CH. 5 National Resources in the Environment

"People often take freshwater resources for granted"(Barker,2003). I could not agree more with this statement. This natural resource if often taken for granted, and one day we may not be lucky enough to have such a resource. We use this water for drinking, showering, cooking, cleaning and also farming. Yet as humans we tend to waste this water and destory it with raw sewages, pesticides, animal wastes and garbage. The most serious water pollutants are pathogenic organisms; among the waterborne diseases are typhoid,cholera, bacterial and aoebic dysentery, enteritis, polio, infectious hepatatis, and schistosomiasis. Althogether, at least twenty-five million deaths worldwide each year are blamed on these water related diseases. Nearly two-thirds of the mortality rate of children under five years old are associated with waterborne diseases(Barker,2003). I always knew that water was an important instrument to survival, but I never took the time stop and think about the everyday uses of water, and how this resource can be destroyed and even cause death. We should really pay attention to the amount of water that we use, and we should try our hardest to not destroy this resource through polluting!