My group and I talked about how communities of low income go through different types of illness because of where they live due to water pollution. Inadequate funding and resources and industry pollutants caused the water that is used for drinking to be heavily polluted. We describe the causes of water pollution along with how/what we can do to reduce water pollution providing cleaner water for those that need it. In the back of my mind I’ve always known that water pollution is a thing and that it could possibly cause damage to people drinking it and I never really thought that it would really affect people in America. Well I was obviously wrong. I’ve been able to have clean accessible water whenever I need/want it and not everyone could say the same. I personally could have done a little more research even though I thought our research was adequate. Maybe we could have asked around.

Initially I didn’t know about the Cape town water crisis. I didn’t even know there was a Cape town. What stood out to me the most is that I hasn’t really gotten covered much but the news and there wasn’t really a big deal about it. I wonder why that is. Seeing as how water is a necessity I do believe the global water crisis is most definitely an environmental justice case. Everything leads back to the waters and if there is no clean drinkable water then no one cna function. It’s almost like a circle.