Animals in the wild have to find water sources to live and maintain good health. If the water is polluted and the animal drinks the polluted water; it could kill the animal or it could get a disease. Diseases are carried through animals and can be passed on from one species to another. ... Whether it is in the air or water, it is affecting all types of things from humans to animals to plants. ... Reducing pollution will allow more areas for safer drinking water and air to breath for humans, animals, and plants....

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Because of the heavy rain that we are getting from global warming, pollution, sediments, and nutrients into our only drinking water which our entire lives depend on. ... Arctic animals like polar bears, walruses, whales, and seals are having to change their migration and feeding patterns. This makes it hard for the native people who have to hunt those animals to survive. ... Also our fresh drinking water will be contaminated by the saltwater and it would become undrinkable. ... Polar bears are one of the animals that are being grately affected by global warming. ...

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This can be harmful to the animals that may drink this groundwater supply, and to us if these chemicals manage to infect the groundwater within a major aquifer. ... This negatively impacts the animals that previously inhabited these frozen land masses by taking away their homes and the very ground that they walk on; the melted remnants of these ice caps also add water to the ocean, thus increasing global sea levels. ...

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They also include the air we breathe and the water we drink. ... Most past climate changes occurred slowly, allowing plants and animals to adapt to the new environment or move somewhere else. However, if future climate changes occur as rapidly as scientists predict, plants and animals may not be able to react quickly enough to survive. ... Coastal flooding could cause saltwater to flow into areas where salt is harmful, threatening plants and animals in those areas. ... Coastal flooding also may reduce the quality of drinking water in coastal areas. ...

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Those who depend on ground water for drinking water, run the risk of consuming chemicals that could potentially endanger their lives. ... By not forcing companies to list and regulate the chemicals they use, the United States government has exempted hydraulic fracturing companies form the clean water act, as well as the safe drinking water act (Fox). ...

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Instead, ethanol production generates exports of feed co-products such as corn-gluten and by-products of the fermentation process such as corn oil and high protein animal feed supplements. ... The contamination of drinking water is less of an issue for ethanol because it is less toxic to humans than other alternative fuels in equal concentrations. ...

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The EPA should also hire geologists to survey potential aquifer recharge areas and use zoning laws to prohibit them from being used for anything but state parks and animal refugees. ... By making people aware of where their water comes from and what they are drinking through advertising will the environment be supported. ...

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