Drinking water is an important part of growing up. Having water readily available to drink and bathe is necessary to insure bacteria will not spread from person to person. I live in a community that has plenty of well water available, city water is available in the small town but the majority of the people use well water. Having well water is nice but there are setbacks. Using well water does not give children the fluoride, provided in the water from the city, but there are not as many chemicals added to it. Not having fluoride in the well means, you must add it to the daily regimen. Not having running water available to clean with or drink can be harmful as well.
When looking around the world I stumbled on the Iraq drinking water situation. Without purified water, the drinking water is not fit for human consumption. Having the same water used for sewer and drinking has created many separate problems. One major problem is the sewer water is in open, manmade ponds, that are drying up and the water is not running through any kind of filtration system. Not having the running water drinkable results in people using bottled water, this creates more solid waste to discard. The landfills are filling up and the water sources are drying up. There are water filters out there that can fix and help many of the problems, but the expense is too high for the country to afford. “Waterborne diseases like diarrhea — the most prolific killer of children under 5 — are on the increase. In some areas, it's up as much as 70 percent over last year,” says the CBS Evening News. The United States has spent over 5.5 billion dollars so far to remedy the situation in Iraq. There must be something done soon to stop the problem.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/03/eveningnews/main3132093.shtml
WOW!! Never knew the U.S spent that much money on the situation like that in Iraq. Purified water is needed here and everywhere else. You really never know what's going on with the filter system.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing insight on the Iraq water situation. We should be thankful for clean water here in the USA. I feel it is important to have clean water to drink and bathe in to stay healthy.
ReplyDeleteAnother hazard of war,impure water in the host country. Just think of the number of deaths to our military had it not been for the provision of purified, bottled water to our troops.
ReplyDeleteFloride treatment is a problem with well water, but that can also be said of bottled water, which has become highly popular in the U S.
Hello, Robert
ReplyDeleteI feel the opposite towards breastfeeding. I didn’t breastfeed my daughter I used formula to feed my daughter because the thought of breastfeeding gave me pain. I know some mothers who say that they like breastfeeding their baby because they don’t have to worry about buying formula and they save on money. I know that researchers say that breastfeeding help with the bonding period between you and your baby but I think that I can find another way to bond with my baby instead of breastfeeding my baby.
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