HUMAN ACTIVITIES THAT CAUSE DESRUCTION OF WATER BODIES

 A lot of human activities or practices can destroy water bodies such as rivers, lakes, lagoons, groundwater, and the sea.

Humans destroyed water 

BY ALPHA LUCCMAN

Clearing forest along River banks Communities living along the banks of rivers have cleared large portions of the vegetation surrounding the rivers for farming purposes.

This has caused the rivers to be losing much water, due to the drying up of the moisture content of lands surrounding it 

 

In addition to clearing land for farming activities .some people also engage in harvesting wood timber for every purpose further destroying the vegetative cover of the place 

All these activities along river banks have resulted in soil erosion and excessive evaporation of water from rivers since the forest which acts as a shield has been cleared.

OVERUSE OF FERTILIZER 

Fertilizers dissolve in rainwater and get washed into streams, lakes, and rivers in the water bodies, the fertilizers encourage the growth of bacteria algae, and water plants. This organism increases rapidly and deplete oxygen is used up without oxygen, fish, and water plant die and decay in the river.