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Water that is underground in permeable soil and rock's pores and fractures, on top of the layer of impermeable rock, forms when precipitation seeps into the ground.
Groundwater
Filtration
The action of filtering for separating fluid and particles. For water, filtration indicates the process of removing unwanted pollutants from water, such as bact
Detrimental substances like ozone and carbon monoxide that pollute the environment, particularly air and water, causing damages to the Earth, plants, and animals, including humans
Pollutant:
The availability and accessibility of food for the public. It exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nu
Food Security
An air pollutant; a hazardous mixture of microscopic particles and droplets such as dust and smoke.
Particulate Matter
The pollution in the atmosphere, formed when a certain substance reaches a harmful concentration in the air, mostly gases and particles, which mostly come from the burning of fossil fuel and coal and dust from human activities.
Air Pollution
The scientific name for lung disease like asthma, chronic bronchitis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Pulmonary Disease
Relates to breathing. The system takes oxygen in and carbon dioxide out, exchanging gases by inhaling and exhaling.
Respiratory
Pollution of bodies of water that are not underground, like lakes, rivers, and oceans, often caused by runoffs from farms, cities, mines, industries, and oil tankers.
Surface Water Pollution
Clear cutting of forests, necessary for land conversion into urban and farms. While being the most efficient, economically profitable and convenient method, without reforestation it would cause soil erosion and water degradation.
Deforestation
The effect when the atmosphere traps the heat by radiating the heat back to the Earth, caused by the accumulation of greenhouse gas, causing global warming.
Greenhouse Effect
Aquifers
Layers of permeable underground rock saturated with water; an essential source of freshwater. However, once it runs dry in the future, it will require thousands
Potable
Safe to drink; drinkable.
Climate
The general weather condition in the long term of a region, including temperature, humidity, air condition, etc
The condition of the atmosphere in a specific time of a place, like precipitation and temperature
Weather
A measure of water vapours in the atmosphere
Humidity
