A Public Service Message.
You and I, are as Guilty as all the others.
Round and round it goes, like a spinning whirl pool, then with a suction noise, it disappears into a hole. in your sink. The journey has begun! From a small drain pipe to a larger one until it enters a huge culvert that goes “who know s where”. Most things that flow will find the way to the lowest point, where ever that may be, into the ocean.
Our water was pure and clean when it started high up in the mountains and made it’s journey down to lower ground. It was used in many ways and would always make it’s way back to travel with many other small streams and they would travel together until they connected with a large and sometimes, a wild river. If this water could only talk, it could tell you a story you would never believe. Some times these streams, creeks and rivers, would have different names at it's beginning depending on the area where they are passing and where they end.
Rivers are located all around the world. Some are so powerful, man fears them. A river has no control and it will go where ever it wants, Water is only one of natures creations that can kill and destroy. Yet it is one thing that is needed to survive on this planet. You learn to live with it. Man has tried to change it’s direction, but in the end it goes where it wants to go. Like the fire, that is another power that does pretty much as it wants to do. And man has to have both to survive here on earth. Fire and water claim many lives around the world each year, How many lives are lost because of what you put in the water?
What we as citizens, would like to know is: what is being dumped down the drains that pollute and spoil that water? Once that water goes to your home and is used the way most house holds use water. Can there be another use for it? Unknown to you, your next door neighbor or the lady down the street or the gas station on the corner, dump chemicals of many kinds, down their drains, would you want to use that water again? Of course you wouldn’t, who would ? when you know what other people are dumping down their drains. Where does this water enter the food chain? Now think of what you use around your house to clean with, would you use that water over that you poured down your drain or what the disposal unit grinds up and flushes down the drain and what would you use it for? What is in the waste water from all the businesses that use water to produce their product ?
Let us all try to do our part, Lets ask our City officials what can we do?
By; Ben R.
10-2-2010
You and I, are as Guilty as all the others.
Round and round it goes, like a spinning whirl pool, then with a suction noise, it disappears into a hole. in your sink. The journey has begun! From a small drain pipe to a larger one until it enters a huge culvert that goes “who know s where”. Most things that flow will find the way to the lowest point, where ever that may be, into the ocean.
Our water was pure and clean when it started high up in the mountains and made it’s journey down to lower ground. It was used in many ways and would always make it’s way back to travel with many other small streams and they would travel together until they connected with a large and sometimes, a wild river. If this water could only talk, it could tell you a story you would never believe. Some times these streams, creeks and rivers, would have different names at it's beginning depending on the area where they are passing and where they end.
Rivers are located all around the world. Some are so powerful, man fears them. A river has no control and it will go where ever it wants, Water is only one of natures creations that can kill and destroy. Yet it is one thing that is needed to survive on this planet. You learn to live with it. Man has tried to change it’s direction, but in the end it goes where it wants to go. Like the fire, that is another power that does pretty much as it wants to do. And man has to have both to survive here on earth. Fire and water claim many lives around the world each year, How many lives are lost because of what you put in the water?
What we as citizens, would like to know is: what is being dumped down the drains that pollute and spoil that water? Once that water goes to your home and is used the way most house holds use water. Can there be another use for it? Unknown to you, your next door neighbor or the lady down the street or the gas station on the corner, dump chemicals of many kinds, down their drains, would you want to use that water again? Of course you wouldn’t, who would ? when you know what other people are dumping down their drains. Where does this water enter the food chain? Now think of what you use around your house to clean with, would you use that water over that you poured down your drain or what the disposal unit grinds up and flushes down the drain and what would you use it for? What is in the waste water from all the businesses that use water to produce their product ?
Let us all try to do our part, Lets ask our City officials what can we do?
By; Ben R.
10-2-2010
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