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The massive patch of garbage sitting in the middle of the pacific ocean is made up of trash from the western garbage patch close to japan as well as the eastern garbage patch near the united states. It effects local sea life with fish digesting some of the plastic as well as animals getting caught in trash. everything from plastic, bottle caps, cigarettes, discarded fishing gear, and more. The Solutions to clean it have consisted of: using a boat towing a large net and collecting as much garbage as possible, Doing the same method but with a plane, And sending a diver to collect as much as possible.

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So far, all of the above consequences of water pollution have focused on the health impacts – but the costs of water pollution can be financial, too. Last year, the Japanese authorities announced that they were running low on space to keep contaminated water supplies from the Fukushima power plant disaster under containment. Studies have indicated that it’s likely to cost the government a very minimum of $660 billion to completely clean up the fallout from the incident.

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There are little plastic pellets that are used for anything plastic they are called Nurdles. Now its very easy for Nurdles to get lost and lead to oceans and things like that leading to things such as 250,000 of them leading onto near beaches. In Texas there are around 46 companies that use Nurdles and they lose them a lot filling the oceans of Texas one of them being Padre Island sits of the coast of southeast Texas were around 200 species of endangered of fish and around 400 species of bird and Nurdle pollution is a very big worry and concern to people because we don't want anything bad to happen there to anyone or the animals and if any animals consume the Nurdles they will die and we really don't want that

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Previous president Donald J Trump has passed a bill that has raised a ban to oil drill anwar. this has been a 40 year ban that no one has been able to undo and trump has built it into his last tax bill. this is an huge issue because the water on anwars north shores have never been touched by an oil company. let alone is the rivers and freshwater lakes are a huge apart of the native mans life it also affects the native peoples food. the native peoples winter food is made up of 80% smoked salmon and if the water is polluted. The natives will lose 80% of there food source. if the groundwater was poluted it would polute the lakes and rivers which would also affect the last great caribou heard that resides in anwar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSAExfMOsCI

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"On most days in 2019, there was nearly a 50 percent chance that sewage pollution made it unsafe to touch the water somewhere in New York City. Almost every time it rains in New York City, raw sewage, pet waste, trash, and polluted runoff water flow into a river, canal, or other place where people swim, fish, row, kayak, and boat." So basically New York's water is a death trap waiting to get people sick. In conclusion, don't touch the water from a river, canal, or other place right after it rains in New York because it can be deadly.

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In the Gulf of mexico there is plastic in the water, the plastic in the water is killing the sea animals and the sea turtles. The plastic in the water is also polluting the drinking water and killing people who is drinking the water people in mexico try and clean the gulf of mexico to be able to have drinking water. https://mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com/attachment/u/0/?ui=2&ik=99c19e1f22&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-f:1683621281845901264&th=175d6ca2b8b677d0&view=att&disp=inline&sadnir=1&saddbat=ANGjdJ_iv944DdgQUU4V6D8i6XQ1Qjmad8MxSbroiVotmAf3Q8b6WOCqt-xO5jd1VHD1lkodU-euuGU8DqITsU9iGAYKj_KwiVQvaMS6UI8z6eFQVPOC-gc93cTV83SIU-ZsPZk-n2Q-TK43nNxOwSsnDXVCJ2glJ3krZQ_HANC3pYRjF7G-TpVlf9Wfls1DOg2CUAYzdhuezbx-NE473ESQJGMYYAsYqo5ehjSFJsc4SeA_LY_3S7pAI6tNHfFRP0fuF8u7gumYvT7vFxkv7AFJokeb6-upBYYfGMW-f2cLxxUs9RdGwS_QP7jP0IWly6JwFSnRd6bgW1pT0_8EnbWLPA-PIqCiM2QmHi8oPYqKAhdkM4oX3h7NV_TIcfOhZPMcU_YGc0Kzn5vhrZ42dN_fUsi5bE1ZCCvgjGxNZ3YAtNTN5I6zGSNsFRDeERtn3TKfLJVDsf8j9OpRKuhoExUeZagF3b2PdIrtTFI6gqHkUF6MO3wEBSLVTe7OsKScPNcdRbRfECsRdMnT432dYARksCX6m5emkVOaY4EF9evSlKU5gfVV2pKoHtFm5_2fIZJ2VXTP1RJYNv3sfiraIT8M61A9ZdeCJeENwe4n3hpdbDpqfhRN09xHvEU9TaTyBKbPPvdoxWmO4l4lyRlYwTX5eXJxPvpGHLjekkZ5x5T4uL7JUdu-QDUcWpfDr7U.

