Team:Evry/Project/Compounds/Introduction

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<h2>Alert! Water is in distress!</h2>
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<h3 >Alert : Water is in distress!</h3>
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Water is the most precious and fragile resource on Earth. Nevertheless human activities are responsible for an important pollution of this vital element, as well the drinking water as the sea water. The polluting elements are very varied. In the marine environment, we can quote nitrate, heavy metals, phenols, plastics, PCB etc.... All these elements can cause a lot of problems to the fauna and a fortiori to the flora. <br>
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Human activities are responsible for an important pollution of drinking water as well as sea water. Yet, water is the most precious and fragile ressource, as it's vital to every living organisms. It covers 71% of the Earth and in this huge amount of water, approximately 97% is saline and 3% is freshwater. (Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, 1993)<br>
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This disruption especially impacts fishes and consequently the food chain of its biotope and those fed by this biocenose. Thus mankind is both guilty and victim of its own product.<br>
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<FONT color=#003333><b><u>Figure1: </u></b>Water on Earth </font><United States Geographical Survey Igor Skiklomanov's chapter "World fresh water resources",1993)<br>
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There is a broad range of polluting elements that exists. In the marine environment, we can mention nitrate, nitrite, heavy metals, phenols, plastics, PCB, pharmaceutical residues etc.... All these elements can distrupt the fauna and the flora. <br>
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These problems especially impact the whole food chain of marine biotopes. Thus, mankind is both guilty and victim of this catastrophy.<br>
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This year, our team objective is to develop a filtrating system which could allow to sense and could even degrade pollutants in the future.   
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This year, our objective is to develop a filtrating system which could allow sensing and eventually degradation of pollutants.  To this end, we chose to work on elements belonging to the most important classes of pollutants of the marine environment.
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Latest revision as of 03:55, 18 October 2014

Alert : Water is in distress!

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Human activities are responsible for an important pollution of drinking water as well as sea water. Yet, water is the most precious and fragile ressource, as it's vital to every living organisms. It covers 71% of the Earth and in this huge amount of water, approximately 97% is saline and 3% is freshwater. (Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, 1993)


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Figure1: Water on Earth


There is a broad range of polluting elements that exists. In the marine environment, we can mention nitrate, nitrite, heavy metals, phenols, plastics, PCB, pharmaceutical residues etc.... All these elements can distrupt the fauna and the flora.
These problems especially impact the whole food chain of marine biotopes. Thus, mankind is both guilty and victim of this catastrophy.

This year, our objective is to develop a filtrating system which could allow sensing and eventually degradation of pollutants. To this end, we chose to work on elements belonging to the most important classes of pollutants of the marine environment.