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Fresh Water Pollution

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INTRODUCTION
Fresh water pollution in South Africa
Freshwater pollution is the contamination of inland water with substances that make it unfit for its natural or intended use. Pollution may be caused by faecal waste, chemicals, pesticides, pesticides, petroleum, sediment, or even heated discharges. Plants and animals can’t live without freshwater, because all organism are made up mostly by water. A tree for example is about 60% water and most animals are about 50-65% water. Also each of us needs huge amounts of water.
Freshwater ecosystems and pollution, the concentration of dissolved oxygen highly depends also on the amount of pollutants, because most water pollutants cause low oxygen levels in freshwater. These pollutants make it difficult …show more content…

Some of the industries are paper industries, textiles and sugar mills, distilleries and thermal and power plants among others. The kinds of effluents generated by industries are also numerous. The paint and varnish industries produce aromatic long-chained hydrocarbons, textile industries put out various dyestuffs and metal salts which are used as mordents. The other industrial effluents contain a host of pollutants such as oils, greases, plastics, cadmium, lead, mercury, acids, and alkalis. Cyanides and chlorides, produced by various …show more content…

 Swimming and drinking in contaminated water can cause skin diseases and also can lead to cancer, reproductive problems, and typhoid fever and stomach ailments in humans?  Highly polluted water can harm internal organs like heart and kidneys.  Synthetic organs cause serious damage to human health.
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 Chemicals like fluoride, arsenic, lead chlorine and petrochemicals in water can cause adverse effect on human health.  Nitrate contamination can prove fatal for infants as it can restrict the oxygen to the reach the brain causing the blue- baby syndrome.
Effects on animal health
Water pollution kills life that depends on these water bodies.  Fishes and the aquatic organism are poisoned due to industrial chemicals and agriculture pesticides.  Human litter let into water system gets the aquatic animals caught and get killed due to suffocation.  Oils spills in water causes animals to die as they ingest it or come across it. Oil cannot be dissolved in water so it causes suffocation in fish and birds.
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