1. Intro to Water Pollution

2. What is Unique About Water?
* It is the only molecule that’s solid is less dense than its liquid.
*A human cannot go more than three days without water.
*60% of the human body is made up of water
2.5 % of worlds water is fresh water.
In other words water is important.

3. What is water pollution?
Is the introduction of chemical, physical, and biological agents into water to degrade water quality and harm organisms that rely on water.

4. Point Source Pollution
Pollution discharged from single source.
Example: a factory, a water treatment plant

5. Non-Point Source Pollution
Pollution that enters a water systems from several sources
Example: a farm, a road, oil from PWC.

6. We will look at in more depth
The different types of pollutants
Artificial eutrophication
Waste water
How to clean it up
How we manage our water