The Challenges Of Water Polution: Water Pollution In The World

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Water Pollution

As the time is passing, the earth is facing a lot of changes and challenges in different aspects, environment, economic, and industrial. Well, the environmental challenges have the biggest impact on the planet, such as pollution, global warming, and acid rain. If we point our eyes to pollution, we will find that almost every single part of the world from east to the west is facing all kinds of pollution, and on top of them is water pollution. As everyone knows 71% of the earth is covered by water, and most of that water is polluted with metals and different kinds of waste. Water surfaces count as one of the most important sources to us, so because of different causes that have serious effects, and it will disrupt the system
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Water pollution reached a high level of danger not only on the earth but also on the human health. People are living by the water, their lives won’t exist without it. However, there is a lot of poor countries facing deadly diseases. the people are eating and drinking from the only water source they have, it is related to economy level and industrial, and because of that government don’t money on environment, they don’t have the financial capability to dispose the waste in the right healthy way, they just throw it in the water, and give the waterborne diseases to spread among all the water bodies [3]. According to the World Health Organization, waterborne diseases occupy 80% of the world diseases and behind 3.1% of the deaths that was diagnosed with different malady [3]. Such as Cholera, it can kill the patient within a few hours [4]. Also, there is the Malaria, which caused by the Plasmodium parasite mosquito it lives on the lakes, Swamps, and stagnant water, that kind of mosquito can kill people with the immune issue[4]. There is even more and more, instance, Filariasis and Typhoid fever [4]. Moreover, some of the bacteria pass on a human by the fruit and vegetable they wash in the rivers and lakes. The polluted water has also affected the economy, because of the infected fishes, people are not paying any, so those sellers will suffer financial losses. On the other hand, other companies and factories will gain the market, as a strategy to exploit people's need for clean drinking water they will raise the price of the bottled water. Also, because of the diseases, the country will need to spend more money on health care

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