Water Forum & Google Alerts Response

During class on Friday, we talked a lot about Postel's essay on water and several classmates talked about the videos that they found and their thoughts on them. By reading the essay and listening to the various stories and videos, I've realized that something has got to be done about our freshwater supply. Postel really opened my eyes to the effects that our wasteful mindsets are having on the supply of freshwater and my continuing to hear and learn of the various polluted freshwater bodies throughout the world forced me to become a concerned citizen about this problem that no one really knows/ cares about. The only options for fixing this problem that we talked about in class were mainly just the ones that Postel suggested but I feel as though we need to come together as a world to make a change because just a few people caring and changing their lifestyles isn't going to do much. One of my google alerts for "loss of biodiversity" was actually semi-linked to the problem of freshwater that we talked about in class. This article talks about how the habitats of many organisms (specifically those in water) severely need their habitat protected because their ecosystems are becoming extremely polluted. I thought that this tied in greatly with the fact that our freshwater supply is being polluted and used up. The article is linked in my response as "this article."