How does contamination of drinking water affects the health of humans, animals, and plants?
Contaminants in drinking water affects one and all. It can travel up the food chain by affecting the lower organisms, consequently affecting the food supply available for the animals of humans. Aquatic animals can accumulate the contaminants in their bodies and cause serious health hazards to the animals or humans who consume them. Wetlands support a wide variety of flora and fauna, pollutants can affect a wetland by interfering with their natural capacity of filtering our pollutants, this then affects the life of these wetlands.
Contaminants in drinking water affects one and all. It can travel up the food chain by affecting the lower organisms, consequently affecting the food supply available for the animals of humans. Aquatic animals can accumulate the contaminants in their bodies and cause serious health hazards to the animals or humans who consume them. Wetlands support a wide variety of flora and fauna, pollutants can affect a wetland by interfering with their natural capacity of filtering our pollutants, this then affects the life of these wetlands.
