Water Pollution in Central Kalimantan

Water is really useful for human life, they use water for drinking, washing, bathing, cooking and many others activities. Water pollution is when the water that we usually use for drinking or other activities is contaminated with bad lique or other bad stuff.

In Central Kalimantan almost all of the rivers have been polluted with bad chemicals and liquid. These are the river that already contaminated: Kahayan River, Barito River, Kapuas River, Katingan River, Lamandau River, Mandawai River and Seruyan River. All of these rivers have been contaminated with bad liquid (chemical) called mercury. This chemical is contaminated with the river’s water when the mining of gold and zircon sand mining that haven’t have permission from the government is working in the river. The gold miners use the mercury to remove the sand from the gold so they can sell the gold for their own business.

 The second things that are contaminated in the river are the rubbish and waste from some factories and from the citizen that live around the river. They usually throw their waste and rubbish to the river and as you that rubbish is really bad especially for plastic rubbish that can’t be damage.

This condition is not good for the citizen because when the citizen or the people that live around the river take the water for drinking and cooking it is the same like they are drinking and cooking the water that already mix with rubbish and mercury. The effect when they did that is sickness. They would have a lot of different sickness like Cholera, Dysentery, Typhoid, Jaundice and Skin diseases. For the fish that live in that liver will die because of the effect of the mercury chemical.

It is a serious problem, so we can do this thing to make it better: don’t throw rubbish and waste to the river and stop the gold mining and zircon sand mining that use

Mercury.

References

n.a.. (2011). Pollution Of Kahayan River . Available: http://www.scribd.com/doc/43755275/POLLUTION-OF-KAHAYAN-RIVER. Last accessed 13th May 2011.

n.a.. (2011). Pencemaran Air Pembawa Bencana Bagi Kehidupan Manusia. Available: http://www.scribd.com/doc/47709865/PENCEMARAN-AIR-PEMBAWA-BENCANA. Last accessed 13 May 2011.

By: Crisda Yana