A document issued fairly recently by the nonprofit Heal the Ocean organization signals California is totally wasting more than a billion gallons of water a day by eliminating waste into the Pacific Ocean. We aren't reclaiming ample water.

The review, which has consumed over five years to organize, illustrates water misused and the truth this water contains chemical contaminants not necessarily removed by current filtering strategies. The procedure is not efficient to dealing with the two significant concerns, which are preventing marine pollution and making up for a absence of potable water.

From the 1.35 billion gallons misapplied for waste water removal each day, only 312 million gallons are reclaimed. The study displays this to be an antiquated procedure that requires considerable improving. The water utilized by roughly 2 million California homes in a year is estimated at equivalent to water lost everyday with this out-of-date process.

On top of this is the side effects caused towards the sea and us because many chemical contaminants included in the water do not filter out properly. The plethora of destruction brought on by these pollutants is undiagnosed. We do know it hurts marine life and eventually ends up tainting our ocean food source. Therefore, while reclaiming water is essential, our present-day filtering approaches have to be improved to filter out the hazardous contaminants.

The contaminants, referred to as CECs (Contaminants of Emerging Concern), appear in all kinds of things we use. You have to focus on labels and be well informed. Figure that anything you cannot pronounce is not good for you or the oceans. Regular goods we use for hair shampoos, soaps, toothpaste, and pharmaceutical products have questionable components. There exists a lot of trust in corporate America at the expense of our oceans and our bodies. (Rent the videos The Corporation and Food, Inc. to make your personal opinion.)

Waste water facilities really need to refocus on reclaiming and upgrading to fulfill our present-day filtering concerns with new waste and chemical removal systems. Making use of reclaimed water for toilets and irrigation would produce a strong reduction in wasted potable water issue California faces.

Individuals are not aware of this and this is a problem. The greater press and media coverage presented will motivate people to get behind producing changes. This document that Heal the Ocean is revealing is an excellent example. Encouraging economic, political plus more public support is crucial to change. Read the report at www.healtheocean.org