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3 POLLUTION OF WATER
- Some sea and aquatic experts argue that all the
new ones products introduced in our sea and
rivers should be considered potentially lethal.
- "the following day we navigated under weak
wind through an ocean where the limpid water was
full of flotation and black masses of tar,
seemingly endless... Atlantic Ocean no longer it
was blue, but grey-greenish and opaque, covered
with clots of petroleum that varied of size, from
the head of a pin to the dimensions of a
sandwich. In the middle of the garbage, bottles
of plastic floated. could be in a dirty town
port... he/she Became clear for us that the
humanity was really to pollute his/her more vital
one nascent, the indispensable filter of our
planet, the ocean." from"The Expedições Rã by
Thor Heyerdalil. - Marks of the pollution is very visible foamy
rivers, an oily shine to the surface of a lake,
blocked courses of water of domestic garbage (as
it is the case of our river Gild). But great part
is invisible. Lakes affected by the acid rains
can still seem very beautiful but without - Unhappily the aggression to our aquatic
atmosphere doesn't end here. In the seas, lakes
and rivers an enormous diversity of different
species exist and many of them supply the
humanity with a lot of nutritious food. Threats
didn't exist to this source of food before 19th
century. When larger ships and techniques more
efficient piscatorial, began to provoke a serious
wear and tear in the reproductive populations.
From the ocean whale to the smallest crustacean
of fresh water has been decimated by the Man.The
diffusion of marine garbage of pole to pole turns
necessary an international surveillance. The
ships that spill petroleum and pollutant chemical
in the water of the oceans. But although the
discharges and haemorrhages of petroleum in the
high sea have important local effects, these
waters are free from the worst effects of the
pollution. The main concern areas are the ones
that are close to earth and to agglomerated
humans. It is here that the pollution ponders, it
is also here that there is most of sea life, in
the continental platforms.
4 2. Effects of the pollutants more common in
the rivers, lakes, estuaries, coastal waters,
swamps and water tables
5- Nitrates are found in the sewers, the fertilizers
and the phosphates (found in the detergents and
fertilizers). In excessive levels, the nutrients
stimulate the growth of aquatic plants and algae.
The excessive growth of these organisms can
affect the navigability it can provoke a
decrease of oxygen.Once these organisms use the
dissolved oxygen as they are decomposed they can
block the light of deep waters. This affects
seriously the breathing of the fish and of the
aquatic invertebrate animals what originates a
decrease of the diversity of animals and plants
affects our use of the water for fishing and
swimming. In the water tables, the fertilizers
and nitrates are among the main contaminators of
drinking water. - The fine sands and other solids are
resulted of construction areas, urban areas. When
these sediments enter in rivers, lakes, coastal
waters or swamps, the breathing of the fish is
harmed, the productivity of the plants and the
depth of the waters are reduced and the organisms
of their habitats are removed. - The pathogenic organisms (certain bacteria,
viral illnesses, protozoa, transported by the
water) can cause human diseases that vary from
the typhoid and the dysentery, even breathing
diseases . These organisms go to the water
through many roads, including sewers treated
inadequately, coming waters of a storm, septic
system and boats that spill sewers. Because it is
impossible to test the water for each type of
bacteria caused of diseases,it has been made
tests to find an indicative bacterium just as the
faecal oviform that it allows the water to be
seen if it is polluted in the sewer that it was
not treated and if other more dangerous organisms
are present. - The organic material can penetrate in the
drivers of water as sewers or as leaves. When the
bacteria and the natural protozoa in the water
begin to decompose these organic materials, they
begin to drain the oxygen dissolved in the water.
Many types of fish cannot survive when the levels
of dissolved oxygen is lower .The metals (just
as the mercury, the lead and the cadmium) and the
poisonous organic chemists (just as PCB) they are
usually resistant to the atmosphere and they can
cause the death or reproductive flaws in the fish
. In addition, they can be accumulate in the
animals and in the reproduction of fish. They
can be absorbed in sediments or be found in
reservations of water ,putting in risk the human
health.
