Water Purity for "Second Wind" America

In post-industrial America, water purity has become a critical issue. By building the nation from some of the most marvelous materials yet known, process chemistry for materials of construction often involved chemical species injurious to health. In the rush to build America, environmental stewardship often was compromised. As a consequence, many toxic chemicals populating the industrial waste stream have accumulated in leaky landfills or migrated into ground waters in rising concentrations.

The Environmental Protection Agency was created in 1970 to deal with this very serious problem. Since 1980, a multi-billion-dollar Superfund (CERCLA) has supported clean-up of U.S. toxic wastes. Environmental offenses have remained so high that this fund is becoming a permanent part of environmental stewardship. Globally, the United Nations has identified 11 toxins problematic to world health: As, Asbestos, Cd, Cr, Clinical Wastes, Cyanide, Pb, Hg, PCBs, POPs, and Strong Acids & Alkalis. In the Great River State of Pennsylvania, 12 critical water toxins have been identified: Cr-6, 2-BE, PFASs, HCB, Dioxin, MtBE, DCPA, Perchlorate, DDT, PFCs, PFOA, and PFOS. Pristine Nature has become categorically invested with unhealthy concentrations of heavy metals, radioactive waste, fertilizers, fecal pathogens, and a burgeoning list of organic compounds generated by increasingly creative chemical engineering.

It is likely that these lurking poisons are going to be with us for quite some time, even though industrial activity has slackened considerably. Municipal water treatment facilities have largely kept up with challenges to water potability, but the record is not perfect. And, with climate instability rising, it is likely that storms and floods will exacerbate an already serious groundwater and waste treatment situation.

A few rays of light are on the horizon for assuring an uninterrupted supply of pure water to every American home for cooking and drinking. Modern industrial technology so often offending ground waters, wells, and city waters also is producing technical solutions for water purification a family can affordably rely upon. There are many worthy distillation, filtration, ion-exchange, and reverse osmosis systems available for the home. Technical Water is more expensive than city water, but costs less than bottled water. The principle advantage of Tech Water is families ultimately control potability of their own water supply. Family water purity vigilance adds an additional factor of safety to whatever municipal water authorities remain able to do. Though imperfect, U.S. city water ranks best in the world. Good municipal water is a major reason why landless urban and land-limited suburban populations continue to densify (now approaching 2,400 people/square mile). About 80% of the present population occupies only 3% of U.S. land area. A vast amount of America is undeveloped green space with very low population density (17 people/square mile) and correspondingly low crime rates. This Second American Estate is rich in potential for developing greater quality-of-life and self-sufficient lifestyles. Second America living space is less likely to be invested with the traditionally sprawling matrix of buried water and waste conduit on account of economic intractability. Like rural farmers, the water and waste answer of greatest utility involves self-managed in situ water technology.

A second bright spot on the water purity horizon has to do with rainwater collection at suburban and rural Second America homes from a sky now much clearer of industrial pollution. Nature’s faithful distillation from the clouds is intrinsically cleaner than what is now tappable from present mother earth. Free rainwater collection hearkens to the older tradition of rain barrels in pioneering America. And, like municipal water, rain product collection can be backed up by home-centered multi-filtration technology capable of reliably yielding a very pure, affordable water for cooking and drinking.

The recently introduced Eco Pool initiative for GES Millennial Homes interestingly adds considerable clean water QUANTITY back-up to the Second American Estate. A home Eco Pool compensates for rain variability and somewhat low through-put rates of home water purification technology. Although the GES Millennial Home is a global leader for fire safety, should a home fire occur in the spacious Second America Estate, the Eco Pool serves as an abiding, proximate “fire hydrant” or “pumper” fire truck. American families can have safer homes and safer water with the Millennial Home-Eco Pool-Tech Water “triple play” as they reach out for more liberating living space, habitat permanence, and self-sufficiency life styles.

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