Topic: Major threats & issues/ Threats to groundwater
Question: What can be done do decrease the potential contamination threat to South Australian water by Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs)?
In order for living and non-living things to survive water is necessary. Some 72 percent of Earth is covered in water, but 97 percent of that is salty ocean water and not suitable for drinking.
Most of the remaining 3 percent water is freshwater and locked up in ice layers or glaciers or it’s too deep underground to be reached to salty to be used. Thus, only about 0.014 percent of the earth’s total volume of water is easily available to us as soil moisture, usable groundwater, water vapour and lakes and stream. Still the 97 percent of non-potable water is necessary to keep both non-living and -living things alive.
In our daily lives water plays a major role. A human being alone is made up bug percentages of water. The amount of water in the human body ranges from 50-75%. The average adult human body is 50-65% water, averaging around 57-60%. The percentage of water in infants is much higher, typically around 75-78% water, dropping to 65% by one year of age. Since science shows this statistics it means that in order for the human race to survive and carry on, water must be present.
South Australia came in third in water consumption being 32 percent compared to all the other states in Australia. South Australia also sustains their water by trying out different methods to re-use and recycle water resources such as rain water back to potable water, if not, to usable water.
Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) are a group of chemical substances from a diverse group consisting of human and veterinary me...
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...being flushed down the toilet and other human activities. What we can do individually to help our water is to call our local pharmacy or on how to properly dispose the pharmaceuticals such as medicines, cleaning products, pesticides and more that could potentially harm our environment.
Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) aren’t researched thoroughly in South Australian water; however it is best to stop potential impact on human health and on the environmental.
South Australians are great at sustaining their water however it is necessary to apply additional improvements to the water quality and quantity such as in-depth researches on PPCPs to prevent potential contamination in the little supply of potable water available and as well as to raise public awareness on these contaminants since PPCPs contamination in water is the result of human activity.
Water is the life blood of every living creature on earth. Approximately 70 percent of the earth's surface is covered with water. Through the wonders of nature, water can take on many different forms. It is easy to understand the significance water plays in our lives, but it may be difficult to understand the water that exists below the earth's surface. This water is called groundwater.
... needs to be placed on research efforts to reduce the occurrence of pharmaceuticals in the environment. Aquatic habitats such as the Great Lakes are almost always at the disadvantaged end because that is where effluent ends up. The basis of current regulations is the effect of said chemicals on human health and other public health threats as opposed to the environment. But as the Alliance for the Great Lakes reports, legislation by the concerned government agencies [U.S. EPA] is changing to include pharmaceuticals in pollutant regulation (15). Advocacy and community initiatives such as the Indiana-Illinois Sea Grant Community Project if continued will be pivotal in educating the public about the need to preserve or responsibly exploit our precious resources. Our motivation ought to be one of altruism: To protect our environment for the benefit of future generations.
It’s no mystery that having clean water is a fundamental element to living in a prosperous society and one of the few things essential for human survival. Water not only sustains our health, but is required in making everything from electronics to clothes. Clean water may seem as ordinary as putting on your shoes, but it’s a daily party of our life that’s being threatened.
Researchers have stated that plastic bottles containing water can contain many deadly chemicals. After close examination of the plastic, researchers concluded that some plastics contain chemicals, like phthalates, bisphenol A (BPA), endocrine disrupters, and cancer, may percolate into the water, especially after being stagnant for long periods of time. Likewise, bottled water is not exposed to the rigorous testing tap water endures. Thus, bottled water is more inclined to be contaminated or a source of infection. Tap water is subjected to daily safety testing, bottled water, however, is only tested monthly at the source; twenty-two percent of the water tested contained contaminant levels that exceeded strict health limits. Safety of the people could be secured through banning water bottles.
Clean water is needed for good human and animal health, but as DoSomething.org states, over 1 billion people worldwide don’t have a means of getting clean drinking water, an...
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