Drinking Water Hazard

We all know how vital water is to every life source on the planet earth, we go as far to say that "water equals life," which is true. Humans are made out of 75 percent of water, we need at least 8 glasses of water a day. To Americans, that seems like a piece of pie, but what about to countries where water source is very scarce? They aren't as lucky as going to Wal-Mart and purchasing water bottles, they don't even have the pleasure of turning on a faucet to get water from it. According to the "Awake!" magazine, more people die of water related diseases than war itself.

Since humans need and crave water they will go to any extent to get it, even drinking dirty or polluted water. Sciencedaily.com states that, "100 million people in developing countries [are] exposed to dangerously high levels of arsenic in their drinking water." High amounts of arsenic can cause certain types of cancer such as, lung, bladder, liver, colon, and kidney cancer. It also causes skin and nail problems to develop along with effecting the nervous system, states dhs.wisconsin.gov. There is a solution that Tsanangurayi Tongesayi Ph.D professor of analytical and environmental chemistry at Monmouth University came up with. He stated at a scientific meeting, "Our process uses pieces of plastic water, soda pop and other beverage bottles. Coat the pieces with cysteine -- that's an amino acid found in dietary supplements and foods and stir the plastic in arsenic-contaminated water. This works like a magnet. The cysteine binds up the arsenic. Remove the plastic and you have drinkable water."
As college students we can also help the water issue by always shortening our showers to no more than 10 minutes or less, we need to remember there is people less fortunate than us in other parts of the world.

Make sure your drinking water is always clean and safe

Water=life