Water Pollution Today

Water is essential no matter what our government and its water quality says it should be. States and government agencies manipulate allowed pollution levels.
If we don't have sufficient water treatment plants we change the use of chlorine to chloramine, which is a lethal combination of chlorine and ammonia to clean drinking water. But, the new problem is that every pharmacological in the pharmacy is now in large cities drinking water.Everything from birth control pills to cocaine is in New York's drinking water. I try to have a low flush toilet and don't do my laundry except in the evening to lower peak demand. I don't water my lawn because I don't have one in the country. Solutions, build 10,000 desalination plants in the United States and get that money from $100 billion that would be spent on defense. Have secure fresh drinking water forever is the best defense any nation can have, instead of more aircraft carriers, and jetfighters. WE have our nations priorities screwed up. We could build more aqueducts like Rome built to transport water from areas of flooding to areas of draught. With a major national network of aqueducts we could maintain an even distribution of water throughout the United States. I was watching a program on the Science channel about how a desalination plant works. I read that new technology make them 50% more efficient. With unlimited fresh water, this nation could compete in growing more agricultural crops than any other nation in the world. With 1000 sq. miles of the government owned land in Arizona converted to solar farms, then all the power for all the desalination pumps and most of the nations energy needs could be met. Enforcing nation policies on illegal dumping of sewage and toxic wastes into our rivers and lakes is insane. Maybe if there were death penalties for CEO's that pollute in such matters, imposing billion dollar fines for oil spills like that of the oil spill now in the Gulf may discourage reckless endangerment practices by oil companies and oil rigs. People will comply with lowering their wasted water usage if our government would address these polluted water policies and create more water treatment and desalination plants to meet the national needs.