Poor water quality is a problem for people all over the United States and all around the World. However, most of the causes of poor water quality are due to the affect that human beings have on the environment around us. Since humans do so much to create poor water quality, it should also be our job to find solutions to our problem. There are two types of pollution that cause poor water quality, point source pollution and non-point source pollution. In order to find out how to stop the water quality problems that humans are facing, we must first understand these two forms of pollution. An example of point source pollution might be a pipe from an industrial factory discharging right into a river. Point source pollution comes directly from a source that can be determined and controlled. In order to stop point source pollution from occurring, laws and guidelines have been passed for factories, industries, and even homes. This ensures that anyone who is causing point source pollution will be fined and perhaps even arrested depending on how toxic the waste is and to what extent it was being dumped. Non-point source pollution however is much harder to control. One example of non-point source pollution would be fertilizer running off of a field and into a stream, or chemicals running off into a storm drain on a road. These examples occur quite often and are the main factors in why water quality is so poor in some areas. Since it is difficult to pinpoint the sources of these pollutants it is hard to stop them from entering streams and lakes.
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