The Effects Of Water Pollution In California

According to research conducted by Harvard University, over six million people in the United States are using water that contains an excessive amount of PFAS, a kind of chemical that use in the industrial sector. Among the victimized districts, California stands out as one of most heavily influenced state (Water in California). California is a big state in the United States, and it is also one of the driest states. Over one hundred years ago, most areas in California were still the drought. Later, California develops rapidly and becomes the state with the largest population and a specialty in farming in the US. Needless to say, water is a critical resource for common households and the farming as well as many other industries. There is a huge

On the one hand, water pollution poses serious threats to people’s living and health conditions. For example, according to the US Geological Survey, California has one-fifth of the water supply systems exceed the standard amount of perchlorate in the past decade. Some remote schools in Tulare County have denied students access to drinking fountains, and a school district of 260 students spends $ 10,000 or more per year on drinking water. The school will order bottled water, store and distribute it to each classroom, and collect empty bottles（Worldjournal）. A case in point is when the water resources are polluted in California, the state’s development would also be damaged. Firstly, the citizens’ living quality would be declined，because of water is so indispensable in people’s daily

As Barnes points out in his paper, determination of the source of pollution and estimation of the sphere that comes under influence are highly demanding both in terms of money and technology, not to mention the elimination of the pollutants (Barnes 50). The cost of dealing with water pollution depends on many reasons, one is the greater the scope of the impact of water pollution, the more money will be spent. Another is the types of pollutants are different and the cost is different. The more difficult the consumption of pollutants is more difficult to