Essay Amanda Liao 09/05/13 Clean Water In today’s world‚ one of the most basic problems facing our society is the absence of clean water that we use and drink in daily life. The importance of clean water is self-explanatory. In spite of the fact that 70% of the earth’s surface is covered by water‚ there is only 2.53%of fresh water that we can actually use. For the only 2.53% of fresh water‚ some is not safe and clean to use and it is harmful to human body. Polluted water is a big risk to our health
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CLEAN DRINKING WATER Our primary needs are food‚ water and shelter; but water is the most important need of every person. Without water‚ we cannot survive. Even for one day‚ we cannot live without water. If we have safe and clean water for drinking ‚ we’ll live healthy and prosper. The clean water we drink and which is germless is called potable water. The water we drink in our homes‚ is supplied by the municipal community. We think that it is safe and germs free but in reality it is not fully
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The Right to Access Clean Water Only 2% of earth’s water is available for human consumption because 98% of the earth’s water is frozen in ice caps‚ flowing in the ocean‚ and even in animal bodies‚ etc. More than a billion people have no decent water supply‚ adding to that about 2.4 billion people do not have proper sanitation; therefore more than 60% of global illness is linked to the lack of healthy water. Water is a natural source of nature and access to clean water should not be used as a traded
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Clean Water Crisis/Scarcity For decades‚ providing clean water to the masses has been a goal. Even with the “Millennium Declaration”‚ a goal proposed by the United Nations to provide clean water sources to everyone in the world by 2020‚ many people will go without clean water supplies. Can you imagine living in a region where there are struggles to get a glass of clean water. It seems so distant to us living in modern industrialized America‚ yet this concept is completely taken for granted
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Keep Our Water Clean: Clean Water Act The Clean Water Act has made advances to our society that have helped our environment to flourish with life. The objective of the Act when it was enacted in 1972 was to restore and maintain the chemical‚ physical‚ and biological integrity of the Nation’s water. This objective was accompanied by other statutory goals to eliminate the discharge of pollutants into waters used by boats by 1985 and to attain waters deemed "fishable or swimmable" by 1983. So far
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Water is one of the six nutrients needed for a human being to survive. Though everyone needs water‚ not everyone can get clean water. Haiti has the worst water treatment in the Western Hemisphere (¨Water¨). The water in Haiti is riddled with Cholera and Typhoid however‚ the water treatment can be improved by sending LifeStraw Missions to the people of Haiti. Problem Cholera is a disease that is not hard for residents in Haiti to catch because of the poor water treatment. It is a disease caused
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giving them enough clean water and monitoring their fluid intake to prevent dehydration effects‚ such as dizziness and dry mouth‚ is seen in the RCN’s enhanced nutritional care‚ which was formed using Florence Nightingale’s theory on keeping a clean environment for the patients’ recovery. In Nightingale’s environmental theory‚ making sure that the water is clean and pure can prevent patients from getting sicker when around patients who have other diseases instead of using polluted water from poor drainage
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The clean water act was passed in 1948 but back then it was called the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. The act was reorganized and expanded in 1972 and changed the name to Clean Water Act and made some amendments. The clean water act makes it unlawful to discharge any pollutant from a point source into lakes‚ rivers and coastal waters‚ unless a permit is obtained‚ (epa.gov). Homes that are connected to a municipal system‚ use a septic system‚ or do not have a surface discharge do not need a
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Accessibility to clean water(Problems associated) Vietnam is considered as one of the world’s most populated country in the worth since ranked thirteenth in recent survey. Vietnam has a river count of about 2360 rivers in the country with its length of more than 10km. These rivers serve as important economic values and use. There have been very causes of water pollution which deprives most people in Vietnam access to clean water or even water at all. The ecosystem around Vietnam’s rivers is eventually
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Humans play a major role in water pollution in all types of bodies of water. One of our biggest impacts is the amount of trash/waste we allow to make its way into our water ways. For example‚ in my hometown‚ people are very irresponsible about the way they dispose of bigger waste items like tires‚ sheet metal and various tools and farm equipment. Most residence collect this waste in their yards or surrounding woodland‚ and when flood season comes‚ it makes its way into the creek beds and rivers.
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