Water, one hydrogen and two oxygen, is a compound that life on Earth is completely dependent upon. An infinite water supply is imperative if life is going to continue on at the present status quo. If something happened to earths water supply, life would cease to exist. A majority of Earths water is contaminated with lethal chemicals and more and more water is being polluted everyday. The sad fact is that the pollutants are being injected into the water by none other than man himself. We are slowly, and knowingly, killing off our own kind.Industrial processes all over the world are contaminating fresh water sources with biochemical waste. This waste makes its way into homes is causing unspeakable illnesses and in too many cases death. The predominant cause of death from peoples coming into contact with contaminated water is cancer. Clusters of cancer cases are appearing all over our country in towns and cities whose water supply has been contaminated by industrial carcinogens. The unsettling fact is that industrial companies know they are polluting the water, yet they deny their own guilt and keep on contaminating our natural resources. Numerous times industrial carcinogens have been proven to cause cancer in humans as well as animals in the laboratory. Sadly, without evidence that directly links companies to contamination, the technicalities of our judicial system set them free. There are far too many hazardous chemicals that exist in the environment which are polluting our water. The most common, and perhaps most lethal, are polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. In Drinking Water and Health, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, accounts for PCBs as organic chemicals that are virtually undetectable by the human senses (1). Defined by the EPA, PCBs can be any type of industrial substance from adhesives to lubricants (Drinking 1). When disposed of by industry they are thrust into th...
