What is colorless, odorless and essential?
When we last talked about water, we were dealing with the extreme weather phenomena caused by all the surplus water in our atmosphere brought on by climate change, also known as ‘global warming.’
Here is the paradox. If there is plenty of water, in fact an excess of it, why all the fuss about water conservation? Why are we admonished not to let the water run as we brush our teeth? Why are we advised to take shallower baths and shorter showers? Told to use special showerheads and to put space savers in our toilet tanks?
Here’s why. An astonishing 99 percent of the world’s water is salt and not usable in agriculture, cooking or drinking. Most of the rainwater that cascades down on us falls onto oceans, which cover 72 percent of the earth’s surface. Furthermore, conditions vary from year to year and season to season and droughts strain our supply for agricultural, industrial and domestic use.
In our area, as in most, we depend on reservoirs to collect and store water. Before water is pipelined into our homes it must be processed to meet standards of purity. That includes all the water, whether it is directed to our sinks and tubs, our toilets or our garden hose connection.
Humans (now don’t take this personally) have created more than 70,000 known pollutants found in water, a condition exacerbated by our advances in science and industry and our habit of dumping waste into our water.
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