Author Question: Explain the difference between point and nonpoint sources of water pollution. What will be an ... (Read 61 times)

jerry coleman

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 570
Explain the difference between point and nonpoint sources of water pollution.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Describe the water cycle and the water storage process.
 
  What will be an ideal response?



fwbard

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 325
Answer to Question 1

Point source is water pollution that is from a specific place. For example, a factory that dumps waste in a river is a point source. Nonpoint means that pollution does not come from a single point but from a wide area and is difficult to identify.

Answer to Question 2

In a cycle known as the hydrological or water cycle, water is constantly cycled through the process of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. Precipitation from rainfall or through melting snow eventually winds up in storage. Storage takes place in surface water and groundwater. Water collects in surface storage and streams that empty into lakes or oceans. Groundwater is under the surface of the ground and makes up the water table that supplies wells. This water is stored in rock, sand, or gravel formations.



Related Topics

Need homework help now?

Ask unlimited questions for free

Ask a Question
 

Did you know?

About 100 new prescription or over-the-counter drugs come into the U.S. market every year.

Did you know?

Adult head lice are gray, about ? inch long, and often have a tiny dot on their backs. A female can lay between 50 and 150 eggs within the several weeks that she is alive. They feed on human blood.

Did you know?

Serum cholesterol testing in adults is recommended every 1 to 5 years. People with diabetes and a family history of high cholesterol should be tested even more frequently.

Did you know?

Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.

Did you know?

In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.

For a complete list of videos, visit our video library