Elements Causing the Lack of Fresh Water
As you may know, every day a big percent of our fresh water is depleted because of pollution. Although some elements have a factor on those percentages. So today I will explain 3 elements that are polluting our waters and explain how they got there in the first place.
Mercury
Mercury is a very well-known element for polluting our waters, but some people don’t know how it does. Mercury is emitted to our atmosphere and lands onto land and mostly water surface. Mercury then spreads and when it gets evaporated it puts more mercury into the water and so on. Mercury is a big pollutant element and is the reason most of us don’t have access to too much fresh water.
Sulfur dioxide
Sulphur dioxide causes a lot of other environmental risks, but it can also cause a little bit of pollution to our waters. As we know sulfur dioxide is a pollutant that can cause acid rain and other stuff. But it also causes our waters to be polluted. How it gets there in the first place is because some companies such as nestle which is the number on biggest freshwater waste company out of all of them releases some of these bits of Sulphur dioxide that adds up over time. Then which It spreads through our waters and pollutes them
Francium
Francium is a rare element for polluting waters since no one “accidentally” leaves it near water, but there is a small percentage that does. Francium is a very big reaction with water so when it has impact with it, it explodes, the water from the explosion would produce hydrogen gas, but francium would produce hydroxide with a lot of heat. Causing that area to be radioactive including the water. The water gets contaminated from is and spreads to other water sources. How it gets there is the same way sulfur dioxide is. Although only a few companies have a francium that they leave out near water, it still can be deadly.
References
Thoughtco.com
Britannica.com
En.wikipedia.org