Precious Water

In the news, three million gallons of metal-contaminated wastewater has turned the Animas River in Colorado into mustard color. It looks bad. The U.S. Federal Government says that 40 percent of west coast headwaters are contaminated by mine runoff.

There are so many such water-contamination incidents, oil spills and man-made environmental devastations in the world. When will the humans learn that water is more precious than oil and gold?