Water Pollution in Vietnam Impact on Human Health
Farmers would use polluted water to water their plants. When people ate these plants, they became sick with diseases such as diarrhea, bacterial infections, cancer and other strange diseases that they can't predict it, unfiltered water doesn't help. For example, in Thach Son village, alarmed the local people that Lam Thao Fertilizer and Chemical company (Lam Thao) polluted their village in Phu Tho province. Lam Thao discharged waste water containing ammoniac sufate and other chemicals into the rivers of the village. This disregard for the human health, including the environment (see the next section below) caused liver, lung, stomach, upper jaw cancer and more among the local people. Thach Son village became known as the "cancer village" because many families had two or three members die of cancer. From 1991 to 2005, one hundred and six villagers died from various cancers, and many more people had gotten cancer, seventy percent of the villagers. Furthermore, some people drank dirty water with lethal chemicals and died before the cancer could kill them.
Water Pollution in Vietnam Impact on Society
The problem impact on society by having to pay for the cost to clean it. Every people need clean drinking water. If our society still continues to contaminate this precious water resource, it is not possible that our lives are in danger. Therefore, any waste that our society dumps into the water resources can contaminate the water and destroy our lives.
Water Pollution in Vietnam Impact on the Environment
Water Pollution Impact on the Environment in many places by disappearance of fish. For example, in 2008, there was a river pollution scandal in Dong Nai provice. The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) under the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment discovered that a Flour and Seasoning Power Factory in Vedan, Vietnam was directly discharging a large volume of waste water into the Thi Vai River through three pipes, which it contained high contents of molasses and chemicals. The river used to be clean and full of fish but then it soon became dirty , narrow, and shallow, so it no longer had fish or aquatic life such as fishes, shrimps, crabs, and plant life, slowing their development, and even resulting in their deaths. Also, has destroyed plant life, like animals, the plants need water to live. Plants died when they were irrigated with water containing heavy chemicals or when their roots absorbed polluted underground water. Some of the dye and weave factories in the Tan Binh District discharged their waste water to the canals, so the water in the canals turned a dark blue or yellow color. This killed animals and plants along the canals, resulting in more plants and animals species becoming endangered. Furthermore, it has also led to loss of biodiversity and the breakdown of the ecosystem.