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Center of Languages of The University "Santiago Antunez de Mayolo"
Center of Languages of The University "Santiago Antunez de Mayolo"
RESEARCH WORK
WATER QUALITY
LEVEL : INTERMEDIATE V
INTRODUCTION
Water is indispensable and necessary to carry out our daily activities; Therefore,
we must take care of it and not waste it. Thanks to this natural resource people,
animals and plants can live.
The description and evaluation of water quality is a complex matter, with
controversy regarding the ability of different methodologies to inform about the
qualitative nature of the water resource. This research work was developed with
the intention of knowing some of the essential concepts according to the quality of
the water resource.
DEFINITION OF WATER QUALITY
It is understood as water quality to all those conditions that must occur in the water so that
it maintains a balanced ecosystem and so that it meets certain quality objectives
(ecological quality). Or as the set of physical, chemical and microbiological characteristics
that define it, etc.
ECA
The Environmental Quality Standard (ECA) is an environmental management instrument
that is established to measure the state of the quality of the environment in the national
territory. The ECA establishes the concentration levels of elements or substances present
in the environment that do not represent risks to health and the environment.
WATER CONTAMINATION
Water pollution is the accumulation of toxic substances and spillage of fluids in a water
system (river, sea, basin, etc.) altering water quality. Substances or physical, chemical and
biological parameters that characterize a watercourse, when exceeded, cause or may
cause damage to health, and the environment. Compliance is legally enforceable by the
respective competent authority.
WASTEWATERS:
Are those waters whose original characteristics have been modified by human activities
and that, due to their quality, require prior treatment, before being reused, discharged into
a natural body of water or discharged to the sewer system. Types of sewage water:
Domestic wastewater: Are those of residential and commercial origin that contain
physiological wastes, among others, from human activity, and must be disposed of
properly.
Industrial wastewater: Are those that result from the development of a productive
process, including those from mining, agricultural, energy, agroindustrial activity,
among others.
Municipal wastewater: Are those domestic wastewaters that can be mixed with
storm drain or industrial wastewater previously treated, to be admitted into sewage
systems of combined type.
Category 1-A
Category 1-B
Category 2
Category 3
Category 4
Wastewater
Questions:
Why is water quality important?