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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, nitrite, heavy metals, phenols, plastics, PCB, pharmaceutical residues etc.... All these elements can cause a lot of problems to the fauna and a fortiori to the flora. <br> | + | 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. <br> |
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| + | The polluting elements are very varied. In the marine environment, we can quote nitrate, nitrite, heavy metals, phenols, plastics, PCB, pharmaceutical residues etc.... All these elements can cause a lot of problems to the fauna and a fortiori to the flora. <br> | ||
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> | 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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Revision as of 15:16, 11 October 2014
Alert! Water is in distress!
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.
Figure1: Wter on Earth
The polluting elements are very varied. In the marine environment, we can quote nitrate, nitrite, heavy metals, phenols, plastics, PCB, pharmaceutical residues etc.... All these elements can cause a lot of problems to the fauna and a fortiori to the flora.
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.
This year, our team objective is to develop a filtrating system which could allow to sense and could even degrade pollutants in the future. For this project, we chose to We chose to work on elements most great classes of marine pollutants belonging to most important classes of pollutants of the marine environment.
