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WebQuest: Water Pollution
This web-quest is to be completed with a partner and turned in on Wednesday January 8, 2014. The suggested websites
will help you to complete the web-quest, but will not answer ever question. You will need to perform your own
searches as well.
Pollution Sources
In the following table list four major sources of water pollution, the chemicals that each releases into the water, and one
suggestion for reducing pollution from each source. The following websites may help:
 http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/science/water-pollution-other-sources-water-pollution.html
 http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/qa.html
 http://www.mbgnet.net/fresh/pollute.htm
 http://www.brainpop.com/science/ourfragileenvironment/waterpollution/preview.weml
 http://zoology.muohio.edu/oris/cunn06/cs6_20.htm
Major Source of Water Pollution
Contaminants Released
Suggestion for Reduction
Water Testing
Use the following link to play The Water Pollution Game (http://www.awqa.ca/media/AWQA%20Game.swf ). Choose
“Scenario 3: High Pollution”.
Measured
Pollutant Tested For
Tools Used
Source of Pollutant
Result
Clean Water Act
Use the following link to learn about the Clean Water Act. In the table write a short summary of the regulations that it
has established. Then find the maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) and sources of each of the following chemicals in
drinking water.
 http://www2.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-clean-water-act
 http://www.epa.gov/oecaagct/lcwa.html#Summary
 http://water.epa.gov/drink/contaminants/#three
Write a Summary of the Clean Water Act
Contaminant
Chlorine
MCL (in mg/L)
Health Risk
Source
Arsenic
Fluoride
Lead
Nitrate
Styrene
Uranium
Benzene
Eutrophication
Use the following links to learn about eutrophication. Record the reasons it occurs, the dangers to humans and the
environment, and suggestions for reduction of contaminants that cause it.
 http://www.water-pollution.org.uk/eutrophication.html
 http://www.unep.or.jp/ietc/publications/short_series/lakereservoirs-3/3.asp
What is eutrophication?
What are two contaminants that cause eutrophication?
What are three sources of the contaminants that cause eutrophication?
Why is eutrophication dangerous to humans and the environment?