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How can drinking from most rivers and ponds affect a person's health?
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It contains poisonous chemicals that imperils your lives.
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How can drinking from rivers and ponds affect a persons health?
It contains poisonous chemicals that imperils your lives.
How can drinking from most rivers and ponds affect a persond health?
The water has bacteria, animal feces, and parasites. NEVER drink water from a stream, lake, or river it can kill you.
How can drinking from rivers or ponds affect ones health?
The water can contain worms, fish, and lead poisoning. Even worse is that rain water stays there, and we don't know where that water was before.
in many places how can drinking from rivers and ponds affect a persons health?
Water in rivers, ponds, lakes are polluted. They can have parasites, animal waste, oil, human waste, pollution from upstream industry, dumping of chemicals , and a million other things.
How do Africa's four major rivers affect the lives of its people?
The four major rivers are an important factor in the lives of the people of Africa. The rivers are a source of food in the form of fish. The rivers are also used in agriculture or farming as the water can be used for irrigation or quenching the thirst of domestic animals.
What affects a river's health?
Factories that dump poisonous waste and chemicals into rivers affects a river's health. People who litter, pulp mills and oil rigs also affect river health.
Where does china get its drinking water?
rivers
What are the lake and rivers in Hawaii used for?
Lakes and rivers are used for drinking water.
What effects do rivers have on animals?
drinking areas...
What was the affect of the rivers flooding in Mesopotamia?
The affect of rivers flooding in Mesopotamia was that the rivers would deposit silt which was very good for growing crops
Why were rivers so important to Chinese?
Rivers in China are important for drinking, agriculture, and electricity generation.
Where can we find fresh water from?
drinking water and rivers
