Brief Introduction to Water and Soil Population.

1. The main idea in these three short articles is about how water and soil pollution effects not only our environment, but also the world itself.  

2.  Water pollution can occur in any body of water, including rivers, lakes and oceans. The polluting substance is often man made waste, such as household garbage. The water pollution is a danger to the marine creatures and the marine life, the marine plants and the environment. The pollution in the water endangers them because they depend on the waters natural resources to stay alive as well as the water being clean enough for them to survive in.

3. The man made pollution substances that affect water are, household garbage and commercial refuse resulting from manufacturing waste or agricultural runoff. Man-made substances that affect soil are when farmers use excessive amounts of fertilizer and other chemical on their land. Other examples of soil pollution are oil leaks or spills, seepage from a landfill or radioactive contamination.

4. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is also known as the “Wolds Largest Landfill” An estimated 3.5 million tons of trash reside in this landfill. The trash that is kept in this landfill is a result of currents in the Pacific Ocean that pull the trash and pollution into the ocean. This is the trash that effects the marine life and that is continuing to destroy the habitat and possibly the extinction of fish and animals.

5.

·      In the Pacific Ocean an estimated twenty percent of the population comes from ships at sea that may dump waste or cargo according to the Public Broadcasting System.

·      Less than twenty percent comes from beachgoers whoa allow their trash to be swept away at sea.

·      Other sources include leftovers from storm drainage systems and trash from other countries beside the United States, including China, Japan and Mexico.

6.  The Pacific Ocean circulates pollutants in the air, also known as persistent organic pollutants, which includes many toxic chemicals that can kill and endanger animals.

7. The recycling rate for those twenty nine billion bottles of water is low. Only about thirteen percent end up in the recycling stream where they are turned into products like fleece clothing, carpeting, playground equipment and new containers and bottles. Plastic bottles take centuries to decompose and if they are incinerated, toxic byproducts, such as chlorine gas and ash containing heavy metals, are released into the atmosphere.

8.

·      Don’t drink bottles of water because it can be toxic.

·      Plastic does not decompose.

·      Chemicals and trash can have an effect on the extinction of animals.

·      Marine life can be endangered.

·      Water bottles are not as always as safe as tap water.

9. “Don’t litter, it makes the world bitter!”

10. If they prohibited bottled water I would feel that everyone should be required to have a filtered water dispenser in their household. I too drink bottled water on a regular daily basis, but if we had a filter on our sink that provided clean filtered water, it would save money and people would know that it is clean filtered water.