People need water to survive. Where there is no water, there will not be life and it’s amazing to me how one can go weeks and even months without food but can only go about 1 week without water (Spector, 2014). Thankfully our planet is made up of 70% water, I’m sure one would say, but unfortunately only 1% of our fresh water is easily accessible with the rest being trapped in ice glaciers so in actuality only 0.007 percent of the planet's water is available to the 6.8 billion people that live on this planet (environment.nationalgeographic.com). The biggest public health concern as related to fresh drinking water is pollution. In developing countries, 70 percent of industrial wastes are dumped untreated into waters, polluting the usable water
