THE SCIENCE OF WATER

in #steemstem6 years ago

Water is the most essential substance for all forms of life on earth and remains a precious resource for human civilization. Hence, providing a reliable access to safe, clean and affordable water becomes the most basic humanitarian goal. Water pollution remains a global challenge for the 21” century. it is estimated that over 1.1 billion people lack supply of adequate drinking water, This challenge is as a result of the increasing pollution of water across developing and industrialized countries, human activities play an ever-greater role in exacerbating water scarcity by contaminating natural water sources, due to the rising cost of portable water, growing populations, and variety of climatic and environmental concerns.

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Today there are many cities worldwide facing an acute shortage of water and nearly 40 percent of the world’s food supply is grown under irrigation and a wide variety of industrial processes depends on water. The increasingly stringent water quality standard has led this research into the treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater using animal waste products. Pharmaceutical effluents are waste generated from pharmaceutical industries. Most common sources of pharmaceutical wastewater include unhygienic disposal by patients and hospitals, livestock feed additives, agricultural wastes due to veterinary use and manufacturing industries

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