Around the world, more than a billion people lack access to safe drinking water, and more than 5,000 people a day die after drinking dirty water. Those facts are frightening, and water pollution problems caused by people are part of the issue. For the most part, in the United States, clean drinking water is not an issue, despite the fact that some 1.2 trillion gallons of untreated sewage, stormwater, and industrial waste are dumped into water sources. That doesn’t prevent most Americans from getting clean water when they turn on the faucet because of the wastewater treatment process that removes all kinds of dangerous items.
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