Water+Quality+Questions

1. What exactly is water quality? Water quality is what quality the water quality is. EX. Clean water and dirty water. [] 2. How does it effect us as kids? It effects us because many people around the world die from poor water quality ever year and if we have poor water, it could happen to us. We should be able to know about whats in our water.

3. How can we find out a water's quality? Answer: We can run tests on the water. We can also taste the foul water. Some simple ways to find out water’s quality is the temperature, dissolved oxygen, conductivity and oxygen reduction potential. [|http://en.wikipedia.org]

4. How is water quality checked? You can call the EPA to get your water tested in a laboratory. The EPA does not test water for individual homes do that's why you have to send it to a laboratory. information from: []

5. How difficult or hard is it to test water quality? It can be diffcult to test water quality. []

6. What makes water quality go down or become poor? Poloution makes water quality down or become poor.

7. How can we stop a water's quality from going down? we could stop polluting the rivers,lakes,oceans, etc. 8. How can we help a water's quality go up?

9. How does a water's quality go from low to high? It can get affected by normal daily activities such as livestock wastes,household sewage, factory wastes, pollution caused by car-washing, and more.

10. What type of machines purify water? One way is to boil water in a pot. This is where I got this. 11. What type of minerals are put in the water?

12. How are drugs getting into and contaminating water supplies? People sometimes take pills with water. When they dump it down the drain, the residue from the pills or soaps wash into the water and since drain water is recycled, it gets into the water we drink Website: [|http://www.nytimes.com/]

13. How can drugs be stopped from getting into and contaminating water supplies? Answer: They could have a better filtering system, or thier could be a law passed about putting certian things in the water.

14. Is water quality checked on a regular basis? The TEPA has developed a water monitering system to check water quality on a regular basis, but this is only in reservation areas. In non reservation areas, the government finds it a waste of money and time. Info from: [] 15. What can I do about water quality? You can avoid useing hazardous house hold products. [] To reduce lead in your drinking water you can flush your cold water pipes after 6 hours of not being used. You can flush your pipes by letting your water run until the water is ice cold. [|http://www.epa.gov]

16. Can I test the quality of water at home? You can test water quality at home, but you just have to make sure you have the right kit and equiment.[]

17. How does dirty water get clean? It goes down rivers then gets cleaned by companies and machinerys. from wiki.com Most componies and macienery clen the water. I learned this in class. 18. How do you tell if water is mostly safe?

19. What other ways are scientists helping to get it clean? The scientists are keeping the water clean by picking out the trash. [] 20. Can I help where they have and don't have good water quality? If I don't dump pills or water I drank taking pills and if I lessen the soap and other toxic chemicals I use, it will help in the long run.

21.How many people die or get sick from not having good water quality each year? Answer: []. 4000 a day soooooooo 1,460,000 people a year. 1.8 million people die a year from bad water [|http://en.wikipedia.org]

22. How does the water quality in water change during the year? It depends on the weather through out the year. If it rains alot, it might effect the concentration of the water. information from: http://jeq.scijournals.org/ Water quality is affected throught the year by chemicals that are used around or near the water well where the water comes from.

23. How does water quality affect the world's environment? If the water quality is bad then the water can be carrying diseases. []

24. How does water quality affect living organisms? Water quality affects living organisims because if it goes down it could effect their health.

25. Why is one environment have a different water quality than another? A different environment has a different water quality than another because of the weather, area, and higher temperture will affect the different water quality.from wikipedia.com 26. Does it need to go through a dam?

27. Is it good to drink river water?

28. Is salt water good? Saltwater is not good for humans. Here is some more info. 29. What is water quality like these days?

30. How to People Purify water? People purify water by first boiling it on high, then they skim out the gross bacteria and repeat the process until it is clear and drinkable.

31. Why does everybody need water to live? Answer: Everybody needs water to live because we are made of 70% water.

32. How do you check if the water is safe to drink? Make sure there is no suspicious activity going on around the water supply. information from: [] You can see if water is safe to drink by buying a water testing kit from your local hardware store.

33. How much water and average person uses in a day? An average person uses 123 gallons of water a day. [] An average person uses around 123 gallons of water a day. [|http://www.enotes.com]

34. How much water we should use in a day? We should have at least 1.5 liters a day. []

35. How much drinkable water is in the world? 1% of the worlds water is drinkable. I learned this in class. From [|www.globalchange.umich.edu] 36. How to conserve water?