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Water Pollution Facts
from:Water pollution is a serious problem that affects everyone. When it rains the water travels down storm pipes, over the ground and ditches picking up any pollutants that are on the ground and bringing them directly into the streams, lakes and rivers. Everything that goes onto the ground has the potential to end up in the water supply. This includes garbage, oils, paint, wastes, fertilizers, pesticides and household detergents. Even making small changes can add up to a big difference in overall water pollution. Water pollution facts are designed to help people get a better understanding as to what attributes to water pollution and how to combat it. Water pollution fact sheets can be very informative and help people to see how every little thing counts and can add up to making a very big difference, either to make the water pollution problem get batter, or worse.
Here are a few water pollution facts:
• Septic systems are failing all around the country causing untreated waste materials to flow freely into stream, rivers and lakes and polluting the drinking water.
• Soaps and detergents can be harmful to the water supply when they are washed into the rivers and streams as a result of washing a car. A better place to wash a car is a commercial car wash where they have a system in place to deal with the watershed and detergents.
• Oil, antifreeze and gasoline leaking from cars contributes to water pollution when it rains and the rainwater picks up the chemicals and it runs into the nearby streams and river.
• Fertilizers and pesticides from gardens and commercial growers leak into the water system through the ground water or when it gets washed into storm sewers and drains into the rivers and streams.
• Pet waste adds to water pollution. It is better to bag up animal wastes and throw it in the trash.
• Livestock causes a lot of pollution due to the rain flowing over the wastes produced by the livestock and being transported into the streams and rivers. Livestock waste is full of bacteria and is very harmful to humans and causes many diseases.
Knowing about water pollution facts also helps to combat the problems by offering practical solutions that are easy to follow and implement. By sweeping a driveway clean instead of washing it with water pollutants are not carried into the water supply. When rivers get too much plant growth it can cause the fish to die due to lack of oxygen. A good way to prevent this is to make sure that lawn clippings and garden wastes that may contain fertilizers get used for compost and don’t end up in the streams. By knowing what water pollution facts are it is easier to find solutions to the problems.
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