Blog 7

Dont you ever wonder where our water comes from ? Well i live in the city of riverside and our tab water and drinking water comes from groundwater from the wells in the Bunker Hill Basin and Riverside Basin.The county of riverside concern on safe water is high. In 2012 they collected about 17,000 samples of water to test for potential contamination.The Riverside Public Utilities treats some of its wells and all water sources are blended at a central location before entering into distribution. One personal interest in our water was that how much fluoride is in our water ? according to the riverside public utilities is that fluoride level for water is at1 ppm but Riverside has fluoride levels at 0.6 ppm and is not planning to add fluoride to its water by artificial means.  My question is why they add fluoride to our water? I thought fluoride was a chemical hazard to humans.Many of take water for granted because only one percent of the worlds water is drinkable and the 97 percent is either salt water, or undrinkable water. The average american use about 90 gallons of water per day.  Thats a whole lot of water being wasted everyday , its important to treasure our water because its an important factor of the living. Most of our bottled water is made from plastic. and plastic is made by oil, so we are using another valuable resource to keep our water stored. Water bottles have chemicals known as  polycarbonate known as bisphenol A (BPA). BPA couses cancer and hazardous effects on humans. Another reason why plastic bottles are bad for our envioment is becouse most of the plastic is waste.In addition that why we recycle plastic to reuse the same resources and use less of the environment.