interview questions by Genshu

*Can we use underground water as a safe drinking water?
*Can we change sea water to drinking water?

*What is the biggest problem against human beings causes unsafe water?

*What is the biggest problem against nature causes unsafe water?

*What is the most effective solution in order to decrease the amount of people who are sick because of water?

*Which is more effective making water clean and finding clean water?

*Do you think disease caused by water disappear?

*Do you agree with the opinion that dirty water kill more people than a war?

*Do you think saving water leads to decrease the amount of people who are suffering from dirty water?

*What do you do not to make water dirty?

Hamadoun's interview questions:-how important is this issues nowadays?

• could it be resolve in a realistic word or "Clean water for everybody is just a concept"?

• regarding to state policies (in a overview), Do you think that if things keep evolving the way they are, this issue is gonna be resolve?

• to resolve this issue,what are the main causes we should focus on?

• as the poorest state of the united state is the mississippi concern with this problem?

• If yes: -is there any local measure to solve the problem ?

-is there any individual initiatives ?

• at what scale this project could have impacts (it's known that we are well determined)

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (By Nelson Salgado)

If one of my experts were a Chemical Engineer these would be some of my questions:

1. What do you think are the main causes of the water pollution in the United States?
2. Do you think that the same causes are affecting the situation of water pollution in developing countries?
3. What do you think is the role that industry performs in the water pollution at a world scale?
4. What can industrial companies do to prevent high levels of water pollution?
5. If a company want to start to incorporate the recycling and eco-friendly industrial techniques, How can it do it? Is it possible? Is there more limitations besides the economic aspect?
6. How could the developing countries have access to eco-friendly industrial techniques?
7. Do you think that the recycling initiatives are or could be helpful to reduce the water pollution?
8. Is there future for the recycling initiatives as a part of the reduction of water pollution itinerary? What do you think about it?
9. What are the main consequences of the industrial processes that increase the water pollution problem?
10. With the accelerated growth of industry and the lack of water because of its pollution, How do you think will the future in terms of availability to water in the U.S. and the world? Chaotic? No difference? Why?

Resources (Genshu Ota)

Causes:

Cause#1
*Liquid Assets
Demographic influences water resources

Cause#2
*Water, Power and Citizenship
government and water in Mexico

Cause#15
*Risk of Vessel Accidents and Spills in the Aleutian Islands
oil problem in the Aleutian Island

Cause#5
*economics of water pollution
Growth of industry makes water dirty


Consequences:

Consequences#10
*Reflection on Water
conflicts about water

Consequences#11
*Climate Change and Global Poverty
Shortage of clean water because of climate change leads to poverty.

Consequences#16
*The World's Water 2000-2001
relations between water and food

Solutions:

Solution#11
*Coping with Water Scarcity
About education of attitude to water

Solution#13
*Water Use, Management, and Planning in the United States
this book refers to how to manage water of governments and companies



Solution#1
*Water Management in 2020 and Beyond
Strengthen laws and institution to cope with water




ARTICLES

Causes#1
*Progress towards the child mortality millennium development goal in urban sub-Saharan Africa: the dynamics of population growth, immunization, and access to clean water.
Demographic explosion causes death and illness


Causes#2
*Redefining Progress at the Third World Water Forum in Kyoto
about lack of government ability to manage water


Cause#2
*The Mexico World Water Forum's Ministerial Declaration 2006: A Dramatic Policy Shift?
About relations between government and water


Consequences#10
*War on the Water Front.
War from water problems


Consequences#10
*Water as a Human Right: The Palestinian Occupied Territories as an Example
Conflict from water problems


Consequences#1,2
*Unsafe water kills more people than war, Ban says on World Day
about death and illness from dirty water


Consequences#1,2
*Sustainable Control of Water-Related Infectious Diseases: A Review and Proposal for Interdisciplinary Health-Based Systems Research
Death and illness from dirty water


Solution#15
*Achieving safe drinking water — risk management based on experience and reality.
To make water clean, and to keep water clean

WATER POLLUTION: LIST OF SOURCES (BY NELSON SALGADO)

BOOK SOURCES

Source #1

"Saving The Earth: A Citizen's Guide To Environmental Action"

It Refers to:

Solution # 5: Make the people aware of the situation and how it will go if they don't change the way they act.

This book emphasizes the actions that can be develop for the population in general (the common citizen) to solve, or at least help to heal some of the environmental problems including the water pollution. It offers solutions that we all can apply in our houses or that we can take the initiative to do it.


