What pollution is ? Environmental pollution is any discharge of material or energy into water, land, or air that causes or may cause acute (short-term) or chronic (long-term) detriment to the Earth's ecological balance or that lowers the quality of life.
Different types of pollution
The different types of pollution are as follows:
WATER POLLUTION
LAND POLLUTION
THERMAL POLLUTION
PESTICIDE POLLUTION
AIR POLLUTION
NOISE POLLUTION
RADIATION POLLUTION
WATER POLLUTION
Water pollution is the introduction into fresh or ocean waters of chemical, physical, or biological material that degrades the quality of the water and affects the organisms living in it.
LAND POLLUTION
Land pollution is the degradation of the Earth's land surface through misuse of the soil by poor agricultural practices, mineral exploitation, industrial waste dumping indiscriminate disposal of urban wastes.
THERMAL POLLUTION
Thermal pollution is the discharge of waste heat via energy dissipation into cooling water and subsequently into nearby waterways. The major sources of thermal pollution are fossil-fuel and nuclear electric-power generating facilities and, to a lesser degree, cooling operations associated with industrial manufacturing, such as steel foundries, other primary-metal manufacturers, and chemical and petrochemical producers.
PESTICIDE POLLUTION
Pesticides are organic and inorganic chemicals originally invented and first used effectively to better the human environment by controlling undesirable life forms such as bacteria, pests, and foraging insects.
Pesticides, which are relatively inert and non-degradable by chemical or biologic activity, are also bio-accumulative; that is, they are retained within the body of the consuming organism and are concentrated with each ensuing level of the biologic food chain.
AIR POLLUTION
Air pollution is the accumulation in the atmosphere of substances that, in sufficient concentrations, endanger human health or produce other measured effects on living matter and other materials. Among the major sources of pollution are : power and heat generation, the burning of solid wastes, industrial processes, The six major types of pollutants are: carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides, particulates,sulfur dioxide,and photochemical oxidants.
NOISE POLLUTION
Noise pollution has a relatively recent origin. It is a composite of sounds generated by human activities ranging from blasting stereo systems to the roar of supersonic transport jets. Noise pollution is more intense in the work environment than in the general environment.It destroys our ear drum causing fatal ear problems.
RADIATION POLLUTION
Radiation pollution is any form of ionizing or non-ionizing radiation that results from human activities. The most well-known radiation results from the detonation of nuclear devices and the controlled release of energy by nuclear-power generating plants (see nuclear energy). Sources of radiation include : spent-fuel reprocessing plants, by-products of mining operations, and experimental research laboratories.