How factories and other things pollute our waters and general facts about water

It’s stated that 3 quarters of the earths surface is water, but yet 1.4 billion people in the world do not have safe drinking water. Did you know that eighty percent of disease in the world is related to poor drinking water? 5 million people die annually from water born diseases ?one percent of the earths water is reusable, 99 percent is found in oceans and glaciers ? Canada’s the largest supply of the freshwater in the world? Wow I think that that is pretty cool since we live in Canada.

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It’s not just the actual factories that are just polluting the waters if a big group with garbage or anything else that would pollute the water gets together it is like a factory polluting the water but if everyone helps clean up and doesn’t throw their garbage in the lakes and rivers then would be like a humongous clean up factory.
 
There are many causes of water pollution, but two general gategories exsist- direct and indirect sources. Some direct sources include outfalls from factories, refineries, waste treatment plants, etc..) indirect sources include containments that enter the water supply from soils/ groundwater systems and from the atmosphere. Soils and ground waters contain the residue of human agricultural practices like fertilizers, pesticides, etc). atmospheric contaminants are also unoriginal from human practices such as gaseous emissions from automobiles, factories and even bakeries.

The effects of water pollution are varied. Including- poisonous drinking water, poisonous food animals, unbalanced river and lake ecosystems that can no longer support full biological range, deforestation from acid rain, and several additional affects.
 
Breyers (a ice cream factory) pollutes our waters because they dump left over ice cream down the drain and the water treatment plants can not keep up so it ends up going into the Lynn river and then into lake Erie, so if you think about it you’re really swimming in ice cream im not sure what that means to you but it means a lot to me and I don’t just mean swimming you do lots of stuff with water including drinking it. EWW! So you need to help! All of that stuff isn’t just with breyers it would be with a lot of different factories.
At first when I was given this Topic of pollution I thought yah what ever no one cares about pollution, then after I researched it I thought boy was I ever wrong I don’t normally swim in a lake but its not necessarily just swimming you bath in it, drink it, cook with it , even do your Landry in it , and so much more you use water everyday but if its polluted then there really is no point of using it.

By Justine