sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

This is a composite that I made a while back that I thought was essential to post for an awareness of how fragile the world's freshwater is. Climate Change is getting all of the attention for there are fortunes to be made through legislation and mandates as politicians and investors can benefit from Green Energy ventures.

The reality is that the vast majority of carbon emissions are generated from the oceans and sources far greater than combustion engines and power generation.

What mankind CAN DO is stop polluting the world's supply of fresh water for all life on earth depends on it. There is a finite amount of water on earth and what there is of it came during the creation of the world and there will be no more coming here unless an icy comet crashes into earth.

Mother Nature recycles her prehistoric water, however, it is a long, long process and man is polluting faster than she can heal. We must stop using our waters as a dumping ground for our chemicals, trash, and waste. To put this in a perspective, India has 2.8 Billion people without toilets and sanitation. The rains are what flush the feces into the very water that they need to survive.

I've included a picture of a polluted river that people that live there depend upon daily (trust me when I say that there are many that are far, far worse). The next time you draw water from your tap, consider yourself blessed.

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Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

Really well done Sippy. Makes your point clearly and one which I wholehearted agree with

magnetoman Loc: Purbeck, Dorset, UK

An interesting composite nicely done and it tells the story for you.
When my daughter honeymooned in India she was horrified by the filth. They really do need to address the problem but it will be a huge task.
My uncle was a missionary in China and an ordained Methodist minister. He had to leave for a while due to their turbulent times and took the opportunity to study sanitation. When he returned he helped remote mountain villages install their first sanitation. He understood the importance of clean water. I’ve just reread his first book, published in 1939, which tells of some of the trials and tribulations the people faced.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Thank you for the very thoughtful commentary and artwork, Sippy.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

Image one says a lot, and if image two was to be put in the rectangle of the eye of image one... that would tell it all succinctly.

When using my hand to cover up the bathing woman, I find it interesting how significantly she adds to punctuating the meaning and composition of the photo.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Thanks, Curmudgeon. A saying goes,"The squeaky wheel gets the grease". What it really means is the problem that leads to building wealth, gets the politician's attention.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Thanks, Magnetoman. We are not only drowning ourselves in filth, we are smothering all life on the planet along with us.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Thanks, Linda. I believe we owe it to others, and Mother Nature, to use our cameras and creativity to be an ambassador for protecting our fragile environment. Can we ever imagine having a camera yet there are no longer any flowers and butterflies....ever...because of our selfish actions?

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Thanks, Dupullum. It was to accent how not only nature but mankind rely on clean fresh water. The dead trees above are an indication of how life would cease to exist without water.

If it isn't obvious, my background is in mechanical systems and plumbing/sanitation was one of the many facets of our business. Folks seldom stop to think about where the water they pull from their tap comes from. The City of St. Louis, MO draws its water from the Mississippi River...yep, the same river that Chicago dumps its waste into and it is the great river basin that rivers both east and west terminate in. The things that wash into those rivers and streams are beyond imagination.

nanaval Loc: Cornwall

Very well done, I saw this morning an article that said scientists were on the brink of reversing the ageing of us. Whether it was true but if so we are very overpopulated and the lower shows the results. The money on the this could be put to a much better use...

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Well done, Gary!

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

Nice work Sip. Nice detail of the trees reflected in the catchlight of the eye. We live in the Great Lakes state and have been drinking distilled and purified water for 40 years now. Nothing directly out of the tap.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

My first tech job after college 1961 was Shift Supervisor at the Detroit Springwells Plant located in "Dearborn the All White City," as the sign said. Your decision to "drinking distilled and purified water for 40 years" was a good decision. One night a plant in Canada dumped Styrene waste in the water... no filtering that with sand!!

At my second job, radioactive trace metals were dumped in the drain as were other chemicals. The contaminated water accumulated in a big tank, before being released, was diluted below the legal limit and thenwent to the storm-water system since it was not fecal waste. Remember the ol' saying "The Solution To Pollution Is Dilution." That low level radioactive waste was upstream from the water intake for Detroit at Bell-isle, water-works park.

Nixon and the Clean Water act was an excellent start to lessen the toxicity of water...

srg

What a great composite. Excellent.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Dupllum,
We can filter water to remove even the finest particulates. This is done through the process of Coagulation, Flocculation, Sedimentation, and Filtration. We can disinfect, and sanitize the water to kill any bacteria with the use of chlorine, chloramine, or chlorine dioxide. A virus needs a host to be transmitted so our water is relatively free of viruses. The water is then processed to remove odors and undesirable flavors.

What is far more difficult is to remove dissolved, or concentrations of, chemicals including medicines that are passed into the water from people in the sewage. It takes a distillation process or a reverse osmosis process to accomplish that degree of removal which thus far is far too expensive to do on a metropolitan size need.