What is Water? Where Does Water Come From?

 Water

We all know water is a molecule called H2O that contains two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen.  Its a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid.  (Now water that has a bad taste and a unpleasant odor means there are other element's such as iron, ferrous or ferric/sulfur and possible bacteria.)  We find water in lakes, streams, creeks, rivers and oceans.  The hydrologic cycle is the process of water from the above motioned is gathered as water vapor (Suns heat causes surface water to evaporate) and returned to the earth in the form of snow and rain. 

Ground Water to Drinking Water:

From the highways to the city streets, country roads, neighborhood streets, parking lots and city dumps / land fills the water we use washes away and collects all the dirt, grim, grease, gas, diesel fuel, animal waste, discarded cigarettes, human waste, Industrial waste etc etc..  All of this is added to the water resources we use to draw our water supply.  Can you imagine all the contaminates that are in our water?

From The Waste Treatment Plant:

Everything that is flushed down the toilets, dumbed down the sink drain ends up in our water supply. 

The Ocean:  The City of New York uses the ocean as its land fill! Oil refinery's leak millions of gallons of petroleum into the ocean. Japan had a sever nuclear water filled radiation leak into the ocean.  Not to mention the large floating island of plastic floating in the ocean.  Think about other nations and the pollutants dumped into the ocean on a daily basis.!  

Stored Nuclear Waste:

Lets not forget the millions upon millions of stored gallons of Nuclear Waste !  This is from the existence of Nuclear Power Plants.  Once Considered Clean Energy, in my personal opinion, NOT SO MUCH!

The Bottom line is we can no longer consider the water we have to be free on contaminations!  WE must take the safety of our drinking water vary seriously.