Essay on Green Infrastructure

"Water For All" is a mission statement of an MIT project claims that clean water is paramount to a successful society and that there are consequences to inaction toward this problem. The article first provides a description of why water is important and who it affects next, it explains where water is and how it is used and lastly, it analyzes a solution and the consequences if a successful solution is not provided. The author gives data on the people who are affected by the lack of drinkable water in order to convince the reader that this is a large problem. The language in this article is simple yet informative widening the audience to anyone who can help aid the program or anyone who can spread the word about the program.

Are you ever thirsty for a nice cold glass of clean water? Most privileged people can find decent drinkable water in at least three places in the average kitchen. It’s a gift we commonly undermine. Unfortunately, many adults and young children aren’t granted this privilege. Striving each day to find clean water and still worry if it is safe enough to drink. All around the world some of the deadliest bacteria, diseases, and germs are alive in the water. Underprivileged countries do not have clean running water or even a decent well to draw from; this results in drinking from stagnate rivers, salty oceans, and contaminated puddles. Each year, thousands of people die from the bacteria living in unclean water. Sorrowfully, many of those numbers are young children! When a child becomes sick from bacteria found in their drinking water, an entire daily system becomes thrown out of balance. They cannot attend school or work, and it affects friends and family around them! Moreover, economical issues arise. Humans around the world have their whole lives ahead of them. Everyone should have daily access to clean drinking water to keep them healthy and growing. In this fallen world that’s not always the reality. The cycle that contaminated water brings is almost unstoppable.

An average of 1.8 billion people around the world face the problem of unsanitary drinking water. From adults to children living in developing countries they risk disease and illness by drinking unsafe water. More than 840,000 people die a year related to water disease, and are faced with symptoms such as diarrhea. Diarrhea alone, from poor drinking water and sanitation, kills approximately 2,300 people per day. Related to this statistic one child dies every minute from water-related illnesses. Many people around the world are faced with a water issue such as unsanitary drinking water, and women spend hours each day collecting water just to survive. The people in theses countries have no option since without water humans can’t

Thesis/Central Idea: Accessibility to clean water is a global issue that can greatly reduced through water filtration, chlorination, and collection grids.

Did you know that tap water that is supposed to be safe these days actually may contain many contaminants? People typically do not ask because most of them already think it is okay to drink because they always drink it. However, the truth is that it contains multiple contaminants. They can soon build up and hurt your body. Only good filters can prevent this from happening. Water in water fountains will stay contaminated unless people learn about the effects of contaminated water and try to put an end to it.

Around the world people are suffering from the problem of having a safe and clean water, there are more than 633 million people lack access to safe water. Remote countries in Africa are mostly the victim of having unsanitary water sources.

In the article "The Drinking Water security and Safety Amendments of 2002: is America's Drinking Water Infrastructure Safer Four Years later?", Steven Shermer discusses the importance of protecting America’s drinking water systems from potential threats. Shermer begins by discussing the importance of water as well as the importance of protecting

Wise usage of water helps us in saving money. We have to pay for the water we use. If we use less water, we will have more money left to spend on other things.

Water pollution and lack of clean water is affecting our health. Water pollution and contaminated water is hurting us here in the United State and all around the world. We need to take charge and stop throwing harmful things into our

Water is essential for life. Humans are made up of 50 to 75 per cent of water and can only last a few days without it. We use it for agriculture, power plants, and domestic irrigation. In the United States, about 410 billion gallons of water is withdrawn daily, about 85% being freshwater. The most easily accessible source of water is surface water which is from lakes, rivers, and streams. However, only about 3% of Earth’s water is freshwater and the cost of water around the world varies greatly. In the U.S., the biggest problem is in contamination. The EPA defines water contamination as anything physical, chemical, biological, or radioactive that is harmful to human health or degrades taste or color of water. About 5,300 water systems were

How do we protect the water quality, and how do we push to further improve water quality?

The commodification of water is driven by fears of water scarcity, accessibility and cleanliness. Water is recognized a basic human “the human right to water entitles everyone to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic uses” (UN, 2002). But despite this it estimated approximately a billion people do not have access to clean drinking water.

Organizations have committed themselves to conducting small scale attacks on innocent civilians by the use of small arms fire, bombings, and vehicles that have rammed through crowded streets. The next logical step for these organizations is to change their tactics to a new element to show that the steps that the democratic community is taking to protect its people are not sufficient. The identification of the food and water supply has long been identified as a target to these groups and a biological attack would limit the equipment necessary to carry out an attack. As a society the United States already introduces contaminants including bacteria and nitrates, heavy metals, fertilizers and pesticides, lead and copper, household wastes, industrial products and wastes, water treatment chemicals, and concentrated animal feeding operations into the water supply. The purity of drinking water can help prevent diseases and other health problems from occurring. The introduction of a water borne disease such as legionnaires into the drinking water could potentially has drastic effects over a large group of

In the United States today, we take water for granted. It is everywhere, it seems abundant, and yet the demand for water is greater now, than ever before. Oil has been a major force of conflict and tension, yet water stands on the brink of becoming just as critical as oil. With the growing number of people and industry on the planet, the competition for water is growing. Additionally, within the united states, the quality of water is under scrutiny. The recent tragedy of Flint Michigan illustrates this best. Increasing pollution and chemical run off has made our drinking water unsafe. Moreover, our aging infrastructure contributes to the danger of pollution from sewage, and other contaminants. The key is to find

To start, clean water will improve the health of those who do not have access to it. There are over 30 different water related diseases that stem from the intake of unsanitary water. In an article by How Stuff Works, the author, Jonathan Atteberry states that diarrheal diseases spread by waterborne bacteria are the leading cause of death in places where clean water is not an option. These diseases are spread by the communal usage of contaminated surface water and they account for over 3.4 million deaths per year (WHO). If sanitation were to improve, the number of people dying from diarrheal diseases will likely plummet more than 88 percent