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Water Chemistry Ecotox
Water Chemistry Ecotox
Water Chemistry Ecotox
Pollution
Why we measure water quality?
When a body of
water is overfed
with nutrients it
can create massive
algal blooms which
causes very low
levels of DO killing
off many aquatic
organisms.
www.thebutlerchain.com/introd
uction.htm
Pfiesteria
Found in waters high in nutrients
-Harmful Algal Bloom (HABs)
www.sierraclub.org
A fertilized lake
designated "Lake 227"
in northwest Ontario,
Canada, (foreground)
with increased algae,
whose growth has been
found unpredictable,
pictured next to a lake
that hasn't been
manipulated for
research. (Photo by
Karen J. Scott
www.monitor.net)
Would you want to swim at
this beach?
“Under the belief that water
could dilute any substance,
industries and individuals
during the 18th and 19th
centuries often used rivers
and lakes as garbage cans.
Industrial effluent, raw
sewage and animal
carcasses would often be
dumped into waterways,
without much thought of
contamination and
downstream neighbors.”
http://www.great-lakes.net/teach/pollution/water/water2.html
Eutrophication