Source # 2
"Water Quality in A Stressed Environment: Readings in Environmental Hydrology"
It refers to:

Cause #5: Growth of Industry

The most important contribution for our research is that this book explains some facts about the pollutions in aquifers: the relation between soil and water pollution and it explain how industrial processes pollute the ground water from the point of view of the hydrology.

Source # 3
"Oil Spill Debris: Where To Put The Waste. Interagency Energy/Environment R&D Program Report"

It Refers to:

Cause#15: Oil Industry
This book is from the collection of Government Documents. Although bigger oil spills have taken place since 1980, there are interesting solutions proposed about what to with the rests produced for this type of environmental disasters with the main purpose that avoid they keep polluting the water.

Source # 4
"Environmental Pollutants: Detection and Measurement"
It refers to:

Cause # 11: Other industries (energy, nuclear energy, wood, fishing, etc.)

The most interesting part is the discussions among experts in different fields like laws, chemistry, environmental sciences, etc., trying to find solutions for different types of pollutions. Sometimes, the scientific terminology makes the lecture difficult but it is even possible catch the main idea.

Source # 5:

“The McGraw-Hill Recycling Handbook”

It refers to:

Solution #15: Support the recycling initiatives.

This book explains many forms of recycling evaluating its repercussions, costs and advantages. It presents the recycling from different points of view: the industry, marketing, economy mentioning some of them.

Source # 6:

“Mind over Matter: Recasting the Role of Materials in Our Lives”

It refers to:

Solution #15: Support the recycling initiatives.

This book explains how to reuse materials like metal or plastic in the construction and other fields. It evaluates the good factors and the risk of reusing materials.

Source # 7:

“Solid Waste Education Recycling Directory”

It refers to:

Solution #15: Support the recycling initiatives.

It summarizes the structure of some recycling programs applied successfully in the United States. It also contains the contacts for these programs

Source # 8:

“Industrial Prevention Handbook”

It refers to:

Solution #19: Force industrial companies to manage appropriate waste programs.

This book explains step by step some initiatives for different industries to reduce the pollution caused in the industrial processes. It uses a very technical language, but it is possible understand the information.

Source #9:

“Community Recycling: System Design to Management”

It refers to:

Solution # 15: Support the recycling initiatives.

It explains general concepts about recycling. It also evaluate the recycling management seeing the recycling as an industry.

Source # 10:

“Quality of Shallow Groundwater and Drinking Water in the Mississippi Embayment-Texas Coastal Uplands Aquifer System and the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer, South Central United States 1994-2004”

It refers to:

Cause # 11: Other industries (energy, nuclear energy, wood, fishing, etc.)

This federal book shows a hydrological study applied to the waters in the Mississippi Embayment. The structure of the scientific research could be applied in developing countries.

ELECTRONIC SOURCES

Source #1

“Waste prevention, recycling, and composting options lessons from 30 U.S. communities”

http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/reduce/recy-com/

It refers to:

Solution #15: Support the recycling initiatives.

This electronic book summarizes the experience of the recycling programs applied in some parts of the U.S. geography. It tries to present an introduction to the recycling as an industry.

Source #2

“Cash for your trash: Scrap recycling in America”

http://0-site.ebrary.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/lib/olemiss/Doc?id=10120772

It refers to:

Solution #15: Support the recycling initiatives.

This electronic book shows us how the recycling and the business can match up perfectly. It’s interesting that at the beginning, it present the history of recycling.

Source # 3

“The U.S. Paper Industry and Sustainable Production: An Argument for Restructuring

Urban and Industrial Environments”

http://0-www.netlibrary.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/Details.aspx

It refers to:

Solution #15: Support the recycling initiatives.

The second half of the book is dedicated to the paper recycling. That is important because the paper is another important pollutant solid waste.

Source # 4:

"The greening of industrial ecosystems"

http://0-www.netlibrary.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=2529

It refers to:

Solution #15: Support the recycling initiatives.

This electronic book mentions theories based on the waste cycle within the planet. It also explains these theories in the recycling frame.

Source # 5:               

“Recycling in multifamily dwellings: does convenience matter?”

http://0-search.ebscohost.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=16761375&site=ehost-live&scope=site

It refers to:

Solution #15: Support the recycling initiatives.

A recycling plan applied in Illinois is the main topic in this article. It evaluates pros and cons of this recycling program.

