EARTH SCIENCE
GROUNDWATER
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depleting the ozone layer
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burning gasoline in car engines
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throwing trash out of car windows
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allowing runoff from agricultural fields
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Detailed explanation-1: -Urban and industrial development, farming, mining, combustion of fossil fuels, stream-channel alteration, animal-feeding operations, and other human activities can change the quality of natural waters.
Detailed explanation-2: -There is considerable evidence that humans are responsible for disruptions and changes to local and global water cycles. A number of human activities can impact on the water cycle: damming rivers for hydroelectricity, using water for farming, deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels.
Detailed explanation-3: -Major agricultural contributors to water pollution (and the main targets for water-pollution control) are nutrients, pesticides, salts, sediments, organic carbon, pathogens, metals and drug residues.