Water Pollution

This law sets standards on pollutants for community water supplies.

• Clean Water Act (CWA)

• Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)

• National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

• Oil Pollution Act

This law regulates the discharges of pollutants into all waters that have a significant connection with navigable waterways.  Also, must have a permit to dump these pollutants. Also, requires certain steps in sewage treatment. 

• Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)

• Clean Water Act (CWA)

• Oil Pollution Act

• National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

A distinct location from which pollution is directly produced.

• Point source

• nonpoint source

• wastewater

• water pollution

A diffuse areas such as and entire framing region, a suburban community with many lawns and septic systems or storm runoff from parking lots.

• Point source

• nonpoint source

• wastewater

• water pollution

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Water produced by livestock operations and human activities, including human sewage from toilets and gray water from bathing and washing of clothes and dishes.

• Wastewater

• leach feild

• septage

• sludge 

Eutrophication is caused by

• runoff of excessive fertilizer and nutrients

• cleaning up waterways

• using nuclear energy

• using solar energy

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

______________________ is the water that contains waste from home or industry.

• surface water

• dam

• potable

• wastewater

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

______________________ is the buildup of pollutants at higher levels of the food chain.

• porosity

• water pollution

• wastewater

• biomagnification

Point-source pollution and non point-source pollution differ in

• the kind of biological agents causing the pollution.

• whether the source of pollution is agricultural or industrial.

• the number of sources from which the pollution is discharged.

• whether the pollutants are chemical or physical agents.

Fertilizers are classified as which kind of water pollutant?

• organic chemicals

• inorganic chemicals

• heavy metals

• physical agents