Source # 6:

“Not wasting waste”

http://0-web.ebscohost.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=1&hid=119&sid=60829f3c-b5b6-4d80-9c45-85c1fa505ee2%40sessionmgr111

It refers to:

Solution #15: Support the recycling initiatives.

It treats about the pros and cons of the recycling initiatives in the industry. It’s a short article and the lecture is easy to understand.

Source # 7:

“The Potential of Large-Scale Urban Waste Recycling: A Case Study of the National Recycling Programme in Singapore”

http://ejournals.ebsco.com/Direct.asp?AccessToken=95DQII58XD5UDUXI4I1P1Q49R1JR8M9JDJ&Show=Object

It refers to:

Solution #15: Support the recycling initiatives.

It treats about a recycling initiative applied in Singapore. It explains the challenges managing this program.

Source # 8:

"Benevolent and Benign? Using Environmental Justice to Investigate Waste related Impacts of Ecotourism in Destination Communities"

http://0-web.ebscohost.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=1&hid=119&sid=bdf3f85d-e599-4499-81f5-2ebf0b3e1236%40sessionmgr110

It refers to:

Solution #15: Support the recycling initiatives.

It’s an investigation about the recycling program used in the Costa Rica ecotourism. It evaluates the conflicts related with this initiative.

Source # 9:

“Recycling: A Second Chance”

http://0-web.ebscohost.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=3&hid=119&sid=8685ed81-8a60-4190-a1fd-0669b6b0679d%40sessionmgr112

It refers to:

Solution #15: Support the recycling initiatives.

Brief and summarized. This one page article gives us an introduction to the necessary recycling programs and initiatives.

Source # 10

“Why do residents accept a demanding rule?: Fairness and social benefit as determinants of approval of a recycling system”

http://0-web.ebscohost.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=1&hid=119&sid=5211e004-3816-4720-9e95-0cd8c397fb95%40sessionmgr104

It refers to:

Solution #15: Support the recycling initiatives.

This article is the summarize of a research about the physiological aspects related in the insertion of a recycling program.

Discussing About Water Pollution: Causes, Consequences and Solutions

This blog is dedicated to discuss all the issues involved in the water pollution.  Now, we present our lists with the causes, consequences and solutions for this global and important problem.

Water Pollution Causes

1. Demographic explosion.
2. Government (Corruption within the institutions on charge to protect the environment)
3. Apathy about the theme
4. Industrial processes non-regulated for the law
5. Growth of industry
6. Lack of environmental regulation
7. Urbanization projects
8. Lack of availability to sanitary system
9. Lack of recycling culture
10. Production of plastic
11. Other industries (energy, nuclear energy, wood, fishing, etc.)
12. Ignorance about the theme
13. Poverty
14. Chemical fertilizers used in the agriculture
15. Oil industry
16. Mining industry
17. Nuclear weapon station
18. Industrial wastes
19. Bad using of water
20. Highways around water points.
21. People throw things in lakes, rivers, streets and other places
22. Poorly designed sanitary system
23. Shipwreck of tankers
24. Non-biodegradable materials
25. Acid Rain

Water Pollution Consequences

1. Illnesses (in humans, animals and plants)
2. Death
3. Perturbation of the ecosystem.
4. Destruction of sea animal species.
5. Destruction of plant species.
6. Proliferation of pests.
7. Decrease of the ecosystem variety.
8. Atrophy of watercourses.
9. Development of political tension among governments from different countries.
10. War.
11. Poverty.
12. Increase of people migration.
13. Desertification.
14. The lack of clean water affects the subsistence farming.
15. Extremely restricted use of the water.
16. Increase of the food cost.
17. Ecological unbalance
18. Increase of the water cost.
19. The fishing industry is seriously affected.
20. Reduction of the amount of catchment areas.

Our List of Solutions to Solve the Water Pollution

1. The governments must make laws about the recycle.
2. If these laws already exist, make them stricter
3. At least, one big inspection of any oil firms base on the sea, no matter the price of these operations
4. Help undeveloped country to take care of water resources
5. Make the people aware of the situation and how it will go if they don't change the way they act.
6. Serious punishment for water polluters (only recidivists)
7. Sea Water desalinization.
8. Put courses about recycle in education to make children familiar with it.
9. Distribute filters to people who don't have enough money to buy them.
10. Banning plastic bottles and all useless plastic containers.
11. Educate the importance and danger about water in school.
12. Make environmental regulations against industry.
13. Make industry companies commit to protect the environment through more strict national and International commerce politics.
14. Improve and build more sanitary infrastructure where it is needed.
15. Support the recycling initiatives.
16. Regulate the amounts of fertilizers used in agriculture.
17. Production of less-pollutant detergents and soaps.
18. Support the biodegradable materials production industry.
19. Force industrial companies to manage appropriate waste programs.
20. Reduce the mining activity.

