Activities that affects the quality and availability of water for human use

Question 1

Ethical use and protection of valuable resources

Answer 1

conservation

Question 2

condition of water including chemical, physical, and biological characteristics

Answer 2

water quality

Question 3

what are the physical characteristics of water quality?

Answer 3

temperature, color, taste, odor, and turbidity

Question 4

what are the factors in temperature?

Answer 4

thermal capacity, density, specific weight, viscosity, surface tension, specific conductivity, salinity, solubility of dissolved gasses.

Question 5

factors of color

Answer 5

presence of organic component

Question 6

taste and odor factors

Answer 6

human perception of taste and smell

Question 7

turbidity factors

Answer 7

haziness, comprised of suspended and colloidal material

Question 8

reflection of the soils and rocks with which the water has been in contact

Answer 8

Chemical characteristics

Question 9

growth of micro organisms

Answer 9

microbial and chemical

Question 10

quantity of water that can be used for human purposes

Answer 10

water availability

Question 11

amount of water is great but water supplies are no longer adequate to satisfy all human or ecosystem requirements

Answer 11

water scarcity

Question 12

activities that affects the water quality

Answer 12

sedimentation, pollution, climate change, deforestation, landscape changes, urban growth, and human waste disposal