Ground Water Contamination Issues

difficult decisions
real world questions about the applications and implications of chemistry

Read the articles distributed in class from Living in the Environment
by G Tyler Miller

Answer the questions below.

1. What is groundwater? How is it formed? Where does it travel?

2. Why is groundwater easily contaminated?

3. What are the primary means of groundwater contamination?

4. Why is it difficult to detect the source of groundwater contamination?

5. In Phoenix we have a significant groundwater contamination problem caused by Motorola.

Who should pay to clean it up?

6. We are overdrawing our wells in Phoenix creating negative pressure that is accelerating the contamination problem, what can be done?

use the web to research and prepare for a discussion of this topic in class.