英语高手进来翻译下Water pollution is speeding up (加速) around the worl

英语高手进来翻译下
Water pollution is speeding up (加速) around the world. We use over 75,000 water-polluting chemicals (化学物质) and make about 1,000 new ones each year. When it rains, water runs over the ground and carries oil, dirt and other harmful stuff to the rivers and lakes. So, anything harmful that we use may finally go into our drinking water.
Pollution of drinking water is a problem for half of the world’s population. Among the 250 million people who get sick because of water pollution, 5 to 10 million of them die.
Water pollution facts
In the US 40% of its rivers and 46% of its lakes are too polluted for fishing or swimming. Each year 1.2 trillion (万亿) gallons of dirty sewage (污水) and waste from factories are poured into US rivers and lakes.
Asian rivers are the most polluted in the world. They have 20 times more lead (铅) than rivers in developed countries. In 2004, several of China’s major rivers were tested and half of them weren’t suitable (适合的) for drinking.
In Europe, rivers and lakes used for swimming and water sports were also tested between 2004 and 2005, 10% of them were too polluted to be used.
Water pollution is not only harmful to people but also to animals. As it is getting more and more serious, nobody on the earth should still relax (休息，放松) and do nothing about it.
To prevent water pollution
Some of us are used to pouring dirty sewage and harmful chemicals into rivers and lakes, others throw garbage into them. So, many rivers, lakes and seas have become the home of cans, bottles, glass and plastics. It’s time for us to stop doing that.
We should also try not to use chemicals. If necessary, use as few as possible. At the same time, we should try to use other ways to kill weeds (杂草) and bugs. For example, we can pull weeds by hand.
Pet waste pollutes our water, too. So we need to put pet waste in the garbage.
Technology can be used to prevent water pollution. Building sewage treatment plants (污水处理厂) is a good way of returning water to a river without causing pollution.
We can protect our precious (珍贵的) water in only one way: preventing the harmful chemicals from entering our water!