In this blog post I will be telling you many things about how dirty rivers are a direct source of pollution to our lakes and how they get that way. Most people thing of rivers as another landfill to put their dirty garbage in. They believe that it wont harm anything because it's just a river. Well that is terribly wrong. Rivers as we all know always flow into another larger body of water. Most of the time they flow into lakes that millions of people drink from. For example, how would you like huge amounts of garbage from lakes pouring into a lake that you drink from each and every day. Well, it would not be pleasant would it? Now, what makes these lakes so dirty?
It really is simple to answer that question. Here are just a few of the reasons why; farmers put fertilizers and other chemicals in crops but when it rains they get washed away, most of the time, into a lake, some random people just looking for a trash can but decide to throw it into a lake, and industrial waste ,like cyanide, that goes into the lake on accident. First let's look back to the point about the farmers. The pesticides that go into the water actually increase the amount of phosphorus and nitrate in the water. Which in turn leads to algae growing at a rapid rate. With this sudden boom in algae there is a big consequence. When the algae die they are broken down by bacteria which takes up all the oxygen in the water, and kills many animals.
I would say what happens when those things enter our lakes but I think you already have an idea of what would happen. This is why we need a filter to stop these harmful bacteria from ever getting near our lakes. Now, you know a bit more about what might be going into the lake that you drink from. With my filter we can stop this and drink 100% cyanide free lakes!
