Water Pollution
By Gabriel Baggett
Boom! A pipeline breaks and oil plummets into Georgia’s oceans turning a flourishing wilderness into a death wish killing almost everything it comes in contact with. Oil can enter seabirds and sea creatures throw their skin, feathers, breathing it in, and eating something that is already contaminated by oil.Oil can do serious damage to the marine environment and what lives in it. For example around 60% of what lives in water dies when it is exposed to oil.
Chemicals
Chemicals have similar effects as oil. Some chemicals are actually in oil. confused? Well when oil is made it is mixed with oil and then put in pipes which can seep into Georgia’s ocean’s and kill fish and sea birds. Some times when farmers put chemicals on their crops chemicals runoff into the water the same for yards except you might not have crops in your yard.
Solid Wastes
Solid Wastes consists of chemicals, oil, sewage, and trash. Sometimes people deliberately dump trash into streams, rivers, lakes, ponds, and even oceans which can kill birds, land animals, and people because it can get into wells which many people depend on to live so they can die from the chemicals or from dehydration. Solid wastes are also a big threat to people and animals.
You can help
You can help by not deliberately dumping trash into the water, not using chemicals, and trying not to buy things with chemicals. Also if you live buy water bodies try to plant trees and flowers or try to buy more environmentally safe cleaning materials.
Glossary
deliberately : to do something on purpose
Dehydration : not to have enough water
Flourishing : to thrive
Environmentally : the environment
Contaminated : to seap into something
Plummets : to fall
Wilderness : something that thrives
Exposed : to be seen, or touched
References
http://www.garivers.org/gawater/pdf%20files/2015DirtyDozen/4GA%20Toxic%20Pollution.pdf
http://www.garivers.org/gawater/pdf%20files/2015DirtyDozen/1Cooper%20Creek.pdf
http://www.garivers.org/gawater/pdf%20files/2014DirtyDozen/10TurtleRiver.pdf
http://www.garivers.org/gawater/pdf%20files/2016DirtyDozen/SouthRiver.pdf
s://ga.water.usgs.gov/projects/bacteria/qanda.html
Timothy Dignam, CDC
By Gabriel Baggett
Boom! A pipeline breaks and oil plummets into Georgia’s oceans turning a flourishing wilderness into a death wish killing almost everything it comes in contact with. Oil can enter seabirds and sea creatures throw their skin, feathers, breathing it in, and eating something that is already contaminated by oil.Oil can do serious damage to the marine environment and what lives in it. For example around 60% of what lives in water dies when it is exposed to oil.
Chemicals
Chemicals have similar effects as oil. Some chemicals are actually in oil. confused? Well when oil is made it is mixed with oil and then put in pipes which can seep into Georgia’s ocean’s and kill fish and sea birds. Some times when farmers put chemicals on their crops chemicals runoff into the water the same for yards except you might not have crops in your yard.
Solid Wastes
Solid Wastes consists of chemicals, oil, sewage, and trash. Sometimes people deliberately dump trash into streams, rivers, lakes, ponds, and even oceans which can kill birds, land animals, and people because it can get into wells which many people depend on to live so they can die from the chemicals or from dehydration. Solid wastes are also a big threat to people and animals.
You can help
You can help by not deliberately dumping trash into the water, not using chemicals, and trying not to buy things with chemicals. Also if you live buy water bodies try to plant trees and flowers or try to buy more environmentally safe cleaning materials.
Glossary
deliberately : to do something on purpose
Dehydration : not to have enough water
Flourishing : to thrive
Environmentally : the environment
Contaminated : to seap into something
Plummets : to fall
Wilderness : something that thrives
Exposed : to be seen, or touched
References
http://www.garivers.org/gawater/pdf%20files/2015DirtyDozen/4GA%20Toxic%20Pollution.pdf
http://www.garivers.org/gawater/pdf%20files/2015DirtyDozen/1Cooper%20Creek.pdf
http://www.garivers.org/gawater/pdf%20files/2014DirtyDozen/10TurtleRiver.pdf
http://www.garivers.org/gawater/pdf%20files/2016DirtyDozen/SouthRiver.pdf
s://ga.water.usgs.gov/projects/bacteria/qanda.html
Timothy Dignam, CDC