III Review report Project Title: Improve Ground Water Quantity & Quality Through Rain Water Harvesting Coordinator: Dr. K.Nagamani Guide: Dr. Madhavi Ganesan Team Members Kumaravel.A (20085052) Kavi Eswari.K (20085049) Murali.K (20075023) Barathan.P (20085010) Introduction: Tube Products of India is a leading manufacturer of precision steel strips and steel tubes which is located at Avadi‚ which comes under the avadi municipality‚ Thiruvallur district‚ Tamilnadu. The extent
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Pollution is the process of giving out contaminants such as smoke and carbon dioxide‚ and too much of a certain products such as light‚ heat and sound that both cause harm to the environment. There are several types of Pollution such as Water‚ Air and Noise pollution. Water pollution is a global plague that affects the people‚ animals‚ and plants. These life forms need water to survive. The causes are contributed greatly by the human population. Recently‚ laws have been passed to protect the precious
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Water Quality Raychel Rizzo 1/26/2013 Trent Sorensen SCI/275 Pollution is a world-wide spread problem that needs to be addressed sooner rather than later. Water pollution is a big worry considering that water is essential to all living and nonliving things. As Adrian Armstrong (2006) says in his article Ethical issues in water use and sustainability‚ “...water is valuable‚ because we need it‚ and so we protect it in so far as it benefits us” (p. 10) The main problems
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persistent condition of surface waters and a widespread environmental problem (Carpenter‚ 2005). The main cause is excessive loading into the system of phosphorus and nitrogen‚ resulting in high algal biomass‚ dominance by cyanobacteria‚ and loss of macrophytes (Dixit‚ 2005). When the nutrient concentrations rise to extremely high levels‚ eutrophication occurs. There are two stages‚ which begin with the algal bloom. Algal bloom creates a barrier at the surface of the water‚ which prevents sunlight from
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Value of Water Humans have never had to deal with problems associated with water pollution until now‚ when we have already caused irreversible damage and have run into major difficulties regarding water worldwide. Although we rely on this critical resource to survive‚ we have failed to take care of our sources and water pollution has increasingly become a large problem that humans must deal with. Water is a human’s most valuable resource and it is essential to every living species. Humans can survive
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debris. The bottom is important because benthos dwelling organisms make their homes there and scraping it kills them and removes their habitats. The unwanted catch (bycatch) is thrown back into the water but it does not replace what was harmed. Finally‚ the silt that the net stirs up gets suspended in the water column and blocks out the sun. Primary production and photosynthesis cannot occur without that sunlight so the ecosystem cannot recover. Long line fishing is another method of fishing that involves
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Introduction Water pollution is the contamination of water by foreign substances such as chemicals‚ pesticides‚ animal wastes‚ sewage‚ disease‚ and organic matter. There are two primary sources of water pollution‚ point source and non-point source pollution. Point source pollution originates from specific locations‚ and can bet traced to specific pipes or ditches and is generally waste or effluent from industry or sewage treatment. Non-point source pollution originates from a much broader
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ARSENIC IN DRINKING WATER Arsenic in Drinking Water: Effect on Health ABSTRACT: Drinking water can be contaminated with arsenic through natural resources such as soils and rocks‚ but it also results from human activities. Long-term ingestion of arsenic exposure through drinking water can cause multiple adverse health effects including cardiovascular‚ pulmonary‚ immunological‚ neurological effects and endocrine problems such as diabetes. Ingestion of arsenic-rich water can increase the risk
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today’s Ecosystem there are so many factors of cause and effect of pollution in any areas of the world. Pollutants affect the air that keeps us breathing‚ the animals that we hunt or fish‚ and even the water that we drink. Food‚ water‚ and oxygen are the most important things we need in order to survive a world full of life. With this being said Lake Huron and the other Great Lakes are being extremely polluted and causing wildlife die‚ water ruined‚ all the way down to certain points of the Lake being
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Water Refilling Station Business in the Philippines Not All Water Refilling Stations Are Created Equal ACCORDING to the World Health Organization (WHO)‚ about 3.4 million people die annually from water-related diseases. About a million Filipinos get sick with water-borne diseases yearly. And these are diarrhea cases alone. They don’t include other water-borne disease like amoebiasis‚ crypto-sporidiosis and cholera. Water refilling stations can help address the water contamination problem.
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