Without water life cannot survive. A little fact known by mankind ever since he inhabited this globe (Even before we dubbed it the globe). It is the most precious resource on earth. In fact considering that astronomers have yet to find water anywhere else and therefore have not found life on other planets, we can deduce that water is the most precious resource in the galaxy.
Mankind knows how vital water is for the survival of all life. Yet we use it to flush pee down drains into larger bodies of water. Nine liters every time we take a dump. We incessantly flood our water supply with chemicals, plastics and poisons. We wash our cars, sweep our streets, clean our dirty laundry with the most critical commodity on all asteroids known to mankind.
Within five minutes of a water supply not running effectively into our bathrooms, kitchens, laundromats (And at the office), all hell breaks loose. Public toilets become a festering cesspit of microbes waiting for that water supply to return so our clean water can make all those germs go away. Shocker, but we have long established that there is no such thing as away. So we clean our shit with water which pollutes the very water we cannot live without. Right. Makes sense.
There really is no sense in our water system. The one we have created that links our toilets to our water, mixes our pollution with our water and basically uses what we need to preserve, to destroy what we cannot live without.
Day by day buildings are built, cities grow, people keep breeding and our vital water supply is straining under this system. When will we change it? When will we value water above all else? When it is too late? We will look back on these actions and wonder how mankind could have been so foolish.
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