On human health:

• 1.8 Million deaths in 2015

• Unsafe water sickens about 1 billion people

• The low-income community are at a higher risk because homes are often the closest to the most polluting industries

• Waterborne pathogens are a major cause of illness from contaminated water

• Children and pregnant woman are particularly at risk

• 3.5 million Americans contract health issues (rashes, pink eye, respiratory infections, hepatitis etc.)

• Chemicals can get into sediments and impact large coastal areas

On the environment:

• healthy environments need a "complex web of animals" in which all interact directly and indirectly with each other

• When algal blooms happen in water in the water it causes dead zones. This causes neurotoxins that affect wildlife from whales to sea turtles.