• 97% it’s salt water
• 2% is frozen in the poles, and
• only 1% of all the water in the planet is available to human consumption.

Did you know that 14% of the world fresh water is found in Brazil?
We are a very rich country as far as water is concerned, but are also facing a huge problem of distribution, since 80% of our fresh water is in the Amazon.

Brazil has the greatest underground water reserves in the world. Nevertheless, we have extremely critical areas, with shortage and rationing, because of non equal distribution on this resource, springs and rivers pollution, uncontrolled soil occupation, and waste.

Recent studies shows that over 10 million people die every year due to diseases transmittable by contaminated water, as typhus, dengue, infections, hepatitis and cholera. The water pollution is responsible, itself, for 33% of deaths around the world.
68% of hospital beds are occupied with illness caused by bad quality water.

Years ago, water resources used to have a much higher quality than they do now-a-days. The population growth made the water pollution levels increase, moving some governments towards a greater concern about this problem. It was necessary to enlarge the use of decontaminating agents in the water, such as aluminum sulfate, chlorine, among others. The chlorine, combined with organic materials found in water, like wooden wastes, leaves, rot animals, etc., produces another element known as Trihalometano, highly carcinogenic.

The chlorine, extremely disagreeable to smell and taste, also stops the cakes and bread growth, killing the micro-organisms alive in baking powder.

Industrial wastes, frequently loaded with high levels of copper, chrome, nickel, cadmium and other metals, thrown on rivers, pesticides and other kinds of poison used in agricultural activities, which infiltrate in the soil, also contribute to the underground water pollution, jeopardizing more and more the quality of our rivers and population health.