When you open your tap and clear water comes out, do you ever stop to wonder where it comes from? Do you know what the state of the pipes are that bring it to your home or office, or do you go blindly on faith hoping that the water fairy will turn it magically into the kind of quality that be helpful to your body, your family's health and your collegues health.
This is small extract that comes from an article psoted in http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/263078 on 05 December 2008. It is certanly not the first and last since then.
South Africa's largest commercial farmers' union yesterday urged the acting-president to declare a national emergency over the country's dangerously-polluted fresh water resources.
In a joint meeting with the commercial banking and farming sector and South Africa's acting-president Kgalema Motlanthe, the government was warned if fresh-water streams, dams and lakes were not cleaned up urgently, the country would soon plunge into an unprecedented humanitarian and economic crisis.
The parliamentary joint working group meeting with South Africa's commercial community and the acting president was called after the country's top water-research expert, Dr Anthony Turton of the state-funded Council for Scientific and Industrial Research warned last week that South Africa was facing very rapid socio-economic collapse due to the heavily polluted South African fresh-water resources.
He warned that all its fresh water supplies now were so heavily polluted with human excrement and waste from some 80,000 overcrowded squatter camps, chemical waste from the country's thousands of industries and mines that South Africa's very low rainfall was unable to wash it clean any longer. Even the aquifers were getting polluted. An urgent cleanup was needed - and the farmers urged the president to start with the countrywide cleanup by hiring 'competent municipal engineers' instead of unqualified ANC-cronies to repair the 181 broken municipal water-purification plants countrywide. - (Apologies, for the descriptions, this was an extract of an article. It neither reflects, our beliefs or opinions, but is for infomation puposes only)
So when you turn on the tap and hand over that glass to your child, the question is not, "should I give them this glass of water?" (because we know that clean and safe water is CRITICAL to your health. Rather you should be asking: "How can I make the water that I have access to safer."
Contact us on info@belleregalo.co.za for a easy and clinically tested method of purefying water at the home and office.
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