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Human actions such as throwing trash inside the water can pollute the water as it makes the water dirtier. Fishes or other creatures in the sea may also mistake the trash as food and eat it, which can lead to them dying and having less fishes in the sea.

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Human actions can affect the water sources and its quality. What are they? How can be done to ensure its sustainability for the future?

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Human actions can affect the water sources and its quality. What are they? How can be done to ensure its sustainability for the future?

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Visit the following websites to understand the water situations globally and in Singapore.

Water pollution

http://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/what-water-pollution/

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/pollution

https://www.greenfacts.org/en/water-resources/l-2/4-effect-human-actions.htm

http://www.britannica.com/science/water-pollution

Case Study

https://www.bsr.org/en/our-insights/case-study-view/cleaning-up-industrial-water-pollution-in-southern-china

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/4-arrested-over-latest-water-pollution-incident-in-selangor-that-caused-disruption-to

Water Sustainability

https://www.greenplan.gov.sg/

https://www.pub.gov.sg/watersupply/singaporewaterstory

https://www.nea.gov.sg/our-services/pollution-control/water-quality/keeping-our-water-clean

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1. What human actions could have caused the water quality to be affected?
2. What are the possible impacts as a result of those human actions?
3. How do you think we can manage our water sustainably?

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Human actions such as throwing cigarette butts, plastic bottles, and bags is certainly contributing to water-pollution,Chemicals released by manufacturing, cars, and lawns and farms are also large contributors to water pollution.

However, despite humans contributing to the water pollution, humans also try to help lessen the water pollution by planting more plants near water to filtrate the water and etc.

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pollution as trash thrown away by humans that enters our water. Students can readily identify items visible to the naked eye, such as cigarette butts, plastic bottles, and bags. This type of debris is certainly a water-pollution problem. However, when students are asked about other sources of water pollution, they may be lost or not able to identify invisible pollutants. Chemical released by manufacturing, cars, and lawns and farms are large contributors to water pollution but can be hard for students to identify because they may not be visible, or the source of the pollution is not easily connected to the area that is impacted. For example, yard fertilizers and pesticides run into storm drains

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1. What human actions could have caused the water quality to be affected? :
Human actions have polluted the earth by littering their trash 🗑 everywhere and accidental oil spillage has happened to the sea. We have been blaming 🏭factories about the pollution but we don’t see that us normal humans too are making pollution, examples such as car exhaust and excess of garbage 🦠is a serious issue. It is also harmful towards earth. But we also can help reduce or clear up the pollution by reducing, reusing, recycling and using biodegradable plastic.
We can also help clean up the beaches for everyone or thing there.

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Littering caused by humans can affect the water by having unwanted items in the water, trash thrown inside. Trash of any sorts can be pollution as it is still a item that shouldn’t be there in the first place. The items thrown in water such as plastic bags and water bottles could harm the sea creatures living inside, especially if they consumed it. This can affect the water quality making the quality poorer.

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One human activity that can affect the water and polluting it is when there are chemical spills from factories or oil spills from ships,yard fertilizers and pesticides run into storm drains

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Trash. Humans throw trash in the sea without giving a thought for marine life. After that, the animals in the water will get stuck or consume the trash and thus die in the water which leads to worser water quality. Smoking. Some humans smoke near lakes and rivers,thus,the toxicity of the smoke will combine with the air and some of it will flow to the rivers and lakes thus marine life will also breathe in the toxic smell and die,affecting the water quality.

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1) What human actions could have caused the water quality to be affected?

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1) What human actions could have caused the water quality to be affected?

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One of the most serious threats to water resources is the degradation of ecosystems, which often takes place through changes to landscapes such as the clearance of forests, the conversion of natural landscapes to farmland, the growth of cities, the building of roads, and surface mining. Each type of change to a landscape will have its own specific impact, usually directly on natural ecosystems and directly or indirectly on water resources.
The causes of freshwater pollution are varied and include industrial wastes, sewage, runoff from farmland, cities, and factory effluents, and the build-up of sediment.

