Impacts of Waste on Water
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Agriculture Waste Impact on Water :
Every time it rains, fertilizers, pesticides, and animal waste from farms and livestock operations wash nutrients and pathogens, such bacteria and viruses, into our waterways. Nutrient pollution, caused by agriculture waste, is the number-one threat to water quality worldwide and can be extremely harmful to people and wildlife.
“China’s wastewater volume is comparable to the Yellow River’s annual flow.”
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Wastewater Impact on Water :
Wastewater is one of the biggest pollutants of water in China. Used water is wastewater. It also includes stormwater runoff, when rainfall carries road salts, oil, grease, chemicals, and debris from the surface into our waterways. In ideal circumstances, treatment facilities reduce the amount of pollutants in sewage before discharging the treated waters back into waterways.
“About one third of the industrial waste water and more than 90 % of household sewage in China is released into rivers and lakes without being treated."
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Solid Waste Impact on Water :
As water comes in contact with decomposing solid waste, it will produce a polluted liquid known as leachate or “waste juice”. Through the release of this polluted liquid from landfills, solid waste impacts water quality around the world. Due to his high concentration of organic contaminants, this “waste juice” can lead to toxin accumulation in organisms that depend on it and affect humans, if we feed on these organisms.
Nearly half of the estimated 1 million tons of oil that makes its way into water each year comes not from tanker spills but from factories, farms, and cities
Did you Know?
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Oil spills waste:
Consumers are responsible for the vast majority of oil pollution in our seas, including oil and gasoline that drips from millions of cars and trucks every day.