Natural Resources: Water quality

Water Quality is important. Image credit goinggreenrecyclingnigeria.org

The quality of water can be improved by:

• Improving water treatment techniques.
• Improving sanitation at household level.
• Treating sewage before discharging it in streams and rivers.
• Recycling industrial waste.
• Use of bio-degradable chemicals in the manufacture of detergents.
• Bio-degradable chemicals are substances capable of being decomposed/broken down by bacteria or other living organisms and thereby avoiding pollution.
• Use of organic fertilizer in place of chemical fertilizer.

There is a close relationship between the quality of life and the supply and quality of water to local communities.

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