Emissions from factories and vehicles are released into the air. They can travel long distances before falling to the ground, for instance in the form of acid rain. The emissions create acidic conditions that damage ecosystems, including forests and lakes. The pollution that passes directly into water from factories and cities can be reduced through treatment at source before it is discharged. It is harder to reduce the varied forms of pollution that are carried indirectly, by runoff, from a number of widely spread non-point sources, into freshwater and the sea.
Sewage and runoff from farms, farmlands and gardens can contain nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, that cause excessive aquatic plant growth, and this in turn has a range of damaging ecological effects.

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Human actions are when someone litters things to the water like throwing empty bottle and trash like plastic bags and other trash into the water making the water quality even more worse

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Some of the human actions that could have caused the water quality to be affected are littering into the water and oil spills, etc

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The people throw litters such as plastic into the water.

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Our HDB flats drainage system and littering are examples of human activities that affects the water. The gases that restaurants produce are also an example of human activities

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The fish and turtles may get stuck in the plastic bag and they will die out of suffocation and this reduce the amount of fish getting caught by legal fisherman and sales of fish will be reduced in the wet market.

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The ppl throw thrash such as plastic into the water

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pollution as trash thrown away by humans that enters our water. Students can readily identify items visible to the naked eye, such as cigarette butts, plastic bottles, and bags. This type of debris is certainly a water-pollution problem. However, when students are asked about other sources of water pollution, they may be lost or not able to identify invisible pollutants. Chemical released by manufacturing, cars, and lawns and farms are large contributors to water pollution but can be hard for students to identify because they may not be visible, or the source of the pollution is not easily connected to the area that is impacted. For example, yard fertilizers and pesticides run into storm drains

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One of the possible impacts is that we will run out of clean water and die to thirst or have not enough for the whole world to have

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Hundreds if not thousands of marine species might go extinct  due to water pollution

Not only will saving the earth from water pollution benefit the marine life and more it will also benefit us.

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Plastic pollution is different from paper or food waste because it never fully decomposes, or breaks down into pieces that can be reused by nature. Instead, plastic often ends up in water, where it releases toxic chemicals and can be mistaken for food. In a study conducted by the journal Science, scientists estimate that 8.8 million tons of plastic enter the ocean every year, threatening over 700 species of marine animals.

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We need to throw the rubbish properly inside the trash bag or can so that we will not dirty it.

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2) What are the possible impacts as a result of those human actions?

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2) What are the possible impacts as a result of those human actions?

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Water resources face a host of serious threats, all caused primarily by human activity. They include pollution, climate change, urban growth, and landscape changes such as deforestation. Each of them has its own specific impact, usually directly on ecosystems and in turn on water resources. More...

If inadequately managed, activities like farming, forest-clearing, road-building, and mining can lead to too much soil and suspended particles ending up in rivers (sedimentation). This damages aquaticecosystems, impairs water quality and hinders inland shipping.

Pollution can harm water resources and aquatic ecosystems. Major pollutants include for instance organic matter and disease causing organisms from waste water discharges, fertilisers and pesticidesrunning off from agricultural lands, acid rain resulting from air pollution, and heavy metals released by mining and industrial activities.

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Plastic pollution is different from paper or food waste because it never fully decomposes, or breaks down into pieces that can be reused by nature. Instead, plastic often ends up in water, where it releases toxic chemicals and can be mistaken for food. In a study conducted by the journal Science, scientists estimate that 8.8 million tons of plastic enter the ocean every year, threatening over 700 species of animals.

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Just by not wasting water for drinking,bathing and or cooking purposes it could accumulate and end up saving entire Olympic sized pools worth of water after all we use hundreds of Olympic sized pools of water each year.

With government constantly trying to create new and more efficient ways to improve our water condition since most of our water supply is from overseas we should do our part by not wasting our precious water.

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Trash can travel throughout the world’s rivers and oceans, accumulating on beaches and itching gyres. This debris harms physical habitats, transports chemical pollutants,threatens aquatic life,and interferes with human uses of river,marine and coastal environments. Smoke: If the smoke has absorbed as much heat as possible, and a flashover is about to occur, you must induce water into the smoke to cool it and allow for it to absorb more heat. ... The reason for this is the particles of smoke can absorb the water and become less buoyant.

