Water, Earth’s most precious resource, serves simultaneously as habitat, nourishment and cleanser.
Underground aquifers, dozens of miles deep and hundreds of miles wide, are the Earth’s second-largest reserve of fresh water, after ice caps and glaciers. Filled over billions of years, they are today being drained at two to four times their natural recharge rate.
We take it for granted, we waste it, and we even pay too much to drink it from little plastic bottles.
And still, today, nearly 1 billion people in the developing world don’t have access to it.
Clean, safe drinking water is scarce. It is the foundation of life, a basic human need. Yet today, all around the world, far too many people spend their entire day searching for it.
The importance of access to clean water cannot be overstated.
The Department of Water Management is responsible for delivering close to 1 billion gallons of fresh pure water to the residents of Chicago and 125 suburban communities everyday. it is also responsible for removing the waste water and storm runoff from the streets of Chicago, via our sewer system and delivering the effluent for treatment to the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago. This is all accomplished through a network of purification plants, tunnels, pumping stations, water mains, sewer mains, valves and structures that require constant upkeep and maintenance.
living in the post industrial country, and getting water facilities in a minimal rate, we barely know how much water we are wasting in a day. but after monitoring the water use in my day to day life, for e.g, how much i use while bathing, in shower, brushing and so on, i use approximately 199 gallons in a days, 1393 gallons in a week and 78008 gallons in a year. of course i need water to survive so do all living beings. but my in my daily activities i waste a lot of water unecessarrly and i believe many people do( not every one).
when i brush or take a shower or wash my face i turn the flow of water go on until i m done with my all the activities. this aspect of mine misusing the water might not harm me. but there is only 0.2 percent of total drinking water, many kids are dying of water disease and not having a clean drinking water. if i control my habits and many people who are like me did the same it might be very helpful not to waste the water.
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