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.
