A Plan for Reducing Water Pollution

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"Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents. It was loaned to you by your children." Kenyan proverb.

Solutions are like people, each one is complex as well as different. Most every part time environmentalist can have a solution to any environmental problem that ails this planet. That is not to say that they are always right. Conversely, they are not always wrong either. Having the solution is the first part, making the solution a reality is the second.

Water pollution is a problem that most everyone would agree does exist. The toxic substances in the water can kill the plant life, animal life, and in some cases, the human life. In Teluk Mengkuang, Sijangkang, 156 ponds filled with tiger prawns died after the farmers began to pump contaminated river water into them. Some of these farmers lost an entire years income because of “10 drums of solid substance without labels believed to be chemicals and two drums with zinc oxide labels in the river” (Rajah 1). In Prince William Sound, the Exxon Valdez ran a reef and dumped 11.2 million gallons of crude oil into the ocean. “Seabirds and marine mammals, which are especially vulnerable to floating oil, suffered heavy mortalities. It is estimated that from 100,000 to 300,000 birds were killed and Nyswander reported that some common murre (Uria aalge) colonies in the affected area were reduced by half. Also, a estimated loss of 2,650 sea otters” (Exxon 2). “216,000 fish in the Clinch River” (Dawson Mercer 1), “neighborhood cats in Huntington Beach” (Schou 3), etc. etc. All of these animals dead because of water pollution.

Why do we have water pollution? Many reasons: careless individuals, accidents, business’s trying to save money, and ...

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