Water is essential for the survival of all known forms of life. The human body is anywhere from 55% to 78% water depending on body size. To function properly, the body requires between one and seven liters of water per day to avoid dehydration
All known forms of life depend on water. Because of overpopulation, mass consumption, misuse, and water pollution, the availability of drinking water per capita is inadequate and shrinking as of the year 2006.

40% of America's rivers are too polluted for fishing, swimming, or aquatic life.
Even worse are America's lakes—46% are too polluted for fishing, swimming, or aquatic life.
1.2 trillion gallons of untreated sewage, stormwater, and industrial waste are discharged into US waters annually. The US EPA has warned that sewage levels in rivers could be back to the super-polluted levels of the 1970s by the year 2016.
Asian rivers are the most polluted in the world. They have three times as many bacteria from human waste as the global average and 20 times more lead than rivers in industrialized countries

Serious water pollution incidents increased by 50% in England and Wales last year with farmers responsible for more than a quarter of them, the Environment Agency says.

I made this Thread to increase knowledge about water pollution such as industrial water pollution and to share thoughts about how to prevent it

It saddens me. Once sacred and spiritual - now merely a conduit for feces and chemical waste.

Carbon nanotubes and other technology will help in future years as pollution continues to increase. However, humans need to re-establish a spiritual relationship with water or technological efforts will be fruitless.

I would like to send the CEO's of top water polluters into the desert for 20 years. Maybe they would think twice before dumping their toxic stew into the nearest stream, spreading disease and disgust to all the life forms below.

I believe that water is the resource that will cause the next major world war. As Brazil and other South American countries slash and burn the rain forests, we will see horrendous weather changes, especially in the lack of rainfall, throughout the world. And as America and China move from petroleum to so called "clean" coal, lakes and rivers of the world will become even MORE polluted.

And agricultural expansion to feed an overpopulated world will account for more runoffs into rivers, which, besides polluting them, also have repercussions downstream at the outlets to the oceans, where huge dead zones occur as the effluvium pollutes the sea waters. And that's not even where we are dumping our wastes in the ocean!

We must be the dumbest species on earth, polluting our own environment. So much for "intelligence"...

I totally agree with you Serafina that we are the dumbest species on earth because we are destroying our beautiful world without thinking. We have what we are giving for our coming generations. Estimates suggest that nearly 1.5 billion people lack safe drinking water and that at least 5 million deaths per year can be attributed to waterborne diseases. With over 70 percent of the planet covered by oceans, people have long acted as if these very bodies of water could serve as a limitless dumping ground for wastes. Raw sewage, garbage, and oil spills have begun to overwhelm the diluting capabilities of the oceans, and most coastal waters are now polluted. Beaches around the world are closed regularly, often because of high amounts of bacteria from sewage disposal, and marine wildlife is beginning to suffer.Source: Industrial Water Treatment Consulting & Engineering Services - NJ, PA, NY, DE, CT & MD - JNBLabs.com

How could you know ???
How it feels for me ??
Swimming for pleasure
In contaminated seas

Believe you had enough to share
But you left me...

Down at the bottom
Scraping for a reason
Down at the bottom
Pull my way out again....

God no wonder we're so depressed, look at our poor water !!!!!