RNR 1001 : Notes For Test 2
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Protection of soil, minimization of fertilizer, pesticide, and herbicide runoff. Example: when a farmer doesn"t farm near a stream to prevent infecting the stream. A third agriculturally-related water quality problem is irrigation. Removal of water from streams and aquifers to provide water for crops in arid areas. Problems include loss of water (evaporation), contamination of water runoff, repeated withdrawals (compounding water quality problems), waterlogging, and soil salinization. Industrial pollution is also pervasive in developed (and developing) countries, with widespread releases of acids, toxic chemicals, particulate matter. 40 tons of methyl isocyanate (mic, used to make the insecticide) released from a plant in bhopal, india in 1984 (part of india"s green revolution to increase crop productivity) 8km area, over 3,000 killed, 400,000 injured, eyes, lungs, nervous and digestive systems. Legal, technological, organizational, and human errors, scrubber and burn-off tower had been shut off; union carbide paid million to victims families.
