Tuesday, March 18, 2008

"Water Depletion"
By Renato Deleon
¾ of the earth is composed of water and the remaining ¼ is composed of land where a couple of biotic factors live. These biotic factors such as people, animals and plants depend on water for survival. When we try to compare and contrast the ¾ water and ¼ lands, we can say that the water is definitely suitable for the biotic factors.

But surely, Not now-a-days. Population of biotic factors especially the people is really uncontrollably huge. And all of these depend on water for survival even without food. Simply because lots of people suffer poverty.

But the ¾ water can still satisfy the ¼ of the earth. It will continue to exist even after we drink it or use it on chores. Absolutely, because the water undergoes a cycle, which has no definite beginning nor a definite end. As it undergoes a cycle, the water will again, be clean.

If that’s how water behaves, how come there is still water depletion? Water depletion is seriously decrease of clean, uncontaminated water supply. It is also one of the effects of human activities on the balance of nature. So, that’s it, isn’t? When people interrupt the balance of nature by some human activities, the nature will definitely suffer unable to recover on its own. These human activities are oil leaks, throwing of garbage on rivers and alike, contaminating the water. By contaminating the water, we continuously suffer and die. It’s either we die from thirst or die because of possible diseases we can get from contaminated water.

Therefore, it is us who needed and yet it is us who contaminate and deplete it. And it is us who must help the nature to recover.

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