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Oil spills leak liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, more so in waters like oceans, rivers, and streams, but in any case wildlife is being harmed when oil spills happen. Oil spills can happen for a few reasons such as: people not being careful with pipelines, equipment breaking down, or mistakes involving oil refineries among other things. Even though oil spills are, for the most part, accidents, they happen way to often and heavily damage the environment. The chemicals that pour out into the waters kill an absurd amount of marine life and any chemicals that don't directly kill something will indirectly kill something else by contaminating the water and/or food that something would eat or drink which further increases the death count. It also forces the company that made the spill to spend millions of dollars to clean up the spill. Because these oil spills are accidents, there aren't really any solutions to fixing the problem other than just preventing the spills from happening in the first place by being really careful and upgrading the equipment that handles oil.

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The EPA caused pressurized water to begin to leak above the mine tunnel in Cement Creek, a tributary of the Animas River. The accident, spilling about three million gallons of water stored behind the collapsed material into the creek was devastating to the entire region. The loss of animal life and tourism took years to recover from.

https://www.epa.gov/goldkingmine

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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Stormwater run off is generated from rain and snowmelt events that flow overland or impervious surfaces such as paved streets, parking lots and building rooftops. This is very bad as the storm water run off picks up pollutants like trash, chemicals, oils, and dirt/sediemnt. All these can lead to our rivers, lakes, streams and coastal waters getting contaminated and being very dangerous to human life and wildlife. One solution to better this issue is filters. Best Management practices have created filters that filter out dangerous chemicals and pollutants. The NPDES has also created separate sewage systems that are meant for the runoff water to go in, thus leading to our water staying safe. But population growth and development of urban and areas also contribute to making our water unsafe by adding in Chemicals and pollutants. In order to protect our water systems we have to come togheter and educate our selves on how dangerous this could be.

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NPDES stormwater program areas:

Problems with Stormwater Pollution

Stormwater runoff is generated from rain and snowmelt events that flow over land or impervious surfaces, such as paved streets, parking lots, and building rooftops, and does not soak into the ground. The runoff picks up pollutants like trash, chemicals, oils, and dirt/sediment that can harm our rivers, streams, lakes, and coastal waters. To protect these resources, communities, construction companies, industries, and others, use stormwater controls, known as best management practices (BMPs). These BMPs filter out pollutants and/or prevent pollution by controlling it at its source.

The NPDES stormwater program regulates some stormwater discharges from three potential sources: municipal separate storm sewer systems (MS4s), construction activities, and industrial activities. Operators of these sources might be required to obtain an NPDES permit before they can discharge stormwater. This permitting mechanism is designed to prevent stormwater runoff from washing harmful pollutants into local surface waters.

Population growth and the development of urban/urbanized areas are major contributors to the amount of pollutants in the runoff as well as the volume and rate of runoff from impervious surfaces. Together, they can cause changes in hydrology and water quality that result in habitat modification and loss, increased flooding, decreased aquatic biological diversity, and increased sedimentation and erosion. The benefits of effective stormwater runoff management can include:

protection of wetlands and aquatic ecosystems,

improved quality of receiving waterbodies,

conservation of water resources,

protection of public health, and

flood control.

Traditional stormwater management approaches that rely on peak flow storage have generally not targeted pollutant reduction and can exacerbate problems associated with changes in hydrology and hydraulics.

See the following for additional information:

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stormwater construction and industrial program

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NPDES stormwater program areas: Stormwater runoff is generated from rain and snowmelt events that flow over land or impervious surfaces, such as paved streets, parking lots, and building rooftops, and does not soak into the ground. The runoff picks up pollutants like trash, chemicals, oils, and dirt/sediment that can harm our rivers, streams, lakes, and coastal waters.