___________________The SOURCES________________

* "Clean Water Should Be Recognized as a Human Right." PLoS Medicine June 2009: 1+. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 14 Sept. 2010.
Definitely unusual but this is the best article I found about the subjet so I put it in bonus =)

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------CAUSES

· Walsh, Don. "Troubled Waters: Oil Spills and the Big Picture." U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 136.7 (2010): 88-89. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 19 Sept. 2010.
This article exposes the problem of oil spilling in water pollution.

· MUSOLFF, ANDREAS, et al. "Micro pollutant Loads in the Urban Water Cycle." Environmental Science & Technology 44.13 (2010): 4877-4883. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 19 Sept. 2010.
This article is about the urban pollution of water and more precisely about how urban water, so drinking water too is polluted by micro pollutants.
-------------------------Books----------------------------------
Title
The Fate and effects of oil in freshwater / edited by J. Green and M.W. Trett
Call Number
TD427.P4 F37 1989
Most of the books are focused on the petroleum pollution in the sea and left behind the problem of oil spill during inland transportation. This book is more related to urban and industrial sources of oil pollution (of water) which is a significant input of petroleum and derivatives in the environment.

Title
Pollution of lakes and rivers : a paleoenvironmental perspective / John P. Smol
Call Number
TD420 .S63 2008
This book covers many issues related to the lakes and rivers pollution such as atrophy acidification, climate change,

Title
Pesticides in surface waters : distribution, trends, and governing factors / Steven J. Larson, Paul D. Capel, Michael S. Majewski
Call Number
TD427.P35 L34 1997
This book focus on a specific problem which is the pollution of surface water by pesticides .it exposes the subject but without giving any solution = (.

Title
The dog is dead so throw it in the river : environmental politics and water pollution in Indonesia : an East Java case study / Anton Lucas with Arief Djati
Call Number
TD424.4.I53 L8 2000
A book on politics of environmental politics of a specific case in Indonesia; this book explain how water became a political issue and how the government (local and provincial) combats the water pollution

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------CONSEQUENCES

· Walkuska, Grażyna, and Agnieszka Wilczek. "Influence of Discharged Heated Water on Aquatic Ecosystem Fauna." Polish Journal of Environmental Studies 19.3 (2010): 547-552. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 19 Sept. 2010.
This article is about the impact of water pollution on the fauna and the flora.

· Walsh, Bryan, et al. "Dying for A Drink." Time 172.24 (2008): 46-49. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 19 Sept. 2010.
After showing how important water is , this article shows how inegaly the water distribution is and how the pollution of water can affect certain population more than others.

· Brown, Margot T., and Brenda Foos. "Assessing Children's Exposures and Risks to Drinking Water Contaminants: A Manganese Case Study." Human & Ecological Risk Assessment 15.5 (2009): 923-947. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 19 Sept. 2010.
This article concerned the risks of drinking contaminated water mainly on children
-------------------------Books----------------------------------

Title
Fresh water pollution / Papers by Charles W. Hendricks ... et al
Call Number
TD420 .F75.V3
This book treat the problem causes by fresh water pollution and some ways to control this pollution

Title
Environmental modeling : fate and transport of pollutants in water, air, and soil / Jerald Schnoor
Call Number
TD423 .S37 1996
A book that treat also environmental problems in general with a part about water quality and consequence of water pollution (pollutant in rivers, atrophy of lakes, toxics organic chemical and heavy metal in both surface water and groundwater )


------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SOLUTIONS

· Gorman, Autumn. "Engineers Without Borders-USA Volunteers Work to Improve Access to Clean Water." Ground Water 48.3 (2010): 357-359. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 14 Sept. 2010.
This aticle is about Solutions brought by EWB to permit the access to clean drinkable water

· Wilcox, Jeffrey D., et al. "Using Groundwater Models to Evaluate Strategies for Drinking-Water Protection in Rural Subdivisions." Journal of the American Planning Association 76.3 (2010): 295-304. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 19 Sept. 2010.
This article gives as reference for water cleaning, groundwater. This article in an answer to one of our causes for water pollution which was: the bad treatment of water during his cleaning.

