Monday, September 24, 2018
Public Health Importance of Safe Drinking-Water
The safety of water is so important because it is the basic necessity of life. Simply put, we need water to survive. We use water for drinking, in agriculture to grow and raise our food, to generate energy, and for recreational activities, among many other things. It should be pretty obvious that safe drinking water is extremely important for the health of the public. It is amazing that only 0.007% of the 366 quintillion gallons of water on earth is potable. We need to safeguard what clean water we have, taking care not to pollute it. The Clean Water Act of 1972 helped to control water pollution in the United States by setting water quality standards and regulating pollutant discharges.
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I think we are all on the same page about the importance of clean water. I also agree that the fact that only 0.007% of earth water is potable. Yet it remains to be not enough for the whole planet: there are regions where potable water is in deficit.
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