6 POLLUTION OF WATER IN PORTUGAL
- In Portugal there are several examples that
pollution is capable to do the rivers, that in
times they were clean rivers, now the water is
quite dirty, the smell is also quite unpleasant
the beaches along the Portuguese coast, were also
in times beaches where the water and the sand
were very clean and now they are quite polluted
Febros, tributary of the I Gild, that in times it
had been inhabited by a great abundance and
variety of fish doing get there to be otters, now
it is just "inhabited" by trucks tires, bottles
and many other things. Small rivers and pluvial
conducts also serve of deposit, spilling tons of
debris daily in the river and in the sea. The
effects are evident pollution. Certain beaches
constitute a risk for the public health, for the
children or adults, that a lot of of the times,
they are very near to play or to take bath, a lot
of times without they know the danger that they
run. In rivers, as in the Portuguese beaches, the
existent pollution, the collar like concentration
did constitute a threat to the public health. But
it is not everything. The sewer is composed by
great amounts of organic matter and pathogenic
organisms and still salts minerals, that when
arriving, without treatment to a river, the
organic matter is degraded, consuming a lot of
oxygen. The pathogenic organisms survive and the
salts minerals feed the existent flora that it
reproduces quickly and in some cases, it produces
poisonous substances. The treatment of the sewers
would eliminate the pathogenic organisms and it
would facilitate the control of the development
of the fluvial plants, increasing the amount of
existent oxygen in water. The microbial flora
and the very abundant parasitic fauna in the
sewer are also a reason to be concerned of. We
should not forget the famous black plague that
killed so much people, nor the cholera in having
provoked for water infected by sewers.
7- The pesticides and herbicides used in the
agricultural lands can be taken by the rain or by
the overhead irrigations for the soil and for the
superficial waters. These contaminations are in
general very persistent in the atmosphere and
they can be accumulate in the fish and in others
you encourage levels that can put in risk the
human health and even the atmosphere.The
pesticides can be infiltrated in lands and
pollute the wells of drinking water. - The modifications of the habitat result of
such activities are as the agriculture, the
canalisations, construction of dams. The typical
examples of the effects of the hydrological
modification include losses of the coastal
vegetation and increase of the temperature of the
waters. - The other pollutants include the salts, acid
pollutants and the oil. The water can become
inappropriate for the aquatic life and for some
human uses when it is contaminated by salts. The
salinity sources include the salt water, used in
the extraction of the oil and the intrusion of
salt water in the soil and in the superficial
waters close to the coast. The problems of
acidity can happen in areas with many abandoned
mines and in areas open to the acid rain. The
changes of the acidity (measure of the pH) can
alter the poisonous level of other chemical in
the water and they can turn lakes or fountains
inappropriate for the aquatic life. - Other pollutants that worry the Man include
the crude and other derived products of the
petroleum that can be spilled during its
extraction, processing, transport or escape of
the underground reservoirs poisonous aquatic
plants, particularly species introduced that
compete with other native plants and the
temperature increase resulting of the process of
industrial cooling or modifications of the
habitat. -
84. POLLUTION OF WATER IN THE WORLD
- In United Kingdom, about 1 and half billion are
unloaded everyday for the sea through conducts
along the coast. Besides, approximately 2 million
tons of garbage poison are unloaded for the sea
all of the years. Two great problems of this
discharge appear the derived visible debris of
the sewers and, more important still, the risks
for the health that can happen after using waters
polluted by sewers. - The whales Belugas live in the waters of the
river S. Lourenço, in Canada. They are the only
whales of fresh water of the world. They are
white and poisonous. The industrial and dangerous
pollutant chemical products that it has been
coming to accumulate in the river along the last
40 years are transferred along the alimentary
chain for Belugas. The reproduction of the whales
contain such concentrations of these chemical
ones that, according to the Canadian law, to
their bodies it has the special destiny of the
poisonous garbage. - Since 1940 the United States increased
70.000 new chemical substances to the atmosphere.
These are found in soils, water and eventually
in our feeding. Nobody is safe. All are the
victims of the pollution. "As industries of
the United States generate to the turn of 40
million tons of poisonous debris a year, 90 of
them , according the estimates of E.P.A.
