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WEMT

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Water quality, Environment, Management, and Technologies

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4 Pollution Environments?

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air, water, solid waste, toxic and hazardous waste

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Existing water resources in the Philippines?

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Marine, Inland (Rivers and Lakes), Groundwater

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Status of rivers in the Philippines?

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180 od 421 are Polluted
50 are biologically dead

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Water resources management issues and challenges

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Climate Change
Population Growth
Water Pollution
Over-Extraction
Inefficient Water Use
Governance and Policy Issues
Socioeconomic Factors

Cell Phone was openly infiltrated, government spy

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Drivers of Water Quality

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Institutional framework
Existing policies/regulations
Research and education
Water use
Basin hydrology
Implementation and best practices
Human behavior

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a term used to express the suitability of water to sustain various uses or processes

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water quality

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water quality is defined by a range of variables which limit water use

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water for:

  • life
  • food
  • economy
  • environment
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the quality of any surface or ground water is a function of either or both?

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natural influences and human activities

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Natural Conditions affecting WAQ?

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Geology
Climate
Vegetations
Morphology
Location

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Morphology is also known as the?

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Mixing potential

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Thermal stratification in water?

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Epilimnion
Metalimnion
Hypolimnion

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Physical and Chemical Parameters?

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Temperature
Dissolved Oxygen
pH and Alkalinity
Turbidity / Expended Solids
Salinity

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Oxygen dissolved in water is inversely proportional to?

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Temperature and salinity

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Nutrients in water

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Phosphorus
Nitrogen
Silica

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are two common measures of water quality that reflect the
degree of organic matter pollution of a water body.

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Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) and Chemical Oxygen Demand
(COD)

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a measure of the amount of oxygen removed from aquatic
environments by aerobic micro-organisms for their metabolic
requirements

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Biochemical Oxygen Demand

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a measure of the oxygen equivalent of the organic matter in a
water sample that is susceptible to oxidation by a strong chemical
oxidant

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Chemical Oxygen Demand

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biological components?

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microbes (bacteria, viruses, protist and fungi)

algae and aquatic vascular plants (primary producers of aquatic ecosystems)

Zooplankton and benthic macro-invertebrates

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