Waste in our water!

     Today our biggest and most talked about problem is water. Water for some of us my seem plentiful and for others, not so much. There are over 1 billion people on this planet that don't have the availability to clean and fresh drinking water. In this article i was reading from "The BioFresh Blog", they talk about the struggles that our country is having with trying to ration and save our "good" water.

     As well as our water being scarce for our country and its people, it is also happening in all other countries around the world as well. If you think about it, it only makes sense cause only 1% out of the 73% of water on our earth is usable to us as humans. The worse part about water loss in other countries is the constant fight between them for something, they are now fighting about who's water is who's and it is tearing apart their countries and economy's as the do it. While other countries fight, the U.S. helps them, but most of our focus is toward making more efficient ways of purifying water and cheaper ways to get it, make it, and distribute it. Not only is water a problem with counties but it is also a very big problem for farmers and our food industry. The less water that we have the less food that we get and grow, Most farmers live in the lower parts of the U.S. that often supports the happenings and tendency's of Droughts. Do to the lack of water to provide for the plants and crops, there is so little water during the droughts that the ground is dry and there is not even a drop of water in the soils. Do to no water and a loss of millions of profits and food, the food market prices have soared through the roof and most sandstorms occur in the states the have the driest areas. The biggest concern that the Scientist have with the water loss is that water is one of the most important essentials to almost everything in an ecosystem, it supports merely every aspect of life for every organism on our planet.

     The problem we are having today that is effecting us so much comes from big business and company's that produce waste, we also have problems from agricultural businesses as well. The biggest contributor to water pollution is company's excess chemicals and waste made after the production process. When they have the waste they simply just dump it right into our local creeks and rivers. Recent laws prevent most of that now, certain laws were put in place from the company to clean the water to a preferred safe amount according to Scientist judgement. Other ways that company's can pollute is by their run-off water from farm fields. Harmful chemicals and overuse of nutrients that they put on the fields can be carried into streams and rivers by rainfall. The run-off gets in the water and either effects its color, life, or gives it more than needed nutrients to grow, which then eventually would make the area a dead zone.
 
     Through conservationist and the Government fighting the constant battle of keeping our Environmental problems to a stop, and at the attention to the public to take action, we could possibly stop some of the harm that is being done to our Earth. Everyone already knows that we can not fix what has already been done, but the biggest thing to do in order to help is to prevent anything else from on-going.