(Environment Protection Agency), they are
unloaded inadequately (without the due treatment)
". The USA are not the only ones. There are many
industrialized countries producing of poisonous
substances. It is considered that the drinking
water of the USA has 2100 chemists poisonous
cancer causes, cellular mutations and nervous
problems. The central of existent treatment are
not prepared to remove the new poisonous
chemists, and the government is slow to take
measures to regulate the high taxes of
contamination.
9 Polluted Ramalde..!!!!
- Ramalde reflects the pollution of any city in
roads of development.There is a serious
instability environmental .There are coming
garbage of the domestic life, there are
discharges, so much for atmosphere as for the
formerly beautiful river. There is a criminal
negligence on the part of the civil authorities.
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13Pollution A Preoccupying Situation
- The Town Hall services are responsible for the
collects and treatment of data about resonant and
atmospheric pollution.As we announced, the
situation is really serious in most of the areas
of the people of Campo Grande and S. João. Two
examples - - The noise reaches, as minimum values, the 70
and 75 decibels (dB). With the passage of
airplanes, in certain areas, reaches the 100 dB.
An alone value by itself preoccupying r the human
health.
14Introduction to the Pollution
- In the nature, a biological balance among all the
alive beings. In this system in balance the
organisms produce substances that are useful for
other organisms and so forth. The pollution will
exist every time that residues (solids, liquids
or gaseous) produced by micro organisms, or
thrown by the man in the nature, they go superior
to the capacity of absorption of the environment,
provoking alterations in the survival of the
species. The pollution can be understood, still,
as any alteration of the existent ecological
balance. - The pollution is produced essentially by the man
and it is directly related with the
industrialization processes and the humanity's
consequent urbanization. Those are the two
contemporary factors that can explain the current
pollution indexes clearly. The pollutant agents
are the more possible variables and they are
capable to alter the water, the soil, the air,
etc. - Pollution, is therefore, an aggression to the
nature, to the environment in that the man lives.
The effects of the pollution are today so wide
that already countless organizations of defence
of the environment exist.
15Classification of the Pollutants
16In agreement with the Origin
- a)Primary Pollutant - they are present in the
atmosphere in the shape that it is emitted as a
result of some process. The main ones pollutant
of this category are so much solids, as liquids
and gaseous, or even radiations. We mentioned as
primary pollutant fine particles, rude
particles, composed of nitrogen, carbon
monoxides, composed of sulphur, composed
halogenations, composed organic, among others.
17In agreement with the Origin
- b)Secondary Pollutant - It is produced in the
atmosphere by the reaction among two or primary
pollutant, or by the reaction with constituent
normal atmospheric, with or without
picture-activation. We mentioned as secondary
pollutant oxidizers, acid fogs, smog.
18In agreement with the State
- a) Gases and steams - CO, CO2, SO2, NO2
- b) Solid and liquid particles - Dusts, tobaccos,
fogs and smokes
19Solid and liquid particles - Dusts, tobaccos,
fogs and smokes
- a) Pollutant Organic - Hydrocarbons, aldehydes
and acetones - b) Pollutant Inorganic - H2S, HF, NH3
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20The great forms of aquatic pollution
21- Pluvial sewers and urban drainage - Drainage of
impermeable surfaces including streets, buildings
and other areas paved for sewers or tubes before
they unload for superficial waters.
- Industrial - pulp Factories and of paper,
chemists' factories, factories of textile,
factories of alimentary products...
22- Agricultural - Excess of fertilizers that will
infiltrate in the soil and to pollute the
underground water tables and the rivers or brooks
- Extraction of resources Minas... - Modifications
hydrological Canalisations, construction of
dams...
23Chemical pollution of the waters
- It is a type of pollution of waters that reaches
rivers and oceans. Two types of pollutant
characterize the chemical pollution
24- a) Biodegradable - Chemical products that at the
end of a time, they are decomposed by the action
of bacteria. They are examples of pollutant
biodegradable the detergent, insecticides,
fertilizers, petroleum, etc
- b) Persistent - Saint chemical products that
stays for long time in the environment and in the
alive organisms. These pollutant ones can cause
serious problems as the contamination of foods,
fish and crustaceans. They are examples of
pollutant persistent DDT, the mercury, etc.
