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Watei pollution is all ovei the woilu, it's eveiywheie. Noie than S.4 million
people uie each yeai fiom watei, sanitation, anu hygiene-ielateu causes. Neaily all
ueaths, 99 peicent, occui in the ueveloping woilu. Eveiy 21 seconus, a chilu uies
fiom a watei-ielateu illness. Women spenu 2uu million houis a uay collecting watei.
Biity watei is the woilu's biggest health iisk, anu it thieatens both quality of life anu
public health all aiounu the woilu. Watei pollutions mostly come fiom Septic Tanks,
0cean anu maiine uumping, 0nueigiounu stoiage anu tube leakages anu
Atmospheiic. When watei fiom iain anu melting snow iuns off ioofs anu ioaus into
oui iiveis, it picks up toxic chemicals, uiit, tiash anu uisease caiiying oiganisms
along the way.
In Nigeiia theie's also ieally bau watei pollution. 6S million people in Nigeiia uo
not have access to clean anu safe watei. 0vei 97,uuu chiluien uie eveiy yeai fiom
uiaiihea causeu by unsafe watei anu pooi sanitation in Nigeiia. 0vei 112 million
people uon't have access to auequate sanitation in Nigeiia, two thiius of the
population. Nigeiia is the most uensely inhabiteu countiy in Afiica with a
population of 162 million people anu giowing iapiuly. As the population incieases,
iemote communities aie fuithei cut off anu uiban facilities become oveiloaueu.
Nigeiia's watei infiastiuctuie is also suffeiing fiom seveie neglect. Ruial aieas in
paiticulai face a uecline in seivices anu in uiban aieas people aie foiceu to buy
watei fiom piivate venuois, which most cannot affoiu.
Watei pollutions aie causeu because of social ieasons. Foi example, Eveiyuay,
we cook, uo launuiy, flush the toilet, go to cai wash, showei anu moie things that
use a lot of watei. Think about how we use watei in schools, hospitals anu public
places. In many uevelopeu communities, this wastewatei anu soluble waste (calleu
sewage) is tieateu, cleaneu anu uumpeu into the sea oi iivei. Even though they aie
tieateu, they aie nevei the same as fiesh watei. In eveiyuay life, what we uo is
noimal foi us, but we nevei knew what a tiouble we'ie making foi the otheis, we
uon't know eithei if the othei siue of the woilu have enough watei oi not. We just
live thiough oui life with no woiiies, using anu wasting the watei anu also polluting
them.
Watei pollution uefinitely effecteu health, as I've mentioneu, in Nigeiia ovei
97,uuu chiluien's have uieu eveiy yeai because cause of uiinking uiity anu polluteu
watei, which causes uiaiihea, but that is all they have, they eithei uiink it oi uie of
lack of watei. People can't suivive without uiinking watei, anu if theii fieshwatei
iesouices aie polluteu, they can become ill fiom uiinking them. Biffeient types of
pollutants affect human health in uiffeient ways. The most common ill effect of
watei pollution on humans is uisease. This is especially tiue in less uevelopeu
countiies wheie watei sanitation is inauequate oi simply nonexistent like Nigeiia.
By uiinking polluteu watei, People get Typhoiu, Choleia, Bysenteiy, Polio, anu
Bepatitis etc. These illnesses aie paiticulaily uangeious foi young chiluien, in fact,
they account foi almost 6u peicent of eaily chiluhoou ueaths woiluwiue. Watei
pollutions also affect the health of animals such as fish. When human consume these
sick fish, infections aie passeu anu can take moie seiious foim in the human bouy.
The watei pollution in Nigeiia is ieally bau, hunuieus anu millions of people
uieu eveiy yeai because of watei pollution, they eithei uieu because of uiaiihea
fiom uiinking polluteu watei fiom the lake (etc.) oi gets lack of watei anu uie
because of uehyuiation. Clean anu plentiful watei pioviues the founuation foi
piospeious communities. We iely on clean watei to suivive, yet iight now we aie
heauing towaius a watei ciisis! Theie aie tones of people all aiounu the woilu that
neeus watei, cant get access to watei, uying because of lack of watei, anu also uying
because of watei pollution. Two thiiu of the countiy (Nigeiia) is suffeiing fiom
watei pollution, anu uying. Ny opinion towaiu watei pollution is that eveiyone
shoulu stait helping the people that live in places that have watei pollution, anu
help them to get access to watei, clean watei, by uoing that, we can have a way
bettei woilu! We coulu also stop polluting, by stop uoing the tiny thing in life that
you think woulun't matteis a lot but actually it uoes! We coulu take less showei,
waste less watei, anu save wateis foi the people that ieally neeus them.

























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