Answer the following questions from Chapter 5: water rescources found in the textbook "Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation". 1. What are the major kinds of water pollutants and how do they degrade water

quality?

2. How would you rank the water pollution problems described in this chapter?

Why?

3. What should society learn from the case history of Love Canal?

4. Why are people facing a crisis involving water pollution and how can we solve

it?

5. Many children in the less developed countries die each day because the water

they drink is grossly contaminated with pathogenic organisms. Research this topic and

identify some of the pathogenic organisms responsible for this. Also, where do most of

these deaths occur (in what country)? What is the source of these diseases?