Проблеми екології в Україні

Ecological problems of Ukraine

Ukraine is a highly developed industrial and agricultural country.The serious problems of Ukraine are air pollution land pollution and water pollution. Pollution became very intensive in the 19 century as a result of the development of industry. Ukraine has the most polluted landscapes in the Eastern Europe.

Air pollution is very strong in many industrial cities and towns especially in Kharkov, Luhansk, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk Dniprodzerzhinsk and others. Coal rising industries, metallurgical, chemical plants, power plants are major sources of high levels of uncontrolled emissions of different harmful substances.

The biggest polluter today is the car . Exhaust fumes are the main cause of poor air quality which сan make people feel ill. This problem is bad in cities where the number of cars is increasing every year filling the air with smog . Governments try to improve the situation by encouraging people to use their cars less or buy cars that do not use as much fuel.

Almost all surface waters of Ukraine belong to the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov basins. The high population density, heavy industrial development influence greatly on the level of water pollution all over Ukraine . After Chernobyl nuclear power plant catastrophe the river Dnipro is especially polluted.

The present alternative is nuclear fuel, which, while not directly polluting the environment, contains untold dangers from radiation remember the Chernobyl power plant catastrophe which took place in 1886.A lot of people died because of this accident. Therefore we need an alternative source of energy. The future lies in fusion power.

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