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WATER POLLUTION

Gabriel Mayner
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W
ater Pollution is

defined as the

contamination of

water. Water pollution is something we do

that affects us and possibly any animals that

could use the water to benefit themselves.

Figure 1 Water Pollution in Rio on the beach (Time,
As we contaminate the water we are 2015)

pollution, dating back to the 90s. Water

affecting the water we could be using in the
pollution has been still going and may have
future.
started even older than the 90s.

What Could Happen

If we dont do anything about water

pollution, this will affect us in a major way

that may not happen now but will happen to

us sooner or later. We are the cause of

polluting the water. We could stop it but we

dont because we just keep doing it and we

Table 1 This shows what happens when water is
polluted in a large area. (Clarksburg Exponent cant go back on it. Many things cause water
Telegram, 2014)
pollution. For example, people are fracking
The History of Water Pollution
for oil in the earth and in some cases the oil
Water pollution is a problem that could
can contaminate the water that we could use
potentially affect us when we need the water
to drink or for other things. There are
the most or when the animals need the water
instances where fracking has impacted
the most. There are many cases of water
drinking water resources, said Thomas

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Burke, a deputy assistant administrator and

science adviser with the EPA (Paulson, There are instances where
2016). It is possible to purify the water once
fracking has impacted
drinking water resources
the oil is in the water, but it takes a long
-Thomas Burke
time to do so. Instead of using all that time

to purify the water, we could just keep the water around it so it was unusable for us.

water clean so we can use it for ourselves. In The water was polluted because the rain

most cases, the liquid you are trying to take took the runoff into the ocean. It was

out of water is possible to take out, it all just basically polluted from us. Rainfall,

takes time. Instead of using this time to snowmelt, or irrigation runoff moves across

purify the water, because we are the ones the land. The water picks up whatever

people have left in its path-- residues from

who contaminated it, we could use the water
the production of food, the manicuring of
for something like plants or for the survival
yards, the use of motor vehicles, the
of underwater creatures.
construction of roads and buildings--and,
There is a
following gravity's
case where
directions,
polluting
transports these
happened just contaminants to the

from the rain. It nearest stream,

was the runoff lake, estuary, or

from a mountain aquifer (Mitchell,

and it 1996).

contaminated the Figure 2 A boat going through the polluted water. If we keep
(SlideShare, 2015)

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polluting water at this rate, we could have water pollution, like coal mining which

no water left since the rest is polluted with could also seep into the water and in some

oil or some cases it may not be able to be

kind of cleaned, where we can

Water Pollution has to stop.
pollutant. Since drink it again. Since the

we are It will sooner affect us in water pollution can be

polluting all of easily solved by not

some way, shape, or form.
this water at a contamination water.

fast rate and we are also using it in the Water Pollution has to stop. It will sooner

process, once affect us in some way, shape,

we run out of or form.

water we Of course we need

need to spend water to live. Since we are

all of our polluting it, we wont be able

time and to drink the water to live.

energy Meaning our species will

purifying the decline faster than we have

water so we seen it before. Any way you

can use it. look at it, water pollution is

Figure 3 Diagram showing coal ash polluting water

Once we used it sources that could be used for other means. hurting us and we are the cause
(Environment News Service, 26 Feb 2014)
all we would of it. We are basically hurting

have none left, only the water left in the ourselves to the point of no water for the

glaciers and ice. There are many cases of future. For us to live we need food, water

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and shelter. Without one of these items, we

have no chance of living. We need to stop

water pollution so we can live longer, for the

future, and be happier, for us.

How We Can Help

We can help water pollution by

ceasing contamination of the water for good.

The Pentagon has also tried to do this and

are still trying since this could turn into a

world health issue. Once water pollution has

stopped, we can live longer and we could

find other ways to dispose of waste, without

throwing it into the ocean, harming us and

the fish.

Water Pollution is probably the most Figure 4 Water Pipeline spewing out waste into the
water (Buzzle, 2016)
dangerous thing right now. It is affecting our

future as a species. If we stop, we wont

have to worry about this so much. We will

have to worry about decontaminating the

water so we can still use it but other than

that we should live a full and happy life

since we will still have a future.

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References

Mitchell, J. G. (1996, Feb). Our polluted

runoff. National Geographic, , 106-

125. Retrieved from

http://sks.sirs.com

Paulson, A. (2016, 13 Dec). In U-turn, EPA

says fracking can pose a threat to

drinking water. Christian Science

Monitor Retrieved from
http://sks.sirs.com

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