91亚色 U experts available to discuss shape of our water for World Water Day
TORONTO, Tuesday, March 20, 2018 鈥 About 70 per cent of the Earth鈥檚 surface is covered by water that is essential to life. 91亚色 experts are available to discuss the importance of water and how we can preserve it this World Water Day (March 22), the theme for which is 鈥渘ature for water.鈥
91亚色 researchers look at how people and climate change are threatening the supply of freshwater, the long-term impacts, and what can be done.
Biology Professor of the Faculty of Science can talk about the importance of freshwater, water quality issues and the impacts of climate change on freshwater quantity and quality.
Professor , a biology professor in the Faculty of Science, can discuss water quality issues, including the long-term impacts of multiple stressors acting upon lakes such as climate change and pollution such as road salt or nutrients from human activities.
of the Faculty of Environmental Studies can talk about the changes聽that occur when聽fertilizers from farms and cities enter lakes, as well as the聽chemical and physical conditions that promote and sustain聽the growth of blooms of cyanobacteria, a type of algae that produce liver and nerve toxins, on lake surfaces.聽Some blooms are large enough to be seen by satellite.
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