“Government agencies estimate that as much of 80% of India’s surface water is contaminated and most of it comes from sewage” (Narayanan 2). Running through the center of Delhi is the most polluted waterway in India, the Yamuna River. Bodies are cremated on the banks of the river that is lined with a white and blue chemical foam, plastic brought as offerings and trash float past signs telling people not to throw anything in the water (Ross 2).
It may be harsh and even cruel, however, some would argue, “Why should we care when a vast ocean separates China and India from the United States? Call it population control.” Be that as it may, we do share a coastline with Mexico. Pollution does not adhere to boundaries and there is not a wall long or tall enough to keep it out or stop it from spreading. Recently, in February 2017, Imperial Beach, CA experienced one of the worse raw
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Sea turtles mistake plastic bags for jellyfish. They die of starvation with a stomach full of plastic. A plastic water bottle will travel with the ocean currents and end up on beaches half way around the world. Andres Cozar from the University of Cadiz in Spain and his team of researchers “-used 17,000 satellite buoys to track the movement of the plastic floating on the surface of the ocean… plastic is carried to the Arctic along an ocean current known as thermohaline circulation, which Cozar refers to as a 'conveyor belt'” ("Ocean 'conveyor belt' brings billions of plastic particles into Arctic waters" 1). Rachel Obbard, the assistant research professor at the Thayer School of Engineering at the University of Dartmouth was contacted by a teacher in the remote Arctic community that cut ice from the sea and then melted it for drinking water. "And they have seen microplastics in that ice" ("Ocean 'conveyor belt' brings billions of plastic particles into Arctic waters"