Causes of Water Pollution
How is it caused? How is it harmful to humans?
Causes of Water Pollution
Pollution is the term to define harmful pollutants that are released or created by materials, such as rays, that can cause great damage to the environment. Pollution is man-made because everything made out of natural resources can be easily decomposed into the environment, but materials that cannot be decomposed into the environment cause harm to the natural cycles of living organisms.
Now we will be talking about water pollution. It is a pollution that is created in the water. It causes great harm to the aquatic life. Tons of plastic waste, chemical waste from the factories, and waste from the day-to-day life, all the waste that is created is decomposed into the large water bodies. This causes great harm not only to the quality of the water but also to the organisms living in the water. So many animals die due to the consumption of plastic and the chemicals present dissolved into the water.
Water pollution is created by human activities only, to make their life easy and comfortable, to fulfill their needs, etc. On a daily basis tons of plastic waste is created around the globe. To get rid of this on a daily basis, many countries decompose their waste into the large water bodies like Oceans and seas. They throw all the waste into the water as there is no space left on the land to decompose it. There are so many chemical industries and other factories of different materials that create so much chemical waste and any kind of waste, and they also discharge it into the water bodies without even filtering it.
It’s not only about humans but also about every living organism that is harmed due to the water pollution. There are so many cycles that work, including the water from the water bodies. So, of course, it eventually causes harm to humans, and because of so much waste present in the oceans, it causes the death of many aquatic animals on a daily basis, and so their numbers are decreasing.
– Written By Aruja
Water is a major natural resource for all living creatures. By the survey, the amount of fresh water in the world is very less. But we, the human beings, don’t understand the importance of water. So that we polluted it. There are different types of environmental pollution, including air, water, sound, etc. We polluting the entire world. These results to cause many health problems. The environmental pollution later questions the sustainability of life particle in the Earth. Through pollution,s we actually destroy our base to live. Maybe we do not need to face the consequences. But the next generations have to face it. We enjoyed the resources that our ancestors protected. So we can use it. But for the next generation, who will protect?
Fresh water is very less on our Earth. But we polluted water by putting plastic items, food waste, home or shop wastes, and human and animal excretions. We don’t think that there are a lot of people who use water resources. Maybe that water seems to be clear. But that carries a lot of germs and disease-carrying substances. Many disease that challenges India is caused by water. On the banks of rivers, some people cremated dead bodies, while scattering the dead body’s waste flowers to the river. These rivers carry a lot of kilometres. Some companies discharge their factory waste directly to the rivers. The government must take action against it. Protecting the rivers and water sources is our duty.
– Written By Jyothi krishna Prakash
Any material that harms the atmosphere or the species that exist in that environment is referred to as “pollution,” and the harmful material is known as a pollutant. Pollutants create havoc on the environment, including the air, water, and soil.
MAJOR TYPES OF POLLUTION:
1) Air pollution
2) Water pollution
3) Noise pollution
4) Land pollution
5) Soil pollution
6) Plastic pollution
7) Thermal pollution and the list goes on.
Water pollution- The most threatening environmental problem is water pollution. Industrial waste and sewage water is not treated properly before being discharged into water bodies. Agricultural activities, making use of fertilizers and pesticides, are carried to the groundwater by rainwater. Solid waste is also dumped directly into the water bodies.
THE MAIN SOURCES OF WATER POLLUTION ARE:
a. Industrial waste
b. Untreated sewage
c. Pesticides and herbicides
d. Oil spills
how water pollution is harmful to human health?
What are the effects of water contamination on humans? Drinking untreated water today can cause the body to respond automatically. At the very least, you’ll have a stomach ache. A year, 3,575,000 people die as a result of water-borne diseases!
Contaminated water has the potential to transmit infectious diseases. Typhoid, Cholera, Paratyphoid Fever, Dysentery, Jaundice, Amoebiasis, and Malaria are some of the water-borne illnesses.
Chemicals in the water can also be harmful to our bodies.
Pesticides – the carbonates and organophosphates in pesticides can damage the nervous system and cause cancer. Chlorides can damage the reproductive system and the endocrine system.
