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<br />UU18~H <br /> <br />GOOD WATER AND THE GOLDEN RULE <br /> <br />Clean water 15 a problem that none of us can overlook. It is a mani~ <br />festation of the Golden Rule.. .. for.... the cost and availability of <br />our clean water depends on our neighbors up river. <br /> <br />.... and the quality of water our neighbors downstream receive depends <br />on us. <br /> <br />WHY IS IT SO? <br /> <br />Most cities today draw some of their supply from the surface waters of <br />lakes and screams. The quality of this water depends largely on pol- <br />lution ,control measures taken by upstream communities. This is why <br />good water makes good neighbors, for most of the water that the re- <br />ceiving city took from the stream is soon returned to the same SUeam <br />in the form of treated or untreated sewage, as the case may be. <br /> <br />WHAT CREATES THE PROBLEM? <br /> <br />It is this use and reuse of water that creates the problem. <br /> <br />. Today pollution of our screams is occurring at a faster rate <br />toan treatment of waters for reuse. Growing amounts of <br />untreated and inadequately [Ceated sewage reaching our <br />water resources are creating pollution problems which en.. <br />danger rhe Nadon's health and welfare. <br /> <br />IS THERE DANGER IN OVERDRAWING OUR ACCOUNT? <br /> <br />Control of poll ution is like the rnanagem~nt of our personal bank ac- <br />count. We cannot continuously wirhdraw against a fixed amount without <br />getting into trouble. In warer management we must c lean up the water <br />-we have used so that.we can use it again. In this sense, water returned <br />to. the stream in usable condition aftee waste treatment fepresenes a <br />deposit against future withdrawals. <br /> <br />2 <br /> <br />I <br />