Cause Of Water Pollution

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Kylie Sisk

Eng1101

Burns

10/26/14

Water Pollution The world’s biggest health risk continues to enforce both public health and quality of life; that is what we call dirty water or water pollution. Water pollution is a huge problem these days and human activity is the main effect. People need to start taking action in what they do and start protecting our bodies of water. Some people don’t realize when pollution is being caused because they don’t realize what they do every day, causes it. Driving cars, using fertilizers, not cleaning septic tanks, and coal-fired power plants are some examples on what causes water pollution. Every day cars are driven and people don’t realize what’s happening. When burning fuel, cars create

People use fertilizers every day like its nothing because they don’t know what it’s causing. Improper application of fertilizers causes a massive amount of nutrients into our watersheds. Fertilizers contain these nutrients which are also known as phosphates and nitrates. If someone uses too much fertilizer, it can easily wash off his or hers lawn or garden into storm drains and then flow into streams or lakes. These streams or lakes are where we get our water from. So just think about that. “How can we fix this?” Thoroughly, many plants don’t need as much fertilizer as someone may think they need. Try and not use it as often. Don’t fertilize before a rainstorm. That rainstorm can cause the nutrients to flow into our bodies of water. Also, we can consider using organic fertilizer because it releases nutrients more

People don’t realize what’s actually in the water that he or she is doing activities in. Chemicals and oils are thrown into the water everyday by coal-fired power plants. Millions of pounds of pollutants like Mercury, cadmium, lead and other toxic metals are disposed of into our lakes, rivers, and streams. “More than 50% of all toxic water pollution comes from coal-fired power plants.” Some of these plants dump the polluted water directly into the bodies of water. Researchers found that 70% of these plants are allowed to dump these chemicals into water bodies across the country. Think about what they are doing to not only the wildlife, but people too. Working in a power plant causes about 13,000 deaths a year. Imagine the amount of wildlife that dies when these chemicals are being put into our waters. We need to start taking action and taking care of our bodies of water to prevent illnesses and deaths around the