"Water, water everywhere, but no drop to drink, " said the sailor from Coleridge's poem describing to a friend how awful it was to be without drinking water on a ship in the middle of the ocean. It is strange to think that the water around his ship was probably quite safe to drink. It was salty - but not polluted. Sea water today is much more dangerous. There is no ocean or sea which is not used as a dump. The Pacific Ocean, especially, has suffered from nuclear pollution, because the French Government tests nuclear weapons there. Many seas are used for dumping industrial and nuclear waste. Britain alone dumps 250.000 tons of industrial waste straight into the North Sea. This poisons and kills fish and other sea animals. "Nuclear -poisoned" food should be prohibited by us. Many rivers and lakes are poisoned, too. Fish and reptiles can't live in them. There isn't enough oxygen in water. In such places all the birds leave their habitats and many plants die. It happens so, because factories and plants produce a lot of waste and pour it into rivers. So they poison water. The process of removing salt from ocean water.
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