25- Usually the mercury is used in the mining to
separate the gold in the rivers. If a polluted
fish for mercury be ingested by people, this
polluted fish can take these people until the
death if they don't take you make arrangements
immediate. - The rivers usually get to "dilute" a certain
amount of pollutant chemical, but if these
amounts are outdated grows in the river
green-bluish algae, that you/they make to smell
him/it badly. These bacteria reproduce quickly
and they are going increasing stealing all the
oxygen of the water. Without oxygen the fish are
going dying little by little, and a lifetime in
the river it is going stopping existing, dying
the bacteria besides.
26Pollution by pathogenic organisms
- The water can be infected by pathogenic
organisms, existent in the sewers. Like this, it
can contain
27- Bacteria - they Provoke infections intestinal
epidemics and endemic (typhoid fever, cholera,
shigelose, salmonelose, leptospirose etc.). - Virus - they provoke hepatitides, infections in
the eyes etc.
- Protozoa - Responsible for the am biases and
giardíases, etc. - Worms - Esquistossomose and other infestations
28Pollution of Rivers
29- As fruit of the man's performance on the
environment, the problem of the pollution of the
rivers appears. - The sources of pollution of the water of the
rivers result, among other factors, of the
domestic sewers, industrial spilling, drainage of
the rain of the urban areas and of the waters of
irrigation return.
30- This way, mainly the current century, the great
population growth and the industrial development,
besides the use, every time larger, of chemical
fertilizers and insecticides in the farming has
been causing serious damages in general to the
rivers and the life. - The great concentrations of nitrogen and match,
used in the fertilizers and fertilizers, they
constitute a type very common of pollution of the
water. The torrents transport for the rivers the
phosphates and nitrates. These nurture the
aquatic plants, the ones which, multiplying
(especially algae), they absorb the oxygen of the
water.The lack of oxygen provokes the death of
many plants and animals that, if they decompose,
increase the pollution.
31- It is noticed that the rivers, as source of
foods, means of transportation and suppliers of
water for the irrigation of lands and for use in
general of the man, they had been threatened .It
is need measures to stop pollution or rigid norms
of the use of the natural resources must be
adopted. In case that it doesn't happen the
rivers will be agonizing. - In United Kingdom, about 1 billion of litres they
are unloaded everyday for the sea through
conducts along the coast. Besides, approximately
2 million tons of garbage poison are unloaded for
the sea all of the years. Two great problems of
this discharge appear the derived visible debris
of the sewers and, more important still, the
risks for the health that you/they can happen
after using waters polluted by sewers.
32The Thermal Pollution
33-
- The thermal pollution elapses of the release, in
the rivers, of the warm water used at the process
of cooling of refineries, steel industries and
thermo electrical plants. For the alive beings,
the effects of the temperature concern the
acceleration of the metabolism, in other words,
of the chemical activities that happen in the
cells. The acceleration of the metabolism
provokes increase of the need of oxygen and,
consequently, in the acceleration of the
breathing rhythm. On the other hand, such
breathing needs are committed, because the
haemoglobin has little likeness with the warm
oxygen. Combined and reinforced with other
pollution forms she can impoverish the atmosphere
in an unexpected way.
34 Atmospheric pollution
35- The emission sources of pollutant primary and of
the secondary components it can be the most
varied possible. The emission of poisonous gases
for self-driven vehicles is the largest source of
atmospheric pollution. - In the cities, those vehicles are responsible for
40 of the pollution of the air, because they
emit gases as the monoxide and the carbon
dioxide, the oxide of nitrogen, the dioxide of
sulphur, derived of hydrocarbons and lead. The
refineries of petroleum, chemical and
metallurgical industries, paper mills and cement
emit sulphur, lead and other heavy metals, and
several solid residues.
36- The identification of a source of atmospheric
pollution, depends, before anything else, of the
patterns adopted to define the pollutant agents
and their effects on men, animals, vegetables or
other materials, as well as of the criteria to
measure the pollutant ones and their effects. - Those alterations provoke in the man breathing
disturbances, allergies, degenerative lesions in
the nervous system, and in vital organs, and
cancer. In cities very polluted, those
disturbances become worse in the winter with the
thermal inversion, when a layer of cold air forms
a glass dome in the high atmosphere, arresting
the hot air and impeding the dispersion of the
pollutant ones.
