Water pollution has become an increasing problem over the past few decades. What causes water pollution? How can we prevent this problem?

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Water
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contamination has been increasing over the past few years. There are some factors why
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has happened, and I assume that there are some possible
solution
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to solve
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issue. There are several contributing factors
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water
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become
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polluted. The main cause of
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issue is that
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the import and export industries do their shipping through the oceans by enormous cargo
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ship
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to reduce their costs.
These huge
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consume great
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of petrol and evacuate their
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wastes
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directly to the sea.
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, a dangerous amount of oil and contamination
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abundant
into the sea and puts the marine species life at risk. Another major cause to blame is the factories, which leave
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wastes
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of their production process into the rivers. Most of the time the factories’
wastes
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consist of chemical and
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toxic
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materials, and they might contaminate a river which runs through a city or village. If people used contaminated
water
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by accident, their health would be in great danger.
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, I believe that some measures could be taken by the government to tackle
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water
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pollution problem.
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, the government should
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on
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the trading businesses in order to limit the number of their cargo
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. The state should support the local markets to produce more and decrease their
import
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goods.
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, the ocean could be cleaner when the number of cargo
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ship
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decreased.
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, Some
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strict
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strick
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laws must be
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by the
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government
governmet
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government
to prevent
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the
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waste evacuation
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the
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industry
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areas. The
wastes
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which are collected by the industry units should
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to recycling plants in order to purify or destroy
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of releasing
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to
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the
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. In conclusion, there are many factors
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as trading
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ship
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and factories’
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which
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water
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pollution,
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, in my
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the government could solve
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issue by addressing some solutions.
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task achievement
Improve grammar and spelling accuracy to make your essay easier to read and more professional. This includes fixing minor mistakes like 'toxid' (toxic) and 'abondand' (abound).
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You have identified multiple causes of water pollution and proposed relevant solutions, which shows a thorough understanding of the topic.
coherence cohesion
The essay is logically structured, with each paragraph focusing on a specific aspect of the problem or solution.

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Toxic substances
  • Eutrophication
  • Algae blooms
  • Pathogens
  • Nutrients
  • Organic matter
  • Marine environments
  • Coastal ecosystems
  • Microplastics
  • Food chain
  • Hazardous chemicals
  • Mining activities
  • Industrial waste
  • Agricultural runoff
  • Sewage and wastewater
  • Oil spills
  • Plastic pollution
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