Drinking water is taken mainly from
the lakes and rivers that are supposedly pure water. Water -full of nitrogen
and phosphorous- comes out the farms to these sources contaminating them with
threatening nutrients. When the water is taken to be treated for drinking, it’s
not really cleaned out of nitrate and phosphorus that are toxic to the living
being. Nitrate could cause blue baby syndrome to infants and affect the thyroid
gland in adults.
Cleaning water from these toxics is
neither easy nor cheap! It costs more than $4.8 billion annually to remove
nitrate by itself, and $12-$56 million for to treat water in a town of 100,000
people from cyanobacterial blooms and cyanotoxins caused by phosphorus (USDA).
As you can see, cleaning up all
these pollutants is not easy; the more practical and satisfying solution is
preventing this and looking up the source. Farms and the fertilizers they use
is the cause. Congress should reward farmers who try to save drinking water. It
all comes from their farms and would get better if they tried to make it
better. We should all unify against theses pollutions and take action. We could
contact the Congress and ask for strict regulations to prevent this. We could
also volunteer or donate to some agencies to check the purity of our near
source for drinking water –could be your tap water-. Some of these agencies are
Clean Water Action, and Clean water Network. Last but not least, a little thing
that each individual could do to protect their own drinking water is using
filters.
Agencies:
Clean Water Action:
Clean Water Network:
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