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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI appreciate turning
on the tap and getting clean water. This is rare in many places on earth. I try to appreciate clean water every day.
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I appreciate turning (Original Post)
kairos12
Oct 2015
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irisblue
(33,034 posts)1. yes!
and flush toilets. I am a very urban girl.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)2. Indeed and yet most of us take this simple luxury for granted.
Thanks for reminding us.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)3. I think it's hard for most of us to imagine...
what it's like for so many humans for which this isn't an option.
Fla Dem
(23,765 posts)4. Places right here in the goood old USA
This Is What it Looks Like to Live Without Running Water in America
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-mcgraw/live-without-running-water-in-america_b_8011310.html
When most people imagine life without clean water, they think of places like Sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia - communities that barely resemble their own. But at last count, an estimated 1.7 million Americans live without clean, running water at home. The recent drought has only exacerbated the problem. In the past year, an estimated 5000 Californians have lost water access due over-extraction from local aquifers and a falling water table.
American families without clean water live lives totally different from our own. They often wake up and collect water from a source outside their home, fetching it in buckets and boiling it on the stove. When desperate, many collect water from unsafe sources contaminated with bacteria, nitrites, arsenic or even uranium.
More at link.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-mcgraw/live-without-running-water-in-america_b_8011310.html
When most people imagine life without clean water, they think of places like Sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia - communities that barely resemble their own. But at last count, an estimated 1.7 million Americans live without clean, running water at home. The recent drought has only exacerbated the problem. In the past year, an estimated 5000 Californians have lost water access due over-extraction from local aquifers and a falling water table.
American families without clean water live lives totally different from our own. They often wake up and collect water from a source outside their home, fetching it in buckets and boiling it on the stove. When desperate, many collect water from unsafe sources contaminated with bacteria, nitrites, arsenic or even uranium.
More at link.