Local Issues
Living in San Diego and Southern California in general we have our very own reasons that this topic would interest us. If we look around us we can find plenty examples of how this affects us. One major event that stands out is the current drought that we are going through. This drought is a great way to show how water truly is a limited resource and we don't have an infinite source of it as it may seem to the everyday user. This drought is showing to us that we truly are starting to run out of the needed resource of water.
Another example of the water crisis hitting us here at home is the mono lake water diversion that began in 1941. It has affected the lake so much that by 1982 the lake had dropped 45 vertical feet, lost half of it's volume, and doubled in salinity. This has threatened all of the native species of the area and proves just how much human interaction is destroying our natural water reserves. Humans are slowly destroying our own world around us and very few people seem to notice this.
Another great example of the water crisis strikes us right here in San Diego with the Point Loma sewage station. This station is where a majority of San Diego wastewater is treated, and considering there is no one downstream of us to receive this water it is dumped straight into the the Pacific Ocean. Normally this wouldn't not be such a big deal, except for the fact that the sewage station does not follow proper protocol for the dumping of water into the ocean, the federal Clean Water Act required water to have a secondary treatment before being able to dump it into the ocean which does not occur at Point Loma. This just goes to show how the human population is poisoning our own planet and water supplies bit by bit, but no one seems to care. In time we will all learn the grave mistake we have been making by ignoring this pressing issue.