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Water Is The Greatest Basic Natural Resources

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Water is the greatest basic natural resource. For plants and animals alike, water is vital for life, making up as much as 65% of the human body (90% of an infant’s body). It also provide habitat for fish and animals, refuge, food, navigation, electricity and mechanical power, as well as coolant, a waste stream, and prospects for recreation. No body of water, however, can support all of these different usages without suffering some degree of disturbance: under poor management, disturbance may result from even one primary use. (Perry & Vanderklein, 1996). In Canberra, the foremost unsustainable wicked problem that the Sullivans creek catchment is experiencing at the moment is the deteriorating of water quality, which relatively affects the …show more content…

Eutrophication is defined as the natural ageing process of natural body of water, generally understood to refer to enrichment of water systems by nutrients, notably phosphorus and nitrogen, and to the improved production of algal and higher plant biomass that the added nutrient loads stimulate (Reynolds, 1992). Customarily, the eutrophication is a natural phenomenon, but during the past decades, the word ‘eutrophication’ has been frequently used to signify the artificial and unwanted addition of plant nutrients to waterbodies (Ryding & Rast, 1989). Eutrophication is a process whereby water bodies, such as lakes, estuaries, or slow moving streams receive extra nutrients that stimulate unnecessary plant growth (periphyton attached algae, algae, and nuisance plants weeds). This boosted plant growth, regularly called an algal bloom, reduces dissolved oxygen in the water when dead plant material decays and can frequently cause other water biota (fish in particular) to perish. Nutrients can come from many sources, such as: fertilizers applied to agricultural fields, suburban lawns, and deposition of nitrogen from the atmosphere, erosion of soil containing nutrients and sewage treatment plant discharges. In the simplest definition, Eutrophication is the decreasing of the water quality within a body of water (Henry, 1993). Accelerated eutrophication of water ecosystems, as a direct

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