EESA10H3 Lecture Notes - Giardia Lamblia, Arsenic Poisoning, Legionella
24 Jul 2014
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Water is essential to human life, and it is needed to be plentiful for human to survive. Industrial wastes and climate change pose both new and old threats to our water supply. The next info is going to be about how to maintain quality and water quantity We endure the potential diseases in contaminated water since the 19th century: some diseases include diarrheal diseases which kill 2 million annually. Even though we have improved our ways of water sanitation, it still leaves 20% without improved drinking supplies. Evidence have shown that changing the means of human waste disposal is much better than purifying your water supplies. There"s also surface water, and there"s ground water: surface water is. Most contaminated because it"s on the surfacebeing prone to chemicals and microbial pathogens from waste runoff from nearby land: ground water is Not as contaminated because its beneath the soil which act as filters for the water
