The Importance Of A Social Class

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Your life in this world is categorized into a social class as soon as you are born. That’s right, the very second light shines on you your parents either were economically stable, super wealthy or barely could pay the hospital bill where you were at the moment. At first it seems as if this categorization won 't affect your life, until you grow up realizing that politics and money make the world go round and it 's a winner-takes-all society. No matter what ‘‘class’’ you live in, there is a few substances that play a very important role in people 's lives and without them we couldn’t survive, and these are; air, food and last but not least, water. This last one listed is notorious for being more valuable in modern society and available only to those who are lucky enough to live in a water abundant area or are willing to pay more to get water distributed to them. …show more content…
USEPA databases on drinking source water quality indicate that 10 percent of surface-based source water did not meet clean water and safe drinking water standards. In addition, SDWIS indicates that 8.2 percent of very small to medium-size community water systems that meet the needs of populations below 10,000 had health safety violations in 2003; these situations affected a total of 4,242,015 people’’ (RCAP 43).
As it is mentioned in the last statement, small communities that seek alternatives to establish small water systems, encounter the consequence that the water provided to their households do not meet water quality standards of purified water. Bad water quality is better than no water at all to these people even if their health is put at risk, if the federal government were to implement high quality water systems to these communities of less than ten thousand occupants, the diseases spread by this lack of quality would be diminished. The only worry would be the cost of this water

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