A student group on Middlesex College campus has decided to collect written petitions to The National Center for Environmental Health to request them to declare water contamination as a public-health crisis, and suggest ways to mitigate it. Through this petition, you want to ensure availability of safe-drinking water for all citizens. Write a 1000 word/ 4 pages double-spaced petition on the topic above, supporting your argument with clear and well-developed supporting reasons.
To: The National Center for Environmental Health
From: student group of Middlesex College campus
Re: Declare water contamination as a public-health crisis, and suggest ways to mitigate it.
DEAR RESPECTED,
Here to be aware of water contamination is bad for health and will health crisis after some time. Contaminated water and poor sanitation are linked to the transmission of diseases such as cholera, diarrhea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid, and polio. Absent, inadequate, or inappropriately managed water and sanitation services expose individuals to preventable health risks. This is particularly the case in healthcare facilities where both patients and staff are placed at additional risk of infection and disease when water, sanitation, and hygiene services are lacking. Globally, 15% of patients develop an infection during a hospital stay, with the proportion much greater in low-income countries.
Inadequate management of urban, industrial, and agricultural wastewater means the drinking water of hundreds of millions of people is dangerously contaminated or chemically polluted. The natural presence of chemicals, particularly in groundwater, can also be of health significant, including arsenic and fluoride, while other chemicals, such as lead, may be elevated in drinking water as a result of leaching from water supply components in contact with drinking water. With children particularly at risk from water-related diseases, access to improved sources of water can result in better health, and therefore better school attendance, with positive longer-term consequences for their lives. Diarrheic is the most widely known disease linked to contaminated food and water but there are other hazards. In 2017, over 220 million people required preventive treatment for schistosomiasis an acute and chronic disease caused by parasitic worms contracted through exposure to infested water.
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