Environmentalists and others who have studied the effects of pollutants in water and their ecosystems know it can have drastic effects on both.
These technologies include everything from filtering water to produce clean drinking water to installing water trash cans to dispose of the garbage on sea coasts and in other bodies of water.
Two Australian surfers, Andrew Turton and Pete Ceglinski, decided to address the situation by inventing a bin similar to an automated pool cleaner.
This device was made to withstand cleaning marinas, harbors, ports and inland waters such as rivers and lakes.
People are addressing disease-causing agents in water as well.
Because of this, innovations to provide clean drinking water are growing.
This is made by Vestergaard, an international company that makes other water filtration products such as filter bottles.
Students at Carnegie Mellon University have also taken an interest in the situation.
This “LUV Water” uses the water’s weight to rotate a motor that powers UV-LED lights that kill waterborne pathogens.
With water pollution a growing problem, one of the most effective solutions would be to cut the source of the pollutants.