APES WATER POLLUTION

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Across
  1. 2. EPA estimates 7.1 million people get sick from _____ in contaminated water in the U.S.
  2. 4. largest estuary in the U.S.
  3. 8. river in Louisiana known to contain 500 hazardous waste sites
  4. 9. primary sewage treatment and industrial plant come from this source
  5. 10. chemicals and toxic metals containing shellfish beds, kill spawning fish, and accumulate in the tissue of bottom feeders
  6. 13. experiment that aims to use market forces to reduce water pollution
  7. 14. bottled water is not as pure as __________ and costs more
  8. 15. used to treat sewage as a lower cost alternative to expensive waste treatment plants
  9. 16. this oil supertanker releases large amounts of oil into Alaskas Prince William Sound in 1989
  10. 17. this country's households receive strips of cloth to filter out cholera products from drinking water
  11. 19. release waterborne and airborne toxins that damage fisheries and kus fish eating birds
Down
  1. 1. this river drains all or part of 31 U.S. states
  2. 3. national drinking water standards that prevent human health risks
  3. 5. most ocean oil ____ comes from human activity on the land
  4. 6. preventing method that controls runoff and international animal feedlots
  5. 7. countries that have established drinking water standards
  6. 11. area containing large amounts pollutant inputs and waste in the ocean
  7. 12. their waste is stored in lagoons that can leake, overflow, or even rupture
  8. 17. used to fertilize farmland, forest, golf courses, cemeteries, etc.
  9. 18. this city gets 90% of its drinking water from reservoirs in their states mountains