What Can We Do about Water Pollution?

Water pollution happens when water been contaminated for some reasons. As time goes and the development of technology, water pollution has became an urgent issue, for is the source of all the living on earth. When water is been contaminated, it may result in serious healthy problems. This article will illustrates how water pollution happens and what we can do about this issue.

What is water pollution?

Water pollution is water that reduces or loses the use value of water caused by harmful chemicals and pollutes the environment. Water pollution mostly occurs in streams, lakes, oceans and other water bodies, which have a serious impact on the environment and human water use.

How water pollution effects our life?

Harm to human health
When the water is polluted, the pollutants will enter the human body through drinking water or the food chain, causing acute or chronic poisoning. Water carrying parasites and viruses may also cause infectious diseases, some pollutants may also cause stomach and kidney diseases, and drinking polluted water for a long time may even cause cancer.

Break ecological balance
The discharge of domestic sewage containing a large amount of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and other substances will make the water poorly ventilated, and the dissolved oxygen will drop, so that a large number of aquatic plants will die. This eutrophic water will also cause a large number of fish to die.

Affect industrial and agricultural production
When water quality is polluted, it will increase the cost of industrial water use and cause waste of resources and energy. The use of sewage in agriculture will reduce the yield and quality of crops, and even harm humans and animals. In addition, marine pollution such as oil pollution also kills seabirds and marine life.

How to deal with polluted water?

Boiling
For the daily needs of the family, boiling is the simplest and most efficient treatment method. Boiling at high temperature can kill some harmful bacteria and viruses that may exist.

Distilling
The second more effective treatment method is distillation. This process will adopt the method of evaporation and condensation to remove inorganic salts and other substances.

Ultraviolet light
Ultraviolet light can also be used to disinfect water, which removes contaminants from the water. This method works by destroying some molecules. However, due to its high price, it is not widely used in households.

Filter System
A more efficient treatment method is to use a water purifier suitable for you and your family. Because there are many types of water purifiers on the market and are highly targeted, you can choose the best water purifier according to your family’s water purification needs.