INDUSTRIAL WATER
POLLUTION
By Drew and Joseph
What is Industrial Water Pollution?
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Industrial water pollution is any contamination of
water directly relating to an industry
The most common way for industries to pollute
water is by directly discharging substances into
water bodies
Other methods of industrial water pollution: Oil
drilling/ transport, runoff from factories, dissolving
of harmful gases into water, harmful chemicals
slowly seeping into water, etc.
Industrial Water Pollution In the City
Some other sources of industrial water pollution
What Problems Does it Cause?
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Water is unusable (drinking, agriculture, food
production, recreation)
Food chain destruction/contamination
Population of aquatic animals shrinks rapidly
Who is Affected?
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Aquatic and land animals
Farmers
Consumers
Plants
What Will Happen if it Continues?
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Fish will become endangered and hard to find
There will be more unhealthy water ecosystems
Water will be more scarcely used for households
and consumers
Recreational water bodies will be limited in number
Federal Laws
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Clean Water Act (Federal Water Pollution Control Act)-Basic general laws for regulating pollutants added to
water, regulates water quality standards
Safe Drinking Water Act—Protects drinking water
sustainability across US
CERCLA federal law of 1980– Put a tax on Chemical
and Petroleum industries, and created superfund sites
that require clean-up of industrial pollution
For additional info:
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0861893.html
Effects of CERCLA
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Currently there are 14 superfund sites in Oregon
Because of the CERCLA, many superfund sites in
Oregon were cleaned
For example:
Because of the lead contaminates that were seeping into
the ground water, the Gould inc. Semiconductor site was
listed in 1982, cleaned by 2000, and taken off the
superfund site list in 2002
Solution Options
What we can do
 Donate to environmental
charities
 Keep litter and waste away
from water
What industries/government
can do
 Enforce laws controlling
water pollution
 Limit deforestation near
water
 Do not place harmful
industrial waste like
mercury near water
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