The Hydrosphere

The Hydrosphere

What is Hydrosphere?

    The hydrosphere is the liquid component or water component of our planet Earth. It consist the Streams, rivers, ponds, lakes, seas and Oceans. The home of the aquatic plants and animals and many other organism that lives in the water, The hydrosphere covers about 70% of the earths surface.

The hydrosphere is the source of life of plants, animals and us, the humans.

The problem engaging with the Hydrosphere.

      The hydrosphere has a very important role that extremely plays as for survival of life on our planet, earth and a unique properties of water that allows various important chemical processes to take place which would otherwise not be possible. Unfortunately for us however, there are several number of factors that affects or threaten our hydrosphere and most of it are the cause of us people or because of human activities such as pollution and overuse.

Oil Spillage

The Harm to the Animals

The pollution of Humans

         

         According to everything science.co.za, a website that discusses the harm and the solution for any parts of our biosphere says that, "Pollution of the hydrosphere is a major problem. When we think of pollution, we sometimes only think of things like plastic, bottles, oil and so on. But any chemical that is present in the hydrosphere in an amount that is not what it should be is a pollutant. Animals and plants that live in the Earth's water bodies are specially adapted to surviving within a certain range of conditions. If these conditions are changed (e.g. through pollution), these organisms may not be able to survive. Pollution then, can affect entire aquatic ecosystems. The most common forms of pollution in the hydrosphere are waste products from humans and from industries, nutrient pollution e.g. fertiliser runoff which causes eutrophication (an excess of nutrients in the water leading to excessive plant growth) and toxic trace elements such as aluminium, mercury and copper to name a few. Most of these elements come from mines or from industries." 

Overuse of water. Few percentage of our hydrosphere is pure or freshwater, and freshwater is only humans can drink safely however, despite of our daily consumption, humans constantly to consume more and more water up to come to the point where the water consumption is fast approaching the amount of water that us present. In some country this situation is a quite serious problem because their source of water is quite difficult to acquire and starts to run out, the reason is their location is at the dry part of the planet where drought is present and the other reason is their population starts to grow and grow more which may result in the near future of a water shortage.

        The solution for all of this problem, first humans first must understand the natural flow or cycle of our hydrosphere and learn how life forms live through this. Secondly human must stop polluting our hydrosphere because in the near future it can be a problem also for us. We also should and must conserve water, use it wisely.