Water Pollution In Bogota

Introduction:
In Bogota all the wastes produced by humans had been throwing them to the river so the among of pollution in the water reached a critical point.


















Information About Bogotas River:
The Bogota River is a major river of the Cundinamarca department of Colombia crossing the region from the northeast to the southwest and passing along the western limits of Bogota. The large population and major industrial base in its watershed have resulted in extremely  severe contamination problems for the river.

Problem:
The human raze know that there's not much water, but we continue wasting and contaminating it.

Hypotesis:
If the human been make some machines that purify water without affecting in a bad way the living things, showing until what point we the humans have arrived making conscience about our attitude.

Causes:
Some materials that are produced in industries are very toxic for the water such as:

• The sediments
• The metals
• The biological pollution 
• The sewage
• The marine dumping
• And many others.

Diary Pollutants:
Some materials that pollute the water are used in our houses this ones takes years to decompose here are some examples.

• Cardboard           2 weeks.
• Newspaper          6 weeks.
• Foam                   50 years
• Styrofoam            80 years.
• Aluminium            200 years.
• Plastic                  400 years.
• Glass                    aprox 400 years.

Other pollutants are:

• Radioactive Wastes
• Global Warming
• Atmosphere Deposition
• Eutrophication
• Heavy Metals
• Industrials Wastes
• Microbial Pollutants

Imporatnt Data:
Each year 2.2 million of people die in developing diseases.
2.4 million gallons of water are used in a year in all the world

This Images are of the Bogotas river actually