Water Pollution In The Gulf Of Mexico And Baltic Sea

A single water drop traveling from any river to any ocean is influenced with more than one hundred toxic chemicals and thousands of industrial pollutants. This is what people call water pollution, occurring in any state, country or continent. Unfortunately, throughout the centuries, water pollution has been an ongoing problem, mainly caused by the release of industrial toxins and chemicals. People around the world believe that plastic and metal make up the vast majority of this issue, but as years have come and gone, the quantity of chemicals released by small and large facilities are now the leading cause of water pollution. Although industries need to release waste somewhere, they should avoid putting it in waterways because it impacts the

Not many know that eutrophication is an over abundance of nutrients in a water body induced by nitrogen and phosphate levels escalating from chemicals and pesticides. Eutrophication produces algae to the extent of depleting the water of oxygen, killing off all marine life by suffocation. There are many possible reasons why nitrogen and phosphate levels rise, but they have mainly been “associated with discharge of wastewater treatment works effluent, urban run-off . . . mining and agricultural activity” (Griffin 2). Effluent is liquid waste discharged into river or oceans. Urban run-off is rainwater that travels to nearby communities and cause flooding, but mainly water pollution. Mining and agricultural activity both release pesticides and chemicals illegally, or accidentally, causing water pollution. Notice the common association: they all cause water pollution. Rarely anybody knows that enough water pollution can change the amount of nutrition in waters as quick as lightning, suffocating any surrounding organisms. Chemicals have a composition that botches the levels of nutrition in water, mainly caused by “...agriculture... in this regard, because increased fertilizer use and intensive livestock farming increase nutrient inputs” (Ilić and Panjan 3). Manure and strong fertilizers have certain compounds found inside that are directly discharged from livestock farms, altering the physical and biological aspects of water. Even though nutrition is found in water at low levels, a high enough contamination of pesticides has a major of affect on the survival rate of marine life. The authors expresses that when eutrophication occurs, algae grows and suffocates the fish, leaving the survival rate at low