How Does Water Pollution Affect Human Life

How does water pollution affect the conditions for human life and quality of living in Southeast Asia?

Section 1:

Introduction:

Water, a big human resources, and from almost everywhere from Earth, it's getting polluted more worse every year. Because of this, many underwater disaster and animals are died or got polluted by water. This is because of humans. People are pollution waters everywhere. They gut polluted water into some river from some factory, due to global warming, etc. (The Importance of Clean Water) Well, water pollution affect the condition for human life and quality of living by when drinking polluted water, polluted water come into your body, and global warming. Global warming hear like kind of air pollution but Water pollution

And it’s important to study because Water is essential to life. Yet water pollution is one of the most serious ecological threats we face today.(Water Pollution) (The Importance of Clean Water) It affects to animals, humans, sea creatures. For humans, you will get a stomach ache at the least.(How Does Water Pollution Affect Humans?) And India has the world's highest number of people without access to clean water, imposing a major financial burden for some of the country's poorest people. (World Water Day 2016) The effects of water pollution are Harm to the blood, damage to the brain, long-term buildup, and insidious uptake. (Sanburn, Josh, Sean Gregory, and Alexandra Sifferlin) Some 3.6 million people - including 1.5 million children - are estimated to die each year from those water-related diseases, including diarrhoea, typhoid, cholera and dysentery. Due to water pollution. (Polluted Water More Deadly Than War) The emergence of city clusters, large groups of cities and towns in close proximity to one another, has contributed to China’s rapid economic growth over the past 20 years. (Sources of Air and Water Pollution in China) Rivers in Asia are highly polluted with domestic waste. Many of the region’s rivers contain up to 3 times the world average of human

The major sources of water pollution in the Philippines are inadequately treated domestic wastewater or sewage, agricultural wastewater, industrial wastewater, and nonpoint sources such as rain- and groundwater runoff from solid waste or garbage deposits, which is also known as leachate. (The Problem) Water pollution in the Philippines can cause waterborne diseases by drinking polluted water: Typhoid, Amoebiasis, Giardiasis, Ascariasis, and Hookworm. Water pollution may also result from interactions between water and contaminated soil, as well as from deposition of air contaminants (such as acid rain) (Pollution Effects On Humans, Animals, Plants and The Environment) The World Bank estimates that exposure to water pollution and poor sanitation account for one-sixth of reported disease cases, and nearly 6,000 premature deaths per year. The cost of treatment and lost income from illness and death due to water pollution is pegged at PHP 6.7 billion (US$134 million) per year (PEM 2006). (Lohani, B. N., and T. M. Roblo) (Lohani, B. N., and T. M. Roblo) The area in the Philippines that are affected by water pollution are: According to data from the Philippine Environment Monitor and the EMB, four regions had unsatisfactory ratings for their water quality criteria. These include the National Capital Region or Metro Manila, Southern Tagalog Region , Central Luzon, and Central Visayas . (The Problem) So, in the Philippines,