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The water can contain worms, fish, and lead poisoning. Even worse is that rain water stays there, and we don't know where that water was before.
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How can drinking from rivers and ponds affect a persons health?
It contains poisonous chemicals that imperils your lives.
How can drinking from most rivers and ponds affect a person's health?
It contains poisonous chemicals that imperils your lives.
How can drinking from most rivers and ponds affect a persond health?
The water has bacteria, animal feces, and parasites. NEVER drink water from a stream, lake, or river it can kill you.
in many places how can drinking from rivers and ponds affect a persons health?
Water in rivers, ponds, lakes are polluted. They can have parasites, animal waste, oil, human waste, pollution from upstream industry, dumping of chemicals , and a million other things.
Ponds and rivers are two types of what kind of biomes?
Ponds and rivers are two types of freshwater ecosystems.
Describe about different sources of drinking water with their characteristics?
Surface water- Oceans, Lakes, Ponds, Swamps, Rivers, Streams... Groundwater- Aquifers, Caverns...
What was rivers and ponds used for in the middle ages?
The rivers were definitely not used for drinking water, as people dumped wastes into it. However, it was used for trade and transportation. It also provided a defense against the vikings, for Viking ships could not sail down these rivers.
In Canada what are ponds and rivers called?
if you are an English speaking Canadian they are Ponds and Rivers. If you speak french I think a pond is "Etang" and a river is "riviere".
What is the difference between streams and rivers and ponds and lakes?
Streams and rivers flow down a long path and ponds and lakes stay in one place and not flowing like streams and rivers.
What is the hippos habitat?
Ponds, Lakes or rivers.
What is beavers habitats?
lakes,rivers,ponds.
ponds and lakes located?
Which biome has lakes and ponds? Freshwater biomes include lakes and ponds (standing water) as well as rivers and streams (flowing water). They also include wetlands. Humans rely on freshwater biomes to provide aquatic resources for drinking water, crop irrigation, sanitation, and industry.
