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Water crisis is an environmental issue since everyone isn’t getting clean and healthy water. The ones who don’t tend to be minorities and there is really an injustice going on since they are being ignored and as students who live in a city with clean water then we should try and help those who don’t by spreading awareness and talking to our politicians. What really stood out to me is that we have normalized not having clean water by now having tasks on how to get the water you have at home clean. It should not be this way and I would like to know what are some further steps we can take to better this? How can we get everyone to get free accessible water?

Water crisis is one of the biggest environmental issue that occurs all over the world. Being in a water crisis is more known as water scarcity. Water scarcity is the lack of having access to fresh, clean water in different regions of a world. The water crisis is a big environmental justice issue; billions are affected by the lack of clean water and there are many different movements and groups that are trying to get this problem the attention it deserves. The thing that stood out to me the most while researching this topic is how many countries and cities within those countries are affected by these water issues and how little attention it receives. I am still wondering what americans can do to bring more attention to these natural disasters.

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