#7 Pollution in the Ohio River!

For the second time in three eyars, advocacy group Environment America ranked the Ohio River as the most polluted river in the United States. It receives a lot of toxic discharges. The environment group's last report, released in 2009, also found that the Ohio River had the most pollution discharge in the nation. Its more recent report found that pollution discharge in the Ohio River has since increased by 1 million pounds. While some of the chemicals discharged into the water are harmless, others can be dangerous even in small doses. For example, industrial facilities released more than 274 pounds of a cancer-causing solvent called Tetrachloroethylene, often used by dry cleaners, into waterways in 2010. This is really somthing that is hard to belive that its one of the most polluted river in the United States and that we could be drinking that water and not even knowing it. Makes me wonder if half the people that get cancer might just come from the water we drink. It really goes to show that nobody really knows what they are putting into there body. Just because we may think its safe and good for us do we really know? Its scary to think that little by little even tho we dont see it or might not think we are even condributing to the pollution that its going to effect us later on down the road! Everyone should do a little to help the pollution from not spreading even more!!