THE HANDBOOK OF NATURE by Frank R. Spellman

Author:Frank R. Spellman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bernan Press
Published: 2019-12-19T00:00:00+00:00

So Necessary, but So Easy to Abuse

If water is so precious, so necessary for sustaining life, then two questions arise: (1) Why do we ignore water? (2) Why do we abuse it (pollute or waste it)?

We ignore water because it is so common, so accessible, so available, so unexceptional (unless you are lost in the desert without a supply of it). Again, why do we pollute and waste water? There are several reasons.

You might be asking yourself: Is water pollution really that big of a deal? Simply stated, yes; it is. Man has left his footprint (in the form of pollution) on the environment, including on our water sources (see Figure 8.2). Man has a bad habit of doing this. What it really comes down to is “out of sight out of mind” thinking. Or when we abuse our natural resources in any manner, maybe we think to ourselves: “Why worry about it. Let someone else sort it all out.”

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