Student-led community action plan created and presented during an Ambassador Leadership Summit in 2019 at Harvard University

1. Summit Splash
Make a splash
Make a difference
Group 3-Sophia, Devlyn, Rylee, Maria,Megan,
Lena, Olivia,
Logan, Mark, Robert, Alex, Sam,

2. Contents` Why are our oceans being polluted?
When is this happening?
Where is this happening?
What/Who is affected by water
pollution?
What can we do to help our oceans?
Who can we ask to help our cause?
How can you take action/fix it?

3. Why Are Our
Oceans Being
Polluted?
● Plastic and garbage waste
● Toxic waste
● Sewage
● Rapid urban development
● Oil spills
● Thermal pollution

4. When Did This
Start Happening?
● Water pollution is not recent and
has been going on for hundreds of
years
● The London Stink, which occured in
the summer of 1858, is one of the
earliest and prominent occurrences
of water pollution
● The Industrial Revolution
introduced toxic chemicals which
hurt the environment even greater
● Pollution not only happened in the
past, and we still have problems
today we need to fix.

5. Where is This Happening?
10. Mississippi River - USA 9. Buriganga River ------
- -Bangladesh
8. Ganges River - India 7. Niger River - Nigeria
6. Sarino River- Italy 5. Marilao River - Philippines
4. Yellow River - China 3. Indus River - Pakistan
2. Yangtze River - China 1. Citarum River - Indonesia
Top 5 Polluted Lakes
5. Victoria Lake - Africa 4. Serra Pelada Lake
-Brazil
3. Lake Tai - China 2. Onondaga Lake
- -New York
1. Lake Karachay - Russia
Top 10 Polluted Rivers

6. What/Who is
Affected by Water
Pollution?
...and many more
Other people who drink water flowing
from streams
Many sea creatures are deeply
affected by water pollution. These
animals include:
● Sharks
● Fish
● Crabs
● Birds
● Sea gulls
● Dolphins
● Seals

7. Who Can we Ask to Help our Cause?
Ocean Bottle:
● Create reusable water bottles made from upcycled ocean bound
plastic
● Take old water bottles that people don’t need and recycle them
into ocean bottles
● Each ocean bottle funds the collection of 1000 plastic bottles that
will one day end up in our oceans
● Each bottle offsets over 18 kg of CO2 from plastic collection

9. What Can You Do to
Help Our Oceans?
● Partner with organizations
● Encourage people to go plastic free
● Share important information on
water pollution
● Recycle all plastic waste
● Eat sustainable food
● Plant trees
● Use pesticides, herbicides and
fertilizers responsibly and less
● Start using more reusable products
● Use less plastic projects
● Use environmentally safe products
● Conserve water
● Keep vehicles well maintained
● Proper sewage treatment and
management
● Dispose trash properly

10. Our Action Plan We are going to help collect used
plastic to donate to ocean bottles as
new materials that they can use to
produce their water bottles created
from ocean materials. We will ask
people in our community to donate any
used water bottles that are not needed
in their households, and give them to
ocean bottles.

11. Videos
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12. These are the consequences of water pollution.

13. Conclusion
Thank you for
listening to our
presentation!

14. Credits
● https://www.thoughtco.com/fun-facts-about-sea-turtles-
2291407
● https://www.ajc.com/news/opinion/trees-play-
key-role-purifying-our-
water/e8xTDr9byeFkhSNnrqU73K/
● https://www.erosionpollution.com/water-
pollution-solutions.html
● https://yp.scmp.com/news/features/article/11
0583/are-paper-straws-really-better-
environment-plastic-ones