Controlling Water Pollution:A Mock Town Meeting

Environmental ScienceJanuary 23, 2012

Ms CilliChapter 11 Wrap-up

Objectives• Recognize potential hazards to a community's

water supply and weighing the risks and benefits of community

• Practice decision-making skills in a mock town meeting

Pollution has taken over your town!!!

• The water in your town has become polluted and is only getting worse.

• The city council has appointed you to be on a committee to address and fix this issue.

• You have many power plants in the area, people are overusing water, and many other polluting sources.

Pollution has taken over your town!!!

• Your task:– Describe how pollution is entering into the water

from point-sources and nonpoint-sources

– What will happen if it is not taken care off

– Things that need to be done to stop and correct this (be creative with this, do not just provide answers that are directly listed in the book)

Your Proposal

How is pollution entering into the water from point-

sources and nonpoint-sources?

What will happen if it is not taken care off? What should be done?

Names of group members:

CLOSURE:

Let’s go over your

proposals!

Assignments

• Independent Work– Read over all of chapter

11– Start studying for the

test…details will be given on Wednesday • Homework

– Section 11.3 HW

– Due tomorrow, January 24th at 8PM