The Headlines Tell The Story

• Over 900,000 people become sick in U.S every year from contaminated water. The Center for Disease Control, 1995

• About 49 million Americans drink water containing radioactive radon. and millions more with radium and uranium. National Resource Defense Council, 1995
   
• Cancer risk among people drinking chlorinated water is 93% higher than among those whose water does not contain chlorine. U.S. Council of Environmental Quality, June 1995

How Clean Is Your Water?
When Did You Last Have Your Water Tested?

Environmental Polution
The pollution of rivers and streams with chemical contaminants has become one of the most critical environmental problems of the century.

Chemical pollution entering rivers and streams can be classified according to the nature of its sources: point pollution and nonpoint pollution.

Point pollution involves pollution from a single concentrated source that can be identified, such as an outfall pipe from a factory or refinery.

Nonpoint pollution involves pollution from dispersed sources that cannot be precisely identified, such as runoff from agricultural or mining operations or seepage from septic tanks or sewage drain fields.

Ben Osborne/Oxford Scientific Films

HOW DOES YOUR WATER COMPARE TO OTHER MAJOR CITIES?

Coded Below 1= City Water Quality & Compliance 2= Right-to-Know Reports 3= Source Water Protection Fresno 1-Poor 2-Poor 3-Failing Los Angeles 1-Fair 2-Good 3-Poor (import) 3-Fair (local) Newark 1-Fair 2-Failing 3-Fair San Diego 1-Fair 2-Fair 3-Poor (import) 3-Fair (local) San Francisco 1-Poor 2-Fair 3-Good

What Are You Drinking?
Industrial Pollutants that run into streams, rivers, or lakes can have serious effects on wildlife, plants, and humans. In the United States there are strict rules for the amount and composition of substances that factories can release into bodies of water. These rules are not always enforced, and much industrial water pollution comes from accidental chemical or oil spills.
John Dommers/Photo Researchers, Inc.

Heavy Metals, such as copper, lead, mercury, and selenium, get into water from many sources, including industries, automobile exhaust, mines, and even natural soil. Like pesticides, heavy metals become more concentrated as animals feed on plants and are consumed in turn by other animals. When they reach high levels in the body, heavy metals can be immediately poisonous, or can result in long-term health problems similar to those caused by pesticides and herbicides.

For example, cadmium in fertilizer derived from sewage sludge can be absorbed by crops. If these crops are eaten by humans in sufficient amounts, the metal can cause diarrhea and, over time, liver and kidney damage. Lead can get into water from lead pipes and solder in older water systems; children exposed to lead in water can suffer mental retardation.

Pesticides In The Water

Pest control has become a difficult issue for farmers because of its potential environmental impact. Although the insecticide being sprayed on this potato field will eliminate a generation of Colorado potato beetles, it may also contaminate local food and water sources.
Blair Seitz/Photo Researchers, Inc.

Many drinking water supplies are contaminated with pesticides from widespread agricultural use.

More than 14 million Americans drink water contaminated with pesticides, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that 10 percent of wells contain pesticides. Nitrates, a pollutant often derived from fertilizer runoff, can cause methemoglobinemia in infants, a potentially lethal form of anemia that is also called blue baby syndrome.

Parasites In The Water?
The parasite Giardia Lamblia is shown in its active, free-swimming trophozoite stage.

Giardia Lamblia enters the body of a human or other host as a cyst. The hard, outer coating of the cyst is dissolved by the action of digestive juices to produce a trophozoite, which attaches itself to the wall of the small intestines, where it reproduces. Offspring quickly encyst and are excreted out of the host's body. Drinking water that has been polluted by fecal matter often provides the offspring with a route back into a new host.
Dr. Stanley L. Erlandsen

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