Water Pollution - created from Mind Map

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Personal

Scientific

Economic

Legal/Ethical

Environmental

Social

Right now it does not really affect me physically

One way it affected me in a different part of the world was in India, there used to be a river I would play in as a kid whenever we went. I can't do that anymore due to water pollution making it very dirty

This could affect me in the long term if the water in Canada also becomes too polluted

Water pollution did lead to many new inventions

One of them is a filter system used in some US states that stops debris from coming into our lakes

Some scientific knowledge is needed such as learning safe ways to clean the water without hurting the wildlife that lives in it

Another is a straw that filters dirty water into clean drinking water, this is used in many third world countries where clean water is very scarce.

Water pollution poisons and kills the fish making them unsellable and losing the fishers money

Farmers is also affected by water pollution kind of the same way as the fishers are, they crops die from the bad water making farmers lose lots of money too

Poisonous fish will lead to job loss due to the quality of the fish and people will get sick

Due to the lack of crops, prices will start to incease

Laws are in place to help bring down the amount of water pollution that happens

Penalties for water pollution can be up to 100,000 or 6 years in jail for subsequent convictions

The first laws were put into place in 1974. The water (prevention and control of pollution) Act, 1974

Many American cities are also affected by water pollution, for example Michigan, which has a big problem with flint being in their water making it undrinkable

The environment is the main thing water pollution really affects other than the water itself

Short term this problem is pretty contained, it is known and efforts are being made to make sure this water pollution does not become a very big problem and everyone has access to clean drinking water

It affects the land in many ways, for example a river is how plants near it get water, if those don't get clean water the whole scenery could die.

Long term what we are trying to prevent might become reality

For people who are around bad drinking water it affects them greatly

For example people in third world countries who have to walk miles for drinkable water, which isn't even that clean

This also affects the military because most wars and problems are in poor countries so they need constant food and water drops because it is difficult to get it where they are