The Water Information Program

National and international attention is increasing about the vulnerability of water systems and the subsequent impacts on public health and welfare, business and commerce. Both locally in metro Atlanta and northern Georgia, and in more and more regions across the globe, drought conditions have been exacerbated if not created by increased population density and land development, which, in turn, may have been made even worse by global warming, resulting in record-setting droughts. One recent report on the human impact on oceans found that we are now using much more water than can be replenished. We are also dumping chemicals, compounds and other waste into the system faster than the system can clean it out again. On parts of the U.S. west coast, water has been so heavily contaminated with pharmaceutical runoffs that people have been told not to drink it, even though it has gone through treatment processes.

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