37 Pollution of Soil
38The soil in ecosystem
- We already saw that the soil is integral part of
the ecosystems, for its participation in the
biochemical cycles. The use of water and
nutrients are cyclical since, solitary of the
soil, such elements return to the same through
the biochemical cycles .
39The problem of the Garbage
40- The urban garbage is constituted predominantly by
organic matter and as such it suffers intense
decomposition, allowing the recycling. The
decomposition can be made by two processes
aerobium and anaerobe.
41The aerobic decomposition is much faster, and the
residues resultants are carbon gas, salts
minerals and some composed organic that, more
resistant to the biodegradation they don't arrive
the if to decompose totally. The anaerobic
decomposition, however it can originate composed
noxious, as gas sulphuric, mercaptans and others
composed that can be poisonous or to exhale bad
smell. The urban garbage suffers four processes
lixões, sanitary embankments, compost gem and
incineration. In the case of the "lixões", the
garbage is simply taken for wastelands where it
is exposed and it is taken advantage and people
can take the risk of contracting diseases. On the
other hand the lixão provokes intense
proliferation of flies and other insects. Another
inconvenience is the "corume", that it results of
the decomposition of the garbage and that it
pollutes the soil and the water tables.
42The resonant pollution differs enough of the
pollution of the air and of the water as for the
following aspects
43- a) The noise is produced everywhere and,
therefore, it is not easy control him/it in the
source as it happens in the pollution of the air
and of the water - b) Although the noise produces cumulative effects
in the organism, in the same way that other
pollution modalities, he/she differs for not
leaving residue so soon in the atmosphere is
interrupted - c) Differing of the pollution of the air and of
the water, the noise is just noticed in the
proximities of the source
- d) there is No larger interest for the noise nor
motivation for you combat him/it the people are
more capable to complain and to demand political
action concerning the pollution of the air and of
the water than regarding the noise - e)the noise, to the that seems, doesn't have more
generic effects, as it happens with certain forms
of pollution of the air and of the water, to
example of the radioactive pollution. However I
inconvenience him/it, the frustration, the
aggression to the hearing apparel and the general
fatigue caused by the resonant pollution can
affect the future generations.
44 Causes of noises
45Noise in the Streets
- The traffic is the great cause of the noise in
the life of the great cities. The characteristics
of the noisy vehicles are the holed exhaust or
rusty, the alterations in the silent or in the
flushing pipe, the alterations in the motor and
the bad habits when driving - accelerations and
braked abrupt and the excessive use of horn. - In the main streets of the city of São Paulo, the
noise levels reach from 88 to 104 decibels. Why
that explains the professional drivers are the
main objective of acquired deafness. In the
residential areas, the noise levels vary from 60
to 63 decibels - above the 55 established
decibels as limit for the Municipal Law of
Silence.
46Noise in the Houses
- Conditioning of air, mixers, liquidizers, floor
polishers, vacuum cleaners, washing machine ,
refrigerators, sound apparels and of massage,
televisions, hair dryers and so many other
appliances can be present in a same residence,
working simultaneously and adding their
undesirable decibels.
47 Noise in the Industries
- It is of the most important the paper of the
industry in the resonant pollution. After the
great first war, it was that the increase of the
professional diseases was verified, especially
the deafness, besides the emergence of other
diseases, owed to the amazing development brought
by the industrial outbreak. - In some European countries, like Sweden and
Germany, where the statistical data portray the
reality faithfully, it is impressive number
him/it of workers that, in the industries, due to
the noise, they are suffering audition loss. - Seeking the workers' of the factories protection,
in 1977 the United States established the maximum
noise of 90 dB for the daily duration of 8 hours.
It was verified with the adoption of that limit,
a fifth of the workers were subject to hearing
deficiencies. Therefore Holland and other
countries lowered the limit for 80 dB. -
48Noise of the Airplanes
- The departure and the arrival of airplanes to jet
are accompanied of noises of great intensity that
disturb the residents of the environs excessively
49Effects in the Man's audition
50- An individual's hearing capacity can be limited
to 60. Though, for being him still capable to
hear the own voice and certain routine noises,
he/she doesn't worry about the deafness. The
total loss of audition can be happened the person
is subject daily, for 8 following hours, to
sounds with superior intensity to 85 dB, as the
registrars in discos factories of armaments and
airports. - The noise of 140 dB can totally destroy the
eardrum, provoking what is called "blow-out of
the eardrum." - When the noise level reaches 100 dB can cause the
"hearing trauma" and the consequent deafness. At
the level of 120 dB, besides harming the hearing
nerve, they provoke at least, constant buzzing in
the ears, dizziness and increase of the
nervousness.
