While it is true that women are often accused industries or to farmers from polluting the water, private users also have their share of responsibility. On a daily basis, products that are used for our daily tasks, such as cleaning the home, release a lot of contaminants In nature.
Let's see some tips to act at our own level in order to preserve this precious source of life that is water. The first gesture to avoid polluting the water: throw the waste into the garbage. How many times do we witness, throughout the day, the lack of urbanity of some people throwing greasy papers and packaging anywhere.
In the city or in the field, most of the debris that “paper” the soil ends up, sooner or later, in Water. Not to mention the waste originated after a picnic, and that are left near a river, or near a pond, during vacations, or on the occasion of a field trip.
What's more, some of these waste take weeks, and others even centuries, to be able to degrade in the Nature. A piece of candy disappears after 5 years, while it will take 100 years for an aluminum wrapper to completely degrade.
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