chigan has a tremendous amount of fresh water many communities have suffered from quality issues or contaminated ground water. There are a number of reasons why we are feeling the water shortages and pollution problems today. Just as we say nothing can be entirely thrown away, making progress in the environment is like a vicious circle. Sometimes something we do does good for one part of the environment but causes hardship on another. The over population of our country has given us the opportunity to look at other ways of being resourceful. We can now grow more crops on a smaller amount of land than we used to and be able to produce more of it. However in order to do that we need to treat the crops with more pesticides and other growth enhancing products. Although this may help to grow more crops we now need to provide more water to grow the increased amount of crops. We also then need to treat the water that is now contaminated with pesticides before we can find a safe use for it. The options have to be weighed in order to determine what effect the things we do will have on the environment. In my opinion I feel that we have a long road ahead of us in order to see improvement in the water crisis. After researching for this paper I realized a lot of important issues about our water and just how precious a commodity it is. Over population is by far the main cause of our problems that we are experiencing with water. Before writing this paper I wasn’t as aware of the problem that the United States has with the shortage of water. I often thought it was more a problem with LDC. Now I’m aware that a major life-threatening problem could sideswipe even the most powerful country in the world. It is going to take major steps by the United States to lead the world in the recovery of our wasted water. We have to get other countries especially LDC educated and aware of the problems we are facing with over population and ...
