The Importance Of Clean Water In The United States

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People in the United states don’t realize how lucky we are when it comes to clean water. We have an abundance of drinking water at our disposal, other countries aren’t so lucky. They have little to no drinkable water at all, their water is contaminated and causes sickness if they drink it. If we can somehow develop a way of getting clean water to these underdeveloped countries, it can reduce the wide spread of water disease, improve education levels, and bring the overall safety of people up, as long as provide more employment.
The safety of people through water is threatened because of floods. Without the correctly built dams, floods are going to happen more frequent. If the water industry decides to build dams, is will give people a build

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