Using Technology To Clean Water In The United States

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Introduction
It was only several hundred years ago when obtaining water for a household meant walking to a well or river and using manpower to bring it back. Water production, now a cornerstone that helps to separate third world countries from first world superpowers, is an institution that consumes a massive amount of energy, and for good reason. Our world’s population has been afforded exponential growth in direct response to the propagation of a functional water supply system. It clearly exemplifies the convergence of man’s technological advances with scientific developments, consequently resulting in major societal changes like population growth, the development of city scapes, and many other aspects of everyday life. Things that are integral
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It is clear that it takes a lot of research and applied science to clean water. Cleaning water for a population as large as the United States, however, would not be possible without advances in technology that allow us to produce the product at such a large rate.

How Water Production has both Grown and Allowed Technology to Grow
While water purification may simply appear to be an application of applied science to water, it took technological advances to not only discover the science behind clean and healthy water, but to put it into action and make it possible for large American communities. Technology used to be non-accessible in the modern and monumentally important way it is now. Energy existed solely in natural forms, such as fire, up until electricity was discovered in the 1700s by Benjamin Franklin with the aid of his kite and key. As Gambhir attested, “The earliest recorded attempt to generate pure water dates back to 2000 B.C.,” (Gambhir, 2013, p.3). These were modest tactics that included simply boiling a pot of water. Now, we have The use of technology grew exponentially, allowed for technological developments that aided public health, including the cleansing of water in ways already
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Water is used for much more than what we see as water. Water is used for the production of nearly every product that is mass produced. Food is a huge consumer of water, pizza being a good example. “The WFN found that to make a single pizza requires 333 gallons (1,260 liters) of water, enough to fill almost ten bathtubs!” (Hanlon, 2013, p. 8). If only one pizza pie requires 333 gallons of water to make, imagine how much water is consumed in the production of all the pies bought at one pizzeria, or in one neighborhood, or a whole state. Pizza is just one example. Water is used for so many things other complicated things like oil fracking. Water fulfills “agricultural, municipal, commercial, industrial and energy production needs,” (Hanlon, 2013, p.