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Oil spills are more common than you might think, and they happen in many different ways. Thousands of oil spills occur in U.S. waters each year. Most of these spills are small, for example when oil spills while refueling a ship. But these spills can still cause damage, especially if they happen in sensitive environments, like beaches, mangroves, and wetlands. Large oil spills are major, dangerous disasters. These tend to happen when pipelines break, big oil tanker ships sink, or drilling operations go wrong. Consequences to ecosystems and economies can be felt for decades following a large oil spill. The U.S Coast Guard is primarily responsible for cleaning up oil spills, while NOAA experts provide scientific support to make smart decisions that protect people and the environment. There are different equipment and tactics that trained experts can use to contain or remove oil from the environment when a spill occurs. Booms are floating physical barriers to oil, which help keep it contained and away from sensitive areas, like beaches, mangroves, and wetlands. Skimmers are used off of boats and can “skim” oil from the sea surface. In situ burning, or setting fire to an oil slick, can burn the oil away at sea, and chemical dispersants can break up oil slicks from the surface. However, cleanup activities can never remove 100% of the oil spilled, and scientists have to be careful that their actions don’t cause additional harm. After the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, scientists learned that high-pressure, hot-water hoses used to clean up beaches caused more damage than the oil alone. Sensitive habitats need extra consideration during oil spill cleanup.

https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/ocean-coasts/oil-spills

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plastic pellets are being lost and dumped into the marine. With these pellets being lost and transported they are ending up in the ocean, these pellets are killing sea animals including turtles and seabirds. These pellets are hard to clean up, these pellets can be lost at any point during manufacturing. Even after cleanup efforts there is no effective way to remove large numbers of these pellets. A marine biologist wants everyone to be aware of the growing pellet issue. Tunnell said "look theres a problem that needs to change" he added "its been going on for decades"

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Flint Michigan hasnt always had complications with their water but ever since 2014 residents of Flint Michigan have been having to go through a continuous struggle to find a clean source of water. It all begun when the city switched its drinking water supply from Detroit’s system to the Flint River in a cost-saving movement. Inadequate treatment and testing of the water ended in a series of major water quality and health issues for Flint residents issues that were chronically ignored and discounted by government officials even as complaints arose that the foul-smelling, discolored, and off-tasting water piped into Flint homes for 18 months was causing skin rashes, hair loss, and itchy skin. One of the sides says that there is nothing wrong witht he water and that everything is fine. But to others they disagree and say that this issue needs to be fixed because it is putting their health of their children and others at risk. Some residents just want this whole crisis to go away but for all they know its much further from over. And it is now everywhere. This issue matters because it is a health crisis and it is affecting they way people are living. It is a serious health risk to be sending contanimated water in to homes of civilians not knowing the damage its effects can have. Flint Michigan has been going without a clean water source for over 6 years now and it is far from over. This is an serious problem and people need to raise more awareness about the water crisis that has been going on in Flint Michigan for over 6 years now.

https://www.nrdc.org/stories/flint-water-crisis-everything-you-need-know

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Micro-plastic pollution is any piece of plastic smaller than 5 mm in diameter. These minuscule pieces of plastic are polluting our water that we drink. Unfortunately, plastic is a relatively new product in the environment. Meaning that Bacteria has not developed to the point where it can break down micro-plastic quickly. Micro-plastic as of now has a lifespan of 450 years or forever.  This toxic plastic is not only in the water we drink but in the food we eat as well. There are findings of micro-plastic inside of fish. We are slowly destroying our seas ecosystems and poisoning ourselves at the same time. We aren’t helping ourselves either. Globally we only recycle about 9% or our plastic, 12% is incinerated, and 79% ends up in landfills which also means it's in our ground Which could mean it would be more than just an ocean problem.https://www.water-pollution.org.uk/microplastic/  

