Pollution

Pollution

Did you know that pollution is one of the biggest global killers!? Which is affecting over 100 million people worldwide.That's comparable to global diseases like malaria and HIV.And due to the pollution that's going on every where 5,000 people die each day due to the dirty water. Over 1 million sea birds and sea mammals are killed by pollution every year. The reason I picked pollution as my topic is because it's one of the most biggest problems we have around the world. 


About 46% of the lakes in America are too polluted for people to go fishing, or swimming. People who live in places with high levels of air pollutants have a 20% higher risk of death from lung cancer than people who live in less polluted areas. Each year 1.2 trillion gallons of untreated sewage, storm water, and industrial waste are dumped into US water.Over 1 million seabirds are killed by plastic waste per year. Over 100,000 sea mammals and countless fish are killed per year due to pollution.



Almost 1,000 children in India die every day due to disease caused by polluted water.     
Over 51 billion pieces of litter are thrown onto the roads in the United States annually. Litter cleanup costs an estimated $11.5 billion in the U.S. each year.The soot and smoke from indoor cooking fires in undeveloped countries create deadly indoor pollution and kill as many as 2 million people annually, which is a higher death rate than for malaria.The average family in North America, Europe, and Australia throws away more than a ton of garbage each year.
Pollution is very bad but if we stick together we can make the world change so there will be no more polluting. And every one would have access to clean water. 








Resources: 
www.pollutionfacts.com