Water Pollution Information

What’s water pollution and some of it’s effects on our environment

Water pollution (or aquatic pollution) is the contamination of water bodies, usually as a result of human
activities, so that it negatively affects its uses. [1]: 6  Water bodies
include lakes, rivers, oceans, aquifers, reservoirs and groundwater. Water pollution results
when contaminants are introduced into these water bodies. Water pollution can be attributed to one of
four sources: sewage discharges, industrial activities, agricultural activities, and urban runoff
including stormwater.[2] It can be grouped into surface water pollution (either fresh water pollution
or marine pollution) or groundwater pollution.

THE EFFECTS

For example, releasing inadequately treated wastewater into natural waters can lead to degradation of
these aquatic ecosystems. Water pollution can also lead to water-borne diseases for people using polluted
water for drinking, bathing, washing or irrigation.[3] Water pollution reduces the ability of the body of
water to provide the ecosystem services (such as drinking water) that it would otherwise provide.

How can green technology help prevent water pollution?

In this context, green chemistry solutions provide the most effective way to reduce the harmful effects of
water treatment processes by taking into account energy, materials, resource economics, use, and
generation of dangerous secondary material, and, finally, the life cycle of the products and their practical
recycling into new materials. Some emerging water treatment technologies holding great promises in
providing green alternatives for better protection of public health and the environment

Fun Fact section

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