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Question 36: Select an issue that is of importance to you and discuss your views.( New College University of South Florida)

Portable drinking water is hard to locate these days. Even though water sources are present everywhere, it is either salt water or stagnant water that has waste dumped in it every day, by individuals living along the water body, or the government has made it a spot for all the city waste to be dumped there. One – third of the world population does not have clean drinking water. For people living in the cities they have water coming to them from the water recycling plants, or from the desalination plants along the coast along the coast  line, or water coming from dams and other hydro – electric units.

               A few days backs, on my visit to a worm culture farm, I passed through a village called, Mankanpur, Uttarkhand ( India). I saw man made channels for flowing water, all along the road. These structures moved for few kilometers on either side of the road, till where the land for agriculture stopped. We had stopped for lunch, at a Dhaba: A Dhaba is an Indian fast food place. At the Dhaba, my Boss Minakshi, co- head at Camp Forktail Creek, talked to me and the other volunteers about water problems. The water flowing is used by each individual house hold, for drinking, cooking, washing clothes and agriculture. The water is also used to clean the road. There is a lot of in-organic waste that is polluting this non-stop flow of water coming from small stream  on the river bed. The water is also prone to diseases, and other water borne insects that breed easily, and can create chaos among the people living there. It is disgusting. Everyone  knows what is in the water, where it has been, but the people living along the road are ignorant. Their mind set is based on the fact that if the water is flowing, it will remain clean.

Water recycling has become excessive, and It probably should stop. These channels of water can be seen all over the country, at every agriculture based state. Since, clean water is hard to provide to every household, risks need to be taken for future development.