Soil and Water Contamination
Preventing Soil and Water Contamination
Water
is the most crucial things in the whole world and it’s needed for sustainable
development, sustainable life, and sustainable agriculture. Human race and all
other living organism could survive without food for a couple weeks, but they
survive only for a couple days without water. It just because more than 70 % of
our body cells contains water. In this world, water consisted in a lot of form
such as iceberg, fog, cloud, underground water, surcafe water, and sea water
then all whole process and form called hydrological cycle. Waters got constant
circulation on earth by hydrological cycle such as evapotranspiration,
presipitation, percolation, and runoff.
Fertile
soil is a good one for development of sustainable agriculture. Fertile of soil
could be seemed by it’s quality like texture, structure, and the colour itself.
Also quantity by physical, chemical, and biological indicator which could be
known by lab analyze.
Soil
and water are the abiotic component from agroecosystem that always be the
persistent of toxic things. Some toxic things which a specific characteristic
could be trapped and accumulated underground eventhough move to the other place
by water flow or runoff. The toxic things which a specific characteristic such
us metal component, agrochemical, and industrial waste.
Development
of industrial area could have a lot risks and negative effect for environment.
Environment contamination is the process of other substances which come from
human activity to environment that caused quality degradation.
One
of the most crucial environment contamination is water contamination. There are
a lot of substances which could contaminate water such as microbiology
(bacteria, parasite, virus), organic substance, and other anorganic substance.
Actually
for some conditions waters ecosystem could adapted from the toxical substances
called assimilation capacity. But only when toxical substances over it’s
assimilation capacity, it may cause unbalance of the ecosystem then it could be
derangement for water population.
Wastes
come from production process residue of industrial, agriculture and domestic.
There are civilization, there are wastes like solid wastes and liquid wastes.
Generally, source of wastes divided into 4 category:
1. Industrial
waste
Industrial wastes water
from whole production process such as metal components, color substances, etc
depends on basic substance of the production process of each industry.
2. Domestic
Wastes
Domestic wastes water
generally come from civilization. The wastes contain excretion substances,
laundry wastes, and kitchen wastes.
3. Agricultural
Wastes
Agricultural wastes
water come from synthetic chemical substances of pesticide and anorganic
fertilizer. Residue of the substances could be accumulated, trapped, and move
to other place far away from the current place.
4. Natural
Waste
Existence of natural waste on earth
is more less than the other sources. But the spread of the wastes effect are
more global.
There
are a lot of impact of water and soil contamination:
1. Agriculture
Contamination of soil
may cause degradation of the soil itself. Thus, contaminated soil could not
produce crops anymore. It just because that soil has change it’s capability and
sustainability.
2. Environment
Organic substances on
waters may cause deviation of unbalanced parameter. Anorganic substance has
responsibility of unbalanced pH that could intrude living organism of water
biota. Sometimes if waters has much betel lime it may cause sedimentation from
soluble suspended particle and it should make shallow of the surface waters
then cause flood.
3. Living
organism
Oftentimes wastes water make some
disturbance for humans health, animals, and other living organism straightway
or not. Contaminated water could cause some disease like digestive, skincare,
and even cancer.
There
are a lot of efforts to handle soil and water contamination to keep our
environment clean. A whole world has a lot of claimed to make our environment
everlasting by preventing contamination and wastes processing.
1. Appropriate
development method for wastes processing
2. Knowledgeable
about long period of time of the wastes effect
3. Biodegradable
organic substances processing
4. Increase
awareness about the impact of wastes for environment
By
preventing contamination, hopefully could support our development of
sustainable agriculture and for sustainable life.
Posted by:
Afdiyat Walton
RIMK
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