Análisis de arsénico, cadmio y plomo en las microcuencas pertenecientes a las vertientes San Jacinto y Villacrés, Cantón El Guabo.

Abstract

Water resources are characterized by being irreplaceable, their importance is based on the functions they perform in the different chemical and biological cycles of a statement about survival on Earth. However, in recent years this important source has been affected by a high level of pollution, which affects not only the environment and ecosystem, but also seriously harms the first species to benefit from it, which is the human being. The most eminent dangers for human life are the so-called "heavy metals" due to persistent environmental contamination in the ecosystem, these same ones that are ingested involuntarily by individuals settle permanently with no option to disappear, on the contrary, they tend to accumulate and thus causing endless detrimental effects to the life of the human being. Because water is a necessity for living beings to exist, and being contaminated by these substances, living beings, especially humans, are prone to being victims of diseases and dysfunctions such as: reproductive disorders, kidney failure, intoxication, neurological diseases and in the nervous system, damage to the immune system, affectation of the blood in its circulation process, skin problems, damage to the reproductive system and even cancer.