The World Today: Environmental Health and Water Quality (Essay Sample)

Environmental Health and Water Quality
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Environmental Health and Water Quality
In the world today, the issue of water reliability has been the main topic of discussion internationally; this is because water resources have been exploited extensively through anthropogenic activities. The life of human beings cannot be imagined without water, therefore, water is very essential to them, and this is not only because of the use of water for consumption but for other essential fields for the humans, such as agriculture, and industrialization. The use of water for purposes such as agriculture and industrial, are excessively impure to be recycled for re-use in consumption, this means that the wide use of water in such fields has led to the deterioration of both the quality and the quantity of water worldwide. Therefore, the bottom-line means that due to the excessive use of water in such activities leads to the scarcity of the resource, and hence, there must be a solution or suggestions to help tackle such an international matter. This has led to various countries, including US to come up with strategic ideas and decisions to help give direction in helping to solve such an issue, hence the proposed used of treated wastewater. All states in the US do value water quality despite the disparity in water supply and quantity.
First, it is important to point out that the health of the human beings is in one way or the other, connected to the quality of water they consume. Water pollution is one of the environmental current issues, as most of the nations have their citizens suffering from infections brought about by drinking contaminated water; these infections include cholera, typhoid, E. coli, and many others. This means that the health of the US citizens would be under great threat if at all the quality of the water was that low. The reason as to why nowadays it is rare to hear of infections caused by consuming contaminated water is that the water is treated regularly. According to CITATION Bar05 \l 1033 (Bartram, 2005), nowadays it is difficult to find people use water in its natural state; it has to undergo some sort of treatment before being consumed by the people. For the protection of the health of the people, it calls for special treatment of water, where it undergoes several processes before it has availed for consumption to the people.
Treatment and purification of water has been ease by the rapidly growing technology, due to this water can be treated through various processes that would ensure its natural purity. Achievement of naturally pure water is not as easy due to the current environmental problem that are related to the issue of water purity, the industries and agriculture have all contributed to the pollution of water. Therefore, to avoid further pollution of the natural water, there has been a suggesting of treating wastewater and using it in some areas, to save and improve water supply CITATION Use98 \l 1033 (Use of reclaimed water in municipal drinking-water supplies. Journal of Environmental Health, 1998). Therefore, this would mean that each state, country, or nation may have different standards of water in terms of its quality but all of them are aiming at providing their citizens with clean and healthy water that would be good for their health.
At this point globally, it would be sincere to state that water scarcity is the major problem to nearly all the nations, and it may be difficult to ensure a steady supply of pure and clean water to the people. This means that the states and nations may find it costly to supply quality water to their citizens, due to pollution, and hence they have to ensure safety of water to be drunk. Therefore, the states with larger reservoirs for natural water and clean may spend less to the treatment as compared to the states with higher rate of pollution. This would mean that the states that are have lower supply of water due to the issue of pollution, will have to use more monetary resources in ensuring that there is adequate treatment of the wastewater, to increase the quantity of water for supply to its people. Such states may face many challenges because of the fact that they have scarce water; however, they have the responsibility of supplying clean water for consumption to their citizens. The other states with higher quantity of water supply may...