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Title: Water Pollution


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Water Pollution
  • By
  • Rebecca Wiegand
  • Spencer Nguyen )
  • Jeff Hofheinz

2
About Water Pollution
  • Water takes up two-thirds of the Earths
    surface. It is very important to keep it at clean
    at possible. There are many ways to pollute our
    water on our Earth. Sometimes we dont even no we
    are. Throwing man made objects in to the water is
    pollution. Bottles, plastic, cans, fishing line,
    ect. Also throwing things can be harmful to
    animals. They might think its food, or they might
    just get caught in to water ever you threw in.
    Pollution may affect the environment hundreds of
    miles away from the source.

3
Marine Dumping
  • Marine dumping is something people have a
    habit doing. If you out on the boat and your
    eating a sandwich, when your done you have a
    plastic bag left over. Not knowing you might just
    throw it over board. That plastic bag takes 400
    years to degrade. Also, plastic bags are VERY
    harmful to TURTLES. TURTLES think the plastic
    bags are jellyfish, not knowing its a plastic
    bag the TURTLES eats it and it may cause
    suffocation which leads to death.
  • Cardboard Takes 2 weeks to degrade.
  • Newspaper Takes 6 weeks to degrade.
  • Foam Takes 50 years to degrade.
  • Styrofoam Takes 80 years to degrade.
  • Aluminum Takes 200 years to degrade.
  • Plastic packaging Takes 400 years to degrade.

4
Polluting Water By Liquids
  • Never spill oil, or gas in to the ocean, lake,
    or river. Oil spills make up about 12 of the oil
    that enters the ocean. The rest come from
    shipping travel, drains and dumping. Oil spills
    will harm marine animals such as fish, birds and
    sea otters and TURTLES.

5
Nuclear Waste
  • Nuclear waste is sometimes produced from
    industrial, medical and scientific processes that
    use radioactive material.
  • Nuclear-fuel reprocessing plants in northern
    Europe and a big sources of man-made nuclear
    waste in the surrounding ocean.
  • Refining uranium and thorium are also causes of
    marine nuclear waste.
  • Waste is also produced in the nuclear fuel cycle.

6
Sewage and Waste Water
  • Sewage disposal is a major problem in some
    countries as many people in these areas dont
    have sanitary conditions and clean water.
  • Sewage is carried away from the home quickly and
    hygienically through sewage pipes.
  • Sewage is treated in water treatment plants and
    the waste is often disposed into the sea.
  • In developed countries, sewage often causes
    problems when people flush chemical and
    pharmaceutical substances down the toilet. When
    people are ill, sewage often carries harmful
    viruses and bacteria into the environment causing
    health problems to animals in the ocean.

7
Fertilizing Your Lawn
  • You can make water polluted by fertilizing
    your grass. The fertilizer is not meant to
    designate quickly so when it rains, the excess
    fertilizer can run off in a storm drain. Then be
    transported to a water treatment plant. It is
    very hard to get all the chemicals out of the
    water.

8
Help Prevent Water Pollution
  • There are many things you can do to help
    prevent water pollution. Here are some ideas.
  • _______________________________________________
  • Be careful about what you throw down your sink
    or toilet. Don't throw paints, oils or other
    forms of litter down the drain.
  • Take great care not to overuse pesticides and
    fertilizers. This will prevent runoffs of the
    material into nearby water sources.
  • Don't throw litter into rivers, lakes or oceans.
    Help clean up any litter you see on beaches or in
    rivers and lakes.

9
Pics
  • This is what pollution does

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God Bless America
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