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THE CONTAMINATION

THE CONTAMINATION

The contamination

Air contamination

The air polution is a global conservation because this problem causes injurious effects on the envaironment and dangerous chances for the life in the planet because the air there are toxic chemicals and harmful particals that prodiced mainly by the mankind. There are 2 forms of contamination sourses, the first is by the natural like volcano eruptions, widefires or dust storms, but the most worring source is the second, by the mankind like industrial, bring fosil fuel, motor vehicles,etc. All of these destroy the planet.

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SOIL CONTAMINATION

Soil pollution is devastating to the environment and has consequences for all life forms it affects. Unsustainable agricultural practices reduce soil organic matter and can facilitate the transfer of contaminants into the food chain. Contaminated soil can release pollutants into groundwater that then accumulate in plant tissues and pass to grazing animals, birds, and eventually humans who eat plants and animals.

Diseases caused by soil contamination:

• poisonings
• diarrhea
• even others such as cancer.

SOLUTIONS

- Recycle your household waste such as paper, organic waste or packaging. Select and separate all the waste correctly; it is the best way to avoid that they end up contaminating the soil.

- If you have a small urban garden or are dedicated to agriculture, use the so-called biofertilizers, which improve the fertility of the soil without putting it at risk.

- Buy organic and ecological products. Buying food of this type can be a guarantee in many ways. Being produced in an ecological way, they are beneficial for you and for the planet

- Avoid pouring contaminated water on the ground. The liquid consistency of water makes it easy for chemicals to get into it.

- Reuse everything you can, especially plastic containers. These are elements with an important incidence in the contamination of the Earth, because they take a long time to disintegrate.

WATER CONTAMINATION

WATER CONTAMINATION

WHAT IS WATER POLLUTION? In other words, it is toxic water that can neither be drunk nor used for essential activities such as agriculture, as well as a source of insalubrity that causes more than 500,000 deaths per year globally due to diarrhea and transmits diseases such as cholera, dysentery, typhoid fever and polio. The main water pollutants include bacteria, viruses, parasites, fertilizers, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, nitrates, phosphates, plastics, fecal waste and even radioactive substances. These elements do not always stain the water, making water pollution invisible in many cases. For this reason, chemical analysis of small samples and aquatic organisms is often used to determine the state of water quality.

SOLUTIONS

• Reduce the use of chemical pesticides and nutrients in agricultural crops.
• Reduce and safely treat wastewater so that, in addition to not polluting, it can be reused for irrigation and energy production.
• Limit the use of single-use plastics that end up floating in rivers, lakes and oceans, many in the form of microplastics.
• Promote sustainable fishing to ensure the survival of species and prevent the impoverishment of the seas.

• Responsible management of fishing and the use of marine resources. To avoid depleting ecosystems that are already heavily damaged.
• A more sustainable agriculture. To reduce the use of pesticides that end up in the water.
• Improve waste management. Eliminating once and for all discharges into aquatic currents.
• Responsible freshwater management. Avoiding scarcity and the stresses it causes.

Consequences

light pollution

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What is it?

The two main aspects that we have to take into account when talking about light pollution are the sky and artificial lighting. Light pollution is the pollution produced by light emissions that comes from artificial sources with high intensities. Light pollution is the glow seen in the sky at night caused by inefficient lighting. Instead of sending the light towards the ground, the light is emitted towards the skyLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat nulla facilisis.

SOLUTIONS

SOLUTIONS

• Make a more responsible use of the lighting of monuments, building facades and billboards, not maintaining this lighting constantly but only for a few hours. • Use streetlights and lights that are designed with screens that prevent light from shifting upward. • Place the streetlights in places where there are no obstacles and their light correctly illuminates the streets, highways and driveways. • Illuminate only the areas and areas that need it, always from top to bottom and without letting the light scatter to other areas. • Replace mercury lamps with sodium lamps, which are the lamps that emit a more orange light, since they pollute less and also consume less.

Thermal pollution

What is it?

Thermal pollution is a type of pollution related to global warming and climate change so to say that it is the increase in temperature describes it, however, it must be said that it is a process that modifies the temperature mainly due to industrial activity which causes environmental deterioration.

Thermal pollution manifests itself mainly on aquatic ecosystems, that is, it has an impact mainly on water, but also on the air and the environment. The causes of the increase in temperature are due to activities of diverse nature including especially human activities.

Causes

Consequences

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7 Harmful Effects of Thermal Pollution

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Visual contamination

Visual pollution can occur in both rural and urban environments, given the presence of non-architectural elements such as posters, antennas, cables, poles, advertisements, fences, among other possible factors that generate visual overstimulation of an aggressive, invasive nature and generally simultaneous. In general, these are elements that contradict the aesthetic or panoramic trend of the landscape, introducing foreign visual content that ugly or corrupts the environment. Visually highly polluted environments generate rejection and force people to flee quickly.

On the other hand, visual pollution has a negative impact on tourism and recreational activities, as it makes hostile environments that should be harmonious or peaceful, and this in turn has economic and social consequences.

Effect:

Solution

Visual pollution, like other forms of pollution, tends to be the result of human activity. Advertising, urban sprawl, industrialization, and agricultural life often leave visual traces of their existence, many of which are not intended to interfere as little as possible with the environment, or are even intended to highlight the environment as much as possible. All this stress that visual pollutants put on passersby, forcing them to pay their attention or distracting them from what could be a friendly or peaceful environment, ends up driving people away or, failing that, stressing them out and making them suffer.

• Reduction and control of the amount of advertisements or notices of another nature that are allowed in a specific area, urban or rural.
• Frequent removal of obsolete signs, posters and other advertisements, especially when they are large and brightly colored.
• Planning of protected areas within cities, such as parks and other environments that allow visual and auditory rest.
• Program visually the urban and architectural development of the city, allowing the people to exercise a control in this sense.
• Protection and promotion of trees in the city.

noise pollution

What is it?

This pollution is due to the sounds emitted which exceed the limits of the human ear, making this not a sound as such but rather a noise which over time causes consequences since it affects the entire environment around it. Noise affects health in different ways, causing discomfort, sleep problems, damaging effects on the metabolic and cardiovascular system and other things.

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solutions

Some things that we can do

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