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Micro-plastic pollution is any piece of plastic smaller than 5 mm in diameter. These minuscule pieces of plastic are polluting our water that we drink. Unfortunately, plastic is a relatively new product in the environment. Meaning that Bacteria has not developed to the point where it can break down micro-plastic quickly. Micro-plastic as of now has a lifespan of 450 years or forever.  This toxic plastic is not only in the water we drink but in the food we eat as well. There are findings of micro-plastic inside of fish. We are slowly destroying our seas ecosystems and poisoning ourselves at the same time. We aren’t helping ourselves either. Globally we only recycle about 9% or our plastic, 12% is incinerated, and 79% ends up in landfills which also means it's in our ground Which could mean it would be more than just an ocean problem.https://www.water-pollution.org.uk/microplastic/  

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In almost every major American river system, there are chemicals that are toxic to humans, fish, and other animals around the rivers. These chemicals are thrown into these rivers because of American industries and the government's lack of interest in stopping them. These chemicals can cause death, diseases, and can cause physical deformities in unborn humans and animals. Toxic chemical pollution is a very preventable issue in the entire world. The companies and industries that release these chemicals say they are not harmful simply because they say that it is not known what these chemicals can do, and the worst part is that the government will not persecute because they don't know what it does. A way to end this pollution type is by 100% banning the spilling of any type of chemicals into rivers, known to be toxic or not. Another way would be to pressure the government to punish those who contaminate the water and impose sanctions on the wrong doers.

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The plastic pollution crisis is slowly becoming increasingly more and more severe, affecting marine wildlife, the food that we eat, and the water we drink. Researchers have found that in Central Pacific Gyre five-fold, plastic particles outnumbered plankton 6:1. People don't seem to understand the issue with plastic in our oceans, it was found that 98% of seabird chicks are fed plastic, which depletes their health and increases the risk of them not surviving, severely impacting our ecosystems. Not only are birds affected, but so all of our marine wildlife. 86% of all sea turtle species, 44% of all seabird species, and 43% of all marine mammal species have plastic in their bodies. The fish that we eat contain plastics inside of them, we are slowly poisoning ourselves just by eating the food we do. However, most of the money going towards plastic pollution prevention is put into anti-litter campaigns rather than public education. More education needs to be spread about eco-consciousness and choosing to opt for plastic-free and reusable products and how important it is to pick up trash. We need more education about the seriousness of water pollution, specifically plastic pollution. https://www.cleanwater.org/problem-marine-plastic-pollution#:~:text=In%20the%20ocean%2C%20plastic%20debris,fish%2C%20seabirds%20and%20marine%20mammals.&text=Because%20persistent%20organic%20pollutants%20in,transport%20them%20through%20ocean%20currents.

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plant nutrients from plants can cause oxygen depletion.

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https://www.britannica.com/event/Flint-water-crisis
The main problem is how long this has gone on and it still hasn't been fixed while many people were exposed to toxic chemicals

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The Main problem was that abandoned mines remains elusive and clean up around Silverton has moved at a “snail’s pace.” Experts say the disaster shed light on problems, but didn’t drive change like they thought it would. The solution was that Environmental Protection Agency would help tackle the problems related to the many other toxic sites that surround the town.

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The main problem of this water pollution event was a storage tank on a river bank, which leaked 7500 gallons of chemicals (MCHM) into the water supply. Their solution to this event was to clean the soil around the tank and clean out the water pipes and the water system. This issue still matters because they were considered "lucky" since they could smell the chemical in their water, and stopped using the water as soon as they noticed it. This event has also shed light on how we need to ensure that chemicals are stored properly, and are not next to riverbanks that lead into our water supply.
https://all-about-water-filters.com/biggest-water-contamination-disasters/#tab-con-11
https://www.cwp.org/why-we-should-remember-the-elk-river-spill/

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In the Gulf of Mexico there is a bunch of plastic in the water killing sea animals/turtles. The fresh water is now polluted with the trash because it gets either washed up or people throw it in the water.