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the possible impacts are, the water will become dirtier or even become dirty. The dirty water might even make the fishes or the living things die due to the dirty smell or the litters

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A sea ottercarefully uses its paws to free itself from a plastic bag that’s tangled loosely around its body. This sea otter isn't the only animal to have a dangerous run-in with litter: It’s estimated that about half of all marine mammals have eaten or gotten trapped by plastic

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Fish and turtles may take the thrash as their food

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Such human actions such as littering is evident in water pollution. Examples of littering are throwing away things that are not meant to go inside the water. Chemicals released by manufacturing, cars, and lawns and farms are also large contributors to water pollution which can cause a huge impact on the marine ecosystem.

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Plastic pollution is different from paper or food waste because it never fully decomposes, or breaks down into pieces that can be reused by nature. Instead, plastic often ends up in water, where it releases toxic chemicals and can be mistaken for food. In a study conducted by the journal Science, scientists estimate that 8.8 million tons of plastic enter the ocean every year, threatening over 700 species of marine animals.

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Take care of the water that are clean and do not police more sea water as we may develop something that cleans all the dirty chemicals or mixtures that is in the sea waters

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The littering caused by humans can cause further pollution of our ocean waters. Saying that human actions play a big part in water pollution, unwanted substances or chemicals are a big deal. The water could be contaminated with harmful chemicals causing plantations and sea creatures to be sick or have fatal problems. This means that littering can cause a huge impacted on our animal society.

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These human actions will cause the marine life to die from the human activities and some of the marine life may be extinct from all the human activities

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Fish and turtles may get stuck in the plastic bag or plastic bottle

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Impacts include having extinction or decrease in products such as fish , meat , vegetables. The water provided to host life, if untreated could somehow affect us as chemical could potentially infect food products that we consumers eat. The chemically affected water could end all life. Despite all this horrible consequences, all this was caused by human actions. In the article I have read there were irresponsible fools who spoiled the water that provided a nearby community. This was idiotic as it was the same as poisoning one self just that it affected not only you. China have started initiatives to help clean the waters which is a smart move and an equally useful one. This essential move will start the movement and help treat water better

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2. What are the possible impacts as a result of those human actions? :
There might not be a good scenery 🍃 on earth anymore. Nothing will be a green and clean environment 🌍 or if we help too clean up our earth we can enjoy and appreciate 😊the world better.

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Plastic pollution is different from paper or food waste because it never fully decomposes, or breaks down into pieces that can be reused by nature. Instead, plastic often ends up in water, where it releases toxic chemicals and can be mistaken for food. In a study conducted by the journal Science, scientists estimate that 8.8 million tons of plastic enter the ocean every year, threatening over 700 species of marine animals.

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Those humans actions can cause the aquatic animals and plants to die. It can also cause water pollution.

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We can manage the waters by trying not to litter things into the water so that the water wouldn’t be polluted with litter and trash so that the marine life would not be killed by human activities

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The possible impact of those human actions can cause our water to be polluted. The fishes and other creatures in the sea can also die due to the trash in the sea as they may mistake it as food and try to eat it or they get tangled in it. This can result to less fishes and other creatures in the sea.

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The impacts of water pollution is dangerous. An impact of water pollution is destruction of the biodiversity. The destruction of biodiversity can cause low dissolved oxygen level which will affect the marine life animals living there. Such objects such as plastics can make the marine life animals mistake it as food causing it to eat it and it might harm their lives.

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Various practices of sustainable groundwater supply include changing rates or spatial patterns of ground-water pumpage, increasing recharge to the ground-water system, decreasing discharge from the groundwater system, and changing the volume of groundwater in storage at different time scales (USGS, 1999).

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We can make sure that the sea and oceans are litter free and we can also use water ONLY when we need it. Littering isn’t smth good to do, it’s an options. YOU HAVE AN OPTION BRO. DO THE RIGHT THING.

