Water Pollution in My Community: Identifying Main Pollutants and Potential Solutions, Summaries of Science education

Download Water Pollution in My Community: Identifying Main Pollutants and Potential Solutions and more Summaries Science education in PDF only on Docsity! Prompt: Water pollution has become very costly environmental problem. Contact the pollution control authorities in your community for the levels of water pollutants. Identify main water pollutants and the possible causes of water pollution. How does your community compare to others? Discuss your findings. Consider your own skills and interests. Think of at least two skills or interests that could be applied (if you had the time and resources) to helping improve water quality in your community. Your answer should be between 700-900 words long and should include introduction and conclusion section as well as references. Introduction We live in an envrionmentally fragile time and need to make all efforts to reduce our carbon footprint to save the planet. We can’t assume that we can keep doing what we're doing because we know that pollution and garbage impact not just us but our children, animals, plants and everything. Water pollution especially we need to do better and we can reduce our levels of water pollution. Local Pollution In my community we live along a river system so it is especially important to reduce water pollution here. There's often a lot of visible garbage in the water, but even more worryingly there's a lot of chemicals in the water too. This makes it hard for animals to have clean drinking water and effects the plants and animals in the area. The environmental council has identified the following main water pollutants in my community: ¢ Nutrient pollution from fertilizers e E-coli ¢ Plastics ¢ Solvents ¢ Petroleum Because we have a lot of agriculture in our area, there is a lot of fertilizer use in the area. Farmers use this to help grow food and fertilizer helps it grow. Unfortunately this gets into the water, so the environmental council says we get a lot of nitrates and phosphates, also known as nutrient pollution. This causes lots of algae growth, which doesn’t sound bad in itself but too much algae stops sunlight from getting to other plants that fish and other animals need to eat. Because of the agriculture we have more nutrient pollution than other communities in our area.