Water Contamination And Its Effects On Poor Communities

     Hazardous wastes are another problem for the water in our world. These wastes are toxic, reactive, corrosive or ignitable. Most problems come from humans not storing the substance properly or not disposing of it correctly. This can be easily proven in 1969, when the Cuyahoga River, in Cleveland, Ohio, caught on fire and burned for sometime. Since this happened environmentalists have taken extreme measures to reduce the amount of pollution that is coming out of the power plants that are on the river and on Lake Erie.

“Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and, therefore, a basic human right. Contaminated water jeopardizes both the physical and social health of all people. It is an affront to human dignity.” — Kofi Annan, prior United Nations Secretary-General

As this all seems to be devastating and in need for a solution, the mines are unlikely to contaminate water leading to bigger aspects of issues. Many cases issue into mine water being a high classification that it doesn’t need any treatment.

Water pollution what is water pollution? Water pollution is where things are either purposely or accidentally putt into water it can also happen naturally. Dirty water can give humans ecoli and other bacterial diseases which may cause diarrhoea. Also contaminated water can not be used

Water pollution is starting all over the world. Water pollution occurs when waste products or other substances, such as microorganisms,

Main Point: Third world countries lack accessibility to clean water exposing them to disease and harmful toxins that result in 2.4 million deaths annually (Bartram, 2010).

Around the world people are suffering from the problem of having a safe and clean water, there are more than 633 million people lack access to safe water. Remote countries in Africa are mostly the victim of having unsanitary water sources.

There is a water crisis which faces many parts of the world and it is a threat to survival of human beings since humans are primarily dependent on water. Shortage in drinking water is beginning to show its effects in first world countries, but is a current major problem facing lesser developed countries which have not taken drastic steps to harvest water and purify it to make it safe for human consumption. In developed countries the population growth has strained available water resources and stretched the ability of governments and private firms to provide safe drinking water to the vast majority of the population. Seventy one percent of

Water pollution can affect every body of water that is linked to the source, because water tends to travel everywhere due to the water table. Water contamination comes from multiple sources, such as dumping waste, which is a direct way. There is also indirect pollution, such as runoff from pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers soaking into the ground and moving with the ground water into rivers. Ethanol crops are large

7. The Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 established the basic framework for protecting the drinking water of the United States. Most ground water used for drinking water occurs near the earth’s surface and is easily contaminated .The major concern is the potential contamination of underground sources of the drinking water by any of the hundreds or thousands of subsurface wastewater disposal .Waste disposal wells dispose of approximately more than 11% of the nation’s toxic fluid waste. The injection wells can be good or bad and cause a major problem. Some of the wells are used many different ways like for a aquifer recharge and the production of oil, gas, or minerals. Also for improper usage as disposal of toxic and hazardous waste. The EPA

Imagine you live in a small town. You have a nice little house, maybe a dog or a cat. The town went through some rough times during the recent recession, but things are looking up: a new frac sand mine moved in nearby, providing jobs for a large portion of the community. Although there is more traffic because of the mine, it seems relatively harmless. As time goes on, however, you start to feel as if something is off. You haven’t been feeling well, and you suspect it has something to do with your tap water. You switch to bottled water and try to avoid using the public water as much as possible. A couple of years later, the news comes out that the frac sand mine had been contaminating the groundwater, making it unsafe. A dozen questions fill your mind with fear and anger: how has my health been affected? How can this problem be fixed? Will it ever be safe to drink the water again? Why did it take so long for this problem to be acknowledged?

It’s no secret that there are countries that are more privileged than others. For example, here in the United States of America having clean drinking water, garbage pickup trucks, health clinics is something common. Like we don’t even think about not having access to these things. In developing countries things these things i just listed are more often rare than they are common. The topic i will talking about is the effects of polluted water in developing countries and solutions that can be put into effect to help change these circumstances.

Interactions between groundwater and surface water are complex. Consequently, groundwater pollution, sometimes referred to as groundwater contamination, is not as easily classified as surface water pollution.[7] By its very nature, groundwater aquifers are susceptible to contamination from sources that may not directly affect surface water bodies, and the distinction of point vs. non-point source may be irrelevant. A spill or ongoing releases of chemical or radionuclide contaminants into soil (located away from a surface water body) may not create point source or non-point source pollution, but can contaminate the aquifer below, defined as a toxin plume. The movement of the plume, a plume front, can be part of a Hydrological transport model or Groundwater model. Analysis of groundwater contamination may focus on the soil characteristics and site geology, hydrogeology, hydrology, and the nature of the contaminants.

Anybody of water that is contaminated with pollutants, is called Water Pollution. There are two types of water pollution, Nonpoint and Point specific pollution. Nonpoint pollution cannot be found by a specific location and can be caused by runoff water, an example of this pollution is pesticides (Flinn Scientific, 2009). Chemicals and fertilizers can run off into the water supply(Mary Beth Abel Hughes, James Sammons, Scott Eddleman, Pamela J. W. Gore, Daniel P. Murray, Patsy Eldridge, 2007). Water moves over the ground and picks up chemicals and other waste into a body of water (Flinn Scientific, 2009). Pollution that can be pinpointed at a specific place and can be found and reduce the problem of pollution, an example of this pollution is factories, is known as Point Specific Pollution. (Flinn Scientific, 2009). Since Earth is becoming industrialized, water is being used and more waste is thrown into usable water (Flinn Scientific, 2009) About 70% of factories and industries dump waste into usable water(40factsaboutwaterpollution, 2013). Waste is produced by Industries and is dump it into the nearest water source (Mary Beth

Surface waters and groundwater are the two sorts of water assets that contamination influences. There are likewise two unique routes in which contamination can happen. On the off chance that contamination originates from a solitary area, for example, a release channel appended to a processing plant, it is known as point-source contamination. Different illustrations of point source contamination incorporate an oil slick from a tanker, a release from a smoke stack (industrial facility fireplace), or somebody pouring oil from their auto down a channel. A lot of water contamination happens not from one single source but rather from a wide range of scattered sources. This is called nonpoint-source contamination.