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Precipitation = Evaporation
Water always had two main functions:
life-giving liquid
way how to dispose waste
„109 people on the Earth have not enough water, 2,5 x more people
have not enough water for basic hygiene → risk of illnesses
And what is your daily water consumption ??? Let us see a bit later
1/ Distribution of population
3/ Quality of water
Water use
WC 32%
Bathing 29%
Average household requires 50 l per person Loundry 11%
per day Teeth and hands 7%
cleaning
Dish 7%
Drinking / 4%
cooking
Cleaning, 10%
gaarden...
•Chemical
(toxic substances, PCB, individual reactive substances, NH3,…)
•Biological (organic)
(organic matters, nutrients,…, introduced organisms)
•Thermal
(increasing of temperature of the environment)
Water, nature and ecosystem service
1/ Floods
2/Droughts
TYPES OF FLOODS
Special floods (disasters) – collapses of dams, levees; not necessary relation to weather conditions
Groundwater depletion
Problems with water shortage - human, industry and agriculture
Water, energy and hydropower
Function:
To protect fish, aquatic life, wildlife habitat
Aesthetic beauty
Recreation, transportation, navigation
Water quality
Water quality in summer
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Water in landscape and urban areas
• Regulation?
• - Water for swimming pools, gardening, car washing etc.
Energetics
Paper
Mining
Chemical industry
:
organic pollution
small hydropowerplant
effect of thermal pollution
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6 possible influence of aeration
4 alternative of strong
organic pollution –
2 possible effect of secondary ecological dissaster
increase of temperature
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