solvents, and detergents?
NPS is the abbreviation for this.
What is nonpoint source pollutants?
This act was passed by congress in 1972 in response to public outrage about polluted water.
What is the Clean Water Act of 1972?
This is the probability of harm actually occurring.
What is risk?
This negative impact on the environment happens when water is used for transportation.
What is the transport of invasive species.
This is considered the major pathway for hazards.
What is poverty?
These are the 3 most important aquifers on Long Island.
What are the Upper Glacial, Lloyd, and Magothy?
This percentage of water in the US that meets drinking water standards.
What is 92%?
The burden of safety lies with the industry. The most hazardous substances should be substituted with less dangerous ones are the objectives of________
What is REACH? (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals)
This percentage of chemicals in the United States are not regulated by the government.
What is 99.5%?
These 2 processes purify water naturally.
What are evaporation and condensation?
This will happen as more sediment settles in streams.
What is all organisms are eliminated?
These naturally occurring pollutants become a problem under certain conditions.
What are nutrients and sediments?
In the natural world there is essentially no waste because waste from one organism becomes nutrients for the other. This happens by ____________
This is the EPA's lead agency for risk assessment .
What is the National Center for Environmental Assessment? NCEA
This is the primary reason why coal replaced wood as a source of energy in the mid 1800's.
What is forests were over logged?