ENSP 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Safe Drinking Water Act, Nonpoint Source Pollution, Ecosystem Health
13 Mar 2018
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Water quality: clean water act (cwa, safe drinking water act (sdwa, clean air act (caa, etc. Overview: water generally, causes of water pollution and current status, safe drinking water act, clean water act major provisions, navigate waters and wetlands regulation, point and non-point sources. Why do we care about water and good water quality: human health, ecosystem health, economic health. Industry: agriculture, energy production, recreation, navigation, fisheries, drinking water and domestic supply, ecosystem maintenance and restoration, producers of water are also the polluters of water. The water challenge: the strategic challenge for the future is to ensure adequate quantity and quality of water to meet human and ecological needs in face of growing competition among domestic, industrial, agricultural, and environmental uses. Water pollution - causes: agriculture, energy production. Industry: nc coal ash spill, came from a power plant, waste disposal, urbanization, climate change, transportation, deforestation, atmospheric deposition.
