Water Pollution
Facts About Water Pollution
- Around 70% of the industrial waste is dumped into the water bodies where they pollute the usable water supply
- At least 320 million people in China do not have access to clean drinking water
- Fourteen billion pounds of garbage mostly plastic, is dumped into the ocean every year
- Aquatic animal have faced an estimated extinction rate five times more than that of terrestrial animals
- According to UNICEF, more than 3,000 children die everyday globally due to consumption of contaminated drinking water
- 15 million children under the age of five die each year because of diseases caused by drinking water
- Approximately 40% of the lakes in America are too polluted for fishing, aquatic life, or swimming
- Over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 sea mammals are killed by pollution every year