Water Pollution in Queensland, Australia: Factors, Impacts, and Recommendations

Water pollution
Queensland region of Australia

Introduction
 The aim of this presentation is to discuss various factors associated with water
pollution.
 To Shakouri and Yazdi (2014), any type of biological, chemical and physical changes in
the water quality which affect the health of the living organisms refers to water
pollution.
 Reisser et al. (2013), have pointed out plastics to be the human-made debris that
leads to marine water pollution. To the authors, microplastics are one of the most
harmful factors that are leading to the waste of marine water and the species living in
the Australian oceans.

Article review
 In the article by Vasudevan and
Oturan(2014), the authors have pointed out
that the electrochemical industry has been
creating pollution in the water level of the
country and helping to clean water.
 According to Rink et al. (2018), to improve
the quality of drinking water and manage the
sewage water treatment process huge effort
from the stakeholders are needed.

SWOT analysis
 Strength
 The country is becoming developed as a huge number of
factories for different types of business are growing and
supporting the economy of Australia.
 Development has been seen in the agricultural sector here
the agricultural lands are used for growing more crops with
the help of fertilizers
 Due to growth of economy, urbanization is also growing
leading to the growth of population in the urban areas.

SWOT analysis
 Weaknesses
 Usage of chemicals as fertilizers in the agro-food
production which are gradually affecting the waters
of the rivers and oceans and even the ground water
also.
 Mixing of industrial wastes in the ground water thus
polluting the drinking water
 Incomplete sewage system in the urban areas is
polluting the ground water

SWOT analysis
 Opportunities
 Proper regulations in the disposal of the industrial wastes can reduce the effect of
water pollution
 Completion of urban sewage system so that the polluted water do not pollute the
ground, river and ocean water
 Training the farmers to use environment friendly fertilizers and pesticides.
 More csopes will be found for supply of fresh drinking water