What is pollution? Pollution is "to make impure and to contaminate with man made waste." as defined by Webster dictionary. Pollution is the introduction of harmful substances or products into the environment. It is a major problem in North America and as well as the world. Pollution not only damages the environment, but also damages our vital life sustaining needs such as the water we drink. Pollution problems have arisen in all industrialized areas as well as in various inland and coastal waters. Everyone at one time or another has probably heard the phrase "every dollar counts". In fact, this is very true to big business corporations and companies because they make every dollar count even if it pollutes the water which, organisms depend on. Pollution is an obvious problem in our world today. Therefore, it is extremely important that we take action by making companies pay for their own mess, because soon there will be serious consequences that we may face in the future which, might lead to our extinction on earth.

Thus, life on earth is very fragile and it is extremely important that we should all realize the fragility of life by examining all the factors that affect it. An excellent way to start would be the maintenance of our clean drinking water and keeping our fresh water in our lakes pollution free. During the past 40 years most of our lakes and rivers have gotten very toxic and lifeless as a result of pollutants created and dumped by companies. The reason for this is that we live in a very capital driven country and companies would do anything to minimize their cost for disposing waste and lakes and ponds seem to be the answer for them. However, we cannot afford this to happen and therefore it up to us, the public to make stricter laws against illegal dumping, and make all companies liable for their own pollution. In addition we must also make all those companies to clean up all their wastes out of our lakes and rivers that they have left for us to clean up. It is up to us to stop pollution and save our future and most importantly our planet Earth.

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