Water Polution definiton: Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies (e.g. lakes‚ rivers‚ oceans‚ aquifers and groundwater). Water pollution occurs whenpollutants are directly or indirectly discharged into water bodies without adequate treatment to remove harmful compounds. Water pollution affects plants and organisms living in these bodies of water. In almost all cases the effect is damaging not only to individual species and populations‚ but also to
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97% of the water on the Earth is salt water and only 3% is fresh water which the majority of human uses require; slightly over two thirds of this is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps. The remaining unfrozen fresh water is found mainly as groundwater‚ with only a small fraction present above ground or in the air. However‚ water is now being heavily polluted by nobody else but human. So what are the causes and effects of water pollution? The causes of water pollution vary. However‚ we can sum
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Clean water is extremely essential for a healthy living. It is life’s most important basic necessity while dirty water is one of the deadliest killers. UN has estimated that 10 people die every minute from contaminated water. The World Health Organization estimates that 80% of all sickness and disease in developing countries is due to unsafe water. As water pollution is one of the most widespread problems and it has deadly effects‚ I chose this topic. Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies
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Effects of Water Pollution Image source: NASA Water covers 70% of the Earth’s surface and makes up over 60% of the human body. Water pollution affects marine ecosystems‚ wildlife health‚ and human well-being. The answer to solving pollution is to make changes in our daily habits and pay more attention to the types of products we consume. The following lists display causes of water pollution and the effects it has on human health and the natural environment. Causes of Water Pollution Sewage
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Water pollution and pollution in general is a problem that people don’t like to deal with. Water pollution can cause so much damage to people and to the animals that live in that body of water. The laws that we have are doing what they need to but we need to monitor the water more closely because if we don’t catch the pollution when it happens it could cause a big disaster. It could kill all of the plant life that lives in the water and the animals that live there to. Some of the pollutions that
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UNIVERSITY WATER POLLUTION NOWADAYS As a matter of fact‚ water covers over 70% of Earth’s surface and it’s a very important resource for people and the environment. But nowadays‚ water is polluted. And water pollution affects drinking water‚ rivers‚ lakes and oceans all over the world. This consequently harms human health and the natural environment . If we don’t have any methods to prevent water resource from polluting‚ we will not have enough water to use in the future. Water is polluted by
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10/16/2011 Trent McDowell Great GCU title area‚ word count and page number. Water Pollution I. Introduction (your don ’t have to keep the outline format) Clean water is a necessity to have in order to support a healthy environment. Care must be taken to protect our water sources from chemical plants‚ businesses‚ cargo and cruise ships‚ and people so that humans‚ animals‚ and marine life can have clean water. II. Thesis Statement (this would be better if worked into the opening) We must
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April 2013 Water Pollution: Pollutants & Solutions Imagine swimming out of a narrow cavern following a scrumptious meal‚ and you come to realize it was poisonous. You begin to drown as your life slowly fades right before your very eyes; this is not a frightening hallucination. Everyday‚ schools of fish are unaware that their meals are products of millions of tiny pieces of garbage‚ assimilated. This is one of the many consequences of water pollution‚ which is the contamination of water bodies
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WATER AS OUR NATURAL RESOURSE There are more than 326 million trillion gallons of water on Earth. Less than 3 % of all this water is fresh water and of that amount‚ more than two-thirds is locked up in ice caps and glaciers. With so much water around it seems like there is enough to see us through for millions of years. But did you know that even water‚ which seems to be in abundance‚ might one day become scarce? Each time you throw something as garbage‚ think of where it will finally end up. Whether
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Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies such as lakes‚ rivers‚ oceans and beaches. This occurs when large factories dump their waste products into the water. Water has the ability to carry many pathogens and bacteria. Because of this‚ water is responsible for many deaths and illnesses. This fact was discovered a long time ago when many people fell sick‚ and after tests‚ it was realized this was because of the drinking water. People‚ even back in the ancient times‚ would suddenly become ill
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