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    If the dissolved minerals exceed 1,000 mg/L (milligrams per liter) water is not considered desirable for drinking. Water is classed as slightly saline if it contains few thousand mg/L of dissolved minerals, but it is used in places that don’t have good quality water. Some wells and springs contain water with very high concentrations of dissolved minerals that cannot be tolerated by humans and other animals or plants. Uses of groundwater in some parts of the country is limited because they are underlain

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    here in the United States, the worry of whether our drinking water is clean or safe enough to use has never been a reoccurring thought for the population here. Clean, safe, drinking water, has never been a first world problem. If anything, whenever people get thirsty it is very easy for them to go to their kitchen and fill a cup of water from the faucet. Here in the United States, we are privileged enough with not only clean safe drinking water, but access to it in our very own homes. We don’t need

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    importance of good quality drinking water to human health cannot be overemphasized. The reliability of drinking water, defined as the availability of good quality drinking water all the time, is therefore an important objective of every government agency, non-government organization or business tasked with the provision of drinking water. For instance the Government of Alberta launched its Water for Life strategy in 2003 to ensure the provision of safe and secure drinking water for its residents in order

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    million people do not have access to daily clean water. That is 25 percent of all the people in africa. Dirty water can have deadly effects on the body. Thankfully there are many solutions we can put into action such as distilling water, catching fog and recycling water are very effective ways to get clean water to people in africa. Not having clean water access regularly can be very harmful causing illnesses, diseases and even death. Without water the body cannot function properly and cannot retain

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    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

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    of the basic need of humanity. Clean drinking water. All of the states on the western side of the Great Plains have had almost all their water supplies polluted by lead poisoning and other microbial agents. Every couple minutes, another person falls at the hands of Cholera and Fluorosis. This is no longer just a Flint, Michigan problem. Imagine that this was what we woke up to one morning. And imagine the pain and devastation that these people

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    Water is one of the necessities of life for people all around the world. It seems like a basic need that is readily available, as 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered in water. However, many people lack a source of clean drinking water. Unfortunately, this number, as well as the number of people who die due to not having clean water, is rising. According to the Natural Resource Defense Council, “Less than two-tenths of 1 percent of the planet’s water is drinkable, and 90 percent of that goes to

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    demand for water is rising higher every year. A lack of natural freshwater forces scientists and businesses to create the most productive and efficient filters and water systems. Desalination is one of the many ways of providing the world with clean, and non-contaminated water. The many types of desalinating water provides the world with only one percent of its total water demands, yet the companies running these plants are worth an estimated 87 billion dollars combined. Desalinated water is easy to

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    Everyone wants to know which water is safe for them, is it bottled water or tap water? The US drinks more bottled water than any other country across the globe. Not only does the US consume more bottled water, but uses a lot of energy to produce the bottled water. In developing countries, tap water is safe and ‘drinkable’. Bottled water and tap water come from the same sources, but tap water is better than bottled water. Some ways in which tap water is better than bottled water is the cost, environmental

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    Introduction Safe drinking-water is essential for healthy life, and United Nations (UN) General Assembly declared safe and clean drinking-water as a human right essential to the full enjoyment of life [1]. Moreover, the importance of water, sanitation and hygiene for health and development has been reflected in the outcomes of a series of international policy forums [1]. These have also included health and water-oriented conferences, but most importantly in the Millennium Development Goals (MDG)

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