Water Pollution Photos

Imagine having to use water like this...

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Kids swimming in polluted water

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Child in Africa

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Gathering dirty water

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Child drinking dirty water

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Comparing the polluted water that is 

consumed and normal, clean drinking water

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Student in Hirumbi Primary School (in Kenya)

fetching water

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Water pollution

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Gathering dirty water

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Children fetching dirty water in Uganda

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Children gathering water in India

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Water pollution in Jakarta

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Kenyan boy fetching dirty water

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Water pollution (plastic waste)

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Boy gathering dirty water

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Child drinking dirty, polluted water

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Child in Africa gathering murky, dirty water

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Fact 15

Over 30 billion tons of urban sewage are discharged into lakes, rivers and oceans each year.

Fact 14

Aquatic animals have faced an estimated extinction rate five times more than that of terrestrial animals.

Fact 14

About 700 million people worldwide drink contaminated water 

Fact 13

Plastic waste being a major water pollutant is causing huge destruction of marine life and is believed to be responsible for deaths of more than 100,000 sea mammals, sea birds and various types of fishes.

Fact 12

Asia has maximum numbers of polluted rivers than anywhere else in the world. Most of it contains bacteria created from human waste.

Fact 11

As per U.S. EPA estimates every year in the U.S, 1.2 trillion gallons of sewage from household, industry and restaurants is dumped in to U.S. water annually.

Fact 10

80% of the water pollution is caused due to domestic sewage like throwing garbage on open ground and water bodies.

Fact 9

Water pollution is the major cause of various diseases like cholera and typhoid. 

Fact 8

According to UNICEF, more than 3000 children die everyday globally due to consumption of contaminated drinking water.

Fact 7

In America, 40% of the rivers and 46% of the lakes are polluted and are considered unhealthy for swimming, fishing, or aquatic life.

Fact 6

Ground water in Bangladesh is contaminated with arsenic. Arsenc is very toxic, acute poison and a carcinogen. Approximately 85% of the total area of Bangladesh has contaminated groundwater.

Fact 5

According to the WHO (World Health Organization) and United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), around 2.5 billion people do not have access to improve sanitation.

Fact 4

15 million children under the age of five die each year because of diseases caused by drinking water.

Fact 3

At least 320 million people in China do not have access to clean drinking water.