Water Pollution

WATER POLLUTION

Introduction

  

   Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies, directly or indirectly. Water covers 71% of the Earth's surface and what if this percentage of water is little by little being polluted? Are we aware of it? What will be the effect especially to all living things? What are the possible solutions to it?
    Many years ago, natural water bodies in the whole world even in the Philippines are very clean, clear and can be use as drinking water, can swim there or even you can wash clothes too. But take a look now, most of our natural water bodies are being polluted as time pass by. You can see a lot of garbage floating everywhere like plastics, containers, dead bodies of animals and even toxic wastes. All of that can harm the health of everyone most especially the living things that live in water.

Causes of Water Pollution

    Water pollution occurs when an overwhelmingly large amount of chemicals and substances harmfully affects our natural water bodies. It has affected many lives on earth and will probably continue if we do not take care of our own environment. There are many causes of water pollution and of them is oil spill. Oil is usually spilled form tankers and ship travels. As we all know, oil is one of the world’s biggest pollutants, primarily because it does not dissolve in water. It just forms a thick layer on the water surface. Plastics also cause water pollution. Plastics take a long time to decompose and once it is disposed in any of our water bodies, it can cause harm to the different creatures underwater especially fishes. Wastes from factories are also one of the causes; it contaminates water with different chemicals and substances.
    In my own opinion, we alone are causing water pollution. We might not notice it but some of our daily tasks and activities cause harmful effect to our environment; because of the different factories, industrial wastes, businesses, and different human wastes are being congested into the water.

    We need to change our ways or else we are the ones who will suffer in the future. Water is the main source of our everyday tasks. Without water, we will not live. We must take part and give our efforts in preserving and maintaining our water clean.

Effects of Water Pollution

1. Human Health

People often get water disease such as cholera and tuberculosis as a result of poor screening and distillation of water that we drink.

2.  Ecosystems

Water pollution may be a cause of destruction of ecosystems. Areas being affected by careless human pollution and that pollution comes back to hurt humans in many ways.

3.  Death of animals

The main problem caused by water pollution is that it kills life especially the aquatic animals.Animals are also affected by solid waste thrown on water.

4. Food chain

Pollution may result as distraction of food chain. Pollutants such as lead and cadmium are eaten by tiny animals.

For example: Little fishes eat tiny organic particles> Big fishes eat tiny fishes> Humans also eat fish.

5.  Economic cost

Financial claims that will result from water pollution. 

Solution

  Water pollution is one of the major problems of the Earth as of today. Maybe some of us thinks that this problem don’t have any solution or some are losing their hopes to resolve this problem but that is not right. There are lots of solutions that we can do but the problem is there are only few persons who knows and tries to resolve it.
And last but not the least, we should practice Discipline in ourselves. We must take responsibilities in everything we do. We should have the initiative to do our best to make it happen. It’s not too late to make a move. We must work together to continuously lessen the problem and rebuild a better place for all of us.  

We can summarize those solutions into three major aspects. First solution that we can have is Education. Many of us are not aware of the problems we have in terms of Water Pollution. So the first thing to we need to do is to give them awareness and knowledge about Water Pollution. Educating them will serve as the first step in resolving our problems. Schools should develop their teachings and lessons in the field of conserving and preserving the environment. Even the government should make a way to teach the people on how they can help to eliminate the Water Pollution.

The Law and the Government is also a great help in resolving water pollution. We have lots of law regarding the conservation of the environment but why we cannot minimize the ongoing problem? It is simply because most of us didn’t know that there are existing laws about it and some are ignoring and violating these things. That’s why the government should make an action to resolve this. They need to strengthen and reinforce these laws so that people will know and will follow these certain regulations. It is important also that the implementation of these laws are strict, unbiased and effective to achieve a better result.   

Water pollution is one of the major problems of the Earth as of today. Maybe some of us thinks that this problem don’t have any solution or some are losing their hopes to resolve this problem but that is not right. There are lots of solutions that we can do but the problem is there are only few persons who knows and tries to resolve it.

We can summarize those solutions into three major aspects. First solution that we can have is Education. Many of us are not aware of the problems we have in terms of Water Pollution. So the first thing to we need to do is to give them awareness and knowledge about Water Pollution. Educating them will serve as the first step in resolving our problems. Schools should develop their teachings and lessons in the field of conserving and preserving the environment. Even the government should make a way to teach the people on how they can help to eliminate the Water Pollution.

The Law and the Government is also a great help in resolving water pollution. We have lots of law regarding the conservation of the environment but why we cannot minimize the ongoing problem? It is simply because most of us didn’t know that there are existing laws about it and some are ignoring and violating these things. That’s why the government should make an action to resolve this. They need to strengthen and reinforce these laws so that people will know and will follow these certain regulations. It is important also that the implementation of these laws are strict, unbiased and effective to achieve a better result.   

And last but not the least, we should practice Discipline in ourselves. We must take responsibilities in everything we do. We should have the initiative to do our best to make it happen. It’s not too late to make a move. We must work together to continuously lessen the problem and rebuild a better place for all of us. 

Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.

— Terry Tempest Williams