Article write up

The topic of the articles I read was water pollution. Water pollution is a very big problem everywhere in the world.  The first article I read was water pollution in China. The water pollution is alarming. They just talk about how pollution happens everywhere and that is caused by nations trying to climb to power. For example, The USA in the 1800’s destroyed some of its natural resources trying to reach Manifest Destiny. China is one of the worst places for water pollution.  In these articles there are two different countries that are having problems with water pollution. One is China and the other is South Africa. In China the cause of the pollution is pretty much because they are a developing country while in South Africa it is pretty much because of Poor city planning and not having the funds to support water management and research, the lack of resources, and overcrowding. Both of these countries are having troubles with pollution but both have different reasons why.  In these 3 articles there were many interesting pieces of information. I thought that amount of pollution that is in China. The article said that 70 percent of China’s lakes and rivers are polluted. Also 90 percent of their underground water is polluted. This means that most of the  million Chinese people do not have clean water. The article also says that 75 percent of diseases in China come from water pollution according to World Health Organization (WHO). Water pollution doesn’t just affect the stuff in the water but it also affects the people around the water pollution. The WHO says that there is about 100,000 water pollution related deaths a year in China. The mortality rate could easily be prevented if the government took some action. In the article about pollution in South Africa I thought it was interesting that many places don’t have good sewage. Many places just dump the sewage right into bodies of water or rivers and that pollutes the rivers. Then the rivers flow into lakes or seas or oceans and pollute the bigger bodies of water. For example, sewage from the central business district of Dar es Salaam and Tanga just dump their sewage right into the Indian Ocean without treatment according to water expects.  These articles had kind of an impact on me. The problems in these articles aren’t in the USA but I know that pollution happens here too. These articles make me want to take action and do whatever I can to help pollution to be stopped and not just here but in Places like China and South Africa that really need help. All pollution can be cleaned up and stopped, it just takes a group of people that care and change what people do. It even said in the article about the pollution in China that the deaths due to water pollution can be changed if the government cared and did something about it.  I think the information in these articles is accurate. They had sources like in the South Africa article it uses things that the World Health Organization said. I think these articles are reliable because it is copyright in 2011 by the Pollution Prevention Guide.