Reading to be done before Class: ESBS 429-441
Come to class with a basic familiarity with the following concepts and ideas: pollution, nutrient pollution, eutrophication, pathogens and waterborne disease, toxic chemicals, sediment, thermal pollution, point sources, non-point sources, indicators of water quality, turbidity, watershed, estuary, hydrologic cycle, dissolved oxygen content, point source and non-point source pollution, wastewater, primary treatment, secondary treatment.

Water Pollution

The Thames (webcam)

·        Freshwater and Tidal Thames

·        Estuaries

Industrial Revolution and the river

·        Point and Non-Point Source Pollution

·        The “Great Stink”

·        Effects on Fish and Wildlife

·        London's Cholera Epidemic and the Map that Stopped it

Another treatment of Snow's Map

Dissolved Oxygen

Anoxic Water

Biological Oxygen Demand

A contemporary example: Save Lake Sammamish in Seattle

watershed map.

Additional Links

Current Health of the Thames

The Thames Pilot All about the Thames--excellent site.