What is Acid Rain?

Acid Rain is any type of precipitation that has sulferdioxide or nitrogen oxides dissolved into the water.

 

      Effects of Acid Rain On Drinking Water

Acid Rain causes copper and lead to seep into drinking water, which in turn causes hair to become green and kidney and liver damage. Sulfer Dioxide when aire borne can also cause lung damage in humans.

 

                       What is Arsenic?

Arsenic is a notoriously poisonous metalloid found mainly in minerals associated with sulfur and metals.

 

     Effects of Arsenic in Our Drinking Water

Arsenic Poisoning has been known to cause bladder, lung, skin, and kidney and liver cancer. Can also cause harm resulting in birth defects, reproductive problems and damage to blood vessels in the heart.

 

                                                  

 

   How Do These Chemicals Get Into Water?

Arsenic and Acid Rain get into drinking water by natural deposits in the earth, industrial and agricultural pollutions. Fossil fuel burning is a major cause of both of these pollutants.

 

                      

 

   How Do You Reduce Poisoning from

These Chemicals?

Purchasing water treatments or you can buy a filter for your home that helps remove these chemicals from your drinking water. Everyone should help government and water officials clean up contaminated sites to reduce input of these chemicals into drinking water.

                            References

  http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/qarsenic.asp

                                               http://www.epa.gov/acidrain/effects/health.html

 Luoma, J. (1988). THE HUMAN COST OF ACID RAIN. Audubon, 90(4), 16-27. Retrieved from Academic Search Complete database.