The cycle of life is intricately linked to water; during our first months we are suspended in water, and from birth to death we make use of water in various ways; as drinking water, for personal hygiene, to grow our food and provide energy, for transport and for leisure.
There are two elements without humans cannot survive; water and oxygen. Oxygen is all around us and we mostly do not even realise that we are using it, but water is something that we consciously imbibe, utilise and play in. Unfortunately we are not always that good at looking after it.
Take for instance the Ganges River in India, otherwise known as Mother Ganga; it cuts through the foothills of the Himalayas, carving out the most sacred riverbed in the world and is a source of water which is used for drinking, bathing, irrigation and cooking as well as for sacred rituals.
Mother Ganga is fundamental to the lives of in excess of a 7th of the world’s population and one-third of India – some 450 million people, and her irrigation canals span around 18,000 kilometres, yet her waters are in peril due to the around 1.3 billion litres of wastewater from domestic and industrial sources that are dumped directly into her on a daily basis.
This is also the state of many other rivers across the globe – polluted by humans. The bigger picture is that the pollution does not just remain where it is dumped but is carried downstream where it flows into other water sources, lakes, rivers, ponds, and eventually the ocean, polluting everything along its way. Fields and crops along the way will be irrigated by toxic water which will then enter our bodies via the food that we eat.
We need to be more conscious of what we do with our trash and how and where we discard of it so that we maintain the integrity of our water sources. Humans cannot survive without water; we need to drink water constantly in order to keep our bodies hydrated and in good health, so do us all a favour and don’t pollute our water sources.
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