Message in a bottle

     Did you know that 3,262 bottles of water are purchased each year in the USA alone and subsequently left in landfills?  When did bottled water become an icon? Water pollution affects our oceans, lakes, rivers, and drinking water, making it a widespread and global concern. Numerous diseases, health problems, and even fatalities have been associated with water pollution. In previous generation water pollution wasn’t a concern. This research will examine  the impact  water pollution has had to society and the practices that have resulted.         

      The main reason for contaminated water is that human waste found a path to the rivers and streams,Trash from gutters likewise found a way to water bodies and made many people ill .     

      During Medieval Times society had a little knowledge of what was damaging and what was depraving for the world. Mercury was frequently disposed of into the water supply, along with human and animal refuges where allowed to run freely into watercourses. Most people who stayed in cities just dumped their leftover waste into the road. People even consumed chemicals they assumed were okay to digest at the time that we currently know are very bad for you, like Radium and Lead. Later after World War II, in addition to pollutants such as human wastes, fertilizers, and chemical wastes, the emergence of productions and hi-tech workshops equally caused more ruthless water pollution problems. Companies wastes were freely dumped into water ways polluting the water more and causing big sizes of damage. In the year 1969, after series of fires on the Cuyahoga River, it was learned that the fires are caused by oil slicks and flammable industrial wastes dumped into it!!!
       Many people still don’t know how to prevent chemical and waterborne diseases. Today, water pollution is an issue many places face. It is imperative for us to know the disease causing agents that can run into water. Human wastes, household chemicals, fertilizers, garbage and industrial by-products are the most major contributors of water pollutants . Hopefully we can stop them from going to the water we drink and learn how to avoid their use altogether .
The use of water has progressed into different industries, such as  bottled water, water flavor packets, energy drinks and  home filtering  systems . There is no doubt bottled water serves many reasonable purposes including travel, as an alternative to the other options offered at places such as sporting events, and for emergencies. Many people have begun to see bottled water as better alternative to tap water, causing consumption and production to increase. In 1982, Crytal Lite flavor packets were introduced which are powdered drink mixes to help address sports rehydration, weight loss and weight control, or on the road breakfast eating 
                 In the past we drank water from the tap or garden hose and considered it safe to drink, to installing water purification systems in our homes and work places. It appears we began trusting only bottled water as the safest forms of use. With this distrust, society has only compounded the problems. Now we have the chemical waste from the factories that manufacture the bottles we consume the waters from polluting the environment . And the refuge from the bottles are filling our landfills.  Did you know that you can wrap plastic bottles around the world 190 times end to end .

       This research paper investigated how water pollution has increased in the past 10 years and changes to practices and perceptions. I think that water pollution is vast problem in our society, the increasing infestation of chemicals in are water supply is to the point of disbelief.  In the “olden days” people drank from a hoses, a bucket from a well or a faucet in the kitchen. Now it seems the only safe clean water it in a bottle. But what happens to the bottle after the waters all gone? How are plastic bottles made? This is one of the questions that keeps invading my thoughts. This has truly been a report I will not be forgetting soon. I hope that everyone that reads this will have learned something new.