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Effects of Pesticides on Humans and the Environment<br />

Soil and water pollution<br />

Plants are essential components that produce oxygen and organic matter on<br />

which most other life forms depend for food and shelter. Plants are essential<br />

in the process of nutrient cycling. The adverse effect of pesticides can<br />

directly disturb the structure and function of an ecosystem. Some herbicides<br />

can even harm non-targeted plants. Pesticide-mixed effluents may be<br />

practically non-toxic to fish, etc., but can injure and kill aquatic vegetation<br />

when discharged into water.<br />

Water pollution<br />

Pesticide residues frequently found<br />

in irrigation and drinking water are<br />

as follows:<br />

Metal-based Non-metal-based<br />

Copper<br />

Zinc<br />

Mercury<br />

Arsenic<br />

Cyanide<br />

Dodecyl benzene<br />

Cadmium<br />

Chromium<br />

Phenol<br />

Styrene<br />

Chloroform<br />

Ammonium<br />

chlqride<br />

Sodium lauryl<br />

sulfate<br />

Sulfonic acid<br />

Benzene<br />

DDT compounds<br />

Ammonia<br />

Diethylamine<br />

Chemicals contaminate groundwater<br />

through leaching into the soil and<br />

pondwater from plants and soils.<br />

Such polluted water causes<br />

interference in the intracellular and<br />

exo- or endoenzymic activity in the<br />

bacteria and causes' toxicity in<br />

mammals.<br />

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