Air Pollution
Effects:
Bad health on people who breath bad air
Deseases such as lung cancer
Dust gathers pollutants from air and settles in lakes, soils, sediment, indoors and has bad effects too.
Causes:
Smoke stacks
Refinery emmisions
Burning
Cars/Trucks
Cow farts
Tree pollen
Check out the EPA TRI Explorer
Water Pollution:
Effects:
Health affects of bad surface and groundwater water
Aquatic life impacts in surface water
Less groundwater avaialbe
Causes:
Polluted dust from air pollution (see above)
Runoff from farms, urban areas, factories
Point sourses like wastewater treatment plants, sewers.
Dumping, spills.
Leaking underground storage tanks (LUSTs)
Land Pollution (aka soil contamination).
Effects:
Health affects from contact
Dust from contaminated soils can spread pollution
Land values go down
Leaching of soils of chemical by water causes water pollution
Causes:
Spills
Inproper industrial and construciton practices
Dumping
Dust settling on soils from contaminated air
These are just a few, there are lots more effects and causes.
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