How We Can Make A Diffrence!!!

After learning about water, what it is, how it is important to everything in the world, how it gets polluted, and how we can prevent pollution in our waters, here are some ways that we all can do to accelerate to protect our waters.

Many students are now discovering that they can contribute to scientific knowledge and help the environment through active learning and undergraduate research programs. Internship is a way of doing this.

You can also join a group or an organization to help sanitize, clean, and help people from all of the country who are in need of water or help educate them. By joining an organization such as "A Child's Right," their mission is to serve families in the poorest communities in the world as they implement community-managed projects that integrate water supply, sanitation, and health education according to their website, "A Child's Right."  Here are their contacts if interested in joining or learning more. 
                                                USA - A Child's Right
                            1127 Broadway, Suite 102 . Tacoma, WA 98402 USA
                               Phone: 253.327.1707 . email: acr@achildsright.org

Another organization that is here in Wisconsin is the "Community Shares of Wisonsin." What they do is  addresses social, economic, and environmental problems through grassroots activities, advocacy, research, and public education according to their website "Community Shares." 
To get to know this organization better contact them through mail, address or phone.

612 W. Main Street, Suite 303
Madison, WI 53703
Phone: (608) 256-1066
Fax: (608) 256-8823
Email

You don't have to join an organization if you don't want to. What you also can do is walk around the beaches and collect the garbages in the area. You could also conserve water by using enough or less when cooking, taking a bath, brushing your teeth, watering your lawn, and washing your car with less water. Every little thing counts when using water or doing something that can affect the water, and you'd be surprise how much water you are saving for yourself and the world. This not only helps you but also the people around you.   

A Child's Right. N.p., 2006. Web. 5 May 2011. <http://www.achildsright.org/water_relief_org_links.php>.

Community Shares. N.p., 2011. Web. 5 May 2011. <http://www.communityshares.com/contact.asp>.

Insufficient Sewage Treatment Causes Water Pollution

Many cities in developing countries are able to afford a sewage treatment system for their community, but for those less unfortunate cities who can not afford one, are faced with spreading of diseases, eutrophication, increase in Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD), etc.

According to Cunningham and Cunningham, the World Bank estimates that only 35% of urban residents in developing countries have satisfactory sanitation services (2010.) Even if they had little fresh water, it would go and mix with the sewage. They also state that in Latin America, only 2 percent of urban sewage receives any treatment, and in Egypt, Cairo's sewer system was built about 50 years ago to serve 2 million people. There are about 10 million people today in Egypt which is a huge problem having to deal with insufficient sewage and facing all sorts of disease or health issues

Many rivers and streams in developing countries are more like open sewers, and yet the poor people wash, bath, cook, and drink from it (Cunningham, Cunningham 2010). In most cases, they would not survive for very long before they die. It is very important that countries who have the technology, knowledge, and money should help the poor people. Even without money, knowledge could still help the poor people better themselves and their community.

Cunningham, William P., and Mary Ann Cunningham. Environmental Science. 11. New York: The McGraw-Hill, 2010.500. Print.