Water Pollution E- Portfolio Entry

Assignment:
Use your textbook and internet as references, learn about different types of water pollution. Then, make a "water pollution entry" for your e-portfolio. The entry needs to include:

1. Basic information/ description of the type of water pollution (at least 4 different types of water pollution)
2. Real picture(s) of the kind of water pollution
3. Real-life example (a real place that has the kind of water pollution. Be specific! Location/ Name)

1. Water pollution is basically the pollution of the water in rivers and lakes. Water pollution occurs when pollutants, or the materials that pollute water (oil, plastic bags, chemicals, etc.), are directly or indirectly disposed in the bodies of water without proper treatment and permission. The types of water pollution are surface water pollution, oxygen depleting, groundwater pollution, chemical pollution, suspended matter, microbiological, and nutrients. The main water pollution are chemical, surface water, ground water, and suspended matter. 

Chemical pollution: Chemical pollution may cause many bad things. First of all, it causes many marine creature's deaths. Chemical pollution usually comes from the factories. Factories pour used chemicals down the river by sewers. Chemicals are acidic (usually) and they make the river turn in bad condition. So the chemical pollutions make the water turn toxic.I think chemical pollution is the worst. This is because it causes direct effect against the fishes and other creatures that live inside the river.

Surface Water pollution: This pollution is when the surface water is dirty. Surface waters are usually seas, ocean, rivers, etc. Surface water pollution's sources are usually groundwater or rain water. The sources of this surface water pollution is usually acidic. They occur when toxic substances dissolve inside the bodies of waters. They effect humans because if they have physical or direct contact to the water it may harm us.If the toxic substances have too much contact it may be deadly.

Groundwater pollution: This is one of the usual groundwater pollution. They are usually common and they are pretty much everywhere. This pollution occurs when the water underground becomes dirty. The dirty water enters the river and causes groundwater pollution. However, groundwater is fatal to our modern day life. So if the groundwater gets polluted, it might cause a great catastrophe on Earth. Most of the scientists and people say that the pollutants and the cause are same or similar as the surface water pollution. I saw this pollution is a river in Korea.

Suspended Matter pollution: This is also one of the bad type of pollution. This pollution happens when the molecules or the objects are too big to dissolve in the water. This can be a great problem because the substances float on the water. Because of this, the physical contacts may cause many things that may cause many bad things to humans. Many undissolved materials float on the rivers in Thailand.

2.                                                         Chemical Pollution

Surface Water pollution

Groundwater pollution

Suspended matter pollution

3.

• Cuyahoga River – Ohio, U.S.A.
• This river is also known as "the river on fire"
• This river was so polluted with oil that the river caught fire

• Lake Karachay – Russia
• This river was polluted because of the nuclear wastes
•  The radioactive dust from the lake is causing illness
• Engineers are trying to prevent this by adding stones and concrete into the lake which prevents the radioactive dusts to fly near the citizens

• Matanza-Riachuelo River – Buenos Aires, Argetina
• This river is so polluted by the plastic bottles and the plastic bags
• The river is also called "Slaughtered Creek" because 3.5 million people live in this particular contaminated basin.

• Citarum River – West Java, Indonesia
• This river is so polluted that the contact with the water and human skin will cause disease and illness
• The pollutants are also platic bottles, plastic bads, chemicals, etc.

• Buriganga River – Dhaka, Bangladesh
• This river is polluted by the sewers and medical wastes
• Bangladesh governments are trying their best to decontaminate the algae from the water

• Ganges River – Allahabad, India
• This river is known for the most holiest river in the whole world
• However, the Allahabad government realized that the pollution in the water may cause illness to the people that come to wash their sins away.

• Yellow River – Lanzhou, China
• The supposedly "Yellow" river is "Red" right now because of some unknown pollutant from the sewers.
• The "Red" river's pollutant is known to be very harmful to humans when directly contacted

• Yamuna River – New Delhi, India
•  As you can see in the picture, this river's pollutant is foam
• The whole river is contaminated with dangerous acidic chemicals and washing powder that cane out from the sewers

• Chaohu Lake – Anhui Province, China
• This river is an algae-filled river
• This river's pollutant cause is known to be the overpopulation of China and its citizens

• Jordan River – Israel
• This river is known to be the place of baptism of Jesus Christ.
• Gidon Bromberg, the EcoPeace/ Friends of the Middle East, says that the Jordan River is suffering from the diversion of 98 percent of its fresh water to Israel, Syria, and Jordan and from the massive amounts of untreated sewage and agricultural runoff discharged into the water.

Citations:
       "11 Most Polluted Rivers in the World." News, Lifestyle, and Social Action on TakePart. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Feb. 2013.

       "Water Pollution." Water Pollution. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Feb. 2013.

       "Water Pollution." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 20 Feb. 2013. Web. 21 Feb. 2013.