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    This document discusses several freshwater and ocean water resource challenges: Freshwater challenges include pollution from pesticides and fertilizers running off into streams, a lack of availability as population grows, and sewage and disease-causing agents threatening public health. Ocean water challenges include non-point source pollution from buildings and vehicles, coastal development limiting access to water, and arsenic contamination of water sources in Bangladesh. The key issue highlighted is organic compound pollution entering freshwater systems through storm drains and runoff, reducing water quality and availability.

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    This document discusses several freshwater and ocean water resource challenges: Freshwater challenges include pollution from pesticides and fertilizers running off into streams, a lack of availability as population grows, and sewage and disease-causing agents threatening public health. Ocean water challenges include non-point source pollution from buildings and vehicles, coastal development limiting access to water, and arsenic contamination of water sources in Bangladesh. The key issue highlighted is organic compound pollution entering freshwater systems through storm drains and runoff, reducing water quality and availability.

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    This document discusses several freshwater and ocean water resource challenges: Freshwater challenges include pollution from pesticides and fertilizers running off into streams, a lack of availability as population grows, and sewage and disease-causing agents threatening public health. Ocean water challenges include non-point source pollution from buildings and vehicles, coastal development limiting access to water, and arsenic contamination of water sources in Bangladesh. The key issue highlighted is organic compound pollution entering freshwater systems through storm drains and runoff, reducing water quality and availability.

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    This document discusses several freshwater and ocean water resource challenges: Freshwater challenges include pollution from pesticides and fertilizers running off into streams, a lack of availability as population grows, and sewage and disease-causing agents threatening public health. Ocean water challenges include non-point source pollution from buildings and vehicles, coastal development limiting access to water, and arsenic contamination of water sources in Bangladesh. The key issue highlighted is organic compound pollution entering freshwater systems through storm drains and runoff, reducing water quality and availability.

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    Water Resource Challenges

    Review Ch. 10 and 11 of your text, then complete the following:

    Provide at least three freshwater and three ocean water resource challenges by filling in the
    following table. Then, respond to the question that follows:

    Freshwater Resource Challenge Description


    Clean Use of pesticides, insecticides, fertilizers,
    herbicides, and other chemicals. When we
    use these chemicals, they are run off onto
    streams or channels, which cause
    pollution. Storm drains for example, are
    things that cause these chemicals to run
    off into the fresh water streams, and
    channels.
    Availability As the population grows, there are more
    demanding expectations of the people.
    Uses of water are extremely needed in
    large populations. Although this is a
    problem, pollution causes this problem
    too, when the water is polluted it thereby
    decreases the amount of fresh water.

    Freshwater Resource Challenge Description


    Sewage Wastewater from drains or sewers;
    threatens public health
    Disease causing agents Wastes of infected individuals; spreads
    infectious diseases
    Thermal Pollution Industrial runoff; depletes the water of
    oxygen that water can hold
    Ocean Water Resource Challenge Description
    Non point source pollution Runoff water from buildings, streets and
    sidewalks carries many pollutants
    including: sediment, nutrients, bacteria,
    oil, metals, chemicals, road salt, pet
    droppings and litter. Cars, refineries,
    power plants and other contaminant
    emitting sources send pollutants into the
    air that eventually settle in water.
    Costal development Water privatization in many parts of the
    world have limited many people access to
    clean water and taken over indigenous
    water rights and management resulting in
    loss of local self governance.
    Arsenic contamination Arsenic naturally mobilized in sediments in
    Bangladesh have contributed to arsenic
    poisoning in lots of people. It is caused by
    fertilizers and wastewater.
    The water resource I want to point out is organic compounds going into fresh water banks,
    rivers, or streams. Solid waste going into river streams has a big impact on our environment.
    We have big issues that are dealing with sewage. The use of pesticides, insecticides,
    fertilizers, herbicides, and other chemicals are all sources that cause water pollution. When we
    use these chemicals, they are run off onto streams or channels, which cause pollution. Storm
    drains for example, are things that cause these chemicals to run off into the fresh water
    streams, and channels. Organic compounds going into fresh water systems affects the
    availability of fresh water and affect the quality of water. Oil runs off into the river systems
    and pollutes the majority of the water, when we decide not to do anything; it becomes more
    difficult to handle the problem. The problems are affiliated with insecticides, pesticides, and
    other chemicals, because they are run off into the streams of lakes, causing the water to be
    polluted – the result being less availability of water. There are many concerns about the
    organic compounds that run off into lakes, streams, rivers, and any other fresh water
    ecosystems.

    “A 2008 report by the United States National Research Council identified urban storm water as

    a leading source of water quality problems in the U.S.

    Contrarians could note there is considerable surface runoff in natural systems from animal

    wastes being entrained in runoff or from natural sediment loading in the absence of human

    alteration of the land. While these statements are true, they fail to convey that the most

    pernicious consequences to human health and ecosystems are from runoff issues related to

    human intervention; however, in underdeveloped countries the proportion of runoff

    attributable to natural factors has greater dominance, principally due to the lack of isolation of

    water supplies from potential animal waste carrying runoff.”

    (2008, United States Nation Research Council)

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