Soil Pollution

   Soil Pollution is made by human-made chemicals and others changes in the present natural soil environment. Beyond every inch under the ground, it was the largest part of the water we drink and we use to produce all the food we need. One of the major pollution is cause by chemicals like herbicides and pesticides. A good condition of soil can guarantee the growth of good quality of crop, but what if the basic of the soil is not even in a good condition ?

   Pollutants can impact everywhere. Soil pollution is making by many activities and experiments done by man-kind. Like industries waste, such as harmful gases and chemicals, agricultural pesticides, fertilizers and insecticides are the most important causes of soil pollution.

    The intensity of all these causes on a local or regional level might appear very small and you may argue that soil is not harmed by above activities if done on a small scale! However, thinking globally, it is not your region or my place that will be the only sufferer of soil pollution. In fact, it is the entire planet and mankind that will encounter serious problems, as these practices are evident almost everywhere in the world.

  
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. We loss of soil and natural nutrients present in it. Plants also would not thrive in such a soil, which would further result in soil erosion. Disturbance in the balance of flora and fauna residing in the soil. Generally crops cannot grow and flourish in a polluted soil. Yet if some crops manage to grow, then those would be poisonous enough to cause serious health problems in people consuming them. 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.

    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 soil management system, maintain sewage systems and avoid the overuse of fertilizers and pesticides in the soil.