“Because of lack of rules and regulations, people have exploited the groundwater brutally, and it is driving up arsenic levels.”
What we have feared has come to pass for millions in Pakistan. It has already happened in India, deemed —“one of the world’s biggest natural groundwater calamities to the mankind.”
There is no cure for arsenic poisoning. Over the years, residents in Pakistan and India have contaminated their surface water and must now draw upon their groundwater for drinking. However, they have found that too to be contaminated because of their own greed which put money over water stewardship. Does this sound familiar? Does this sound like Florida? Yes, and yes. Can it happen here? Again, yes. It is already happening here – “TVA won’t use aquifer wells until after investigation.”
What about this does not sound like a wake-up call? The trite advocate slogan “you can’t drink money” becomes quite poignant when we find there is no safe water to drink.
ABC News has reported the following bad news.
Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum.
-A river is like a life: once taken, it cannot be brought back-
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