AGRON 160 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Water Resources Law, Bottled Water, Water Efficiency
4 Apr 2017
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Chapter 7: dams (pp 181-187; 197-202: skip locks and dams. Chapter 8: water allocation law (pp. 211-235: skip interstate river compacts and federal reserved water rights. After the storm, ep 1. 104:st, ask for the dvd. Nova hidden city, vid 001 795, middle part about water delivery in new york. Concentration of dissolved solids, liquids and gases, suspended solids, pathogens, and heat in a given quantity of water. When the concentration of a given substance, waste, etc. reaches the level that the effects the use of water for habitat and human use it becomes a pollutant. Some changes in water quality are natural, some are non-natural/human caused. Excess nutrients: new york city water supply, santa monica bay, gulf of mexico, water borne diseases. Point sources: contamination discharged from an identifiable location, less than a few acres in area (pipes, landfills, surface impoundments (lagoons, pits), spills, relatively easy to quantify.
