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it is because the fertilizer and pesticides the farmers use will wash into waterways through run off polluting it. and what about the exhaust from those tractors? that would some how find its way into water. sort of. maybe. a little. disregard that last sentence.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 9y agoChemical fertilizers from the soil might be washed away by rainwater into the water bodies. The fertilizers are carried by the rainwater and it flows into smaller water bodies such as canals and rivers before flowing into the lakes and seas. The fertilizers will then contaminate the water and destroy marine life in it as it is chemically harmful.
A:Fertilizers Pollute by- seeping into the ground and polluting groundwater (wells)
- they get blown into or runoff from fields into a river and pollute that.
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∙ 12y agoWhen it rains it washes the fertilizer off and into creeks andding to the water polution.
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∙ 11y agothe chemicals from fertilizer runs off when it rains and goes onto the water.
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∙ 14y agoby pesticides and fertilzeres. they runoff into a nearby stream and pollutes the water.
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∙ 12y agoThey cause pollution because the chemicals put into the fertilizers run into the water; then causing water pollution.
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How can fertilizer pollute a wetlands ecosystem?
Fertilizer can pollute a wetlands ecosytem because the fertilizer has toxins in it so the animals will die and there will be no more animals to make a wetlands ecosytem because toxins have bad chemicals in them.
How chemicals can both hurt and help the environment?
Answer this question… Chemicals can pollute water, but they can also be used to clean water.
What is chemical pollution?
chemical pollution is when chemicals get in water and pollute it
How does humans pollute aquifers?
Humans pollute aquifers by dumping pollutants such as chemicals and fertilizers into the water sources.
How do chemicals pollute your water system?
by killing the animal life there and making the water undrinkable.
How does fertilizer pollute your environment?
It runs-off from farms and gets int oare water system
Why should you not pour chemicals down the drain?
Because it will pollute our water system.
How does cemetery pollute the ground?
because chemicals seep into the ground from the caskit and the chemicals from the bodies go into the ground water
How can furtilizer pollute water?
Fertilizer contains various chemicals which enter the soil, and are slowly washed downward until they enter an aquifer, spring, or underground river. This water is likely to eventually end up in a reservoir, river, or well. Now the unlucky person who's water supply it has entered get the privilege of drinking the fertilizer you put on your lawn. Also, there is phosphorus in fertilizer which will encourage the growth of Algae in whatever water source it ends up in.
How does air freshener pollute the environment?
It Contains Chemicals Anything Containing Chemicals CAN pollute the earth
Why is Walmart socially irresponsible?
They pollute the environment.. 1) they let harmul chemicals in water 2) they emit harmful chemicals in the air....
What happens when nitrates and phosphorus enter rivers and lakes?
it will pollute the lake if it has chemicals that didn't come from the earth. and if the fertilizer has polltion like oil in it, it can polllute the lake and kill the fish. or the fertilizer can infect the plants like seaweed and if the fish eat the seaweed they have a possibility of dying. PS-save the earth don't pollute
