Essay on Water Pollution

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Water Pollution

Water Pollution
People keep on throwing trash and industrial wastes into our clean water. If this continues, the quality of our water will deteriorate, and without it everything dies, including us. Water pollution is destroying our world, but fortunately we can count on special treatments for this kind of problem.
What is water pollution? "It is the contamination of water by foreign matter such as organisms, chemicals, and industrial or other wastes" (Encarta 96). Water has six major pollutants. These pollutants are the following: sewage and other oxygen-demanding wastes, plant nutrients, exotic organic chemicals, petroleum, radioactive substances, and sediments. Sewage and other oxygen demanding wastes, lead to oxygen depletion "to empty out" ( Webster’s Dictionary). Plant nutrients; can stimulate the growth of aquatic plants, which can interfere with water uses. Exotic organic chemicals including pesticides, and industrial products. Petroleum especially from oil spills, which kills most of the animals living in our world. Radioactive substances which come from the wastes of organic and thorium "a heavy, radioactive metallic chemical element" (Webster’s Dictionary). Sediments, consisting of soil and mineral particles washed away by storms and floodwater from croplands.
Some notable effects of water pollution include those involved in human health, some examples would be: "nitrates in drink

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