Essay On Water Pollution

WATER QUALITY AND CONTAMINATION

Toroyana Dartino Caruth Jr.

SCI 207: Dependence of Man on the Environment Tiffany Janson

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

WATER QUALITY AND CONTAMINATION

Abstract

In this world water pollution has became a major problem. Water pollution has became a threat to the health and the well-being of humans, plants, and animals. While the world becomes more industrial and smaller due to hazardous dumping and communications and trade Has contributed to the problem of pollution. All water pollution is dangerous to the health of living organisms, human health, and animals. Sales trade can be affected by water pollution thus effecting the economy. Populations all over the world use rivers and seas as main sources for water.

Introduction

Water is a basic living essential that needs to be protected. People living in the United States utilize groundwater for cooking, cleaning, drinking, showering, and for all other water purposes.. 97% of people living in rural areas of the nation use groundwater, and 30-40% of water used agriculturally is from the ground. (Didier, 2010) I will be discussing Lab 2 experiment that we conducted in week 2 in this

During this experiment I found that, the Dasani water with the 4and 1 test strips, the Dasani water was a different color from the tap water. The Dasani water test strips was a light color and the Fiji and tap water strips stayed the same, the strip did not/slightly change colors on the test strip. Dasani water is a very popular water that a lot of people drink and spend their money on. As I continued my experiment I found grey colors on the test strips. The grey on the test strips mean that there is contamination in the bottled water. My results found that spending your money on bottled water instead of drinking tap water may be just as harmful as tap water if one does not know the full information on the bottle water at