“Everyday, thousands of people die from lack of clean water.”This fact struck me about our lack of clean water. I just can’t believe that thousands of people died because of the amount of chemicals that are being used into the making of products. Our products and other chemicals are being dumped into our rivers and lakes that are polluting our environment and killing living things.
From what I have learned from the past years about pollution, our water, our community and our earth is slowly dying. Throughout the globe, the third-world countries are struggling with water shortages because of their rapid economic growth of industrialization and urbanization. Poor countries have the lack of environmental protections for sewage, waste and other natural resources. They industrialized products using cheap labor and export to the United States. China is the world leader in manufacturing, but also the world's leader in pollution with very few controls of manufacturing waste. U.S. exports a large amount of E-Waste (Electronic Waste) to other Countries like China. China takes the electronic apart; they take what they can resell such as lead, brass and other precious metals and dump the rest in the rivers, lakes, oceans or whatever they dismantled them.
"China has some of the most extreme water shortages in the world. Of the 640 major cities in China, more than 300 face water shortages, with 100 facing severe scarcities."
I thought that fact was interesting too. What I thought was interesting about that was the fact that it seems so available to me. Something that I think would be a good idea for you to research is the regulations on water for different countries. Also how we are not suppose to throw away batteries because the acid can leak down into the rivers, how does that affect us? has there been any major accounts of people getting poisoned from this cause?
ReplyDeleteI think that you have a good grasp on the idea of the lack of clean water. It seems that you are passionate in approaching this topic and some of the facts and ideas that you have are really interesting and good. What I'm wondering is if you are going to focus on just the lack of clean water in a certain are like China or the US, or if you are focusing on the global issue of the lack of clean water.
ReplyDeleteYou really seem to have a general idea about water and how it affects us. I think if you incorporated how our water affects us, you would have a really informative senior project.
ReplyDeleteSomething else you might want to research is how China actually can clean up its air and such: for the 2008 Beijing olympics, there was a huge campaign to reduce emissions and clean the air for the athletes. I don't know what happened afterwards, but it's interesting how quickly they can turn themselves around.
ReplyDeleteThis is a huge problem and I'm curious as to what you do with it in your senior project.