| Polluted water happens when toxins enter the water | | | | threat to our environment ecosystems and wildlife. |
| system, in the following ways. | | | | So what do we do with the waste we produce? Can |
| * Get dissolved | | | | we find a ways to neutralize waste before it enters |
| * Suspended in the water | | | | the ecosystem? Where it is possible not producing |
| * Lie in the sediment. | | | | waste in the first place, efficient sewage processing |
| Polluted water is caused by industrial dumping, | | | | plants are hard at work in many parts of the world, |
| sewage, intense farming and individuals, polluted | | | | however sewage plants do not process water that |
| water shows up in all types of water including wells | | | | goes down storm drains, industrial waste dumped |
| streams reservoirs rivers and the ocean. Thoughtless | | | | directly in to water systems (especially that of the oil |
| acts of what can seem to be a cheap alternative (if | | | | sands project). |
| you can call the planet cheap) occur in industry | | | | Polluted water is found all around the globe, the Earth |
| regularly, toxins including chemicals and heavy-metals | | | | is three quarters water, less than 1% of that is |
| are flushed into the rivers, streams and lakes causing | | | | fresh, the water that we use today is the same |
| polluted water. | | | | water that was used millions of years ago, it's all |
| Some examples of water pollution are: | | | | connected, the planet has effectively been recycling |
| The Asopos River in Greece should provide fresh | | | | it, but for how long can Earth sustain life with |
| water for a town on its banks but it runs red and/or | | | | increasing amounts of polluted water? |
| purple due to the many different industries upstream | | | | Historically the preferred method for disposal of |
| dumping toxic chemicals into the river polluting water, | | | | sewage has been to dump it into the ocean, large |
| it is unfit to drink, however the citizens have little | | | | quantities of plastic debris, also ends up in the ocean, |
| choice. In China some Rivers are flowing | | | | beaches are often closed due to polluted water, 1.5 |
| contaminated, one is red and foamy with ammonia | | | | million metric tons of nitrogen are pumped into the |
| nitrogen and permanganate, China could be facing a | | | | gulf of Mexico causing areas of eutrophication and |
| water shortage, partly due to polluted water. | | | | hypoxia. In California agriculture and cattle are included |
| According to the world health organization, the Indus | | | | as a source of nitrate pollution affecting groundwater. |
| River contains high amounts of pollutants due to | | | | Oklahoma has problems from excessive pig farming |
| industrial waste it is unfit for drinking. Bristol-Myers | | | | as they create a poisonous hydrogen sulfide gas |
| pharmaceutical company has continuously polluted | | | | from their waste lagoon's, that suffer leaks and lethal |
| waters of lake Syracuse pumping it with toxins, | | | | spills. There are thousands of manufacturing facilities |
| hopefully their huge fine will help stop this behavior. | | | | worldwide using water to carry away waste, |
| Peoples in Japan have died due to mercury poisoning | | | | infecting streams lakes and oceans, compounds can |
| from eating contaminated fish caught off their coast, | | | | include asbestos phosphates nitrate mercury, lead |
| and significant amount of ground water has been | | | | sulfuric acid, caustic soda, sulfuric acid and |
| found contaminated in India, large amounts of | | | | petrochemicals. Thermal pollution with hot water from |
| pesticides have polluted groundwater, only small | | | | cooling towers is also a problem, this hot water |
| amount of their waste water is treated. More than a | | | | waste is an inefficient use of power as the energy |
| third of America's rivers and Lakes are to polluted for | | | | used to heat the water is lost, it could be harnessed. |
| fishing or swimming, there are millions of cases of | | | | Cruise ships holding thousands of people dump |
| water born diseases and deaths a year due to | | | | enormous amounts of very unsanitary waste water |
| polluted water, carelessly discarded waste materials | | | | into the seas daily, affecting the oceans ecosystem |
| especially toxic ones have detrimental effect on any | | | | greatly, there needs to be a solution for this water |
| ecosystem that they enter, and then there is the oil | | | | pollution, some major cruise lines have installed illegal |
| sands project in Alberta it uses around 175 million | | | | bypass lines, depositing oil, sewage, garbage and |
| liters of water a day this water is contaminated with | | | | other hazardous toxic wastes into the oceans and |
| many chemicals and is not reusable, this toxic soup is | | | | waterways, it is not only the cruise ships that dump |
| then stored in huge toxic waste ponds posing a | | | | waste overboard, causing polluted water. |
