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Imagine red water. It is filled with pollution, and if you breathe in the air it could give you a disease, and can make you extremely sick. Imagine the air smelled like poop and garbage. Many people did not really care so much about the Canal back in the day. But now they know that they have got to do something right. All of this has been happening since the late 1840's, so imagine what the Gowanus Canal is like today and the pollution kept going on. We would be in great danger.

According to Wikipedia, Water Pollution is the contamination of water bodies( e.g. lakes, rivers, oceans, aquifers, and groundwater). Inside the Canal there is waste, sewage dumped in, garbage and more disgusting stuff. The pollution that’s inside the Gowanus Canal is very dangerous and it could make you sick and have diseases all around you. The Canal was a salt marsh until 1849 where it turned into an industrial dumping ground. The industrial plants that lined the canal handled just about every nasty thing that could end up in the water.

The Gowanus Canal had to be fixed and cleaned because if the factories don’t stop throwing trash into the canal, then it would be a great danger to all of us. A lot of people can die due to the Gowanus Canal pollution that happened. When people flush their toilets it goes into the sewage, and then into the Canal which makes it even more dirty and stinkier. I wouldn’t want my neighborhood or the community to live like this.

As you can see, there are some situations that can be solved from the Gowanus canal. The community could all work together and help clean the canal. The people could stop throwing garbage and waste inside the canal. And we all can work together to stop polluting the Gowanus Canal.