Rivers-Streams+Conservation

David C.

Positive Things

= A positive impact people have been doing on rivers and streams is they have been taking baby fish out of the rivers and putting them in little ponds with food and water. They do that until they get old enough to go back into rivers and streams. People are trying to get all of the waste out of rivers and streams. People have been cleaning up rivers and streams. In some parks they have fish food for 25 cents to feed all of the fish. When people fish in rivers and streams they should not over fish or if the fish is too small then gently put it back in the water. That’s what people been doing the last several years and you can help too. =

Problem One and It's Possible Solution

One problem people have been doing to rivers and streams is polluting the water. From oil plants, workers dump all of their garbage into rivers and streams. They are killing all of the plant life and animal life. All of the garbage is spreading and going down hill, which is killing everything in its path. All of the garbage can get into ourGreat Lakes and destroy everything. Also, people can’t swim in our rivers or lakes. Water pollution is just terrible. If we could get the workers to just put their garbage back in the mine when they’re done with it and they could build a park over it or a building, or just let it be and let a forest grow. That would help keep our rivers and our lakes safe from oil pollution.

=Negative Things=

Some negative things people have been doing to rivers and streams is when people want to fish but fish that they catch have only one kind of food. Then when people put in new fish the new fish take over and both kinds of fish attack each other until death just for one meal. Acid rain harms wildlife and rivers and streams, when the fish go up to the shore acid rain can kill the fish.

= __Fish population__ =

There’s an alarming number of extinct or endangered fish, amphibians mussels all in streams. This is the doing of over fishing. The fishermen are not the only problem many fish are also endangered by pollution, dams, and lack of water. When more people occupy the land area more runoff water goes to the streams because of an increase in hard surfaces. Instead of soaking through the natural filters of the ground, it runs directly into streams, carrying all of the peoples' pesticides, herbicides, petroleum products, heavy metals, and other pollutants of civilization with it. This pollutes the water increasing the number of endangered fish. Humans must address this issue.

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