Did you know that in some places in South America sewage runs right out of houses and into nearby rivers and lakes, causing the drinking water to become severely contaminated? This ends up causing harmful side affects on the inhabitants in the area that must survive off this water.

South America is inhabited by 3rd World Countries where development is little, poverty and populations are high, and money is hard up. Governments try to raise money and use tax money to fix the severe problem of water pollution but it is not enough to provide working sewage treatment plants that can accommodate the rapidly growing population and the rapidly decreasing amount of water available for use.

Many people are uneducated of what can be found in sewage. The sewage in South America contains grease, nutrients (nitrates,

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The inhabitants of these countries feel very strongly the problem of water pollution as well, but with no money there is not much that can be done. They show proof of their water pollution problem by showing their children, who have contracted cholera, skin problems, constant high fevers, sexual impotence, and severe vomiting. The pleas of these people fall upon deaf ears. Thousands of children under the age of 5 die every year of diarrheal diseases such as Cryptosporidium and Guardia that are commonly found in sewage and it wipes their bodies of nutrients needed.

I think that the government should do whatever they can to find the money. After all, they have money for all this testing that has been done already, as well as everything else that a government normally takes care of. Instead of using money on something that isn't going to benefit the whole country (like maybe the bus system that doesn't even exist in many poor areas) it could be used on the purchase of a sewage plant and water piping to houses. This would benefit everyone, and not just the ones that can afford it.

In Lima, Peru, the problem is simpler to pinpoint: rain shortage and lack of resource management. Lima is said to be like a desert because it receives less than 30 ml/yr of rain water. Therefore, water must be stored for long periods of time. Most of the water is safely stored in communal tanks, but other families that can't afford proper tanks must store their water in old gas and oil barrels which contain very harmful chemicals.

People in Sao Paulo, Brazil are so poor that they can't afford a piping system to be installed in their homes to drain sewage out properly to a treatment plant instead of releasing it into the Tietê River. Even though Sao Paulo is rich in water and an envy of its neighboring countries, the inhabitants abuse this fact and industries still release inorganic compounds against the law. Over 1200 companies are pointed at for being responsible for over 80% of the water pollution. Laws have been passed but never followed up on.

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