As I heard, when my mom was young, people take the rain to drink or wash clothes outside of home. People were able to drink rain water as not going though the purification process. However, these days, it is impossible to drink rain water directly and even it is harmful for soil or animals.

People are familiar with "Acid rain", which react air and water with certain chemical such as sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides to form mild acidic compounds. This rain has a number of negative impacts on ecology, human health, soils and forests.

Acid rain enables water to absorb aluminum, which result in toxic water leading to effect on many kinds of aquatic species. Even though some species can endure toxic water, they have harmful impacts on food chain in the end. Thus, non aquatic species like birds could be harmed.

The acid rain also influences the plants and trees on which it is difficult to endure cold temperature, insects and disease or less produce. Furthermore, it will reduce the nutrients of soil or destroy protective surface leaves.

How can we reduce the acid rain then?

 To reduce air pollution could be the effective solution, which is possible by reducing fossil fuel and stopping pollutants.

Using low-sulphur coal burning coal is the one of the way to reduce air pollution. Also, catalytic converters in order to removing chemicals from exhaust will be the option for cars.

The acid rain becomes a huge becomes a well-known problem in Brazil as well. I hope there are many alternatives to solve the problem related to acid rain.

Source: National Geographic