Nowadays‚ water pollution is a big problem in Vietnam and many researchers have been studying it. Accordingly‚ there are two main reasons of water pollution in Vietnam. The weakness in industrial wastewater management is the main cause of water pollution in Vietnam. Many industrial facilities use freshwater to carry away waste from their plants into canals‚ rivers‚ and lakes. Most of the enterprises don’t have any wastewater treatment system and many industrial zones don’t have a central wastewater
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Assignment: WATER POLLUTION 1) What is water pollution? 2) What causes water pollution? 3) Name the 2 sources of pollution 4) What are the different types of water pollution? 5) How can water pollution be prevented? 6) Pollution can be: MICROBIOLOGICAL‚ CHEMICAL‚ SUSPENDED MATTER‚ NUTRIENTS‚ OXYGEN-DEPLETING SUBSTANCES. Give one real example for each cse with a brief explanation. 1) 1- Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies‚ very
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Water Resource Plan Everyone knows that to survive you need water. What everyone does not know is that what is being put into the water that we drink‚ that we swim in‚ and the water that we use for everyday activities has made it unsafe for everything that needs it to survive‚ plants‚ animals‚ and even humans. To sum it up our planet and everything in to can not survive without water. Many states have water that is very unsafe to drink and has made a lot of people very sick. Without water plants
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Water pollution and pollution in general is a problem that people don’t like to deal with. Water pollution can cause so much damage to people and to the animals that live in that body of water. The laws that we have are doing what they need to but we need to monitor the water more closely because if we don’t catch the pollution when it happens it could cause a big disaster. It could kill all of the plant life that lives in the water and the animals that live there to. Some of the pollutions that
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The causes of water pollution Water pollution comes from a myriad of sources‚ both natural and from human activity. The most destructive causes of water pollution are man made‚ however. The largest sources include: The burning of coal in power plants emits ash particulates that contain toxic metals like arsenic and lead. Coal and petroleum also contain sulfur compounds. Combustion generates sulfur dioxide‚ a toxic gas‚ and oxides of nitrogen. When emitted from exhaust stacks‚ these two compounds
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Water Pollution Solutions Water pollution has been around ever since any of us can remember! What we need to look for now are water pollution solutions to help salvage our planet. So read on to know about some water pollution solutions... Water pollution is a problem that isn’t new to us. Water pollution has been around since time immemorial‚ though the severity of the problem has only recently struck environmentalists the world over. Although there are a lot of strict laws in the United States
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Water Pollution Control On Wednesday‚ July 10th‚ 2013‚ at approximately 12:47pm‚ Mr. Tom Anderson led our group on a tour through the City of Akron’s Water Pollution Control plant. The weather was very humid‚ with a temperature of 84 degrees F‚ but felt like 97 degrees F. On this tour we learned that the purpose of this plant (which was built in 1928) is to take all of the used water and waste from the municipal sewage lines from Akron and the surrounding suburbs and run it through a cleaning
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sector (PEM‚ 2003). As stated in the EMB report‚ domestic wastewater discharges contribute highest to the BOD load as the lack of sewage treatment system allows more than 90 percent of inadequately treated domestic sewage to be discharged into surface waters‚ which contain bacteria and viruses that threaten human life. Geographically‚ data show that one-third (30 percent) of BOD generation comes from Metro Manila and Region IV alone‚ at 18 and 15 percent‚ respectively (PEM‚ 2003). Industrial wastewater
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Preventing Water Pollution: Mission Impossible? In a world covered in great seas‚ great lakes‚ and creeks‚ lies a hideous environmental dilemma. A dilemma so big that it kills 14‚000 people every day‚ and also causes vicious diarrhea illness to over 1‚000 Indian children‚ daily. This predicament causes great suffer to the entire earth‚ and this problem is called‚ Water Pollution. Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies such as lakes‚
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At the end of this lesson‚ you should be able to: Define water pollution and discuss some of the common water pollutants. Discuss selected water pollution problems‚ including cultural eutrophication and acid mine drainage. Describe point and nonpoint sources of water pollution and the difference between them. Describe how groundwater becomes polluted and treatment methods for polluted water. Discuss important issues related to water quality standards. Know the principles of wastewater treatment
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