Water Pollution and Its Harm

We all live in a world that is covered mostly byAnother problem will be an increase in
water. That is why it it is very important to preserveoxygen-consuming products. Most wastes need
our water resources. The ocean for example, is aoxygen to decay. If much oxygen is used up in the
valuable source of energy, food and mineralprocess, marine life will also be in danger. Last
resources. Rivers and other freshwater sources alsoproblem faced is the accumulation of toxic chemicals
provide us with food and potable water. However,and minerals. This will include DDT, aldrin and dieldrin in
water pollution is now threatening human life as wellwater bodies.
as affecting the flora and fauna of the aquaticThere are other examples of water pollution. One of
environment. This catastrophe is generally athese examples is the accumulation of mud and silt.
human-made problem. The amount of wasteThis will cause a coating to build up on the gill
materials introduced to the ocean yearly fromfilaments of fish and ultimately bringing about
factories, power plants and shipping industries issuffocation. Industrial and chemical wastes emptied
tremendous. Many of these products are found to beinto our rivers and streams such as cyanides, acids,
carcinogenic.alkalies, oils, and pesticides, may affect not only the
As a consequence with this, greater problems haveinhabitants of the body of water but also the ocean
been produced such as diseases from infectiousinto which the water flows. One disastrous case of
organisms carried within the water. It can alsowater pollution was that of a giant tanker Terry
produce an oversupply of plant nutrients. This meansCanyon which, in March 1967, spewed about ninety
that it will accelerate the plankton growth, resulting inthousand tons of crude oil over the English Channel at
increased consumption of dissolved oxygen. With thissouth western Britain, destroying planktons in an
dissolved oxygen, our marine life will be threatened.aquatic area.