Why contaminated water should cause health concerns?
Water supply systems include architecture for collecting, transmitting, treating, storing, and distributing water for households, business enterprises, industry, and irrigation, as well as public necessities such as firefighting and street flushing. The provision of drinkable water is possibly the most important municipal function. People rely on water for drinking, cooking, washing, garbage disposal, and other home requirements. Water delivery systems must also suit the needs of public, commercial, and industrial users. Water must meet both quality and quantity standards in all circumstances.
Quality of drinking water
Water has such a strong proclivity to dissolve other things that it is rarely encountered in nature in its purest form.When it rains, minute quantities of gases like oxygen and carbon dioxide dissolve in it; raindrops also bring microscopic dust particles and other things with them. Water gathers up fine soil particles, microorganisms, organic material, and soluble minerals when it passes over the ground. Water in lakes, bogs, and swamps may take on the colour, flavour, and odour of decomposing plants and other natural organic debris.
Because of its lengthier direct contact with soil and rock, groundwater often obtains more dissolved minerals than surface discharge. It is also capable of absorbing gases such as hydrogen sulfide and methane. The quality of surface water and groundwater in inhabited regions is directly impacted by land use and human activities.Stormwater runoff, for example, polluted with agricultural or lawn pesticides and fertilizers, as well as road de-icing chemicals or motor oil, can enter streams and lakes. Furthermore, wastewater from faulty septic tanks and subterranean leaching fields can enter groundwater.
Concerns about health
There are five basic categories of contaminants that are a source of worry for public health.
Organic chemicals, inorganic chemicals, turbidity, microbes, and radioactive substances are among them. Pesticides, industrial solvents, and trihalomethanes such as chloroform are examples of organic pollutants. Arsenic, nitrate, fluoride, and toxic metals like as lead and mercury are among the inorganic pollutants of great concern. When present in sufficient proportions in drinking water, all of these compounds can be harmful to human health. A modest concentration of fluoride, on the other hand, has been shown to benefit dental health.Fluoride is added to water in some places for this reason.
Turbidity is the cloudiness induced by minute particles of silt, clay, and other substances suspended in water. Most individuals find even a minor amount of turbidity in their drinking water undesirable. Turbidity also impedes disinfection by acting as a potential barrier for infectious organisms. Because of the natural filtering that happens as groundwater percolates through the earth, groundwater often has relatively low turbidity. Surface waters, on the other hand, are frequently murky.
A type of bacteria known as coliforms is the most significant microbiological indicator of drinking-water quality. Coliform bacteria are not generally harmful, but they are constantly present in the human digestive system and are expelled in huge quantities with human excrement.Water polluted with human waste always contains coliforms, and it is also likely to contain pathogens secreted by diseased community members. Coliforms are employed as indicator organisms for monitoring the biological quality of water since it is easier to test for the presence of coliforms rather than particular types of diseases. If no coliforms are identified in the water, it is safe to infer that the water is also pathogen-free. Thus, the coliform count represents the likelihood of pathogens being present; the lower the coliform count, the less probable pathogens are in the water.
Radioactive elements derived from both natural and industrial sources can be dangerous water pollutants.Pollutants might come from uranium mining, nuclear power facilities, and medical research. Radioactive pollutants detected in water as a result of nuclear weapons testing include strontium-90 and tritium. Some groundwater sources include naturally occurring chemicals such as radium and radon gas. The danger from dissolved radon gas comes from inhaling the gas after it has been released into the air, not from drinking the water.
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