Culminate Ocean Pollution!
Big Waters Equal Big Meaning!
What Causes Ocean Pollution? And How Does It Affect Society's Health?
*black water (sewage)
*gray water
*ballast water
*anti-fouling paints
*commercial garbage
*pollution from ships
*habitat destruction
*mercury
It Affects Our Health By...
*Makes Us Humans Ill
*Oxygen Levels are decreasing for marine animals, due to human resource's (caused by factories)
*Sunlight is Low
*Run off is High
*We and Animals are inhaling harmful substances
How Does It Affect Our World? And What An Expert Has To Say...
It Affects Our World By...
*Economy risks are higher due to the lack of selling of seafood (because it isn't safe to consume)
*Resources are Low
*1.1 billion lack water access
*2.4 billion don't have good sanitation
*Animals and People are being harmed by the garbage in the water
What Professor Robert P. Mason Believes...
*It is important to realize that achieving a 20% decrease in mercury deposition will require substantial cuts in current anthropogenic emissions, given the already very sizeable build-up of mercury in terrestrial environments and ocean waters,” said Robert P. Mason, Ph.D., professor of marine sciences at the University of Connecticut.
*He means that mercury is damaging, and could increasingly become the main damage of the marine waters.
How We Can Advocate/ Prevent Ocean Pollution? And Work Cited
We Can Advocate and Prevent Ocean Pollution By...
*Follow laws being required by law to protect and leave oceanic ecosystems alone
*Recycle instead of dumping waste in the ocean
*Not dumping harmful matter into oceanic ecosystems
Work Cited...
*"EPA." Marine Water Quality. EPA, 21 May 2014. Web. 08 Apr. 2015.
*"EPA." Protecting the Marine Environment. EPA, 12 June 2014. Web. 06 Apr. 2015.
*"EPA." Protecting the Marine Environment. EPA, 12 June 2014. Web. 08 Apr. 2015.
*"Ocean Regulatory Programs." Ocean Regulatory Programs. EPA, 20 Mar. 2012. Web. 06 Apr. 2015.
*"Research." Reproductive Health Matters 20.40, Sexual and Reproductive Morbidity: Not a Priority (2012): 223-24. Environmental Health Perspectives, Mar. 2011. Web. 10 Apr. 2015.
*"WWF - Endangered Species Conservation." WorldWildlife.org. World Wildlife Fund, 2015. Web. 10 Apr. 2015.