John Heaton-Jones Maine Water Conservation

• John Heaton-Jones #johnheatonjones @johnheatonjones
  Artist  Water Conservationist,  
  
  
  Most people in the world get our water from rivers and lakes, including the vast majority of the world’s poorest people. 
  But half of the world’s 500 most important rivers – water sources for hundreds of millions of people – are being seriously depleted or polluted.* Approximately 40 percent of the rivers in the U.S. are too polluted for fishing and swimming.**
  Water shortages will likely be a fact of life for most people on the planet within the next ten years.*** We can’t afford to pollute and destroy our drinking water sources. But that’s exactly what we’re doing – often without knowing it. 
  Forests, grasslands and wetlands are nature’s water filters. They help keep erosion and pollution from flowing into our waters and they slow rainwater down, sending more water into underground supplies. But every year we lose 32 million acres of forest – that's a lot of water filters, gone, every year. 
  We are facing dirtier, unsafe water and more risk of water shortages and scarcity. This crisis is real, it’s happening now and it’s getting worse fast.  
  *content source from The Nature Conservancy partners 
  http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/habitats/riverslakes/protecting-clean-water-for-people-and-nature.xml
  
  
  Please Protect our water sources John Heaton-Jones #johnheatonjones @johnheatonjones