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Water Pollution

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Water Pollution The contamination of some body of water due to human activity that has some type of negative impact on organisms Point Sources: Distinct locations that pump waste into a waterway (you can point to it. Ex; This pipeline is leaking waste) Located at specific places Easy to identify, monitor, and regulate Non-Point Sources: different areas such as an entire farming region that pollutes a waterway (The bottle that?s floating in the ocean) Broad, diffuse areas Difficult to identify and control Expensive to clean up Human Wastewater Water produced by human activities such as human sewage from toilets and gray water from bathing and washing clothes our dishes Bacteria in wastewater sucks out the oxygen in it

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