2. What is water pollution?
ο Water pollution is the contamination of water
bodies like:-lakes,rivers,oceans ect.this form of
environmental degradation occurs when pollutants
and directly or indirectly didcharged into water
bodies without adequate to remove harmful
compounds.
ο Water pollution affects the entire biosphere plants
and organisms living in there bodies of water in
almost all cases the effect is damaging not only to
individual species and population ,but also to the
natural biological communities.
3. ο Sometimes the causes of water pollution r quite
surprising. Chemicals released by smokestacks
(chimneys) can enter the atmosphere and the fall
black to earth as rain,entering seas,rivers,and lakes
and causing water pollution has many different
causes and this is such a difficult problem to solue.
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6. How Does Water Pollution Endanger Human Health?
ο One of the greatest dangers to human health is water
pollution. After all, people canβt survive without drinking
water, and if their freshwater resources are polluted, they
can become ill from drinking them. Different types of
pollutants affect human health in different ways.
ο Organisms that cause disease are
called pathogens. Pathogens include bacteria, viruses, and
parasitic organisms that infect humans and cause illness.
Some pathogens occur naturally, and others pollute water
when human or animal waste washes into the water. Some
of the most common illnesses caused by pathogens in water
include
ο Typhoid
ο Cholera
ο Dysentery
ο Polio
ο Hepatitis
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8. ο Around half of all ocean pollution is covered by
sewage and water waste. Each year the world
generally 400 billion tons of industrial waste, much
of which is pumped intrated in to river,oceans and
other water ways.
ο We will dump all the household waste into
river,ocean,sea ect.