When one person does not pay another person does. In most cases it is paid by society as a whole. In hat case, the price is much higher than the simple costs of supplying water. As a result, there are great economic distortions. This is a reality, and the faster we face up to it the better.
Water pollution affects many people.
One cause of water population is that chemical plants, steel factories, and other industries dumped more than a billion pounds of toxic chemicals in Americas rivers, lakes, and Americas coastal waters between 1990-1994. Another cause of water pollution is fertilizers and weed killers that farmers use that seep in to underground water and contaminate drinking water. The effects of water pollution can be terrible. Each year tens of thousands of babies drink formula milk mixed with contaminated water and get sick. The wild life is also affected fish and water fowl such as duck and geese.