why should water be considered as common property
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Because it is one of the reason which is used to drink.
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In August, the state of Vermont received $46 million in federal funding to clean up Lake Champlain, specifically to reduce the amount of agricultural runoff entering the lake and causing toxic blue-green algae blooms to appear.
Following the recent water crisis in Toledo, Ohio, resulting in the contamination of drinking water for 400,000 residents due to similar toxic algae blooms, it is clearly important to implement mitigation strategies before we find ourselves in a similar position. Unfortunately, a larger problem is looming and thus far has received little attention from policy makers.
Freshwater use is an increasingly prominent area of concern regarding resource conservation. Maude Barlow, an expert in freshwater resources, recently acknowledged that in the near future water will surpass energy as the nation's largest economic security issue. In the United States, unsustainable water use is threatening to disrupt our daily lives, perhaps sooner than we expect. Researchers have found that the Colorado River is running dry in places, and experts predict Lake Mead, which 22 million people rely on for water, will be completely dry by 2021. These are signs that we not only need to be worried about the pollutants and contaminants entering our water sources, but should also be concerned with how much water is being extracted from these sources, particularly by large-scale agricultural operations.
According to the most recent report published by the U.S. Geological Survey, daily water withdrawals in the United States are about 410,000 million gallons, approximately 70 percent of which is used for irrigation. This issue is amplified by the fact that agricultural water use is consumptive: less than 20 percent of water used for irrigation is returned to the hydrologic cycle, and that water is often contaminated with pesticide and fertilizer residues.
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Following the recent water crisis in Toledo, Ohio, resulting in the contamination of drinking water for 400,000 residents due to similar toxic algae blooms, it is clearly important to implement mitigation strategies before we find ourselves in a similar position. Unfortunately, a larger problem is looming and thus far has received little attention from policy makers.
Freshwater use is an increasingly prominent area of concern regarding resource conservation. Maude Barlow, an expert in freshwater resources, recently acknowledged that in the near future water will surpass energy as the nation's largest economic security issue. In the United States, unsustainable water use is threatening to disrupt our daily lives, perhaps sooner than we expect. Researchers have found that the Colorado River is running dry in places, and experts predict Lake Mead, which 22 million people rely on for water, will be completely dry by 2021. These are signs that we not only need to be worried about the pollutants and contaminants entering our water sources, but should also be concerned with how much water is being extracted from these sources, particularly by large-scale agricultural operations.
According to the most recent report published by the U.S. Geological Survey, daily water withdrawals in the United States are about 410,000 million gallons, approximately 70 percent of which is used for irrigation. This issue is amplified by the fact that agricultural water use is consumptive: less than 20 percent of water used for irrigation is returned to the hydrologic cycle, and that water is often contaminated with pesticide and fertilizer residues.
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