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Description:Did you know.. In the not too distant future, most of the world will be living on recycled water! Yes, even if it comes from the sea and it is desalinated using carbon or nuclear energy. Did you know that every time you swallow a pill (pharmaceutical) it ends up in the water, and eventually the sea. They have already found commonly taken drugs in the bodies of penquins in the Antarctic, 8000 miles to the south. Did you also know that the US spends 60% of the whole worlds total health spend on just 4% of the whole worlds populations. Pretty rich country hu? Then you will also be interested in the fact that the US recently admitted that their Life expectancy has tumbled from 11th to 42nd in the world over the last 20 years. (The Guardian Weekly - August 17th 2007 Incorporating material from the Washington Post, the Observer and Le Monde)http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2147617,00.html#article_continue Still want to spend more on health? Not for my or your childrens sake you dont. There is a solution out there and it starts with being open minded and accepting that things must change and SOON. If anyone really gives a **** about this, I will be suprised, pleasantly suprised thought. Loading People... |
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I've heard that the worst polluter of the water supply is commercial agriculture. Farm runoff has created a "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico the size of Texas and New Jersey combined.
Writing to your Congressman or Senator and urging elimination of unnecessary farm subsidies would be one way to reduce fertilizer and feedlot pool runoff. If the farmers had incentives instead to recycle some of what they can now throw away (and get paid to do that), the Missippi would be a lot cleaner in a short while.
Jim Wiegand
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I think they could do some things, in ancient times they collected rain water, why can't we do the same thing today? In agriculture they could use the drip method of irrigation so only just enough gets to the land and there is no run off. We don't need green lawns everywhere. Instead people could build rock gardens that look beautiful and use far less water. The best pollution and water purification system in the world is nature's own, swamps and marshes. But they are often drained because they are seen as a waste of space or a health hazard because they are a breeding ground for mosquitoes. But dirty and polluted water goes into swamps and marshes they can clean and depollute water better than any method science has come up with. Dirtly and polluted water enters the marsh and swamp systema and by the time it emerges it's clean water. Instead of building costly water reclamation systems that use a lot of energy, we could restore swamps and marshes and create new ones, once built they operate for free and give wildlife habitat. Swamps and marshes are havens for disease carrying misquitoes, but a combination of snails, fish, frogs, swallows and bats feed on mosquitoes during each phase of their life cycle and have been shown to keep mosquito popuation under control. But swallows and bats need mature trees to live but they will live in man-made swallow and bat houses until trees recover. Ironically, the hated bat eats the species of mosquito that only comes out at night and it is this night mosquito that carries most of the diseases that are harmful to man, so bats protect us from disease. We could dry wash our cars, then don't have to be shiny clean every day. Instead of dishwashers we could wash them in the sink. By letting them soak they need less water and detergent. After washing they can be rinsed by swishing them around in just a few inches of water to get rid of the detergent and then dried by hand to finish getting rid of the detergent instead of using gallons as the diswasher does. I'm sure there is a lot we can do, I don't think we need more fresh water, we need to use the fresh water we have more wisely.