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Water Pollution Prevention: Keeping Our Earth’s Water Clean
from:Water is one of the greatest resources on the earth. It is essential to life and it is found in every living being. Without water all living creatures would cease to exist. Water not only nurtures but helps to create life as well. Its importance can not and should not be overlooked.
Clean water is essential, so water pollution prevention is important. It involves teaching about the causes of water pollution and what harm comes from polluted water. Teaching about water pollution prevention helps to ensure that the waters of the world are kept clean and healthy.
Types of Water Pollution Prevention
The ways in which water is polluted can happen due to the actions of man, animal or nature. In some cases pollution is completely preventable but in other situations it is not.
Waste from humans and animals pollute water ways. It can be in the form of feces, trash or anything else left behind. Water pollution can also be from chemical or other hazardous matters which run off or otherwise find their way into the water sources.
Nature’s pollution of water is through the overgrowth of plants or the introduction of bacteria which rapidly grows in the water.
Importance of Water Pollution Prevention
Water is very important to life. Therefore polluted water is a huge concern. Water pollution prevention helps to ensure there is enough clean water to allow for healthy growth and development of the earth, humans and animals.
Water pollution prevention assures that pollution is kept to a minimal and that any pollution is cleaned up so that the water can remain safe.
Polluted water can lead to serious problems with disease and death of plants and vegetation, humans and animals. Depending upon the type of pollution, the effects can be very difficult to remedy which is why prevention is key.
Prevention Methods
Prevention of water pollution is done in various ways. Legislation through government bodies helps greatly. The Clean Water Act of 1970 helped to initiate the building of wastewater facilities to ensure waste water and water for consumption never mixed.
The Clean Air Act of 1972 provided for state water standards to be set ensuring safe drinking water. Additionally, the control of surface pollution was a focus because pollution above ground can go into the groundwater which is the main source of all drinking water.
Prevention measures to stop chemicals from entering the water include regulation of industrial dumping and waste. Waterways are also maintained to high standards with special regulated organizations keeping them clean.
All of these methods help to ensure that there is plenty of safe drinking water and that waterways are kept clean for the animals and plants to use without worry of pollution.
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