Notes

Solecito;
Damage to living resources: industrial waste, even in very small concentrations, are extremely toxic to marine life.

Human health hazard: contaminated water can also produce outbreaks of hepatitis, cholera and dysentery in humans.

Obstacle to the activities marine: it industry fishing is seen affected.

Impairment to the quality of seawater for use: hydrocarbons, not to be miscible with water, floating in the sea, forming a layer of varying thickness, that moves to the rhythm of the ocean currents. A portion of this product is dissolved and the rest ends up polluting the beaches.

Reduction of tourists

Imbalance ecological: with its waste chemical and spills of oil the man has contaminated the waters, killed hundreds of species and caused that some of them are develop disproportionately.
Chinchilla;
Pollution of beaches in El Salvador, caused by uncontrolled discharges of untreated domestic sewage, and others are due to exceptional circumstances.
It should be considered that there are three main sources of human faecal contamination of seawater recreational use: domestic sewage, discharges from rivers and other waterways, and directly bather.
What are the main causes of pollution of beaches?

• Wastewater discharges

• Drains poor or no

• treatment plants inefficient or overloaded

• Waste boats and boats

• Waste of people and animals on the beach

• Drag waste by rain