Water Pollution

When a person is asked what water is, the first things that they say are; water is drinkable, used for showers, simple, washing, etc.. But people don’t really know how complex and important water is for our kind. Water is one of the most precious things we humans have, but we don’t realize it and we damage it without caring for the consequences. Water and water pollution are two things that we should all have in mind. Even though we see water as just a liquid, but there’s more to it than its form or state.

“Without water, life would not exist.” This is a quote taken from Water.org. However, it needs a little clarification, Without clean water, life will not exist for long. There are many countries today that do not have access to clean water. This necessity we the people of the United States of America take for granted is not a normal occurrence in every country. With this paper we will look at five different countries with the most polluted water in the world. We will see what is being done to help reduce the water pollution and how the water pollution is effecting the economy is these countries.

Water is becoming a precious commodity around the world. “Throughout to world, water is recognized as the most fundamental and indispensable of all natural resources and it is clear that neither social and economic development, nor environmental diversity, can be sustained without water” (Ashton 1). Water is becoming scarce throughout the world. “Water scarcity is when an individual does not have access to safe affordable water to satisfy her or his needs for drinking, washing or their livelihoods…”(Rijsberman 1).

Water is an essential compound for survival. It is vital because every organism depends on it for various reasons. As humans, we depend on it for health, hygiene, and to nourish the environment. However, the misuse of water has profoundly affected water supply in many states. An immense amount of drinking water is wasted daily. Since more than half of the water supply is used for agriculture, an excessive amount of drinking water is wasted on crops. There is a misuse of water in agriculture because farmers are not educated about sustainable farming, which is damaging the freshwater ecosystems, drying bodies of water, and causing cities to face a shrinkage in water supply.

The lake needs are in great danger and humans need to save the lake so nothing bad happens to It. In the past the water was really bad and people could not use the water. For a couple years and people did not like that. In 2017 there are blooms in the lake and people are yelling about the river and people are buying bottled water and stores are running out of the clean water for people to buy and drink it so people won’t get sick from the lake and then died. “There they found the highest concentration of plastics — denser than in the oceans — in Lake Erie.” Similar results were found by University of Wisconsin-Superior chemist Dr. Lorena Rios-Mendoza.”[Huber] “Trash from beaches, river banks, and neighborhood gutters makes its way into our waterways. Things like plastic cigar tips, food wrappers, toys, and disposable drink bottles get bumped around, blown, and washed off into the streets, through the sewers, and Into Lake Erie.”

While a number of different techniques are available all over the world to ensure safe, clean drinking water, such as desalination, borehole water (ground water) the building of dams to store rainwater recycling of Municipal waste water, which seems to work well in industrial purpose (Mays, 2008) in Durban, South Arica. Through biological Water Treatment Plant, waste water has been successfully purified, but while it works well in industrial consumption convincing the public it is safe for drinking, it is proving to be a little difficult even though Shemang and Chaoka (2004) points out that the water is 100% safe for human consumption.

Water is one of the valuable resources on earth. Due to extensive usage and diminishing resources , we are facing severe water scarcity. It is estimated that only 9000- 14,000 km3 of fresh water is available for use of humans per year (FAOWATER, 2008). This scarcity in turn has a huge impact on social, environmental, political, economic and tourism sectors. So the authors has come up with an idea of reclaimed water recycling and the economic justification of the process. The main purpose of the book is to provide a solution to the increasing water demands and the impending water scarcity by considering waste water management as an option. This book also explains an economic framework for the evaluation of the use of waste water in agriculture, as part of a radical planning process in water resource designing strategies to provide for a more economically efficient and renewable water utilization (Winpenny, Heinz, & Koo-oshima, 2010).

