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Water pollution - Coggle Diagram
Water pollution
Sources of pollution
Heavy metals: mining waste, hazardous waste
Pesticides: Runoff from farmes,
Nitrates: fertilizer runoff, manure from livestock, operations, septic systems
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Chlorinated solvents: effluents from metal and plastics degreasing, fabric cleaning, electronics and aircraft manufacture
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Arsenic: naturally occuring, possibly execarbated by over-pumping aquires and by phosphorus from fertilizers
Salts: seawater intrusion , de-icing salt from roads
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Types of water pollution
Marine pollution
Sources: solid waste such as plastic bags, discarded fishing nets, runoffs from such places as farms, septic tanks, industrialized areas
Common manmade pollutants: pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers, detergents, oil, sewage, plastics
Results: Hypoxia, algae blooms.
Facts: in the North Pacific, the garbage patch Pacific Trash Vortex is the sixe of Texas. Each summer a dead zone the size of New Jersey forms in the Missisipi River Delta.
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