Dangers of Water Runoff

- Kills over 2.2 million people every year
- Kills animals
- In 2002, about 2.6 billion people lacked an adequate water treatment system
- Arsenic is threatening 75 million people and can cause breast cancer, kidney and liver disease, respiratory problems and death
- Every 8 seconds and child dies somewhere in the world because of dirty water
- Malaria and dengue fever are disease that originate from polluted water
- An aquatic ecosystem becomes unsanitary and unhealthy when the balance of its natural state is disturbed by something physical, chemical, or biological
- Over two-thirds of U.S. estuaries and bays are severely degraded because of nitrogen and phosphorous pollution
- Every year almost 25% of U.S. beaches are closed at least once because of water pollution
- Over 73 different kinds of pesticides have been found in the groundwater that we eventually use to drink
- 1.2 trillion gallons of sewage, storm water and industrial waste are discharged into U.S. waters every year

- 40% of U.S. rivers are too polluted for aquatic life to survive
Americans use over 2.2 billion pounds of pesticides every year, which eventually washes into our rivers and lakes