WATER POLLITION

Over the past decades, water pollution has been increasing exponentially. Water pollution, as its name states, is the contamination of water bodies. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_pollution). Water pollution damages plants and animals that live in different water bodies. Water pollution’s consequence is the damage caused to individual species or populations and most importantly biological communities. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_pollution). Different from the past, our new technological society has become uncaring to the miracle of life, H2O. Our rivers, seas and oceans have been exploited, mistreated and contaminated. (http://www.laleva.cc/environment/
water.html )


More than two thirds of the earth’s surface is covered by water; therefore it is the most precious natural resource existing in our planet.(http://www.
howstuffworks.com/question157.htm)(http://www.umich.edu/~gs265/societ/waterpollution
.htm). This amount of water includes saline water and fresh water. Fresh water is the type of water humans need to survive. Fresh water is found in ice caps and glaciers, in the ground, and on the surface. (http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/earthwherewater.html). From the three ways fresh water can be found, humans focus and explode the last one: the surface water. This water is found principally in lakes, swamps and rivers. (http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/earthwherewater.html). Approximately one percent of the water is usable for humans and sixty five percent of the human body is formed by water. This is why humans should invest using as much as possible from their funds to fight against water pollution. It is easy and necessary.


Since water is the most important substance for humans to survive, and it is being contaminated tremendously, water pollution is the most serious environmental issue in the world.Water can be polluted in many different ways with different substances. It can be point-source pollution and non-point-source pollution. (http://www.umich.edu/~gs265/ society/waterpollution.htm) The first one is when trash or substances are thrown directly into water. The second one is when water is polluted indirectly like with fertilizers and other harmful chemicals. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_pollution#Nonpoint_source_pollution) It is very easy to contaminate water without even noticing it. Water can be contaminated with organic and inorganic substances.



“Our drinking water today, far from being pure, contains some two hundred deadly commercial chemicals. Add to that bacteria, viruses, inorganic minerals (making the water hard) and you have a chemical cocktail that is unsuitable (if not deadly) for human consumption” (http://www.laleva.cc/environment/water.html). You and I have to stop polluting our most abundant and most important natural resource. People cannot live without pure fresh water. Humans have to start thinking on the future. We cannot just kill living organisms such as animals, plants, and even humans!



All lives are dependent on water. You have to think now on whether or not you want to keep up with life or just want the end of the world to be humanity’s next step. I am tired to see people throwing trash on the streets, factories throwing their wastes in the ocean, and many other things that can be easily avoided. You do not even have to pay a single cent. It is not hard to take care of water. Let’s do everything we can to save water and save the world.


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