Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Effects of Acid Rain on Water

Rain is more or less acidic?

The acid rain is acid solution, pH value. PH rain two things: acidic foods such as the existence of sulfate on the availability of resources and materials such as calcium and magnesium to neutralize the acidity. Clean with rain, the pH is 5.6. For comparison: the pH of vinegar is 3

However, acid rain acid, since 1980 in Eastern Indonesia is the lack of acid rain. For example, a rating of rain pH from Muskoka-Haliburton Ontario area about 4.5 - about 40 times normal acidic.

Reduction of acidity in acid rain in order to reduce SO2 emissions do.

How does acid rain lakes, rivers and streams will affect what?

Lake of the same type of life such as health can not be the lake has been acidified. Such as lakes, crabs and mussels acid is the first lost, then various kinds of fish. Minute plankton organisms of the lake's food chain is the basis of various types, they have also been affected. Such as fish stocks, which ended when Huard and other water birds, which feed the people. Lakes, but not quite dead. The benefits of increasing acidity of the form. Marine plants and mosses is low, for example, the acid in the lake was developed. This also applies blackfly larvae.

Not all acid rain in the acidified lakes. , Lake can neutralize the acid in the regions where there are many limestone cliffs. Where most of the stone is granite, the lake, which can neutralize acids. Unfortunately, in Canada, where the majority in most cases, acid rain, granite is very low and therefore candidates for neutralizing acid.

What fish, frogs, birds and insects that live there to have?

There are lakes, rivers and river fish are some ways to acidification. Spring mortality of fish (in ice) of ice in the winter in a very acidic pollution in the water began to flow. This event is very good, have been documented and salmon trout in Norway.

Often, the fish gradually disappeared from the streets of our water environment is unbearably slow. Achigan mouth small, gold, omble from wells and certain types of fish such as salmon, compared with the other susceptible to acid, and the first is lost.

Acid stress on the victim in May to appear on some type of species. One of the signs of acid stress is the inability of women to breed. Sometimes new fry spawning or woman can live in highly acidic water that can not. That's why most of them are sour lake fish. A lake, a fisherman in the handling of errors that all fish is all right to think.

Acidification of lakes to fish in the following other effects: the lack of growth, the inability, your body chemistry, the lack of deposit eggs used, and the nature of disease, abnormalities in young fish increased.

Recovery of the lake?

Some of the acidified lakes, but many other people not in recovery. 202 acid lake in the early 1980s after a 33% decrease and no changes have been shown 56% and 11% of them even turned. Sudbury biggest improvement, in areas where pollution 90% in the last three decades to be born in less acid. Here, fish, poultry, and this summer, will soon be in the form of increased Huard. However, all the recovery that has been wild in the area of Sudbury. However, this area is the lake in Ontario and Quebec is strong in some parts of the acidified little improvement has never been located in the area of Atlantic Canada. Since 1990, scientists confirmed that pH 6.0 or more on the protection of the lake, the criteria that are important to calculate the weight. PH values in lakes, rivers and streams of water in promoting the health system.

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