Wise Water International and Eagle Water Treatment brings to light the importance of our water resource here in Hamilton, Ontario Canada.

Running taps, working toilets, and clean safe drinking water, they’re things people can take for granted here in the Hamilton area. Yet around the world, millions of poor people get sick or die each day because they must go without these necessities of life.According to the World Health Organization almost 900 million people in the world do not have access to clean, safe drinking water, while 2.6 billion live without basic sanitation. Across the globe, more than 6,000 people die each day from diseases caused by dirty water — two-thirds of those are children. What could be more crucial to life than clean purified water? The best way to protect our water here in Hamilton is to manage it by protecting both water and the land it flows through. By doing so, we can create healthy streams and healthy communities.

Here in the greater Hamilton area we depend on the Hamilton Conservation Authority to do their part by protecting our valuable natural resource which is water. According to a publication by the Hamilton Conservation Authority titled “Leading Conservation Forward” our water currently may be placed under severe stress. “As urban populations and industrialization have proliferated, the water cycle and its various components have been put under severe stress. This has created flood conditions where none existed before, and the discharge of pollutants has become a health threat to those who live downstream. These and related environmental problems can be overcome, but only if we consider the water resource in the context of all human activities within the drainage basins (watersheds) of our rivers and streams.”

 As concerned citizens of our community it is important that we all do our part and it is time to call for a cleanup of our watershed areas including rivers and streams by picking up and cleaning up the numerous plastic bottles found in these areas. Litter found in our rivers and streams specifically from plastic water bottles has become a leading source of pollution in our environment. According to the World Health Organization over 50 billion plastic bottles are purchased each year, which is over 1500 per second. Those water bottles take a minimum of 450 years to begin to decompose in our environment. Even in its smallest form, plastic will never fully biodegrade. Over 17 million barrels of oil are used in producing bottled water each year, yet bottled water costs more than tap water. The energy wasted in producing and using plastic bottles in a year would be enough to power 36,000,000 homes.

 As concerned corporate citizens we here at Wise Water International and Eagle Water Treatment Systems offer a simple solution to protecting our valuable water resource. We want to encourage our community to begin to eliminate their dependence on bottled water and begin to rely on tap water as a source of clean fresh water. We suggest improving the taste, smell and clarity of the tap water by installing a water filtration system in your home and business.This water filtration system will provide better than bottled water quality from tap water and help to protect our valuable water resource here in the Greater Hamilton area.

 Wise Water International a proud distributor of Eagle Water Treatment Products is located at 351 Nash Road North, Unit #4 in Hamilton Ontario Canada. We are proud members of the CWQA – Canadian Water Quality Association. Please feel free to visit our website for more information www.wisewaterint.com.