With the development of modern agriculture and industry, water pollution has been a major problem. The reason why this issue became so important these years is that the water pollution can not only poison the creatures in the water but also affect the quality of our drinking water.
Causes
The main cause of water pollution is human activities, which means the human being pollute the water by discharging the industrial, agriculture and domestic waste water. And the most serious part is the industrial waste water because of the large quantity of waste water and the difficulty of treatment. What’s more, we cannot ignore the influence of the pesticide and fertilizer from agriculture.
While not all the countries are facing the water pollution problem, it is a question for the whole world. Because of the large population and global climate change, the quantity of water resource has been declined. In addition, the developing countries should be more responsible for the water quality management. With the high speed of development, they may focus more on the economic interest than environmental interest.
And the worst result of water pollution is the death of people, according to a recent report, there is about 42% of death caused by unsafe drinking water. And it also cause the large amount of the fish died.
Solutions
For the industries and agriculture, the most important measure is taking process to treat the wastewater. They should use facilities to treat the water before discharging them into the sea or river. What’s more, it is also important to recycle or reuse the water in order to intake less water.
For the government, they should encourage both of the industries and individuals take the water pollution as a serious problem. And they need to introduce some regulation for the discharging of waste water, such as fines.
For the individuals, there are many simple things we are able to do. For example, do not throw medicines or chemicals into