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What do you think is the most important reason for maintaining clean water?

What do you think is the most important reason for maintaining clean water?. Organisms cannot live and grow without water and for human use. Reminders. Test corrections due tomorrow Homework due Friday (worksheet after benchmark) Quiz on Friday.

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What do you think is the most important reason for maintaining clean water?

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  1. What do you think is the most important reason for maintaining clean water?

  2. Organisms cannot live and grow without water and for human use.

  3. Reminders • Test corrections due tomorrow • Homework due Friday (worksheet after benchmark) • Quiz on Friday

  4. http://serc.carleton.edu/eslabs/drought/2b.html

  5. Today • You will work in partners to answer questions provided to you on the omsteamraiders.pbworks.com website • Go to the science page, it is under Monday. • There is this powerpoint & a word document. The powerpoint will help lead you through the material for the questions. There are videos and interactive pages for you to go to help you answer the questions. • The questions need to be written and answered in your notebooks

  6. A watershed/ River basin is an area of land that drains water, sediment, and pollutants into a common body of water. • For example, the Chesapeake Bay watershed is thousands of square miles of land and waterways that all eventually drain into the Chesapeake Bay • A watershed can also be a very small area that drains into a local pond or stream.

  7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cEPz5qNLyg

  8. Pollution on land in the watershed eventually ends up in the water. • Fertilizer, pesticide, and manure run-off from farms and yards can put potentially harmful chemicals and pathogens in rivers and lakes. This can lead to deadly chemicals in waterways. • Excess sediment from construction sites can wash into streams, smothering fish eggs and the bottom-dwelling bugs fish eat.

  9. Healthy watersheds and clean water are important to protect the rivers, streams, and lakes we use for drinking water, recreation, and fishing.

  10. Other valuable websites • http://water.epa.gov/type/oceb/nep/about.cfm • http://www.denvergov.org/WaterQualityProgram/WaterQualityImportance/PointvsNonpointSourcePollution/tabid/424850/Default.aspx • http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/e/eutrophication.htm • http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/a/algal_bloom.htm • http://dcm2.enr.state.nc.us/wetlands/coastal_explorers/cpfmodule/basin/basin_intro.htm

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