Water Quality And Contamination Week3 AssignmentUwall
Water quality and contamination
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20th September 2014
Water quality and contamination Introduction This report focus on factors that affects the quality of water, agents of water contamination and how water impurities can be removed for water quality. There are two visible features of contaminated water; colour and smell. Contaminated water usually has unusual smell and coloured. Invisible factors affecting water quality are sources of water. For instance; tap water is more contaminated than bottled water. Agents of water contamination include; oil, vinegar, laundry detergents and other human activities such as mining. A'o, L. in his book, “Don’t Drink the Water” (1998) rightfully observes that, human activities such as mining and drilling contaminate groundwater citing Norwich England whereby, such activities contaminated groundwater in 1815. The three experiments were being conducted to determine whether oil, vinegar and laundry detergents have an effect on groundwater contamination. The experiment was also being conducted to establish whether filtration is an effective method of water treatment. Furthermore, the experiment was done to examine the difference in colour and smell between contaminated and treated water. Another objective behind these experiments was to examine which drinking water source is good for drinking between; tap water, Dasani bottled water and Fiji bottled water. The hypotheses that require to be proofed in these experiments include; oil, vinegar and laundry detergents are agents of groundwater contamination. Another hypothesis is that, filtration is an effective method of water treatment. Additionally, there is a difference in colour and smell between contaminated water and treated water. Finally, tap water has the best water quality for drinking, followed by Dasani bottled water and then Fiji bottled water. Materials and methods: To test agents of ground water contamination and how effective
Student’s Name
Institution
20th September 2014
Water quality and contamination Introduction This report focus on factors that affects the quality of water, agents of water contamination and how water impurities can be removed for water quality. There are two visible features of contaminated water; colour and smell. Contaminated water usually has unusual smell and coloured. Invisible factors affecting water quality are sources of water. For instance; tap water is more contaminated than bottled water. Agents of water contamination include; oil, vinegar, laundry detergents and other human activities such as mining. A'o, L. in his book, “Don’t Drink the Water” (1998) rightfully observes that, human activities such as mining and drilling contaminate groundwater citing Norwich England whereby, such activities contaminated groundwater in 1815. The three experiments were being conducted to determine whether oil, vinegar and laundry detergents have an effect on groundwater contamination. The experiment was also being conducted to establish whether filtration is an effective method of water treatment. Furthermore, the experiment was done to examine the difference in colour and smell between contaminated and treated water. Another objective behind these experiments was to examine which drinking water source is good for drinking between; tap water, Dasani bottled water and Fiji bottled water. The hypotheses that require to be proofed in these experiments include; oil, vinegar and laundry detergents are agents of groundwater contamination. Another hypothesis is that, filtration is an effective method of water treatment. Additionally, there is a difference in colour and smell between contaminated water and treated water. Finally, tap water has the best water quality for drinking, followed by Dasani bottled water and then Fiji bottled water. Materials and methods: To test agents of ground water contamination and how effective