Water Pollution In Developing Countries

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Water pollution happens when toxic substances enter to water resource which it can degrade the quality of water.(national geographic)

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Water pollution is the contamination of natural water bodies by chemical, physical, radioactive substances. Adverse alteration of water quality presently produces large scale of illness and deaths, accounting for approximately 50 million deaths per year worldwide, most of these deaths happening in Africa and Asia. In China, for example, about 75 percent of the population (or 1.1 billion people) can not access to clean drinking water. Widespread results of water pollution upon ecosystems include species death and loss of ecosystem services. Some water pollution may happen due to natural influences such as deposits from severe rainfall events; however, natural causes including volcano eruptions from natural cause to make ...

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