Water is Life

“Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children’s lifetime. The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we like on the land.” (Luna Leopold) Can you imagine life without water? Would land be dry as the desert? Could you survive without it? Is water important? Is it a need or a want? There are many reasonable explanations to answer these questions. However, as I explore the environmental issues in my home region, I want to focus on the water uses.

There are numerous amounts of people who use water unwisely and do not know how and when to protect our water. Everyday, we use water for many purposes such as drinking, showering, washing cars, doing laundry, and for many uses that we don’t see, but which are important to our lives. According to National Atlas of the United States, they stated “We use water every day—for drinking, for watering our lawns and gardens, for recreation, and for many uses that we don't necessarily see but which are critical to our lives. Large quantities of water are used to generate power and to cool electricity-generating equipment. Water is used for irrigation, aquaculture, and for many industrial processes and commercial uses. Our nation's underground and surface waters are vitally important to our everyday life.” In other words, they believe water is the main sources for our everyday life for the economic, social, and environmental. We use large amounts of water in homes, businesses, industries and agriculture in the United States. We need to think about our water uses and learn to conserve them.

Why should you conserve water? Conserving water is important when there is drought and water crisis happening with this climate change with out any rain...

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...caused by bacteria, viruses and parasites (protozoa and helminthes) transmitted by water related disease transmitting agents, also called vectors or intermediate hosts.” Also “drainage canals or drainage water treatment and disposal facilities are often misused for washing, drinking and uncontrolled disposal of human excreta or other waste by the poorest and, thus, most vulnerable social groups. In this way, drainage water contributes to disease transmission.” (Chapter 7)

I find this source to very positive with excellent report and research that had proven their point about the cause of health issues related to drainage. This article has a lot of information that you can question about what causes our health issues and whether we should do something about it. I suppose that all their reports can be related to people who have contributes to have health issues.