Alabama Water Quality Information System

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	1.-		Are medicines and beauty aids that we flush down our toilets polluting our waterways?


	2.-		Are tarballs from oil spills hazardous to your health?


	3.-		Are there long-term health effects of the diseases caused by marine toxins?


	4.-		Can a person get Naegleria amoeba infection from a swimming pool?


	5.-		Can cyanobacteria toxins kill me?


	6.-		Do aquatic ecosystems have an unlimited capacity to maintain their quality?


	7.-		Do individual human activities contribute to contamination of the environment with pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs)?


	8.-		Does excessive uptake of aluminum in your diet or from drinking water affect your health?


	9.-		Does perchlorate cause cancer in humans?


	10.-		Eutrophication is a form of pollution. What is a eutrophic lake?


	11.-		How are the diseases caused by marine toxins diagnosed?


	12.-		How are the diseases caused by marine toxins treated?


	13.-		How can one stay up on water related diseases or other occurring health problems across the United States?


	14.-		How common are marine toxin diseases among U.S. citizens?


	15.-		How does acid rain affect people?


	16.-		How does boron get into drinking water?


	17.-		How does excessive water-use affect water quality?


	18.-		How does sodium salt retention affect the human body?


	19.-		How does sulfate (SO4) get into ground water?


	20.-		How does the body waste generated by humans compare to that generated by domesticated animals that we typically grow out in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs)?


	21.-		How many antibiotic type chemicals have been found in our waterways?


	22.-		How many people on earth will not have the freshwater resources they need in the future if current patterns continue?


	23.-		How many U.S. citizens live in coastal regions?


	24.-		How much water do the kidneys need to function adequately?


	25.-		I recently saw an article on several persons dying in 2007 from being infected with a brain-eating amoeba from fresh water lakes while swimming. Is this fact or fiction?


	26.-		If I live in a major metropolitan area is it legal for me to put a salt-based water softener on my household plumbing system?


	27.-		Is high sulfate (SO4) in surface water an indicator of pollution?


	28.-		Is the discharge of cooling water from electrical power plants a form of pollution?


	29.-		Is there a relationship between population density in coastal watersheds and increased oxygen depletion and other problems in coastal waters?


	30.-		Should persons living in arid climates have a lower sulfate (SO4) standard in their drinking water due to higher consumption of water?

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This website was developed by the ACES Water Quality Team, under the leadership of Dr. James E. Hairston. It is funded, in part, by USDA-CSREES water quality grant support under Section 406 of the Agricultural Research, Extension and Education Reform Act of 1998.