Water Pollution

Cleaning drinking water is turning into an uncommon thing as the waterways are being constantly polluted.

Human civilization has always been built around rivers to grow crops, to drink water and for other various industrial uses. You can see many such examples in history books like, Indus valley civilization, The egyptians around the nile, the mesopotamians around the tigris and the ancient chinese around the yellow river. Nowadays however we are polluting the same waterways that helped us survive in the first place. Many water bodies near cities or towns get highly polluted. This is the result of a lot of people and factories dumping things in the water to get rid of their waste by manufacturing industries, health centers, schools and market places.

We are polluting the same waterways that is giving us fresh water and has helped human civilization to flourish.

One of the side effects of water pollution is the death of aquatic animals and a loss of biodiversity in lakes, rivers, seas and ocean. These chemicals that people dump in water bodies kill organism that depend on the water bodies to survive. Many of these animals end up dead because of these pollutions and this will continue to go on until we do something.

Even us as humans are getting affected by us killing aquatic animals. Unsafe drinking water is killing more people than all forms of violence combined. Us, humans eat a lot of fish and some of these fish could be the one that we killed due to pollutants which means that if we eat that fish it could have a disease and it would get transmitted to us resulting In us getting sick. According to the WHO (World health organization) 2.1 billion people in the world do not have access to clean water because of things like this.

British poet W. H. Auden once noted, “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.”

What can we do?

Some of the things that we all can do are:

• Do not litter in water.

• try not to buy things that require dumping plastic into water bodies.

• Do not use single use plastics.

• Do not pollute in general.

• Promote river/ocean cleanup programs and if possible join them.

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Sources:

Denchak, Melissa. “Water Pollution: Everything You Need to Know.” NRDC, 19 Feb. 2020, www.nrdc.org/stories/water-pollution-everything-you-need-know.

Nunez, Christina. “Freshwater 101: Pollution.” Water Pollution Facts and Information, 24 Jan. 2020, www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/freshwater/pollution/.

“The Biggest Water Pollution Guide on the Internet [Get Updated on Causes].” Water Pollution, www.water-pollution.org.uk/.