Lakes have numerous features namely the lake type, drainage basin or catchment area, inflow and outflow, nutrient content, dissolved oxygen, pollutants, pH, and sedimentation. ... The three types of lakes according to their richness in nutrients are oligotrophic, mesotrophic and eutrophic. ... Despite the overwhelming benefits that people receive from Laguna de Bay, water pollution has made its way to the lake. ... Despite this, the lake is absorbing huge amounts of pollution from these industries in the forms of discharges of industrial cooling water, toxic spills from barges and transport op...

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Pollution, construction, and farming are what are destroying 300,000 acres of wetlands each year (David Allen, J 1995 Pg. 24). ... Depending on the type of wetland suggests the function it performs for the environment. ... There are several types of wetlands each differing in its location, climate, and the life supported. ... Vernal pools are naturally occurring depression type wetlands that are covered by shallow water from winter to spring, but may be completely dry for most of the summer and fall. ... Another infamous type of wetland is the bog. ...

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By changing the floodplains into parks the area might be safer to visit but expanding urban areas contributes to the increase of pollution of air and water and substantially corrupts the environment. ...

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Canada has pollution control regulations in place, an example of a successfully regulated substance is the phosphate found in laundry detergent. ... All water even if distilled, contains many naturally occurring substances, such as bicarbonates, sulphates, sodium, chlorides, calcium, magnesium, and potassium, which reach water sources from precipitation, runoff, surrounding vegetation, wildlife, biological, physical and chemical processes in the water, human activities, and the type of catchments area (Owen). ...

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