Water Pollution Lab Report

Introduction- Can a filter be made for the polluted water so the water will have a clarity of 0%. If a filter is built for the polluted water, then the waters clarity will be 0% and the pH value will be 7. The purpose for this lab is to get the polluted water to a clarity of 0%.
Water pollution is playing a major role in today's ecosystems because the water is becoming unsafe to live in and unsafe to consume. “Water pollution is any physical or chemical change in water that adversely affects organisms” (Chiras, 2015). When the water is dirty and polluted, fish and other organisms can not live in the water. There are many sources of pollution that can come from a variety of different things. One type of pollution is surface water pollution.
“The Clean Water Act has focused primarily on point sources and notable sewage treatment plants and factories.The act has provided funding to improve the thousands of U.S. sewage treatment plants and has required factory owners to install water-pollution control equipment” (Chiras, 2015). This will help decrease the amount of waste created by factories from entering the water. Another way water is being treated is by the controlling of nonpoint pollution. Nonpoint pollution is a huge contributor to cross-media contamination, and to polluting the waterways. To help control nonpoint pollution, “The EPA currently provides $200 million per year in grant money to states to address nonpoint sources and the states are also required to partially match the funding given to them” (Chiras, 2015). The states are also passing their own laws and trying out new ways of controlling nonpoint pollution. These things are helping control nonpoint pollution and get chemicals and waste out of the
Then, take the probe and put the probe into the polluted water. Press the start button and wait thirty seconds. Record the mean of the pH and take the probe out the water. Next, pour the distilled and polluted water into cleaned out cuvettes. Put the distilled water into the colorimeter and calibrate it and then put the polluted water into the colorimeter to see the pH value. After that, create a filter and pour the polluted water into the filter to clean it. After this is complete, take the cleaned water and put it back into a clean cuvette. Then go back to the colorimeter and put the distilled water into the colorimeter and calibrate it and then put the filtered water into the colorimeter to find the