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Technological advances and industrial generated from the second half of the nineteenth century have resulted in multiple benefits for humans, such as the emergence of modern methods of treating diseases, creation of satisfaction that facilitate productive activities and household, communication and transportation networks faster and more convenient food and clothing to personal needs.

However, these events have grown with a phenomenon whose impact is clearly negative for the survival of life on the planet: pollution or degradation of air, water and soil environment due to the presence or exaggerated increase harmful substances health.

Plants, animals and human beings are adapted to an ecosystem (all living organisms and physical environment interact in a certain area, such as forest, jungle, desert or city) with stable conditions, so that contamination can also be understood as an imbalance the characteristics of an environment, which impedes the development of the faculties of living beings, threatening their subsistence and reproduction.

Although the above definitions do not exclude the possibility that environmental degradation is caused by natural factors (a volcanic eruption is the clearest example of this), we are dealing with pollution as a health problem is caused by humans, because today the volume of waste and noise generated by productive activities beyond the capacity of self-regulation of ecosystems, as well as many emissions consist inorganic compounds, ie those that can not be degraded or return through the action of bacteria or microscopic fungi.

According to reports from the United Nations Organization, the presence of toxic elements in rivers and atmosphere causes an average of 12 000 deaths per year in Latin America alone, while interfering with the health of untold numbers of people, many of them children are still in physical and mental training.

Finding a solution is no easy task due to rapid population growth and technological development, and it is not possible to blame the problem to a single sector, as well as homes and automobiles industries involved in the generation of pollutants. However, a first step is to disseminate information on the functioning of ecosystems and the relationship they have with humans and their health, since only you can understand that environmental sanitation should be a responsibility shared by all.