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Human make water very dirty by throwing green tea bottled ,plastic.   Bag and weird stuff in the water therefore making it dirty

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The living things in the water will die because water to dirty fish eat the thrash that human throw in water

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the apparel and textile industry’s discharge of wastewater containing reactive dyes

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The load is characterized by high color content, with suspended solids, salts, nutrients, and toxic substances such as heavy metals and chlorinated organic compounds that pose significant risks to human health, including exposure to constituents such as chloride, nitrate, nitrite, and sulfate. In addition, the effluents discharged lead to serious pollution of surface water sources and groundwater, inhibiting biological processes and the productivity of rivers and streams.

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Litter, oil spillage, factory’s waste, these are all common causes of polluted water.

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We can manage our water sustainability by not throwing trash in the sea. If we don’t throw trash in the sea, our water quality will improve and make the water cleaner and less fishes will die. We can also use water when necessary and not waste it anyhow.

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private sector can help reverse the degradation before discharging the wastewater

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Even though many have tried to reduce waste it is impossible for people to help people manage the water responsibly as there are irresponsible plebes who think otherwise and idiotically throw trash with a flick of the wrist. Trash can affect water and treatments to it is never 100%. Bacteria and viruses would mutate and make the water less sustainable to everyone

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3. How do you think we can manage our water sustainably? :
We can reduce the time we spend on showering 🚿. Instead of using a hose to wash the car 🚗 we should use a bucket of water instead. Use a mug of water instead of a runny tap🚰  when brushing your 🦷 teeth and maybe we can clean up the 🌊 sea to make it litter free.

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Drink less waterrrrrrr so got more water for other like me to use not thinagesh

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We can make sure to throw our litters into the bin instead of the ocean when at the beach. Then we can also reduce time to shower so that we wont waste the clean water as every drop counts.

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For instance , the sounds made by ships mess with whale calls, and bright lights can confuse animals such as birds and newly attached sea turtle .

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We can help sustain or water supply and many ways. As demand for water continues to increase in tandem with population and economic growth, we will need to plan how to manage our water for future generations. The small things, no matter how small still matter such as taking a short shower, using a cup when brushing you teeth so you wouldn’t leave the water running. This is how to manage our water sustainability, the solutions are endless.

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Water continues to increase in tandem with population and economic growth,we will need to plan and implement water infrastructure well ahead to secure an adequate and affordable supply of water for the future generations.

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Pollution and killing of aquatic animals

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Human actions like littering and drainage water affect the quality of our water as they will contaminate the water and the fishes in the water will die which will make the water dirty.

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Possible impacts that might happen, it will pollute the water as the fishes in the water will die and contaminate the water and it won’t be safe for drinking.

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We can manage water sustainability by using water only when it is necessary and do not litter. Littering is an option 🙄 using water when it is necessary only because it will reduce the chances of the fishes dying.

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Animals will mistake the trash as food. These animals will then die from the trash in their body which are unable to digest.

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Human actions like littering and drainage water affect the quality of our water as they will contaminate the water and the fishes in the water will die which will make the water dirty

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Don’t throw trash on the floor as it might be blown into the sea.

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Possible impacts that might happen, it will pollute the water as the fishes in the water will die and contaminate the water and it wont be safe for drinking

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We can learn how to save water. Such examples are reusing the water. For example, use the used water to water the plants and many more. We can also take shorter showers. We will also have to collect litter and make the sea litter-free.

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Throw rubbish into dustbin and not into the water

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Litter is a common human act that affects the cleanliness of the water.

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We can manage water sustainability by using water only when it is necessary and do not litter. Littering is an option using water when it is necessary only because it will reduce the chances of fish dying

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Organisms such as crabs, snails, fishes and turtles often mistake these waste materials as food. If they consume these waste materials, their bodies would be unable to digest it and hence, would die from malnutrition. Another reason is that these animals may get entangled in these waste like, fishing lines, plastic and many more. If they get entangled, they may not be able to look for food and would also die.

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- cherish water (don’t waste water)
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The National Environment Agency (NEA) regulates water pollution and quality in Singapore's sewerage system, as well as inland water bodies and coastal areas.

To keep Singapore’s water clean, soil pollution must also be controlled, as pollutants in the soil can enter the water system as run-off or groundwater. Soil pollution control in Singapore focuses mainly on the proper use of approved pesticides to control termites.

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