Water...Water...Everywhere...

Clean drinking water has become a commodity, a consumer product, and a million dollar industry.  The ground water and the natural springs are being harvested to create the artificial clean water. Rivers are polluted with industrial waste and garbage.  Ocean liners and rigs pollute the oceans and endanger the marine species.

UN has declared March 22nd as the International Water day to bring awareness on water pollution, quality, and management of water.

Water pollution occurs at two levels - Ignorance and deliberate action. Let us hope that there will be more stringent laws and regulations on water pollution at a global level along with educating the masses on the consequences of water pollution. 

Here is the UN link for some good pictures with facts.

http://www.unwater.org/worldwaterday/flash/g1/gallery1.html

"Water, water, everywhere,

And all the boards did shrink;

Water, water, everywhere,

Nor any drop to drink'. "

thus laments Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner". I can imagine the appropriateness of these verses even though the context is different!.