Plants are essential for our life and survival. We beautify our homes with beautiful plants, but what if we were contributing to harming these plants? Water pollution is a major issue in the world we live in today. Water pollution is caused by water impurities, mostly manmade substances- like chemicals and radioactive materials. These impurities often get into groundwater or are released in air and affect the environment including plants. There are endless amounts of water impurities, but I chose a type of water impurity that is used very commonly- pesticides. Pesticides are very helpful to man, but they can affect our plants bit by bit.

Pesticides, today is one of the leading causes of water pollution. They cause many organisms living in the water to die. Pesticides in the soil run off into waterways. But some pesticides don't run off into the waterways. They accumulate in the...