Ocean Conservancy
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"There's so much pollution now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all," Robert Orben.
Pollution may come from obvious sources such as oil spills and cruise ships, but many little known causes have significant impacts, as well. These include polluted runoff, marine debris, overfishing, and offshore oil and gas drilling among various others. Even fertilizers and pesticides that are utilized on lawns and farms in the Midwest contribute immensely to the pollution of oceans all the way on the east and west coasts. However, the lack of information regarding beach and ocean cleanliness is obviously the most notorious factor affecting ocean conservancy.
When it rains water comes in to contact with roads, parking lots, construction sites, and industrial and commercial sites, it becomes contaminated with oil and grease, heavy metals, pesticides, litter, fecal matter, and other toxins from vehicle exhaust. This polluted excess surges into storm drains along roadsides. These poisons often end up in local streams, rivers and coastal waters. In fact, more or less one fourth (1/4) of The United States's infected lakes and estuaries are contaminated by metropolitan stormwater, and nearly every coastal state has beaches where stormwater places the quality of water at high risks for pollution, and Florida alone has one hundred and twenty nine.
Also, in numerous countryside and uptown locations, rainwater pours down on farmlands, roads, golf courses, and lawns into waterways...