Many water bodies near urban areas (cities and towns) are highly polluted. This is the result of both garbage dumped by individuals and dangerous chemicals legally or illegally dumped by manufacturing industries, health centers, schools, and marketplaces. The main problem caused by water pollution is that it kills organisms that depend on these water bodies. Dead fish, crabs, birds and seagulls, dolphins, and many other animals often wind up on beaches, killed by pollutants in their habitat.
In a global approach, there are a lot of problems given to us that shows water pollution is on the rise. So far in the past three decades, there has been a 10%-15% increase of nitrogen in coastal ecosystems. Nitrogen and phosphorus are the most prevalent due to eutrophication, which impairs beneficial uses of water. Every day 2 million tons of sewage and industrial and agricultural waste are put in the world’s water, and the wastewater produced annually is six times more water than in all the rivers in the world. In some local approach, Kamilo Beach, also nicknamed “Trash Beach”, is home to the dirtiest beach on Earth. Naʻahelu, Hawaiʻi is home to this dirty beach where people would most likely never swim. In fact, 90% of its garbage is all plastic which is why people in Hawaiʻi should crack down on its usage. But it is also found that most of its garbage is from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is roughly the size of Texas. Millions of colorful plastic pieces are found inside the sand which can make this beach terribly depressing. Luckily people are taking action on this problem and have started to clean the beach up. The Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund picked up roughly 15,000 pounds of trash in April 2017.
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