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Safe Drinking Water/Clean Water Act

Could you imagine what would happen to the world if it stared to run out of clean drinking water? Entire countries would crumble within minutes. It is more important than ever to protect and regulate the water that we have. Too much of it is wasted without any regard for its importance, especially here in America. We consume more clean water in a day than all of Europe and Sub Saharan Africa combined. What could be done so that we can reduce water consumption? We could make water more expensive, but that would just hurt lower income populations. What needs to change is the culture around water. We need to stress its importance because one day it will run out. With the development of the Clean Water Act in 1972, we started to look at water a different way. Before this point, we were dumping chemicals, and toxins into the water literally making it flammable and lifeless. This piece of legislation marked the day that we started to take water more seriously. We all started making people accountable for their waste, disposing of it is a clean way rather than dumping it into rivers.

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  1. Caitlin WintonSeptember 30, 2018 at 5:22 PM

    Hi Jordan,

    You're right the whole world would essentially go into crisis mode if there was no clean water. Instead of wars over oil there would be wars over water.

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  2. UnknownSeptember 30, 2018 at 6:24 PM

    Hi Jordan,

    I found it disturbing how much water we consume. It is something we should take more seriously since it is such a scarce resource, and agree that it will have to be a shift of perspective in how we value water.

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