· Jiang, Linshi, et al. "Stripping CLEANS UP." Pollution Engineering 42.1 (2010): 30- 33. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 14 Sept. 2010.
this Article gives Specific solution gives by engineers to clean pollute water

-------------------------Books----------------------------------

Title
Using oil spill dispersants on the sea / Committee on Effectiveness of Oil Spill Dispersants, Marine Board, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, National Research Council
Call Number
TD427.P4 N38 1989
This book treat the solution for oil spill in the ocean. It proposes and discuss about the solution of using dispersants .Do they do any good? Bad?

Title
Water quality: management and pollution control problems (Jerusalem workshop papers) Edited by S. H. Jenkins
Call Number
TD365 .W377 1973
This book exposes the problems related to water pollution in general, some problems that developing countries and arid zones have and some low cost solution for the treatment of these problems.

Title
Pollution control technology; air pollution control, water pollution control [and] solid wastedisposal
Call Number
TD174 .R47
This book is more focused on the solutions engineers, scientist and technical support present for water pollution fighting .These solution are supposed to be technically and economically feasible.

Title
Water supply and pollution control / Warren Viessman, Jr., Mark J. Hammer
Call Number
TD353 .V54 2005
This book proposes new solution for water pollution such as the treatment of waste water and recycling of storm water. It is more about practical example of solutions.
-------------------------------------------------by Hamadoun ISSABRE

My List of Sources (By Nelson Salgado)

Source #1
"Saving The Earth: A Citizen's Guide To Environmental Action"
Written by Will Steger and Jon Bowermaster
New York, 1990
This book emphasizes the actions that can be develop for the population in general (the common citizen) to solve, or at least help to heal some of the environmental problems including the water pollution. It offers solutions that we all can apply in our houses or that we can take the initiative to do it.


Source # 2
"Water Quality in A Stressed Environment: Readings in Environmental Hydrology"
Edited by Wayne A. Pettyjhon
The Ohio State University
Editorial Burgess Publishing Company
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1972
The most important contribution for our research is that this book explain some facts about the pollutions in aquifers: the relation between soil and water pollution and it explain how industrial processes pollute the ground water from the point of view of the hydrology.

Source # 3
"Oil Spill Debris: Where To Put The Waste. Interagency Energy/Environment R&D Program Report"
United States Environmental Protection Agency
January, 1980.
This book is from the collection of Government Documents. Although bigger oil spills have taken place since 1980, there are interesting the solutions proposed about what to with the rests produced for this type of environmental disasters with the main purpose that avoid they keep polluting the water.

Source # 4
"Environmental Pollutants: Detection and Measurement"
Edited by Taft Y. Toribara, James R. Coleman, Barton E. Danhneke, and Isaac Feldman
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Plenum Press Editorial, New York, 1978
The most interesting part are the discussions among experts in different fields like laws, chemistry, environmental sciences, etc., trying to find solutions for different types of pollutions. Sometimes, the scientific terminology make the lecture difficult but it is even possible catch the main ideas.

sources of clean water books (Genshu)

*Climate Change and Global Poverty, Lael Brainard, Abigail Jones, and Nigel Purvis, 2009 the Brookings Institution


*Liquid Assets, Jill Boberg, 2005 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data


*Water Management in 2020 and Beyond, Asit K, Cecilia Tortajada, Rafael Izquierdo, 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg


*Unsafe water kills more people than war, M2PressWIRE; 03/22/2010


*Sustainable Control of Water-Related Infectious, nvironmental Health Perspectives Diseases

Hamadoun's SoLutions

1-the government got make laws about the recycle.

2-if these laws already exist, make them stricter

4-helps people who takes initiatives and who try to solve the problem (us!)

3-usue bio-oil

4-At least, one big inspection of any oil firms base on the sea, no matter the price of these operations

5-At least, one big inspection of any firm near to water points, no matter the price

6-help undeveloped country to take care of water resources

7-make the people aware of the situation and how it will go if they don't change the way they act.

8-serious punishment for water polluters (only recidivists)

9-epuration station to make the water cleaner

10-desalenisation

11-declare water places as patrimonies and don't let people pollute them

12-put courses about recycle in education to make children familiar with it.

13-distribute filters to people who don't have enough money to buy them

14-an international holyday with meetings all around the world and congratulates the best initiative taker.

