Environmental Science 12th Edition by William Cunningham,Mary Ann Cunningham

Exercise 2

Understanding the origins of pollution is the first step toward considering policies for reducing it. The chapter you have just read includes several graphs displaying pollution data. The following questions ask you to think more about the sources of this pollution:
Figure 18.11 shows some of the new developments in water pollution assessment. Conventional treatment systems were not designed to remove thousands of newly invented chemical compounds, or increasingly widespread compounds, including those shown in the figure. Explain the units used on the Y-axis. What are the numbers above the bars