What is Water Pollution?

WHAT IS WATER POLLUTION?

The contamination of a water source, usually due to industrial activities is know as water pollution.

Water loses oxygen due to to pollution and its after effects, a process called “eutrophication”. Dead rivers and oceans dead zones,where very little aquatic life may exist,are nearly usually the result of eutrophication, which is catastrophic for aquatic life. Water contamination is directly causing this to happen to some of our most valuable and diverse marine area, rivers and lake

Rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and oceans are contaminated by industries such as animal agriculture, textiles, fossil fuel extraction, and transport, which will, often knowingly, use polluting chemicals in their work and allow contaminated waste water to run off into surrounding water sources.

WHAT ARE THE CAUSES OF WATER POLLUTION?

Water contamination is caused by a variety of enterprises and activities, some considerably more than others 

1) The clearing of forests

The capacity of the land to retain water and retain topsoil is diminished when we clear trees from naturally wooded areas and convert them to livestock farms. Due to increased floods and runoff from agricultural areas into rivers and oceans, our water sources will be exposed to an increased amount of chemicals and animal waste.

2) ) Global Warming 

One of the most concerning impacts of global heating is ocean acidification. When our oceans warm by even 1-2 degrees celsius, the oxygen content reduces, which hugely decreases the oceans’ ability to cope with pollution. Warming also results in coral bleaching, which can happen extremely quickly, resulting in huge numbers of fish species dying in a short period of time, causing increased water pollution.

3) Plastic Waste

its a common Knowledge that plastic waste ends up in our rivers and seas. However, fishing gear rather than straws, plastics bottles, or any other single use item is the real cause of the majority of the plastic pollution in our oceans

4) Transportation of ships