WATER POLLUTION: A THREAT TO NEXT GENERATION

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Water is one of the plentiful and essential compounds, It is tasteless and odourless liquid at room temperature, it has the important ability to dissolve many other substances.
Up to 60 to 70 percent of the human adult body is water, it is the most important substances that is needed by human beings, plants and animals in every aspect of life.
Without water, all living organisms on earth would die. Water is necessary not for only drinking but also for our daily life purposes like bathing, cooking, cleaning, and washing amongst others.

In the Western part of Africa, where our country Ghana is located, we can boast of surface water resources such as the Ankobra River, Brim, Densu, Pra, Volta, Ofin, Black Volta, Oti, Tano and a lot more. These water bodies aside the seas and the main Atlantic Ocean which borders the country helps us in our day to day activities.
Certain practice we have adopted as people in the way we treat our water one way or the other is destroying the water bodies and gradually there would be difficulties in getting clean and natural state water to use.
In the use of toxic chemicals like DDT for fishing activities, it causes incidence of infectious diseases in fish. Toxic chemicals may have direct effect on the immune system by reducing resistance to infectious disease. This act does not affect only the fishes, but also feeding on them as humans we'll also contract these disease, and our water bodies would also be contaminated and using it will bring implications not just to humans but other living organisms which also depends on water.
There are a lot of industries all over the country and these industries though operates in different products, they all depend on water to function. Where does the waste of these industries go one may ask, sewage from industries mostly chemicals are disposed in water bodies which causes much on to the living organisms both in the water and on land.
The next generation would suffer for our actions today if we keep destroying water bodies with our careless activities.
Dumping sewage in water bodies is considered the cheapest and easiest way of disposing wastes. 50 to 60 percent of people in our country have cultivated the act of dumping refuse in gutters, streams, rivers and even in the open seas. These actions of ours has badly affected the oceanic ecosystem, threatening the existence of several other species on earth including we humans.
In the end, it all sum up to us as citizens of the country because our daily living depends mostly on water. Destroying our water either purposely or not very dangerous to us as a nation and we should put a stop to it. For it is our Country and no one will make it well if we are destroying it.
We cannot imagine life without water that is why it is mostly said, " water is life and water gives life".


LINDA BAAH
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