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All Living Things... Brazil’s Pantanal River alone is responsible for… 3500 plant species400 kinds of fish80 reptile species 650 bird species100 mammal types

Abundant Aquifers? Requiring billions of years to fill, aquifers are currently being drained 2 to 4 times faster than they are recharged. (Neversink Pit in Alabama)

At least it used to be, until its waters were diverted for cotton irrigation. The Aral Sea has lost two-thirds of its volume. The World’s 4 th Largest Lake?

Got Water? Digging wells to find water is a full-time job in some parts of the world. (Kenyan villagers on Pate Island)

No, YOU Drink It! Sometimes even “clean” water isn’t all that clean in different parts of the world. Students of Miyun elementary school in Beijing discover the dirty condition of a water sample taken from their local reservoir.

Don’t Worry. It’s Not For Us. Fish caught in these waters, found near Lenin’s Steelworks on the Ural, won’t be eaten by locals. Instead, fish is sent to markets far away for purchase and consumption.

I Know I Saw A Hole Here Somewhere! In Mumbai, India, clean water is so expensive that only the rich have access. The less fortunate look for leaks and holes in the pipe that carries it to them.

Are You Serious? Yep. That’s water. Its being polluted by the Lianhua factory in, China. Lianhua means “lotus flower”

THIS is a lotus flower.

What Do You Think These 2 Would Say Of Your 30 Minute Shower? By the way, those tubes? They have a filter to keep out the water-borne larvae that causes guinea worm disease. (Sudan)

Shower Anyone? The Niger River Delta is used for showering, fishing, defecating, and garbage disposal.

Yeah, but not here…Right? Rawl, West Virginia. Enough Said.

Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Explosion: April 20, 2010 One of America’s worst environmental disasters…

4.9 million barrels of crude oil spilled into Gulf of Mexico

Oil has reached as far as Florida and experts think it will continue into the Atlantic Ocean

Pollution: Prevention is Easier than Clean-up