Water pollution
How not to endanger our source of life The planet continually reminds us, with increasingly extreme droughts, that without water there is no life. This resource is essential not only for the survival of the living beings that inhabit it, but also for socioeconomic development, energy production or adaptation to climate change. However, today, we face an enormous challenge: the pollution of rivers, seas, oceans, canals, lakes and reservoirs. WHAT IS WATER POLLUTION The World Health Organization (WHO) defines contaminated water as water that undergoes changes in its composition until it becomes unusable. That is, it is toxic water that can neither be drunk nor used for essential activities such as agriculture, as well as a source of unhealthiness that causes more than 500,000 deaths annually globally from diarrhea and transmits diseases such as cholera, dysentery, typhoid fever and polio. The main contaminants of water include bacteria, viruses, parasites, fertilizers, pesticides, drugs