https://mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com/attachment/u/0/?ui=2&ik=99c19e1f22&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-f:1683621281845901264&th=175d6ca2b8b677d0&view=att&disp=inline&saddbat=ANGjdJ_SmSOCLDKZXTVVSCdfZAKSNEKC0JKr6YpK4mcGqPBeZ58opWORV8hMcmLbGqzLjJ_lZLa-6ec7SWtxY0uRomcqNDpFXn8EmTzPfr642xiJGf09dpbTs9ZZ0jbCeyYE-2EjWWsFWbF7MKBJMYvGrFkitqVgbmagbtFI8uTFCmPPlDC_xdwzXEP9bqCYq73tihKPbIciY8VzucW55GW80inQupN2KlCwnpKeMcPVTX9sw0BOj66whBJd87205dSriK3dZYBbkwY6E5NoxcMwwzab0KQQc4Eb7tdHlXJWwOPgopTp4jNCYp-P9GthvY19qRSVfkjfMbkfX9C4DGD5Va44OO84Iyxl5stsW0qGVSH4bI1sDhOeZPqdTAuD8CHhwur0PUTHC6kcLYvLfXXm6_3leLg0oAM0njOS9xEvv5Aen3Q_FZ5eNAooUEQrnJ-av9aReBFPeKcEStTiea0xFDyjcbZ7pmrwCLdp6Jr0w0eP0P0gUFAjildHIn271kKgq2i5GfG37cviMO4SZIZsv48QYB_ZVN3tbrl0scwlhbE-agPHrMBskWIUr-X_EC-GRogWzy55LRjnggxxsWypwDKUGSr3P6vXigWnzpgV_udeidRpOeZ2SLsHu3bTG7YEgDLigtRI31TrSVVwYf1U1X6OZiqRnc15HUETGZxb7zLNzHhOoy5Q2GH6LOQ

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carbon pollution can cause climate change this can lead to worse and heavier hurricanes and storms this can increase in flooding and increase drought.
there are many risk in the public's health
https://www.epa.gov/clean-air-act-overview/air-pollution-current-and-future-challenges

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Toxic water in the US in 2020 written on january 13th. "US drinking water contaminated with 'forever chemicals' far worse than scientists though. This talks about every well, river, lake and states that has contaminated waters that we frequently drink from. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/22/us-drinking-water-contamination-forever-chemicals-pfas

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"On any given day in 2019, there was nearly a 50 percent chance that sewage pollution made it unsafe to touch the water somewhere in New York City. ... Almost every time it rains in New York City, raw sewage, pet waste, trash, and polluted runoff flow into waterways where people swim, fish, row, kayak, and boat." so aka yewyork is a death trap waiting to happen so no touch the plosion good sir

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Microplastics are something that we can't currently clean up easily we can only clean them up if we put more time and effort into them so at this point there's no ability for us to undo the water pollution of microplastic is unknown what microprocessor will do to the human body but it has been shown to make fish literally incapable of eating and killing them by starvation so I said this is an issue we need to take care of them put more time and research in to.

No, I don't know about y'all But I don't want to poison myself.

It also says the 80% of our water contains microplastics.

So you know the faster we deal with the problem the less we have to worry about the effects of microplastic poisoning.

Cuz what I'm saying it's going to be an issue at some point.

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/microplastics.html#:~:text=Microplastics%20are%20small%20plastic%20pieces,our%20ocean%20and%20aquatic%20life.&text=Standardized%20field%20methods%20for%20collecting,and%20continue%20to%20undergo%20testing.

.https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/09/todays-special-grilled-salmon-laced-with-plastic-flesh/#:~:text=Until%20recently%2C%20though%2C%20researchers%20thought,plastic%20move%20into%20fish%20flesh.

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the invisible crisis, pollution is literally setting lakes on fire. such as the Bellandur lake in Bangalore. they are over following with bacteria, sewage, chemicals and plastic sucking oxygen out of the water supply making it poisonous. studies show that if this continues to deteriorate it will start impacting human health, reducing food production and stalling economic progress. there are also a harmful nitrogen problem going on at the same times. if the nitrogen gets into the rivers lakes and oceans it can change into something called nitrates. it is very harmful to young children effect growth of the brain. there is as much as 19 percent of people who are exposed to it. and are losing enough food to feed 170 million people each year. the country is trying to take better care of their water now along with improving the environment.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/08/1044551