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Water pollution is a serious health, social, and environmental issue in many parts of the world, especially developing countries. There are currently more than one billion people in the world without the access to safe drinking water, and this issue is soon to become even worse because many scientists expect major droughts ,as a result of increasing climate change impact that will further limit already scarce water resources in many parts of the world.Water pollution is often characterized with excessive level of different pollutants into rivers. Cleaning these rivers from pollution requires huge funds, and since most of these incidents happen in developing countries there is often not enough money available for these funds.Water is one of the most precious resources on our planet.
This means that water pollution issue must reach global level in terms of involving all countries in the world in a joint effort to find the best possible solutions to stop further rise of water pollution worldwide.Johannesburg is one of the cities with high rate of water pollution especially in informal settlements or shacks .For example ther you may find out that many people spent their lives in swimming so they pollute water by the means of swimming.Some of them do not have access to tap waters so they go to near rivers to fetch their water from.In few months ago an area called Bekkersdal in West Rand District experienced such problem of water pollution because the residents spent more than years having no access to tap water and the children used to go and play in that water area.This thing of water pollution affected so many peoples lives around the area
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- Stopping poverty is one of the best ways to tackle water pollution issue. Poor, uneducated people will fail to prevent water pollution, as they in general care very little for our environment.
- Water purification methods could be also used to decrease the levels of water pollution in many countries of the world. Water purification methods refer to different processes that are used to remove harmful chemicals and other pollutants from water bodies so water could be used for safe.
We mustn't forget that water pollution leads to different waterborne diseases that are causing the deaths of million people all over the world. Diarrhea alone causes approximately 1.5 million deaths of children worldwide each year.
More campaigns awareness need to be done regarding water poluution beacuse it's clear that the probblem still increases.
ReplyDeletethis neeed to be looked with another eye because without healthy water we will die.
ReplyDeleteITS TRUE THAT MORE CAMPAIGNS AND AWARENESS NEED TO BE DONE TO SHOW THAT WE CARE AND LOVE OUR ENVIRONMENT
ReplyDeletePeople focus mainly on air pollution where as more people especially nature concious people and people who work and deal with our environment. It's sad that they try to combat pollution in whatever way but people are still indifferent about the envirnment. That is why we will forever hear,read,watch on news about how parts of the environment is being destroyed.
ReplyDeleteWater pollution does affect our health and the environment as a whole
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