51 Effects in the Health
52a) Widespread reactions to the stress
- The World Organization of Health (OMS) it
considers that the beginning of the hearing
stress if of the under exhibitions to 55 dB.
53b) Physical reactions
- The noises increase the blood pressure, the heart
rhythm and the muscular contractions. They are
capable to interrupt the digestion, the
contractions of the stomach, the flow of the
saliva and of the gastric juices. They provoke
larger adrenaline production and other hormones,
increasing, in the blood, the flow of acids and
glucose. In what he/she refers to the intense and
lingering noise to which the individual
habitually is exposed, they result more durable
physiologic changes even permanent, including
cardiovascular disorders, of ear-nose-throat and,
in smaller degree, sensitive alterations in the
secretion of hormones, in the gastric functions,
physics and cerebral. - In cases of chronic stress (permanent) in the
workers, it has been verified psychological
effects, psychological disturbances nauseas,
migraines, irritability, emotional instability,
reduction of the libido, anxiety, nervousness,
hypertension, appetite loss, sleepiness,
insomnia, prevalence increase of the it
ulcerates, vital disturbances, I consummate of
tranquillisers,, fatigues, productivity
reduction, increases of the numbers of accidents,
of medical consultations and absenteeism.
54c) mental and emotional Alterations
- The reactions in the psychic sphere depend on the
agent's characteristics, of the middle, and of
the emotional conditions of the host, in the
moment of the exhibition. The reactions can show
through irritability, anxiety, excitability,
discomfort, fear, tension and insomnia.
55Effects of the noise in plant and animals
56- According to the zoologists, the largest
difficulties of adaptation of the animals to the
captivity, elapse mainly of the artificial noise
of the great cities. - On the other hand, it is proved that is at the
places of a lot of noise more accentuated the
presence of mice and cockroaches, potential
agents of transmission of diseases. - The resonant vibrations produced by airplane
motors provoke the change of posture of the birds
and decrease of its productivity.
57 Radioactive pollution
58- Since the beginning of the atomic era, the
hundreds of experiences with nuclear material
have been playing enormous amounts of radioactive
residues in the atmosphere. The drafts take
charge of distributing this material for all of
the areas of the Earth. With the time, the
suspension is brought for the soil and for the
oceans, where it will be absorbed and incorporate
for the alive beings. - Besides the direct liberation of radioactive
material, the serious problem of the nuclear
waste exists, produced by the nuclear power
stations, that it presents a series of
difficulties in its storage.
59- Strontium-90 radioactive liberated by leaks or
nuclear explosions can cause serious problems
when assimilated. Once in the sanguine current,
he is confused with the calcium (to see the
distribution both in the periodic table) and
absorbed for the bone fabric, where it will be
fastened. Now being part of the bones, he emits
his/her radiation and it will end for provoking
serious cancerous mutations in the blood found
in the bone marrow.
60Main radioactive elements
- IODINE
- 131PLUTÔNIO
- 239 STRONTIUM
- 90 URANIUM
- COBALT
- CALCIUM
61 Nuclear energy
62- In the fifties, this type of energy came as the
ideal eugenic solution ideal for the humanity.
However, after several accidents, among the ones
which the one of the plant Chernobyl (Ukraine) in
the decade of 80, it started to be very
questioned his/her use. The explosion risks and
contamination are big, what turns reckless
his/her use. - Several countries, like the USA, England, Japan,
Russia and other, they used nuclear power plants.
However, other, like Sweden, Norway and Germany,
they have been disabling their nuclear programs
and even disassembling plants.
63- The Brazilian nuclear program, from its
implantation, was very questioned, for several
reasons. - Nowadays, Brazil has a nuclear power plant in
operation in Angra dos Reis (RJ).
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