Water and What's In It

Water Cycle Rap from Bill Nye the Science Guy

So this really has nothing to do with what I am going to talk about in my blog but his is 90s gold going on here.

When it comes to water I am taking a policy approach:

Clean Water Act - 1972

In the 1960s and 1970s, many environmentalists raised concerns about the cleanliness and purity of the water in the United States. Multiple environmental acts were passed during this time in Congress, this includes Earth Day as a national holiday and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1973. The clean water act helped draw massive attention to the problem with the water and caused many lobbyist to back the creation of a water treatment plant. Another topic that was brought into light because of the Clean Water Act was the effect on Industrial Waste on water. Blaming Industrial Waste for the contamination of water it became a national goal to have clean water by 1985. Having great amounts of media exposure, the Clean Water Act is considered to be one of the greatest pieces of environmental policy created under a questionable Administration.

Water filtration became a new focus in aquatic technology, even though there has been many advancements that have occurred, the water in the household tap is still very contaminated. In the future one of the problems that could be created is the over abundance of Chlorine and the byproducts in the water. Chlorination of the water has been linked to the presence of THMs. THMs are trihalomethanes. A byproduct of chlorinated water that contain natural organics. THMs are linked to several types of cancer.