Nitrates are particularly harmful to babies who consume formula milk. It causes the “blue infant” syndrome by limiting the amount of oxygen in the brain.
Lead can build up in the body and do damage to the nervous system.
Arsenic damages the kidneys, causes skin cancer, and causes vascular diseases.
Fluoride, in large doses, will turn your teeth yellow and damage your spinal cord.
– Written By Mahima
Pollution means to degrade the quality of natural resources by human activities and even by natural process. The agents that cause pollution is called pollutants. Water pollution can be defined as increasing contamination of water by several pollutants.
Water as we know, is very important for us. We live without food for approximately 10 days but we can’t live without water for more than 2-3 days. Water is our need.
Water pollution:-
1. People are polluting water in many ways, like industrial waste is directly released to the river water and getting mixed. This affects the life of aquatic animals and also the river water is affected.
2. Hospital waste is very hazardous; if it is released into the river, the whole river becomes poisonous. If any animal drinks this water, they will ultimately die.
3. Poor drainage system. Drain water gets mixed with river water, and hence it also gets affected.
4. In villages, people bath their cattle in the river water, which will make it unfit for drinking.
5. Tourists visiting to the beach throw plastic waste, wrappers into the sea and hence causing pollution.
Water pollution is affecting us in many ways:- scarcity of clean drinking water, pollution of rivers, sometimes if drainage water get mixed and the river water becomes a breeding place of mosquitoes. Many aquatic life forms are disturbed.
So there is a need of hthe our to save water as it is a limited resource.
Thank you!!
– Written By Sakchi Srivastav
Pollution is one of the greatest and most dangerous threats to society today and is increasing with each passing day, Pollution is the contamination of the Earth through toxic materials, which harms every living creature in the planet. Pollution can be broadly classified into four types:
1. Air Pollution
2. Water Pollution
3. Land Pollution
4. Soil Pollution
WATER POLLUTION: Contamination of the water bodies through many practices such as disposing off toxic untreated factory wastes directly into water bodies, performing domestic activities in water bodies such as bathing, washing clothes and utensils, immersing idols after festival and disposing off plastic and other non-biodegradable wastes into water is termed as water pollution.
Water pollution is very harmful as the amount of drinkable water on the Earth’s surface is already very less on top of that if the existing sources are also polluted, then soon there will be no drinkable water left. Also, it harms the wide variety of creatures sustaining life in water bodies the toxic water no longer provides them a healthy environment and as a result, they die. We human beings also consume see food or rather we consume these toxic creatures, which transfer the toxicity to us.
Its high time for us to adopt measures to keep a check on water pollution.
– Written By Anushree Ray
Water is one of the most important resources we have on our planet. All living beings such as animals, plants and humans,s need water for the proper functioning on their systems. Water has various importance in everyone’s lives, but today due to the involvement of factories and chimneys waste the water of the seas and oceans are getting polluted.
Even though we have a lot of rivers and oceans but the water they have is very salty and contains garbage and harmful chemicals that come out from the factories and cannot be consumed directly. That means only some amount of water is appropriate for intake. We should use the water effectively and make sure it is not wasted. We can reuse water in as many ways as possible and should save it from getting polluted.. Some of the ways of saving the water from getting polluted are:-
• Dispose of toxic chemicals properly.
• Do Not Pour Fat and Grease Down the Drain
• Use Phosphate-Free Detergent and Dish Cleaner
• Dispose of Medical Waste Properly.
• Report water polluters
• Lessen down meat consumption.
• Eat more organic food.
• Wash your car or outdoor equipment where it can flow to a grassed area instead of a street.
• Don’t pour your motor oil down the storm drain. Take it to the nearest auto parts store.
• Pick up litter and throw it away in a garbage can.
• Go for non-toxic and biodegradable cleansers.
• Avoid plastic containers and go for steel or fibre containers.
• Make sure to clear your water tanks regularly and use alum.
• Do not let the garbage or toxic chemicals from the factories go to the seas and oceans.
• Do not waste water. Try to reuse as much as possible, like bathing a pet in the lawn so that the water gets absorbed by the grass.
– Written By Kumari
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