Water Resource Management, Sanitation and Conservation

Domestic use of water for drinking, cooking, washing clothes, and sanitation accounts for only about ________

• 8 percent

• 18 percent

• 15 percent

• 60 percent

Which of the following is not a source of water pollution?

• Domestic Sewage

• Agricultural run-off

• Industrial wastewater

• Fruits and vegetable waste

It results from rainfall and may cause turbidity and contamination of receiving water bodies.

• Mining activities

• Transportation routes

• Storm run-off

• Untreated domestic sewage

Untreated domestic sewage, industrial wastewater pollution, threats from non-point pollution sources and inefficient solid waste management belongs to...

• Surface Water Quality Issues and Concerns

• Causes and Mechanism of Water Sources Degradation

• Countermeasures to be done for maintaining good water quality

• Source of Water Pollution

It is a farming system based on shifting, or slash and burn clearing of forest for the planting of agricultural and agro-forestry crops.

• Mining activities

• Underground storage tanks

• Kaingin

• River quarrying

What is shown in the picture?

• sanitary landfills

• transportation routes

• cattle grazing

• underground storage tanks

It refers to degradation of quantity of water as well as quality of water.

• Inefficient solid waste management.

• Degradation of water sources

• Threats from non-point pollution sources.

• Kaingin

The following are issues in water resources management except

• Water problems

• Watershed management

• Agricultures use dominates

• Poverty

The longest and largest river in the Philippines is Cagayan River. It discharges how many cubic meters of water annually?

• 35,349

• 53,943

• 43,539

• 94,533

LESSON 17 is all about

• Seven Environmental Principles and Laws

• National Security Concerns

• Nature of Self and Self-Awareness

• Water resource Management, Sanitation and Conservation