15-banning plastic bottles and all useless plastic containers

Solution for clean water by Genshu

1. to educate the importance and danger about water in school.
2. to make water clean by cooperating with NGO or companies.
3. to use eco-friendly detergent.
4. to make environmental regulations against industry
5. to make environmental regulation between countriesproduction
6. to put trash boxes in all over the place
7. to use natural resources for energy
8. to spread sanitation
9. to establish the Clean Water Day at least once a year
10. to consume domestic foods
11. to encourage recycle
12. to refrain from developing new mines
13. to refrain from developing weapons
14. not to use much energy
15. to develop technology for changing sea water to drinking water

My List of Solutions for the Water Pollution (By Nelson Salgado)

1. More strict environmental laws and rules for the population.
2. More strict environmental laws and rules for the industry companies.
3. Implement mandatory environmental education in the elementary/junior/high school and teach to the students about the effects caused for the water pollution.
4. Make industry companies commit to protect the environment through more strict national and international commerce politics.
5. Improve and build more sanitary infrastructure where it is needed.
6. Support the recycling initiatives.
7. Forbid plastic bags in supermarkets.
8. Legal penalties for people who throw garbage away water sources.
9. Regulate the amounts of fertilizers used in agriculture.
10. Support the biodegradable materials production industry.
11. Production of less-pollutant detergents and soaps.
12. Avoid to build water reservoirs in the lowest zones of the watershed.
13. Force industrial companies to manage appropriate waste programs.
14. Reduce the mining activity.
15. Don't let operate crude oil companies without a previous process of examination of its operation plan.

Consequences of the Water Pollution (By Nelson Salgado)

Hello, this my list of water pollution consequences. Please comment and tell me what do you think about it...

1.       Skin diseases in both humans and animals.

2.       Stomach diseases in both humans and animals.

3.       Bacterial infections in both humans and animals.

4.       Viral infections in both humans and animals.

5.       Lack of availability to clean water.

6.       Destruction of sea animal species.

7.       Destruction of plant species.

8.       Reduction of the amount of catchment areas.

9.       Alteration of the water cycle.

10.    Increase of the water cost.

11.   Development of political tension among governments from different countries.

12.   Increase of people migration.

13.   Desertification.

14.   Soils pollution.

15.   The lack of clean water affects the subsistence farming.

16.   Extremely restricted use of the water.

17.   Increase of the food cost.

18.   Proliferation of pests.

19.   Ecological unbalance

20.   The fishing industry is seriously affected.

Top 25 – Causes of the Water Pollution (By Nelson Salgado)

1.      Demographic explosion

2.      Government (Corruption within the institutions on charge to protect the environment)

3.      Poverty

4.      Growth of industry

5.      Waste of water

6.      Apathy about the theme

7.      Industrial processes non –regulated for the law

8.      Use of detergent and bleach

9.      Non-biodegradable materials

10.  The problem doesn’t receive the importance that deceives

11.  Lack of environmental regulation

12.  Lack of availability to sanitary system

13.  Urbanization projects

14.  Lack of recycling culture

15.  Production of plastic

16.  Mining

17.  Throw away garbage on the streets and other places

18.  Agricultural processes

19.  Crude oil industry

20.  Other industries (energy, nuclear energy, wood, fishing, etc.)

21.  Black water

22.  Poorly designed sanitary system

23.  Irrigation

24.  Ignorance about the theme

25.  Acid rain 

Genshu's consequences

1. shortage of clean water
2. war
3. diarrhea
4. infectious disease
5. malnutrition
6. poverty
7. many people die
8. extinction of animals in water
9. poor harvest
10. shortage of sanitary
11. water business
12. pollution of the environment

Genshu's causes

1. Demographic explosion
2. Growth of industry
3. Poverty
4. Waste of water
5. War
6. Government problem
7. Using too much detergent
8. Chemical fertilizer
9. Much trash
10. Oil
11. Shortage of sanitary
12. Mining
13. Nuclear weapon station
14. Drought
15. Flood
16. Bacterium
17. Construction
18. Chemical substances
19. Abnormal climate

Hamadoun's consequences

* lake of clean water!

*affect mainly children

*illness

*disability for life

*death

*also affect fauna and flaura

*perturbation of the ecosystem

*decrease of its varierity

*mutation

*atrophy of watercourses

* acceleration of the global warming

*wars

Hamadoun's causes

*use of fertilizer

*insecticides

*industrial trashes

*animal defection

*bad using

*no policy

*no infrastructure

*highways around water points

*people throw things in lakes,rivers

*use of wrong method

*toxic products

*shipwrek of tankers

*problems with undersea aqueducs