Umvoti River 18 Sept 2010

Are you Poisoning your Water?

Only when the last fish has been caught
Only when the last tree has been cut down
Only when the last river has been poisoned
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten…

We have all heard this American Indian prophecy so many times, but at this moment it seems that it is coming to pass.
We have all heard that the next major war will be fought over water –

Are you aware of what is happening  to our rivers in South Africa?
And do you know why it is a problem if sewerage and chemicals are allowed in to the water source?

Oh, it just goes to down to the sea and washes away.

If we allow engine oil and chemicals from factories into our water supply, they pollute and poison it.  Where do you think we will get clean fresh drinking water, if we keep poisoning our basic supplies?

Fish are already reported to be full of mercury, which will ultimately poison us.  Where does the mercury come from? From us, the humans.

Seeing  the Umvoti River, black with chemicals, and finding that many others rivers, The Duzi, the Umgeni… are also full of sewerage and chemical waste, brings despair.

But what can you do, as an ordinary individual? You can start with yourself. Do you throw old engine oil down the drain, use toxic housecleaners?  Do you know how many of your plastic earbuds end up on the beaches, presumably from the sewerage system?

Well…  You can start to clean up your own drains, your own waste water, use less water, save energy.

If you don’t, you may wake up one day soon to find that you have no clean water, and perhaps that will cause the mass end of humanity.

I am asking you to take up the challenge, (wherever in the world you are) share ideas with me, so that together we can each stop polluting our own small section of the environment?  And if everyone did it, what a difference would that make?

I would love you to sign up now on my blog and share your ideas.  I will send you free tips for going green, as my contribution to a cleaner earth for you and our children.

Let’s join together for cleaner water!