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Human activities threaten water quality and availability in several ways. Water resources face issues from factors largely driven by human actions like pollution, population growth, climate change, and deforestation. These activities impact important physical properties of water like temperature, density, viscosity, and conductivity. They can also affect water's chemical, biological, and microbial characteristics. As a result, about 40% of the world's population now lives in water-stressed areas with inadequate supplies. Improperly managing human waste and land use changes contributes to water scarcity by promoting pollution and sedimentation of critical water sources.

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Earthscience, PPT

Human activities threaten water quality and availability in several ways. Water resources face issues from factors largely driven by human actions like pollution, population growth, climate change, and deforestation. These activities impact important physical properties of water like temperature, density, viscosity, and conductivity. They can also affect water's chemical, biological, and microbial characteristics. As a result, about 40% of the world's population now lives in water-stressed areas with inadequate supplies. Improperly managing human waste and land use changes contributes to water scarcity by promoting pollution and sedimentation of critical water sources.

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HOW DIFFERENT

ACTIVITIES THAT AFFECT


THE QUALITY AND
AVAILABILITY OF WATER
FOR HUMAN USE
WATER
• Water is a substance that form water resources such as ocean, lakes
and rivers. Our resources are facing threat from a variety of factors,
the majority of which are driven by human activities. The impact of
these activities on the quality and availability of water for human
consumption would be considerably reduced if these activities were
addressed.
• Concerning it’s suitability for a
particular purpose such as drinking
WATER or swimming.
QUALITY
CHEMICAL
PHYSICAL
BIOLOGICAL
PHYSICAL • Temperature of water affects
ATTRIBUTES OF some of the important
WATER physical properties and
characteristics of water.
TEMPERATURE
COLOR
Thermal capacity, density,
TASTE specific weight, viscosity,
ODOR surface tension, specific
TURBIDITY conductivity, salinity, and
dissolved gases,
THERMAL
CAPACITY DENSITY
• The quality of heat necessary to • The weight of the water per unit
produce a unit change of volume, which depends on the
temperature in a unit mass of a temperature of the water.
material.
SPECIFIC WEIGHT VISCOSITY
• The ratio of the weight of an • A measure of a fluid’s
object to the object’s volume. resistance to flow.
SPECIFIC
SURFACE TENSION CONDUCTIVITY
• The tendency of liquid • A measure of the ability of a
surfaces at rest to shrink into substance to conduct
the minimum surface area electricity.
possible.
SOLUBILITY OF
SALINITY DISSOLVED GASES
• The measure of dissolved salts in • The ability of gas to dissolved in a
water. solvent (liquid) to form solution at
a specific temperature.
COLOR
Colored water gives the appearance of being unfit to drink, even
though the water may be perfectly safe for public use. It can
indicate the presence of organic substances, such as algae or
human compounds. More recently, color has been used as a
quantitative assessment of the presence of potentially hazardous
of toxic organic materials in water.
TASTE AND ODOR
• Taste and odor are human perceptions of water quality. Human
perception of taste includes sour (hydrochloric acid), salty (sodium
chloride), sweet (sucrose), and bitter (caffeine). Relatively simple
compounds produce sour and salty tastes. However sweet and bitter
tastes are produced by more complex organic compounds. Humans
detect many more tips of odor than tastes. Organic materials
discharged directly to water, such as falling leaves, runoff, etc., are
sources of tastes and odor-producing compounds released during
biodegradation.
• Furthermore, turbidity is a measure of the light-transmitting properties of water
and is comprised of suspended and colloidal material. It is important for health
and aesthetic reason.
• The chemical characteristics of natural water are a reflection of the soil and rocks
with which the water has been in contact. In addition, agricultural and urban
runoff and municipal and industrial treated wastewater impact the water quality.
Microbial and chemical transformations also affect the chemical characteristics
of water.
• Water with good qualities is good for human consumption. Water availability is
defined as the quality of water that can be used for human purpose without
significant harm to ecosystems or other users.
• However, our water resources face a host of serious threats. Currently, about 40%
of the world’s population lives in water- stressed areas.
• Water scarcity occurs when the amount of water withdrawn
from lakes, rivers or groundwater is so great that water
supplies are no longer adequate to satisfy all human or
ecosystem requirements, resulting in increased competition
between water users and other demands. Water scarcity can be
caused primarily by human activities which promote
sedimentation, population, climate change, deforestation,
landscape changes, and urban growth. Human waste disposal
contributes to pollution of the air, land, and water resources.
Such pollution can affect the quality of rainwater and water
resources both above and below ground, thus damaging our
natural system.

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