Clean Water for Everyone!

Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world's bloggers in posting about the same issue on a single day – October 15.

Last year, more than 13,000 bloggers participated from 152 countries. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion about an important issue that impacts people around the world.

In order to participate, all you need to do is write a single post on your blog about the issue of water on October 15th. If you’re not sure what to write about, don’t worry – we have a great list of suggestions for possible topics that we’ll send you.

Register your blog to the right. We'll add a link to your blog and your post will appear on the Blog Action Day site on October 15. http://blogactionday.change.org/register

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There's something about water. It is the most basic element for life on our planet. Our bodies are composed mostly of it, the planet is literally awashed in it. It falls from the sky and floats as vaporous clouds in myriad shapes.

We take it for granted.

For most of us in the United States, we simply turn on or open the faucet and water freely gushes out.

But as I get older, or shall we say more mature, the more I understand how water works in larger ways: in ecosystems and watersheds. In the city where I was born there were very few places where you could see how water worked in springs or streams. Our urban area paved over most of these water sources a hundred years ago thinking that is was healthier to do so. But at the same time we as a society were dumping our waste into the streams and rivers, literally using them as toilets.

I think we know better now.

We know the importance of keeping our local water sources clean, and where we can, clean it and put it back. We know what industrial waste can do to harm an aquatic ecosystem to the point where no wildlife is sustainable. We know better how wetlands work to clean polluted ground water runoff. We know that what we throw in urban streets ends up in sewer systems and that water must be cleaned by the limited resources of our sewage treatment plants otherwise it stays in the environmment and doesn't just disappear.