COTTON PRODUCTION IMPACT ON NATURAL RESOURCES DIAGRAM
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Non-point Sources Pollution (NPS)
Nonpoint source pollution is a term used when it’s impossible to identify one single source origin of pollution such as a factory or the place dumping of chemicals occurred. Read more..
Point Source Pollution
Point source is a term used when it is possible to identify the source of the pollution, A stationary location or fixed facility from which pollutants are discharged; any single identifiable source of pollution; e.g., a pipe, ditch, ship, dump, factory smokestack. Read more..
Surface runoff water
Surface runoffs is a term used to describe the snow melts, or irrigation water in excess of what can infiltrate the soil surface and be stored in small surface depressions; a major transporter of nonpoint source pollutants in rivers, streams, and lakes. Read more..
Surface water
Surface water Surface water is the generic name used to describe all water that are naturally open to the atmosphere (rivers, lakes, reservoirs, ponds, streams, impoundments, seas, estuaries, etc.) See water pollution in the Eco fashion dictionary...