Understanding Drinking Water: A Quiz on Hydration and Water Quality Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

the EPA's lead and copper rule restricts allowable lead levels in drinking water to 15 parts per billion.

the water crisis is the ongoing worldwide shortfall of drinking water, sanitation and ecological support that finds 1.1 billion people without safe water.

while the electrical conductivity of pure water is very low, the conductivity of drinking water can be thousands of times greater.

Cryptosporidium hominis, an obligate parasite usually spread through fecal-contaminated drinking water, is responsible for a seasonal increase in cases of cryptosporidiosis in the Netherlands in autumn.

Ulley reservoir was sold to Rotherham council for £1 in 1980, when it was no longer needed to supply drinking water.

Big Butte Springs, located in the Big Butte Creek watershed, produces 26,000,000 US gallons (98,000,000 L) of drinking water a day that serves 115,000 residents 30 miles (48 km) away in the Rogue Valley.

Searsville Dam, built in 1892, currently provides no drinking water, flood control, nor hydropower, but rather it irrigates Stanford University's golf course.

California's Owens River has been entirely diverted for irrigation and drinking water.

Understanding Drinking Water: A Quiz on Hydration and Water Quality

1 [25] Water generated from the biochemical metabolism of nutrients provides a significant proportion of the daily water requirements for some ________ and desert animals, but provides only a small fraction of a human's necessary intake.

2 A few large urban areas such as ________, New Zealand have access to sufficiently pure water of sufficient volume that no treatment of the raw water is required.

3 Drinking water at the ________

4 The ________ of halving the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water between 1990 and 2015 will probably be reached.

5 ________ (which results in hyponatremia), the process of consuming too much water too quickly, can be fatal.

6 For example sodium, ________ and chloride are common chemicals found in small quantities in most waters, and these elements play a role (not necessarily major) in body metabolism.

7 The Bangladeshi government had spent less than $7 million of the 34 million allocated for solving the problem by the ________ in 1998.

8 [41] The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates bottled water as a food product under the ________ (FFDCA).

9 A constant supply is needed to replenish the fluids lost through normal physiological activities, such as respiration, perspiration and ________.

10 Typically, water supply networks deliver potable water, whether it is to be used for drinking, washing or landscape ________.

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