Environmental Impacts Of Water Pollution

Water being the most important and valuable resource available to us on earth, covering most of the earth surface. Water is the essence of life & is required for life by the humans & the environment. With a growing population of earth, water may be misused or taken for granted by most of us which leads us to water pollution, which not only does harm our water bodies & natural environment, but eventually our drinking water & our human health. In todays world, we have changed the way our industries work, our Agricultural processes & basically everything that works. We as a society want everything to be faster, efficient & making more profit, whilst harming the environment. Industrial & Agricultural work involve the use of many different chemicals

With chemical water pollution being our focus in this essay, it is the most dangerous form of water pollution in our water bodies. They are usually colourless, odourless, & tasteless. Water pollution may also affect the marine environment & food chain, affecting many species in a catastrophic manner. With so many impacts of water pollutions, which will be discussed in great details below, we need to make a change now to the way of our living, work, & how our industries & agricultural systems work. This essay will focus on chemical pollution in great detail, as it is the main biggest pollutant of our water. Water Pollution is an ongoing problem that has serious affects; it’s impacts grow everyday in our lakes, oceans, rivers and other bodies of water. Chemical water pollution affects us all, the environment, water, us humans & all natural species. We all together as a community need to adapt & prevent the water & earth from further pollution & make this earth & its environment a better place for the future generations for them to live a healthy life with clean fresh water for them to live on. The impacts of water pollution can be seen globally as well as Canada

Economically treating water is not an easy and cheap thing to do, especially as the population grows the deand grows. When water pollution occurs it damages the economy & can be expensive to treat & prevent from contamination. Some wastes are too big enough to break down and so are accumulated in the earth’s water & eventually makes it way to the earth’s ocean. The pollution can be prevented in a number of ways by stopping the pollutants by contaminating the nearby waters such as the use of biological filters, chemical additives & sand filters. We are focusing on chemical water pollution so in that case we would be looking to use chemical additives. These methods are costly to maintain but are cheaper when compared to the cost of the clean up of pollution which depends on various factors such as; the location, the size of the contamination & the type of pollutant. Oil spills are the biggest troublesome chemical pollution on water. Many cases of oil spills have occured in Canada & big ones such as the Exxon Valdez which occured just off the coast of Alaska. There are many ways to clean up an oil spill but is very costly up to 3.8 Billion dollars!! The method of an oil spill clean up depends on many factors such as the size of spill, location etc but the main ways of lean up are oil booms, sorbents, dispenser, skimming, burning &