Pollutant's Impact On The Environment
Contaminates Water Resulting In Scarcity
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Nearly all of the water on earth is salty.
Less than 3% of the available global water supply is fresh, safe & pure for drinking.
2% is frozen in cold places as ice or permafrost.
Alternative 21st Century Green Technology can provide sustainable and renewable
fresh water that meets of exceed WHO Standards.
Fresh Water Scarcity
According to the World Health Organization, among the two billion people who have no drinking water provided to them, 844 million travel more than thirty minutes to a river or a tap, where they sometimes receive water contaminated by human excrement. Such water has the risk of diarrhea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, and polio. Nearly 850,000 people die each year from diarrhea, a cruel circumstance in areas short on clean water, since diarrhea works its effects by means of dehydration.
Half a gallon of drinking water a day is what each of us needs to drink to stay alive. (An American uses roughly eighty to a hundred gallons a day, including toilets, baths and showers, dishwashers, washing machines, and so on.)
In the dry parts of the world, or the semidry parts where there are too many people and no water-delivery system, the search for that daily half gallon can be dire, and sometimes past dire. When you pour yourself a glass of water from the tap, you think it’s clean. But is it? There could be traces of pharmaceuticals in your drinking water and you wouldn’t know it.
Unable to detect some pharmaceutical chemicals and compounds, water filtration facilities can enable these pollutants to leach into our water. When pollutants get into our water, they affect the quality of our lakes, streams and rivers.
Pharmaceutical pollutants also find ways to wildlife. Fish and other aquatic wildlife remain at a high risk for biological imbalances and changes from pharmaceutical pollution. It may cause a wipeout of some species.
Airborne pollutants
Presence of 3g/L of ammonia in water is toxic for human.
Ammonia can be present in water in two forms, either ammonium hydroxide (NH3) or as the ammonium ion (NH4). When the pH of the water is less than 7 the ammonia is present as the ammonium ion. As pH increases above 7, more of the ammonia is present as ammonium hydroxide. Read More
BREAKING NEWS. toxic fluorinated compound ends known as PFAS continues to grow at an alarming rate, with no end in sight. As of March 2019, at least 610 locations in 43 states are known to be contaminated, including drinking water systems serving an estimated 19 million people. Read More... For interactive map click here
Pollution from one-use plastic bottles
Early in 2018, the World Health Organisation (WHO) launched a health review after microplastics in the form of plastic fibres were found in 93% of popular bottled water brands. Research from the State University of New York in Fredonia analysed 259 bottles from 19 locations in nine countries and 11 different brands and found, in some instances, the levels of plastic fibres in bottled water were double those found in tap water in a previous study.
Plastic is a material made to last forever, yet 33 percent of all plastic - water bottles, bags and straws - are used just once and thrown away. Plastic cannot biodegrade; it breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces. There are thousands of landfills in the United States. Buried beneath each one of them, toxic chemicals from plastics drain out and seep into groundwater, flowing downstream into lakes and rivers.
Chemicals in plastic which give them their rigidity or flexibility (flame retardants, bisphenols, phthalates and other harmful chemicals) are oily poisons that repel water and stick to petroleum-based objects like plastic debris. So, the toxic chemicals that leach out of plastics can accumulate on other plastics. This is a serious concern with increasing amounts of plastic debris accumulating in the world's oceans.
Americans discard more than 30 million tons of plastic a year. Only 8 percent gets recycled. The rest ends up in landfills, is burned or becomes litter.
LEAD IN WATER
Flint Michigan chronology impacted by corrosive lead leaching into the municipal infrastructure Read more...
GROUNDWATER POLLUTION BREAKING NEWS - Water crisis in Iowa over pollution of wells read Groundwater gets polluted when contaminants—from pesticides and fertilizers to waste leached from landfills and septic systems—make their way into an aquifer, rendering it unsafe for human use.
Ridding groundwater of contaminants can be difficult to impossible, as well as costly.
Once polluted, an aquifer may be unusable for decades, or even thousands of years.
Groundwater can also spread contamination far from the original polluting source as it seeps into streams, lakes, and oceans. Chemicals and heavy metals from industrial and municipal wastewater contaminate waterways as well.
These contaminants are toxic to aquatic life—most often reducing an organism’s life span and ability to reproduce—and make their way up the food chain as predator eats prey. That’s how tuna and other big fish accumulate high quantities of toxins, such as mercury.
WATER ACCESS IN SCHOOLS Drinking water can contribute to good health, and schools are in a unique position to promote healthy, dietary behaviors, including drinking water.
More than 95% of children an adolescents are enrolled in schools, and students typically spend at least 6 hours at school each day.1 Ensuring that students have access to safe, free drinking water throughout the school environment gives them a healthy alternative to sugar-sweetened beverages before, during, and after school.
Access to safe, free drinking water helps to increase students’ overall water consumption, maintain hydration, and reduce energy intake, Read More