Pressure and the Overexploitation Imposed on the Water Bodies

Running Head: WATER PROBLEMS
Water Problems
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The main Issue:
The main issue that is identified for this given report is the pressure and the
overexploitation imposed on the water bodies and its resources in the places of the tourist
destinations for increasing the sale of the various products to the tourists and for providing
comfort to the tourists at the cost of the water resources. For accommodating the tourists in the
several destinations, there has been a rise in the various community buildings and the rise in the
real estate waste that have increased with the rapid growth of the tourism industry. The rise of
the tourism sector along with its commercial bases has led to the rise in the real estate wastes in
the surrounding areas.
The rapid growth of the tourism sector has also led to the increase in the litter caused in
the various landfills. To cater to the needs of the various tourists in order to boost the economic
growth at the rapid rate, there have been an overexploitation of the various water resources in
order to increase the sale of the various commercial products to the tourists. For the increase of
the sale of the various sellable products to the various tourists there have not only been a
pressure on the flora but also a pressure on the fauna of the water resources. The rapid and the
overutilization of the flora and the fauna has led to the loss of the habitat of the significant
marine resources causing a rapid disruption of the marine food chain and sometimes even lead to
the extinction of the various species (del Mar Alonso-Almeida, 2018).
Apart from posing a threat on the marine life, the rise of the tourism also alters the
physical and the geopolitical outline of the various coastal cities. The construction of the dams
and dykes and other artificial construction to decorate that particular region has also led to the

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destruction of the coastal regions and the geographical outline of those regions (Tekken &
Kropp, 2016).
Cause:
The causes of the overexploitation of those resources can be attributed to the various
factors like the rise in the commercial form of the tourism sector that has led to the habitat loss of
a significant number of species in the river bodies. The pressure on the water resources at many
instances have given rise to the rising levels of the eutrophication that results in the depletion of
the water resources. The change in the coastline of the oceans and the change in its geophysical
character often affects the flow of the ocean current and cause a diversion in its flow. The
overflow from the landfills have often led to the rise in the flow of the garbage into the water
bodies destroying the habitats that are already existing.
The other activities that are promoted by the tourists like the boating activities, the other
construction activities, the increasing the commercial use of the water bodies along with the
structural loss of the flora and fauna from the water resources. The contamination of the point
source of the water pollution originates from a single point or the pollution source, in this case it
can be considered to be the rise in the commercial perspectives of the tourism sector. The marine
life gets affected by the various forms of the marine debris thrown into the water bodies that
often strangle and leads to the starvation of the various marine animals. This also damages the
coral life of the water bodies.
The tourism sector has devastating impacts on the rising levels of the water pollution.
The wastes that is often generated from the restaurants or the hotels remain untreated in the