What effect does soil pollution have on humans?
The major concern is that there are many sensitive land uses where people are in direct contact with soils such as residences, parks, schools and playgrounds. Other contact mechanisms include contamination of drinking water or inhalation of soil contaminants which have vaporized. There is a very large set of health consequences from exposure to soil contamination depending on pollutant type, pathway of attack and vulnerability of the exposed population. Chromium and obsolete pesticide formulations are carcinogenic to populations. Lead is especially hazardous to young children, in which group there is a high risk of developmental damage to the brain,while to all populations kidney damage is a risk. Chronic exposure to at sufficient concentrations is known to be associated with higher incidence of leukemia. Obsolete pesticides such as mercury and cyclodienes are known to induce higher incidences of kidney damage, some irreversible; cyclodienes are linked to liver toxicity.
All harmfull chemicals that in the soil is absorbed by plants and we eat the produces from plant in the form of wheat,rice,vegitables fruits etc. Due to rain all these are washed into rivers,lakes,and sea. The fish gets contaminated from these waters.The animals eat grass grown on the soil and it contaminates the meat which we comsume.and the milk we drink.
