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    Summary The Flint Water Crisis is a current health and safety issue that is affecting thousands of Americans in Flint, Michigan. Residents of Flint are unable to use and trust the water from their taps due to high levels of contamination and lead exposure. Children and adults have both suffered from exposure to this water supply. Rashes and illness have been common across the city. The water crisis in Flint developed its start when the city stopped receiving their drinking water from Lake Huron and

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    Drinking Water In Kabul

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    calls home. Parched from his play, the child fetches a cup and fills it to the brim with cool, clean tap water. He puts the cup to his mouth and drinks. The other four children have no such luxury. In Kabul, Afghanistan, "80% of people lack access to safe drinking water"(Afghanistan’s Water

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    Water is fundamental for life , Whether it be saltwater or freshwater. Without water none of us would even exist, The first forms of life were in the ocean and those tiny microscopic organisms slowly but surely evolved into all the creatures that now exist in Earth. We humans survive on water due to having 65% of our body weight being water. An average human drinks around 87600 litres in their lifetime which accumulates to around 175000 water bottles drank in a lifetime. You might think we have

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    1.0 Introduction Drinking water is completely an essential necessity and its quality can never be over emphasized just as its availability. Over 3 million people including children below the age of six making up more than 50% of that number die every year from drinking contaminated water. According to UNICEF and WHO, one in eight people worldwide lack access to safe and clean portable drinking water. As a result of this, many of these people are forced to drink this infected water knowing that it

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    vital to our existence that object is water. Something that gives life and also takes it, why does the government regulate water so extensively? Displacement of water and its filtration is important to every town city and neighborhood in the world. Who decides what the government uses to filters your water with what chemicals are safe and long lasting effects on our health. Water is such a basic resource that the government has to regulate and ensure that the water that we use so much of is safe and

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    Questions (FAQ) -What type of health issues can be related to water quality? The existence of some contaminants in the water can result in health problems, including gastrointestinal diseases, neurological disorders, and reproductive complications. Newborn children, youthful kids, pregnant ladies, the elderly, and immunocompromised people might be particularly in danger of developing illness as a consequence of drinking contaminated water. Certain contaminants need to be reduced to established standards

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    4, 2018 Bottled Water & Drinking Water SPLASH!!! As we all know, water is essential to our overall health. Without water, there would be no trees, no earth, and there would be no us. Just imagine a world without clean, refreshing, crisp, clear, drinking water. I assume there’s no water in hell, so without water, we’d be in hell. You’d be surprised that not all water is the same though. Most people think water is just water, but there is much more to the water that you’re drinking than you know about

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    Drinking Tap-water is better than Bottled Water Bottled water is simply water from some sources that a company has placed in a bottle for resale. It can have minimal processing – as in natural spring or mineral water, or it can be completely filtered and dematerialized which is to remove minerals in the water to nearly pure, and then added minerals back into the water to make it taste better. In these days, “we drink 15 times more bottled water today than we did in 1976. According to the NRDC

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    Abstract: There are very few guidelines and standards governing maximum acceptable concentrations in fresh water and drinking water of pesticides and pharmaceuticals. A comprehensive review of these chemicals including their use, toxicological effects, properties and occurrence in water was conducted. Watersheds and drinking water systems across the United States show that millions are at risk from the endocrine disrupting pesticides and pharmaceuticals. Background Over the past few decades’ substances

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    Water Quality and Contamination Introduction Body Paragraph #1 - Background: Humans use about 75 gallons of water a day for activities, such as cooking, cleaning, bathing, and laundry. Not only do we use water for our own well-being but we also use water to keep animals that we eat healthy and maintain vehicles that we drive on an everyday basis. Only three percent of the water on earth is suitable for drinking, where two percent of water is found only in glaciers and ice and one percent of

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