Recently, the BBC is reporting that the table levels of water below cities around the world are falling, causing havoc with pipes and surface roads and streets.
Add to reports of this phenomenon, are a host of concerns about the quality of water available for drinking and bathing. It seems nearly critical for India to coddle the cows--allowing waste and pollution of the Ganges and other waters in which people swim and wash themselves yet also into which they defecate regularly. The cow should not be thought of as any sacrosanct being to do as according to its nature without constraint.
But around the world, water is can be a breeding ground for diseases that humans suffer from. It is shameful that the people of Bangladesh must live in areas of disease-infested waters. Certainly, they should be re-settled where water is clear of malaria-carrying bugs! And how about the drinking water in certain Michigan cities that fails tests administered to certify their maintenance of the standard for human consumption?
In Jamaica, I noted a few years back that sewer water was carried for miles via open pipes; and the BBC pointed out that in California, the water viaducts are sometimes flowing back rather than carrying the water to its desired locations for crop production.
Add to this amalgam of data about the condition of water that threatens our very existence is the fact of climate change, contributing to the rise of water above the ground in such cities as Miami and perhaps even London.
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