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WATER PSA

BY: COLE, SPENCER, LORENON, TANIYA, AND KYNDAL

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BP OIL SPILL IN 2010
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GENERAL WATER POLLUTION FACTS

  • Water covers over 70% of the Earth’s surface and a very important resource for people and the environment
  • water pollution affects not only individual living species, but also populations and entire functioning ecosystems that exists in the waters

INFORMATION ABOUT BP OIL SPILL

  • In the Gulf of Mexico in 2010
  • Lots of different species were caught in the oil spill
  • The oil spread to the Pacific Ocean
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WHAT HUMANS DID TO CAUSE THE PROBLEM

  • The oil spill was caused by oil cores being too weak to withstand a concrete mixture around them
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WHAT HUMANS HAVE DONE TO CLEAN UP

  • There were organizations and groups that helped explain the dangers of water pollution
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What humans have done to prevent these problems now
Humans have made groups to educate about the oil spill

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