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May 1, 2016
President Barack Obama
May 1, 2016
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Barack Obama,
We only have three percent, no more but there most definitely will be less. Our nation is careless about taking care of our water supplies just because we have always had a seemingly infinite amount of it. We will run out, one of our states already has, California is going into its fourth year of serious drought. Flint, Michigan has been having a major water crisis for two years now where the citizens are being poisoned and having serious side effects from their water. These two places are not the only ones. So many states, cities, and towns are having problems getting access to water. The most atrocious example is in Pennsylvania, where 8.5 percent of the children tested were found to have dangerously high levels of lead in their blood. Not only is lead a dangerous element to have in your bloodstream, but children are still developing and are more vulnerable to the problems associated with lead poisoning. Also adding to this point is an analysis of Environmental Protection Agency data in the Washington Post, which said the data revealed that “about 350 schools and day-care centers failed lead tests a total of about 470 times from 2012 through 2015.” This shows that hundreds of kids are seriously at risk due to the problems with our water. I myself am lucky being a person who lives in Chicago which is located next to Lake Michigan, one of the Great Lakes that make up twenty-one percent of the world's fresh water. However I have family and friends across the nation who do not have as easy access to water as I do. Even people who are in my own state have trouble getting clean water. Without clean water people get sick, they die, and their children can develop physical or mental illnesses.
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Barack Obama,
We only have three percent, no more but there most definitely will be less. Our nation is careless about taking care of our water supplies just because we have always had a seemingly infinite amount of it. We will run out, one of our states already has, California is going into its fourth year of serious drought. Flint, Michigan has been having a major water crisis for two years now where the citizens are being poisoned and having serious side effects from their water. These two places are not the only ones. So many states, cities, and towns are having problems getting access to water. The most atrocious example is in Pennsylvania, where 8.5 percent of the children tested were found to have dangerously high levels of lead in their blood. Not only is lead a dangerous element to have in your bloodstream, but children are still developing and are more vulnerable to the problems associated with lead poisoning. Also adding to this point is an analysis of Environmental Protection Agency data in the Washington Post, which said the data revealed that “about 350 schools and day-care centers failed lead tests a total of about 470 times from 2012 through 2015.” This shows that hundreds of kids are seriously at risk due to the problems with our water. I myself am lucky being a person who lives in Chicago which is located next to Lake Michigan, one of the Great Lakes that make up twenty-one percent of the world's fresh water. However I have family and friends across the nation who do not have as easy access to water as I do. Even people who are in my own state have trouble getting clean water. Without clean water people get sick, they die, and their children can develop physical or mental illnesses.
To prevent further damage to our society I propose a policy in which there is a stricter use of water and the complete stopping of dumping waste into rivers, lakes, et cetera. The use of water should be monitored in order to prevent overuse. We should set a limit for how much water houses and businesses can use a week. This may seem impractical now, but it will make a big difference in the future. Dumping toxic waste or garbage into our supplies leads to disease and disease leads to death or major illness.
I understand that money is a huge factor, but there has to be discretionary spending we can cut back on, such as the money spent for our military. We are currently spending around 597.5 billion dollars, that’s 451.7 billion more than China, the next country below us for military spending.
In the United States there are states suffering from drought, heavily contaminated water, and lead poisoning. These are all preventable problems, but like everything else, the solutions require a bit of work and money. If these problems are not approached and dealt with, our water situation will get worse, as will our chances of survival. The Earth will rid us from it’s surface the way a body would to a virus.
I understand that money is a huge factor, but there has to be discretionary spending we can cut back on, such as the money spent for our military. We are currently spending around 597.5 billion dollars, that’s 451.7 billion more than China, the next country below us for military spending.
In the United States there are states suffering from drought, heavily contaminated water, and lead poisoning. These are all preventable problems, but like everything else, the solutions require a bit of work and money. If these problems are not approached and dealt with, our water situation will get worse, as will our chances of survival. The Earth will rid us from it’s surface the way a body would to a virus.
Sincerely,
TS
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