What are the Effects of Soil Pollution?
The effects of pollution on soil are quite alarming and can cause huge disturbances in the ecological balance and health of living creatures on earth. Some of the most serious soil pollution effects are:
- Decrease in soil fertility and therefore decrease in the soil yield. How can one expect contaminated soil to produce healthy crops?
- Loss of soil and natural nutrients present in it. Plants also would not thrive in such soil, which would further result in soil erosion.
- Disturbance in the balance of flora and fauna residing in the soil.
- Increase in salinity of the soil, which therefore makes it unfit for vegetation, thus making it useless and barren.
- Generally crops cannot grow and flourish in polluted soil. Yet, if some crops manage to grow, they would be poisonous enough to cause serious health problems in people consuming them.
- Creation of toxic dust is another potential effect of soil pollution.
- Foul smell due to industrial chemicals and gases might result in headaches, fatigue, nausea, etc., in many people.
- Soil pollutants would bring in alteration in the soil structure, which would lead to death of many essential organisms in it. This would also affect the larger predators and compel them to move to other places, once they lose their food supply.
I hope the above discussion was enough to make you understand the severity of the soil pollution causes and effects. Soil pollution can be cured by transporting the contaminated soil layer to some remote place, thus making it once again fit for use. Harmful chemicals from the soil can also be removed by aerating it. These are just 'tentative solutions'. However, let us remember the proverb, 'prevention is better than cure', and follow proper a soil management system, maintain sewage systems, and avoid the overuse of fertilizers and pesticides in the soil. So let us begin the movement of soil pollution prevention from our own lands itself!!!
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