Water Pollution

Question 0

Pollution

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Any physical biological or chemical change in water quality that adversity affects living organisms can be considered as

Question 1

Water pollution

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Is any chemical biological or physical change and water quality that has a harmful effect on living organisms or makes water unsuitable for desired usage.

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Point source pollution

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Discharge pollution from Pacific locations. For example, factories powerplants and oil wells.

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Nonpoint source

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Scattered or diffuse, having no specific location of discharge. For example, agricultural fields, feed lots and golf courts.

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Eutrophication

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Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water.. Usually due to run off. Dense growth of life and death of animals from lack of oxygen. Naturally low nutrient limits growth. Becomes over enriched in nutritional.

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•Impaired waters

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Are rivers, lakes, and estuaries that cannot fully support their aquatic biological communities.
•Top three causes:
●Excess sediment
●Nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorous)
●Pathogenic microorganisms

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Aquifer

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underground geological formation able to store and yield groundwater; water exists in spaces between rock, sand and gravel.

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Contaminant

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substance that makes water or other substance impure and unfit for consumption or an intended use.

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Erosion

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wearing down or washing away of the soil and land surface by the action of water, wind, or ice.

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Riparian

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pertaining to body of water such as a stream, river or lake; of or on the bank of body of water.

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Riparian buffer

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vegetated area along banks of body of water; provides shade and protects body of water from land uses.

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Runoff

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precipitation that flows over land to surface streams, rivers, and lakes.

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Surface water

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water above the surface of the land; includes: lakes, rivers, streams, ponds, floodwater, and runoff.

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Wastewater

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water that contains unwanted materials from homes, businesses, and industries.

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Wetland

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land saturated with water at some or all times of the year; determines the nature of soil development and the types of plant and animal communities; examples of wetlands include: marshes, bogs, swamps.