Chapter 3 and 4 Flashcards
Important characteristics of water
- High heat capacity
- Universal solvent
- High surface tension
- Solid form is less dense than liquid
- Transmits sunlight
Water Supply Location
- Oceans
- Atmosphere
- Rivers and Streams
- Groundwater
- Lakes (freshwater)
- Ice caps and glaciers
World’s 10 Largest Watersheds (In-order)
- Amazon
- Congo
- Nile
- Mississippi
- Ob
World’s 10 Largest Watersheds (In-order)
- Amazon
- Congo
- Nile
- Mississippi
- Ob
- Parana
- Yenisey
- Lena
- Niger
- Yangtze
Precipitation that remains on the surface of the land and does not seep down through the soil
Surface Water
Movement of fresh water from precipitation (including
snowmelt) to rivers, lakes, wetlands, and, ultimately, the ocean
Runoff
Supply of fresh water under the Earth’s surface that is stored in underground aquifers
Groundwater
Underground caverns and porous layers of sand,
gravel, or rock in which groundwater is stored
Aquifers
The upper surface of the saturated zone of
groundwater
Water table
Is often an international resource
Surface water
What year did King Urlama of Lagash use water as a military tool against Umma?
2500 B.C.E
What year did Saladin defeat the European Crusaders using water as a military tool?
1187 C.E
What year did the Dutch breach their protective dikes to prevent Spanish armies from invading by land?
1672
What year did a development dispute or terrorism happen where locals attack a dam for their objection to providing water for factories in New Hampshire?
1850s
When did the aqueduct from Owens Valley to Los Angeles bomb multiple times?
1907-1913
When did Israel attack the East Ghor Canal in Jordan to prevent the diversion of water from the Yarmouk river?
1969
When did Iraq destroy the desalinization facilities in Kuwait during the First Gulf War?
1991
When did a dispute over water resources in Kashmir turn violent killing 2 and injuring 25?
2002
When did the wells in Sudan and Darfur were destroyed and poisoned as part of civil-war violence?
2003-2007
When did the Nigerian water vendors beaten by angry protesters objecting to the price of water?
2008
A measure of the suitability of water for a particular use based on selected physical, chemical, and biological characteristics (USGS)
Water Quality
What are the physical qualities of water?
- Color
- Odor
- Solids (Suspended Solids and Dissolved Solids)
- Temperature
- Absorbance and transmittance
- Turbidity
- Taste
Give examples of Inorganic Chemical characteristics of water
- Ammonia
- Nitrite
- Nitrate
- Organic Nitrogen
- Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen
- Total Phosphorus
- Inorganic phosphorus
- Organic phosphorus
- Metals
- Alkalinity
- pH
- Dissolved oxygen
Give organic chemical characteristics of water
- BOD
- COD
- TOC
- Specific organic compounds
Give biological characteristics of water
- Bacteria
- Helminths
- Protozoa
- Viruses
What is the size of suspended, colloidal, and dissolved solids?
Size: suspended (>1mm), colloidal (0.001-1mm), dissolved
(<0.001mm)
At what temperature should a sample be ignited to form total solids?
103 degC
At what temperature should a sample be ignited to form organic and inorganic solids?
550 degC
What process should a process undergo in order to produce dissolved and suspended solids?
Filtration
What does an Imhoff cone produce?
- Settable and non-settable solids
Give impacts of suspended solids
- Impact
- Aesthetically displeasing
- Provides adsorption sites
- May be biodegraded to objectionable by-products
- Biologically active solids may cause disease
Give some uses for suspended solids
SS: a measure of wastewater strength/performance
VSS: a measure of organic content/active microbial
population
What are the sources of turbidity?
Source: eroded colloidal material, biosolids, soaps/detergents, emulsifiers
Measurements of turbidity and give short description each
Secchi disk: maximum depth of visibility
Photometry: absorption and scattering of light
Color of water with suspended solids
apparent color
color of water after removal of suspended solids
true color
Measurement of color
Measurement: true color units (TCU), Hazen or Pt-Co units (PCU)
measurement of taste and odor
Measurement: threshold odor number (TON)
threshold odor number equation
TON = (A+B)/A
The temperature should be measured in what?
in situ
Sources of dissolved solids
- Solvent action on solids, liquids, gases
- Contact with the atmosphere, surfaces, and the soil
- Decay products
measurements of dissolved solids
- Gravimetric
- Conductance (indicative of ions)
What compounds included in alkalinity?
- Carbonates
- Silicates
- Borates
- Phosphates
- Sulphides
- Ammonia
What compounds are included in alkalinity?
- Carbonates
- Silicates
- Borates
- Phosphates
- Sulphides
- Ammonia
sources of alkalinity
Sources: dissolution of minerals, detergents, fertilizers
impact of alkalinity
Impact: taste (in high values), precipitation, buffering capacity
It is the concentration of multivalent ions in solution
hardness
Hardness which is equivalent to alkalinity
Carbonate hardness
sources of hardness
Sources: cations of Ca, Mg, Fe, Mn, Sr, Al (practically represented as Ca+Mg
Affected by temperature, salinity, pressure, and oxygen demand
Dissolved Oxygen (DO)
Chemical water quality parameters
- Alkalinity
- Hardness
- Dissolved Oxygen (DO)
- Metals
- Synthetic Organic Chemicals
- Radionuclides
sources of metals
Sources: weathering/deposition, volcanic eruption, human activity
dissolved forms of metals are generally responsible for what?
toxicity
solubility of metals is affected by
Solubility affected by pH, temperature and salinity