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Healthy water and ConservationWater health is every day becoming a more talked about subject. Water is necessary for all living things to survive and as the earth and its water supplies become more polluted by industry and its waste, it is vital that we begin to change our attitudes towards it.
Gone are the days in many counties where you can drink from your household water supply. Many countries suffer from extreme water shortage and thousands people die every day of thirst and disease from contaminated water supplies. Healthy Water Resources
There are only 1362 trillion litres (gulp!) (320 trillion gallons) of water on planet Earth. 97% of that amount is salt water. Only 3% is fresh water and nearly 80% of what is fresh, is frozen in the polar ice caps and glaciers around the world. Because of steep world population growth, pollution and flippant wastage of water, the availability of clean drinking water per person is shrinking even in developed countries such as Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom. The most abundant, available source of water is subterranean water or wellsprings known as aquifers. "Water storage" refers to groundwater, soil moisture, snow, ice, and surface waters. Groundwater is the portion of the water residing in underground aquifers.
Groundwater can be found nearly everywhere in earth's shallow subsurface, to some degree; although all groudwater supplies do not necessarily contain fresh water. The earth's crust can be divided into two regions: the saturated zone (e.g., aquifers, aquitards, etc.) and the unsaturated zone (also called the vadose zone).
Water PollutionAquifers are critical for human habitation and agricultural development. Deep aquifers in arid areas have long been water sources for irrigation but with increasing toxins and waste polluting these water supplies, our water resources and Healthy Water are being compromised. Greywater recycling
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