This paper explains the issues involving the Earth’s most vital resource – water – and how problems with access to it are on the rise due to a lack of sanitation practices and sustainable water systems. Especially in developing countries, preventable diseases have become a top 10 global killer, claiming the lives of nearly 730,000 innocent people per year (Water.org, 2015; Prüss-Ustün, Bartram, Clasen, et al., 2014). As the world’s population’s need for water increases and the amount of water on Earth remains constant, different issues stand out regarding the quality of water resources. In Western societies, people pay little attention to the issue of water scarcity, yet, in the developing world, access to water is a daily struggle ¬–

With all these potential issues of water reclamation projects, it makes one wonder if a sustainable water source is even a reachable goal. However, a proposed solution with the use of our current water resources for potable water, using reclaimed water for uses other than drinking such as irrigation, and the mass implementation of water conservation policies, from the industrial scale all the way down to a local scale, the goal of sustainable water may be well within reach. The main issue seems to be the reducing the consumption and waste of potable water. In the United States, the average American family of four generates approximately 265 liters of gray water per day, according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). By comparison, a similar sized family in Africa generates and average of 19 liters today. If the amount of gray water being produced can be brought down to a much lower level, and if this water is then

Reusing treated wastewater for beneficial purposes, such as agricultural and landscape irrigation, industrial processes, toilet flushing, or groundwater basin replenishment, is growing in response to environmental and economic concerns.

Pollution kills around nine million people every year. That total only accounts for humans, not the numerous amounts of plants and animals that die from the effects of pollution. How does that you feel? Many people don’t know and understand what pollution is, what it does and harms, or even the different types of pollution. According to the online dictionary, pollution is defined as “the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects”. There are many different types of pollution that people should know about. One of the main pollutions is water pollution (Open Learn Create). Water pollution involves various water bodies that get contaminated from waste that gets dumped into the water. Chemicals, pesticides, and insecticides that flow into the water streams is also very harmful. When natural disaster strikes, like floods or hurricanes, they cause more harmful substances from land to mix into the water. Quite a few aquatic animals need these bodies of water to live. Another main pollution is from the air. Air pollution is when the air is contaminated and humans and animals are breathing it in (University of Rochester). Air pollution happens from different exhaust gases that are sent into the air from engines. Some of these gases can be poisonous. Something that is uncommon is called acid rain. It is caused by certain gases mixing with the atmosphere. Humans often cause air pollution by burning plastic, wood, and rubber without knowing they give off carcinogenic gases. A pollution that can be caused by most farmers is soil pollution. This happens when natural soil is taken over by chemicals, pesticides, and insecticides. Without enough nutrition from natural soil, plants won’t be able to produce very well. When plants don’t grow well, the soil splits and starts to erode. Noise pollution is something that affects humans without them often times knowing. This usually happens in bigger cities where there are cars honking, trains blaring their horns, or people shouting (Isreal). Light pollution also generally happens in bigger cities. “The effects of light pollution on plants and animals in the environment are numerous and are

Water treatment is used worldwide in order to create potable (i.e. drinkable) water from the raw water brought into a treatment plant. Common sources for the raw water include nearby bodies of water and even wastewater from homes or businesses which need to be treated to be reused. Increases in the portability and efficiency of the processes involved could hopefully be readily implemented in more impoverished areas of the world where potable water is a much more scarce resource.

the world’s population is gradually increasing, peoples lifestyle has been changed significantly and also factors such as preferring people to live in the cities rather than villages, demanding the better quality of water by the population live in a society and also rising the chemical stuff price are the reasons that cause the usage of the treated domestic wastewater for irrigation, (world health organization, 2015).The

Our freshwater resources are limited and face mounting pressures from drought, flooding, pollution, population growth, and competition from many uses (e.g., ecosystem protection, drinking water, agriculture, energy production, recreation) (EPA, 2014). There is a need therefore for governments at all levels, partnering with communities to develop, encourage and implement new technologies and other water conservation practices that can help protect, improve the condition of our water resources. This paper focused on some widely accepted innovative technologies, water management approaches and techniques for sustainable use of water resources. Discussed in the following sections are some widely used water conservation and wastewater management practices to achieving sustainable hydrology.

Water is one of the most abundant substances on Earth, but the vast majority of it cannot be used for human or industrial use because of the salt content. With cost effective desalination processes several years away, we are limited to fresh water resources such as lakes, reservoirs, and aquifers, but these resources, in many areas, are being used drained at rates faster than they can replenish, or are too difficult to reach. Agriculture is one of the primary users of wastewater, as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations(FAO) points out in their publication “The Wealth of Waste: The Economics of Wastewater Use in Agriculture”. This is why the agriculture