There is also surface pollution that makes our waters look less beautiful than they are, and we can no longer use it for recreational activities.

It affects our drinking water and the citizen's well water here in Chico. Groundwater Pollution is caused by industry like dry cleaners where toxic chemicals seep into the groundwater supply.How many types of water pollution are there in Chico? However, it shouldn't be! We should change our attitudes towards polluting our environment, and since we are the next generation, our society will eventually realize that littering is not acceptable at all.

Is water pollution socially acceptable in our society? When you see a person drop a cigarette butt on the ground, do you care? In some ways people littering or leaving a soda bottle by the river does not bother us, because we know we have done it before. Not one would mind, neither bird nor treeĪnd Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire Īnd not one will know of the war, not one There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,Īnd swallows circling with their shimmering sound Tanya's favorite poem is by Sara Teasdale, 'There will Come Soft Rains,' which comments on this subject: And wild plum trees in tremulous white Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire And not one will know of.

Believe it or not, the natural world would be fine without us. And wild plum trees in tremulous white Robins will wear their feathry fire Whistling their whims on a low fence wire And not one will know of the war. Well, the answer to that could only be humans.

Wild plum trees in tremulous white