SOME FACTS ABOUT WATER POLLUTION  



Approximately 40% of the lakes in America are too polluted for fishing, aquatic life, or swimming.

Water pollution kills around 10,000 people around the world every day thats  3.6 million people every year.

Lake Karachay, in Russia, is considered the most contaminated and polluted lake on the planet

Most of the ocean plastic waste can be found in the five subtropical gyres Indian Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean and South Pacific Ocean;

10 percent of the plastic we use in our daily lives the equivalent to 700 billion plastic bottles ends up in the oceans