I never thought about how much harder it would be to clean our water and how many more chemicals would be involved. I wonder if this is why people keep telling me our water is "hard"? Much more to learn this month!

"If you're adding contaminants like oil to the water, it creates what's called FOG [fat, oil, and grease]," says Booker. "It takes a longer process [and] more chemicals to treat the water for us to then drink. It becomes unhealthy if we're adding a lot of oil [and] old grease to our water system."

Here is a before and after of me picking up two pieces of trash today. It really makes all the difference.