Our Country
Quenching the World’s Thirst
You are thirsty. You choose a glass and walk over to the kitchen faucet. Turn the spigot and out comes fresh, clean, satisfying water. You probably don’t stop to think how lucky you are, and how millions of people around the world cannot perform this simple act.
There is currently a water crisis in our world and people are dying. Why do we have this crisis when most of the world is covered with water? Because, hard as it is to believe, 97% of the world’s water is undrinkable. Most of this undrinkable water is from all the oceans — salt water that is unfit for drinking.
Concerning the drinkable water, thanks to our industrial waste and large companies still dumping waste into normally safe sources of drinking water, a majority of it has been polluted or contaminated.
Most of us in the United States don’t even notice that all of this is going on in our world because we are blessed with abundant clean drinking water. Going to an appointment at almost any office we find bottled water there available for us to drink. Usually, when we patronize a restaurant, we are served a glass of water as soon as we arrive. We even can get bottled water out of a vending machine.
Water is necessary for humans to live healthily; because of this water crisis, millions are ill or dying, especially people in developing countries, where they are even fighting over water. In this crisis, the highest death rates are suffered by babies and the very old. The number that shocks me most is 4,900 — every day that many babies die simply because they lack clean drinking water.
Gradually this has become clear: there is an immediate need for new ways to treat sewage water, and for new water treatment plants, also. Practically speaking, these are the new water machines that are needed.
This is a very tall order for our world today. Today’s technology has created treatment plants to take the salt out of saltwater, as well as a new generation of machines that can make water out of the air.
With the crisis becoming worse, there are many companies, some of them new, working on brand-new technology. This crisis is worsening — our underwater sources in some areas are becoming polluted; this crisis could soon affect the USA as well as other developed countries.
Currently there is a machine on the market that can produce around 500 gallons of drinkable water right out of the air. This water machine isn’t portable, but at least new technology is being worked on.
Small portable water machines such as this will probably be the wave of the future; they will surely be located in virtually every restaurant, office, home, and business. But recognition of this crisis is finally growing. Has this realization come too late? We trust not.
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John Mellencamp – Our Country
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