Water Water pollution is all over the world and continues to expand every day. Water pollution doesn’t only occur in third world countries. Water pollution will continue to happen if the public isn’t educated on the matter. What is water pollution? Water pollution is contamination of bodies of water, suspended in the water or depositing. For example, lakes, rivers, and oceans. These toxic substances are harmful for the aquatic ecosystem but these pollutants can find its way into the ground water, which can contaminated water we use every day. There are different kinds of pollutants such as organic, inorganic radioactive etc. First of all, what is clean water? Clean water is safe to drink, non-toxic, clear and it can be filtered through. …show more content…
April 20, 2010 was the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people. Underwater cameras revealed the BP pipe was leaking oil and gas on the ocean floor about 42 miles off the coast of Louisiana. An estimated 3.19 million barrels of oil had leaked into the Gulf.
Immediately after the explosion workers from BP, Transocean and government agencies tried to control the spread of the oil to the beaches and other costal ecosystems using floating boom to contain surface oil. Many scientists and researchers descended upon the Gulf region to gather data. Researchers are still trying to understand the spill and the effect on the marine life, the coast and human communities.
When the oil left the well, it spread throughout the water like a column. Some of the oil floated the ocean’s surface or had formed several layers of oil. The spill was 22 miles long. This formed plume because of the chemicals the water could not break down the water. Some of the oil sunk on to the seafloor by gluing together falling particles in the water such as bacteria and plankton. The oil damaged deep sea corals and ecosystems that are unseen at the
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In 2011 green peace launched “The detox Campaign” to expose the direct links between global clothing brands, their suppliers and toxic water pollution in China. Fieldwork and investigations in manufacturing regions, along with the testing of branded garments for traces of hazardous chemicals. The chemicals found included high levels of toxic phthalates and cancer causing amines from azo dyes.
The rates of cancer in these villages are high. Many of the cancer victims are in their youth, and many of them have rare cancers of rectum, stomach and liver. The death rate is high and many patients can’t afford the money for treatment. There is a close link between the locations of cancer villages, factories and polluted river. Thousands of chemicals and petrochemical projects are located on the banks and shores of rivers lakes and reservoirs.
Poor environmental regulations, weak enforcement and local corruption mean that factories can discharge their waste water directly into rivers and lakes. Man hazardous chemicals that are restricted or banned completely in Europe and elsewhere are not regulated in