Water quality
Water
supply & demand
average
theoretical
2000 cubic meter/person
shortage
≤1000 cubic meter/person
time uses per capita
usage
increasing
due to
industry
population
main
irrigation
continent streamflow time
north america
increase
River
urban
provide
water
drink
carry off
waste
important
health
disease
cholera
1850s
typhoid
1880s
Istanbul
history
pinnacle
irrigation
due to
limited supply
Chicago
Lake Michigan
population
pollute
water
disease
typhoid
management
Chicago river project
reverse
stream
Rivers
Chicago
Calumet
problems
upstream
great lake states
sue
for
lowering
lake
level
downstream
Illinois
sue
for
pollution
offal
ground river
overuse
cause
problem
Wisconsin
chlorination
1908-1910
Europe
London Paris
disease
combat
build
sewer
directly
to
Thames Seine
pollution
Rhine
Britain
France
mining
Germany
chemical pollution
from
metal
steel
iron
1920
Rhine
world
20% chemical production
Switzerland
1986
Sandoz chemical warehouse
fire
extinguish
wash
chemical
poison
river
kill
all
lifeforms
Holland
suffered
metal
content
clean up
after WWII
policy
restored
2015
water basin management policy
cross boundary
Subtopic 1
Japan
Ashio
mine
copper
pollution
dams
Subtopic 1
halt
history
1610
active
1980s
most important mine
Japan
Sumida
review
polluted
industry
India
Ganges
population
religious
belief
burn
dead
to
river
1980s
30mil bodies a year
bathing
problem
bodies
not burned
expensive
carcasses
animals
China
purification
filter
filtration plants
1880s
chlorination
sludge activation
big cities
1920s
safe drinking water
sewage
1912-1915
sewage treatment
1920s-1930s
sewage treatment plants
1990s
effluent water
cleaner
water
distribution
world
uneven
Lake
eutrophication
example
Lake Michigan
Lake Washington
clean up
more difficult
than
river
because
static
size
small
easily
affect
human
population
close
relation
Sea
size
large
human population
inhabit
coastal zone
inland sea
less waves
more vulnerable
eutrophication
example
Baltic sea
due to
waste
Stockholm
Helsinki
Leningrad
Warsaw
metal & chemical pollution
Minamata Disease
oil spills
1975
500,000 tons of oil
leak
Mediterranean sea
1990
1/4
oil shipment
1980
1/6
world
oil pollution
float
cover
10% sea surface
Mediterranean
Black Sea
1990s
biodiversity
rich
poor
low
biomass
not polluted
clear
lack
nutrients
management
beach closing
patterns
problems
distribution
cross boundaries
factor
industrialization
population
urbanization
social
religion
management
factor
tourism
international
relation
policy
reduce
filter
output
sewage
technology
investment
EIA?
Water Manipulation
Groundwater- Aquifer - Depletion
America
Ogallala Aquifer
aquifer
groundwater
storage
recharge
long time
Ogallala
largest
volume
3 billion arce-feet
same
Lake Huron
problem
overuse
depletion
Arabia
groundwater
depletion
because
policy
agriculture
self sufficient
grow
wheat
desert
Lybia
similar
Dams
policy
large dams
Europe
America
small dams large network
Italy
colonial India
both
USSR
post-colonial India
benefit
irrigation
extend
economics
energy
authority
problem
efficiency
return
electricity
irrigation
sustainability
durability
silting
land
water logged
salinization
Subtopic 1
water borne diseases
Indian
malaria
Subtopic 1
became
popular
1930s-1980s
≥ 1 large dam / day
≥15m
Russia
Tsarist Marxist Stalin
1930s
build
communism
characteristics
power
centralized
unlimited
problem
environmental degradation
freedom
little
pressure
militarize
industrialize
tame
nature
defend
against
outer forces
capitalist
demand
resources
ores
food
population
energy
priority
industry
health
environment
science
research
lack
mistrust
government
fear
liberalism
support
scientist
angry
move
France/Germany
5 year plan
forced
to
engineer
projects
focus
scale
speed
sustainability
focus
applied science
industrial
projects
scale
grand
planning
centralized
priority
cost
human
health
problems
environment
degradation
projects
big
Volga 1937
hydroelectric
1950s
Aral sea
4th largest lake
cotton belt
cotton independent
result
1990
USSR
2nd largest exporter
cotton
problem
Aral Sea
depletion
level
15m
becomes 2 lakes
volume
1990 = 1/3 1960
influx
1980
1/5 influx
salinity
1993 = 3x 1960
problems
climate
stability
air
dry
salinity
summer
heat
winter
cold
fishery
1950s
40,000 tons / year
1990
extinction
biodiversity
mammals
1/2 extinct
birds
3/4 extinct
plant
only
salt resistant
agriculture
pesticide
pollution
health issues
cotton
Subtopic 1
Industrial Desserts
Ural region
Siberian
Cheliabinsk
population
1939 = 5x 1926
environment
degradation
cause
factories
smoke
acid
poison
agriculture
fertilizer
deforestation
effect
vegetation
erosion
climate
"unique geochemical region"
health issues
life expectancy
vulnerability
diseases
infant mortality
communal farms
centralized
planning
farmers
do not own land
upgrade
exploit
rotation
pesticide
5 times
US
fallow
result
development
unsustainable
safety
pollution
1975
water use
8 times
1913
irrigation
Cold War
science
expanded
pressure
Cold War
production
scientific
autonomy
focus
industry
environment
little
characteristic
exploitation
Arctic
hydropower
develop
quickly
unsustainably
examination
environment
impact
nature
transform
damage
irreversible
projects
Danube
countries
Hungary
Czech Republic
construction
reservoir
canal
divert
90-95%
flow
into
hydroelectric dam
nuclear
Environmentalism
period
Nikita Khrushchev (1955-64)
reformism
Leonid Brezhnev (1964-82)
conservatism
characteristics
prioritize
welfare
industry
use of resource
but
still
pollution
cheap
industrial desert
projects
inefficient
agriculture
degradation
movements
Ural
exploitation
environmentalist
scientists
writers
pressure
from
government
Lake Baikal
writer
defend
pristine nature
gain
support
but
fail
scientist
difficulties
data
classifed
criticism
dangerous
government
build
dam
glorify
industry
Flood control
Coastlines