Stop killing our rivers and streams

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Our rivers and streams are the lifeblood of our country. Without them we have no water to drink, no water for our factories and power plants, no water to grow our food, and no water for our environment. Yet we are slowly killing our rivers by polluting them. What is water pollution? Water pollution is any substance introduced into a river, stream, lake or ocean that harms the natural resources found in those environments (such as plants and animals). Lakes and rivers can naturally clean up a certain amount of pollution by dispersing it harmlessly. For example, if you were to pour a cup of black ink into a river, the ink would quickly disappear into the river’s much larger volume of clean water. The ink would still be there in the river, but in such a low concentration that you would not be able to see it. At such low levels, the chemicals in the ink does probably not present any real problem. However, if you poured many litres of ink into a river every few seconds through a pipe, the river would quickly turn black.

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