EESA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Atenolol, Meprobamate, Phenytoin
20 Mar 2019
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Earth has 330 million cubic miles of water = a lake that is 90 miles deep. Water on planet earth: 97% saline, 3% freshwater, 30% groundwater, 69% frozen, < 1% surface water. 1 in 6 people do not have access to clean drinking water. = about 60, 000 chemicals that have the potential to get into the environment and the potential to cause harm. We regulate chemicals through: the safe drinking act: clean air act. Where do they come from: use and disposal of beauty products, household cleaning agents, drugs, food containers, water containers, pesticides, livestock production. Things we use in our everyday lives waste streams sewage treatment plants wastewater treatment plants lakes, rivers, streams: wastewater treatment plants don"t remove these chemicals. Also looked at fish health across the entire us by looking at 9 major river basins out of.
