Whats in Our Water!
What Exactly Are We Drinking?
Since the beginning of human existence, pollution has been a problem rapidly increasing with the growth of the world’s population. Throughout history, it has been a major source of diseases and plagues such as the bubonic plague. One serious threat of people’s health is the pollution of our underground watering systems. Many steps have been taken to help solve the pollution problem, a problem that still hasn’t been completely solved.
Groundwater is located under the earth’s surface in soil pore spaces, an aquifer is a unit of rock or an unconsolidated deposit that can give a decent quality of water this is how ground water is processed. Many people do not know this but ground water is a prime source of our nation’s water source, the irrigation of water and how it is polluted tends to go unnoticed. The contamination of ground water mostly occurs when gasoline, road salts, oil and chemicals get in the ground and spreads to the aquifers, which causes contamination that can be harmful to human’s health. Bosworth Brendon from the Environment Protection Agency says, “That at least 100,000 underground tanks storing gasoline, diesel fuel, home heating oil, and toxic solvents are leaking their contents into groundwater in the United States.” Storage tanks are a primary source of pollution it is where pollution is stored; it can contain gas, oil chemical, or other types of liquids that can affect the groundwater and its process. There are estimated to be over 10 million storage tanks buried in the United States and over time the tanks can corrode, crack and develop leaks. If the contaminants leak out and get into the groundwater, Ground serious contamination can occur.
Another serious source of contaminated ground water is septic systems. Septic systems drain away human waste in the ground at a slow pace that makes it at harmless rate. They are designed and used by buildings, businesses, homes and buildings not a part of the city’s sewer
Since the beginning of human existence, pollution has been a problem rapidly increasing with the growth of the world’s population. Throughout history, it has been a major source of diseases and plagues such as the bubonic plague. One serious threat of people’s health is the pollution of our underground watering systems. Many steps have been taken to help solve the pollution problem, a problem that still hasn’t been completely solved.
Groundwater is located under the earth’s surface in soil pore spaces, an aquifer is a unit of rock or an unconsolidated deposit that can give a decent quality of water this is how ground water is processed. Many people do not know this but ground water is a prime source of our nation’s water source, the irrigation of water and how it is polluted tends to go unnoticed. The contamination of ground water mostly occurs when gasoline, road salts, oil and chemicals get in the ground and spreads to the aquifers, which causes contamination that can be harmful to human’s health. Bosworth Brendon from the Environment Protection Agency says, “That at least 100,000 underground tanks storing gasoline, diesel fuel, home heating oil, and toxic solvents are leaking their contents into groundwater in the United States.” Storage tanks are a primary source of pollution it is where pollution is stored; it can contain gas, oil chemical, or other types of liquids that can affect the groundwater and its process. There are estimated to be over 10 million storage tanks buried in the United States and over time the tanks can corrode, crack and develop leaks. If the contaminants leak out and get into the groundwater, Ground serious contamination can occur.
Another serious source of contaminated ground water is septic systems. Septic systems drain away human waste in the ground at a slow pace that makes it at harmless rate. They are designed and used by buildings, businesses, homes and buildings not a part of the city’s sewer