Water Pollution Project

By: Liam Rodriguez, Marcus Hunter, Kyle Garrabrant, and Stephen

Varmon

Topic Questions

• How can people today preserve water?• How can we decrease the effects of water

pollution?

ContactsExpert Contacts Maria Coler

Jerome B. CarrDan Mueller

College ContactsUniversity of MarylandUniversity of MinnesotaUniversity of Michigan

High School ContactsNyack High School; Mr. PerryJordan-Elbridge High School; Mr. SchermerhornMonrovia High School; Science Department

Community ContactsNyack Water Treatment PlantNyack Water DepartmentUnited Water (West Nyack)

Where will you find us?

• Wikispaces.com; Winners322• SurveyMonkey.com; KyleGarrabrant

BP Oil Spill

• Started on April 20th, 2010• Took place in the Gulf of Mexico • It didn’t only effect the quality of the water, it

also effected many companies on the gulf and the plants and animals that called that gulf their home

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

• The oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska on March 24, 1989

• There was 260,000 to 750,000 of crude oil that spilled in this occurrence

• The ship originally carried up to 55 million U.S. gallons

• That spill in 1989 was the biggest incident to ever happen in U.S. waters

Chernobyl effects on water

• Of all the environmental disaster events that humans are capable of causing, nuclear disasters have the greatest damage potential

• Chernobyl is one of those environmental disasters caused by nuclear disaster

• Water is one thing in the environment that was hugely effected• When people drank the contaminated water there future kids

would be mutated from it.• Do you know that the average drinking school water to

Chernobyl water is 177 chemicals to 50 tons of chemicals.

Recent Japanese Earthquake effects on water pollution

• March 2011 there was an earthquake that occurred in Japan causing a huge Tsunami

• The Tsunami caused a explosion in a reactor• After the explosion occurred 150 miles of

contamination

University of Minnesota Water Wiser Program

• It is a plan to clean, abundant water for today for generations to come

• The University of Minnesota’s water resources center provides leadership in freshwater management through cutting edge research, educational opportunities for students and professionals, and community outrage

• Authorized by congress

How Much Water Do We Use?

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