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    bottled water. My grandfather told me that when he was a boy they drank water from the hose and it was free. I know growing up our household certainly didn’t bother with things like that, so facet water is what we got as well. The costs of groceries these days is expensive, spending extra money on water always seemed like such a waste to me. Now, that being said, some people live in areas where the water isn’t very clean, and buying bottled water is much safer than drinking the city’s water. Also,

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    pressing issue in todays society is the growing concern over the accessibility of safe, clean drinking water. Following a crisis in Flint, Michigan, where public officials ignored dangerous levels of lead in the city’s drinking water and thousands of children were exposed to dangerous levels of lead in their water. Beyond the obvious issues in Flint, however, there remain many problems surrounding safe drinking water. Though options to fix these problems exist, it remains challenging to find a solution

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    A Proposal on the Quality of Drinking Water Georgiana Grecea Submitted to Prof. Steven Karl In fulfillment of course requirements for ENC 1102 Abstract: Good hydration is a very important aspect in our daily health and it is critical that we keep our bodies hydrated. Water is of great significance, since it is used for drinking and in preparing our daily food. Today, there are a lot of concerns about drinking tap water due to the fact that it may contain potential toxins; so consequently

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    Some important suggestions regarding drinking water: 1. Avoid drinking water immediately after your meal; it causes fire of digestion to become weak. Best is to drink warm water after 1 hour of your meal. 2. Water is best consumed when one is in a sitting position; water is to be drunk sip by sip by maintaining a proper sitting posture. You, yourself, can do the experiment of drinking water in a standing position and then in a sitting position and thereby check the difference in the anxiety level

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    Drinking Water In Canada

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    deprived of their basic human right to clean water. Canada has failed to effectively address the issue as its policies tend to disregard Aboriginal People’s right to safe drinking water. A significant portion of the responsibility falls on the Crown as it is the responsibility of the Canadian government to ensure that all its citizens have equal opportunities and resources. The literature reviews examined in this paper demonstrates that the problem of the water crisis in First Nations communities is rooted

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    written about 1,500 New York City schools that have covered up the lead concentration in their schools drinking water, due mostly to outdated piped and water that is the wrong pH. The motive behind this is that schools that are found to have high lead levels are forced to replace their pipes and many schools can’t or won’t pay to fix the problem. Of course if a school can’t fix the lead levels in their water system, the school will be shut down and faculty members are out of a job. In order to significantly

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    Drink Water Speech How many of you, when you go to a restaurant and the waiter/waitress asks you what you want to drink ask for water? How many you would select a glass of water out a fridge filled with soda, fruit juices, or beer? My guess is probably not very many you actually choose water over the other options. I used to be the same way. I used to never drink water, and would always choose another beverage if I had the option. However, after I began to hear about the importance of water

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    The absolute most important thing to human life is water, without water all life on Earth would not exist. Thankfully water quality is highly important and monitored to ensure its safety for human consumption. According to the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Water Science School over 96% of the Earths, water is Ocean salt water, making less than 4% of drinkable water more valuable. (Where’s the World’s Water? 2016). Having clean drinking water is not only important for our survival as humans, but

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    Drinking water is a simple idea but such a hard process to master. The water in our lakes and rivers is not safe to drink due to the toxins from vehicles, industrial plants, and natural sources. It is sad how much we take drinking water for granted. In many countries around the world, they do not have easy access to drinking water like we do here in America. In today’s society, when we receive water from a lake or river, it must be treated and cleaned before people can drink it. The drinking water

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    may suffer from drinking contaminated water and not even know it. For example, In Flint Michigan, they were once getting a nice clean water supply from Lake Huron, but they had to pay the city of Detroit. So the city council decided they could cut costs by using the water from the Flint River. The river was known to the local people as filthy and thought that it was a joke switching to the river water. Once they switched their water supply to the river they had noticed the water was brown and looked

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