Ways to inhance water quality
- Plant native plants in your yard to help have a natural filter system.
- Minimize amount of road salt you use.
- Don't use fertilizer on you lawn.
Distilation
Distillation is a process to make salt water into fresh drinking water. This is an ineffective way to create drinking water because it takes up so much fossil fuels and pollutes the air. How it works is the salt water goes into the flask which is sealed off at the top. Under neath it is fire heating up the water to a point where it become water vapour. then it goes down a condenser and by the time it reaches the end of it, it cools off creating distilled water.
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Reverse osmosis This system recycles feed water. This system creates 100% safe water for people to drink. This filtration system is 25% effective. For every gallon that is recycled 4 gallons of water is wasted.
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Temperatures effect on water
Temperature of water can determine what organism can sustain live in that body of water. When the water temperature increases or decreases by a large amount it starts to kill the organisms to a point where they could go extinct.
Temperature also effects the chemistry of the water. When ground water heats up it typically dissolves more rocks and minerals which means it has higher electrical conductivity. Above ground water when hot holds less dissolved oxygen than cold water, warm water even may not contain enough dissolved oxygen to sustain life. |