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What are the factors affecting water quality?

Pollution and Pollutants

Pollution and the pollutants that enters water system plays a huge role on affecting the water system. Pollutants can be gases, liquids, dissolved substances, or particulates, and can enter the water system by atmospheric deposition, soil erosion, seepage, runoff, or direct discharge. Therefore, polluting freshwater.

Substances affecting water quality

What is water quality

Water quality refers to the biological, chemical, and physical characteristics of water. Although you might think water quality represents if water is good or bad, it is not as simple as that. There are many scientific measurements used to define water quality. The quality of water depends on the area it is in, and how the area monitors it. For example, factories, home gardeners, and golf courses can affect your water system by polluting your water sources like rivers, lakes etc with harmful chemicals. An area with good facilities has better and cleaner water.

What is the Importance of Having Good Water Quality?

How are Humans Affecting Water Quality?

  • Informal Settlements
  • Agriculture
  • Wetland Destruction
  • Commercial Forestry
  • Littering
  • Oil/Chemicals/Medicine
  • Industry

Who is Affected by Bad Water Quality?

Many developing countries, third world countries and even first world countries like Canada can be affected. Normal people today can be affected by bad water that goes through pipes into people's homes. Walkerton.

Pollution Affecting the Water System

Pollutants are one example of toxic chemicals that can be released into the environment such as gases, liquids, dissolved substances, or particulates, and can enter the water system by atmospheric deposition, runoff, seepage, and erosion.

Two types of pollution that are affecting water quality are point source pollution, and non-point source pollution. The reason why pollution is so critical to the ecosystem is because it unloads so much unwanted chemicals into a body of water by, for example, marine outfall and runoff.

The water can be contaminated with many substances such as decayed organic materials, pesticides, toxic and hazardous substances, oils, grease, detergents, litter and rubbish, and other toxic chemicals.

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