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1 Water pollution water pollution

2 Water Pollution TWO MAIN CAUSES 1. Industrialization
2. Rapid human population growth water pollution do fish drink water?

3 Types of Pollution Thermal Pollution: The unnatural heating of a body of water Reduces the dissolved oxygen and CO₂ in the water Marine life suffocates

4 Salton Sea

5 Types of Pollution Groundwater Pollution: Chemicals seeping into the groundwater supply Pesticides Herbicides Fertilizers Gasoline Oil

6 Groundwater Pollution
Examples: Farms: herbicides, fertilizers, feces Roads: Oil, gasoline and other chemicals Illegal dumping in rivers and streams

7 Love Canal, Niagara 1900’s 1950’s 1970’s 1980’s
Factories dumped waste into the lakes and rivers 1950’s Asthma, miscarriages, mental retardation 1970’s 56% of the children in the area were born with birth defects 1980’s Protests lead to new regulations on dumping

8 Types of Pollution Ocean pollution: Pollutants being dumped into the ocean Oil spills, Cruise ship garbage, radiation tests ocean garbage cleaning up the oceans

9 Ocean Pollution Examples: Exon Valdez oil spill 1989
Deep Water Horizon oil spill 2010 Bikini Island 1946 to 1958 (bomb tests)

10 Effects of Pollution Biomagnification: The accumulation of pollutants in a food chain Pollutant levels increase as you go up the food chain biomagnification

11 Effects of Pollution 2. Artificial Eutrophication: An imbalance of nutrients in a lake or ocean Causes overgrowth of algae (algae bloom) eutrophication

12 Effects of Pollution 3. Diseases: Caused by water borne bacteria
Or microorganism Cholera Typhoid Giardia

13 Effects of Pollution 4. Clean Up Costs: Takes a lot of money, time and resources oil spill clean up

14 Acid Rain 5. Acidic Rain: Acidic material from the air being deposited when it rains Erodes buildings, and harms forests

15 BBC how water made us


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