Our seas, rivers, streams, lakes, and reservoirs are drowning in chemicals, waste, plastic, and other pollutants. Here’s why? and what you can do to help.
While we all know water is very crucial for living beings, we waste it away. Approximately 80 percent of the world’s wastewater is dumped (mostly untreated) back into the environment, polluting seas, rivers, streams, and lakes.
This problem of water pollution is jeopardizing the health of all of us. Unhygienic water kills more people every year than all other forms of “life-killers” combined. As a matter of fact, our drinkable water sources are finite in quantum, Less than one percent of the earth’s fresh water is accessible to humankind.
In 2050, when Global demand for fresh water is expected to be 33% more than the demand for freshwater as of now, it will pose a greater challenge if we don’t take appropriate action.
Sipping a glass of cool, clean, and clear water doesn’t mean that water pollution is a problem elsewhere. But while some people have access to safe drinking water, potentially harmful contaminants (arsenic, copper, lead) can be found in tap water in different parts of the world.
To get ourselves prepared against the threat to clean water, let us try to understand the problem better and what action we can take about the same. Let us look at an overview of what water pollution is, what causes water pollution, and how we can protect ourselves against water pollution.
What Is the Definition of Water Pollution?
Water pollution happens when harmful substances(chemicals/microorganisms) contaminate a sea, river, stream, lake, or other water body, degrading water quality as well as rendering the water toxic to humans or the environment.
What are the different causes of Water Pollution?
Water is uniquely vulnerable to pollution owing to its chemical structure. Considered to be a “universal solvent,” water is able to dissolve more substances than any other fluid on earth.
This is the prime reason why water can be easily polluted. Toxic substances from farms, towns, industries as well as factories readily dissolve into water, mix with it, causing water pollution.
What are the categories of Water Pollution?
Groundwater
When rain falls and seeps deep into the earth, filling the crevices, cracks, and porous spaces of an aquifer. The aquifer acts as an underground storage tank. This is one of the least visible but the most important natural resources.
Most households rely on groundwater which gets pumped to the earth’s surface, for drinking water. This is the only source of freshwater for many in rural areas.
Groundwater gets polluted due to contaminants like pesticides/fertilizers, waste leachate from landfills/septic systems making their way into an aquifer. This makes the water unsafe for human use. It can be very difficult as well as costly to get rid of contaminants in groundwater.
Pollution of an aquifer can make it unusable for decades, or even many more years. Groundwater can also spread its contamination to other water bodies far from the original polluting source as it seeps into seas, rivers, streams, and lakes.
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