The availability of portable water is often taken for granted and water allowed to get polluted.
So if it gets polluted here, it will pollute all the way down," he said.
The new Mattabesset brochure notes that the river, though cleaner than it once was, still gets polluted run-off from many sources, including lawns, roads and construction sites.
"You know what happens when a pure and original rock band gets polluted, poisoned by hunger for power and control issues?", he fumed on his website.
You have a family that is dumping chemicals in the river, so the river gets polluted and your children get sick if they swim in it, or the fish are dying.
The tour started in 2005 when she identified the most polluted places created by the gas industry and McNall keeps showing anyone who will come and, in her words "get polluted".
Water gets polluted by waste water produced by various industries like textile, dyeing, paper, distillery, dairy, oil and refineries.
But from the last few decades, these water resources are getting polluted by various natural and anthropogenic contaminants such as heavy metals, fluoride, arsenic, lead and mercury (Abu Bakar et al. 2016; Bashir et al. 2012).
Due to injudicious and indiscriminate use of pesticides, the natural water resources such as lakes, reservoirs, wetlands, rivers, ponds, paddy-fields, streams, and other low-lying areas are getting polluted all over the world (Gilliom et al. 2007; Ngidlo 2013).
