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CHEMICAL INSECTICIDES CONTAMINATION EFFECTS IN THE GROUND.

    The ground is, by default, the place where much of the solid and liquid waste of any human activity goes. The ground contamination is the presence of chemical compounds made by humans or any other alteration of the natural conditions  of the ground. Everything that is not useful in any industrial, mining, urban, agricultural process etc. comes accumulating in the ground with no control throughout the years. We can detect in the ground some chemical products like petroleum hydrocarbons, solvents, pesticides and other heavy metals.
 

The use of chemical insecticides produces ground contamination.

     Agricultural activity increased during the last decades due to population increase, requiring a greater production to supply all the population. This is based mainly in fertilizing the ground in order to increase the plantation areas and conservate the existing ones, as well as in pest control because of the insect increase that reproduce themselves more due to more food.

    The methods used to control plagues and insects are very aggressive and devastating to the ground, by using  nitrates, phosphates, etc. that contaminate the ground and this is because tons of fertilizers and pesticides are poured in annually. The water too undergoes the contamination, by the infiltration of these products into the rivers or in aquifers because they are used by humans.

Every year new insectides are produced and are adapted to the new insect plagues.

   The insecticides can be kept for over ten years in the ground without decomposing. It was proved the insecticides can enter the food chain by concentrating in the fatty tissues of animals. There are horticultural insecticides that are  biodegradable and do not concentrate, but they associate their toxic action to the mechanism that transmitts the nervous impulse in animals and people. Fungicides are used to combat fungi, their chemical compounds are the sulfur and copper. There are herbicides that destroy any vegetal life preventing them from growing.

When pesticides or herbicides are used they increase the water contamination.

    The effects in the ground of all these pollutants can vary according to the weather or the climatic conditions, accelerating or decreasing their solubility. But when nature exceeds its own absorbing capacity then it is produced a time bomb that although does not have inmediate effects, it can do it in a future.


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