How can river pollution be prevented

Or, leave it in your yard if you can't compost. Don't blow leaves into the street. This clogs and damages storm drains. Wash your car or outdoor equipment where it can flow to a gravel or grassy area instead of a street.

Don't pour your motor oil down the storm drain. Take it to the nearest auto parts store. It's free! Never clean up a spill by hosing it into a storm drain. Place kitty litter, sand, or another absorbent on the spill. Your pipes might clog and cause sewer pipes to clog and back up into yards and basements. The waste also contaminates local bodies of water. You can further cut down on water pollution by using just enough of these cleaners to do the job.

Phosphates lead to algae blooms and kill fish and other aquatic animals by reducing the oxygen in the water. This connection dumps biological wastes, heavy metals, cleaning chemicals and more into the system. Never flush medicines down the toilet, and never dump them in the nearest pond or creek. The drugs tend to accumulate in the water, and in fish and other wildlife.

Hormones and other compounds end up causing a variety of health problems in fish and birds and contaminate drinking water that people and livestock use. While chemicals can be used on organic foods, they tend to be produced with few synthetic chemicals. Eating organic reduces the amount of chemical pollution that ends up in the water.

The food we choose to eat has a huge impact on environmental quality, between the chemicals used to grow food, the fuel used to transport the crops, and the fuel used to power farm equipment on industrial farms.

Report people who pour oil in storm drains, toss bags of trash in a stream, and so on. No matter where you live in the country, there are going to be charities working on watershed protection, water pollution cleanup, and similar causes. Your support may even lead to expanded anti-pollution work. Raising animals for meat takes lots of water for the grains and other foods they need, as well as to keep them alive. Further, the antibiotics and solid waste both tend to end up in groundwater and rivers.

Plastic shopping bags and plastic rings from six-packs of beverages cause inordinate problems in the nations lakes and seas. Plastic bottles can last for decades in the water. Buy some reusable cloth or plastic grocery bags instead. Use reusable, insulated containers to hold drinks and make your own filtered water at home.

Oil and other fluids leak from motor vehicles and end up in the local water table, or running off into creeks and streams. This runoff problem is easy to treat; just be diligent about maintaining and repairing your vehicles. Leaky seals, hoses, and gaskets tend to cause expensive mechanical problems anyway, so replacing the worn parts can save you money. So, properly get rid of your tissue paper, rags, and other cleaning disposables after use.

Car and other means of transportation lacking proper maintenance spill oil quickly. This oil would then escape into groundwater. Such a mishap is avoidable if you properly maintain your vehicles. This preventative measure also discourages air pollution, which worsens water pollution.

Inculcate these habits at your workplace or any institution you find yourself. Check for water pollution practices in your organization and endeavor to curb them. Collective effort amongst your colleagues, friends, and family would go a long way to minimize water pollution.

So, kindly carry everyone along. For instance, make suggestions to your institution about environmentally friendly cleaners. Furthermore, you can come up with signs as a caveat that deter people from polluting water. You can put up these signs in strategic locations like your school toilet, office toilet, kitchen, and the likes.

Remember, climate change and the exponential global population are always causing water pollution leading to more water-borne diseases. Thus, get more involved in reducing water pollution. The safer the water bodies, groundwater, and aquatic animals, the better our human health in general.