kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk Water Pollution
kk How many people love Earth? Probably everyone because without the Earth we wouldn’t have a home. Well if we really love Earth we should take care of it. And something we could help with is water pollution. Water pollution is toxic chemicals sprayed or put into rivers, lakes, oceans, streams, creeks, or any other body of water. Water pollution doesn’t only effect one thing or person it effects everyone. For example, if you throw a plastic bag into the ocean and think one bag couldn’t hurt you’re wrong because a lot of may think that and then there will be thousands of pollution in the water. And when a sea turtle or any animal looks at they might think it’s food so they could get sick from eating it. Don’t you think we should save the Earth from water pollution?
kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk Causes
kk The thing that causes most water pollution is from people. A thing that people do is put some our waste into the water. So much of our waste goes into the water that every day 2 million tons (1.8 billion kilograms) of waste goes into our waterways. That’s 70% of our waste going into the water! We also need to save the earth because on average 99 million pounds of toxic chemicals are released into the water each year. Farmers use pesticides and chemicals for their farms and fields and it washes into the water.It’s not only from people though it can be natural. That means that since some countries aren’t that rich their water is very dirty and is dangerous to drink from, but since that’s all they have for them it’s better than nothing. Imagine if you had to drink water that the whole village bathed in and wasn’t filtered like ours. Lots of our sewage, waste, pesticides, and toxic chemicals get into the water and it’s not healthy.
…………………………………………….Effects
…. Effects from all of this is that people and animals can get sick. In 20 seconds a child dies from a water-related disease. And documented deaths from water pollution is from 5 to 10 million deaths. Think about it that’s just documented imagine the ones not documented too. You may not care, but you would if it was a family member. Lots of families get sick from this and we should stop it. And kids that get sick and don’t make it from water pollution diseases have 1,000 parasitic worms in their body. And the water pollution effects more than half of the world’s population. And we could do something about it, but instead we spend it on things in the United States like things that aren’t a need. For example, Starbucks, amusement parks (Hershey Park), etc when we could help people who don’t have clean filtered water.
…………………………………………. .Solutions
… I think that saving the Earth is very important. If we just took some time to clean and not pollute we could change this all. When I grow up I hope to see a difference in the world, and maybe it could be our generation that does it. I want to have a whole month if we could of not polluting the water and cleaning up our beaches, rivers, ponds, etc. It could be like an Earth day, but a whole month or more of it. And maybe have farmers use natural pesticides and chemicals that don’t harm the water. We could have people going over to places that need help with the water like in Africa. For that day we could clean and filter their water. The United States could give some more money to those places for them to purify their water instead of making more Starbucks cafes. Or we could send clean water to people without purified water.
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