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 operations, and hazardous chemicals like lead, mercury, aluminum and cyanide (Guerrero & Calpe, 1998). ... One Pollution Control Officer in STP briefly discussed the process done in their plant including the machines that they are using and the process that the septage undergo in the process of i...

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Water accounts for roughly 70% of the earth. ... In New Jersey the water reservoirs in the Highlands provide water to nearly half the states population. ... By conserving water you lessen the demand of water resources available for human consumption. ... A couple of ways people can conserve water are by setting up water recycling systems such as rain gardens and pervious Water gardens and pervious concrete save water by collecting storm water and grey water, filtering it into near-potable water and then by releasing it into a groundwater supply to be reused. ... These water-recycling systems y...

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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. ... As stated earlier, storm water if not absorbed properly is converted into storm water runoff. ... This raises the water level and in extreme cases, the water is forced on to land causing flooding. ... Figure 2.2 shows, the storm water discharge to a lake or other water body, differ greatly among land-uses. ... Thus, water quantity affects water quality. ...

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