Access To Clean Water Essay

Nowadays, people can access to clean water easily in their daily life, but 780 millions of people do not have access to clean water. The uses of water is very wide, including recreation, agriculture, preparing food, washing dishes, flushing the toilet, bathing, transportation et cetera. We can not do anything without water, it shows the importance of water, but we can not let the access to clean water be sustainable if we keep polluting the water. For example, if we take a cup of water, maybe we will think that it is very clean and safe to drink, but if we put a drop of water under the microscope, we would find out that actually there are millions of microscopic pollutants floating on it and if we keep drinking the pollutant water, it will

Also of the emission of nutrients, the increased use of fertilisers means more nitrates are being washed from the soil and it will go into the rivers and lakes and finally to the ocean. This can cause eutrophication, which is very harmful to marine lives. At the meantime, it will also cause more algae to grow, and the algae will keep absorbing the oxygen and reduce the oxygen level in the water, it will clogs the fish gills and let other marine lives can not breath and asphyxia. People keep destroying the habitat of the animals. And it will disrupt the natural of the entire food chain and finally the whole ecosystem will be unbalance. Oil is one of the biggest pollutants that affect the water pollution. As reported, six months after a spill of oil into the ocean, there are around eight thousands animals dead. The bird are coated with oil and their wings are stick together so they can not move and hunt. The turtles and some of the marine animals are all ingested in the oil. The animals are also affected by the solid waste that human thrown into the ocean, and it will harm the animals a