Pollution of rivers, lakes and seas is a major concern for people who seek to protect the environment. What are the possible causes of water pollution, and what effects does this have on animal life and human society? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Pollution of

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bodies

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is one of the main environmental challenges that faces society currently. As all know 70% of

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planet is

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, but unfortunately, we are not taking care properly of

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vital resource and the reason is because many economic

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have contributed to contaminate indiscriminately our lakes, rivers, streams and ocean affecting negatively

wildlife

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, ecosystems even human life. Within the main reasons to pollute the

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we can find: industrial

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, mining, pesticides and fertilizers, etc. Regarding the industrial

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, big companies release to the rivers and oceans chemistry waste that mixed with the

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produce the destruction of ecosystems and

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.

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these

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release to the air carbon dioxide that combined with the vapor of

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produce acid rainfall. Mining is

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one of the most dangerous

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that contaminate the

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because not only the soil is removed and contaminate rivers and lakes, but the coal extracted

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release dangerous particles with the same negative effects for native species of amphibians, fishes which become carriers and transmit

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waste to the humans. The indiscriminate usage of pesticide and fertilizers to protect the crops from bacteria and plagues is another cause of contamination of

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. The chemistry components of these substances mixed with the

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is capable to kill

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and affect negatively complete ecosystems.

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we have the oil leakage in oceans.

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oil layer is very destructive and hard to remove from the

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affecting a wide range of

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as whales, turtles, coral reef, etc.

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the effects due to

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kind of pollution can take over 100 years to overcome. Despite of

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hard reality, the efforts to overcome

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situation have been carried out by many people and organizations interested in protect the natural resources, mainly the

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because we have

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understand that without

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there is no life in the planet. These efforts are represented by the application of certain alternatives to avoid the spreading of sewage and other dangerous chemistry and toxic wastes,

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: the industrial treatment in which the levels of pollution of sewage is decrease through chemical processes.