5 Deadly Sources of Water Pollution - Don't Read This It May Scare You...

What the government doesn't want you to know about Water Pollution!

 
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Landfills are not specifically shown in this infographic, but are a potentially significant contributor to most of the pollutants shown. They can be chemicals that seep [sip] into the soil (especially if the landfill is not lined) and if leachate gets into the rivers and streams around a landfill they may contribute to all the other categories depending on what has been tipped into the landfill.

So, leachate from unlined and uncapped landfills is a potentially large contributor to the pollution shown in the infographic. But, thankfully, most landfills in the industrialized world nowadays are capped over the top to stop as much rainfall entering them as possible and lined so that the leachate which is formed can always be pumped out and treated so that it does not cause pollution of the sort shown above.

If a large landfill is near you and it is not lined and capped and the leachate is not pumped out and treated responsibly before discharge, you should be worried when you read this...