Americans are most worried about water pollution, survey reveals
05/05/2021 / By Divina Ramirez
Of the six environmental issues facing the United States today, a majority of Americans are most worried about those that impact water quality, according to an annual environmental survey.
An American analytics and advisory company, Gallup’s survey found that 56 percent of Americans are very worried about pollutants in drinking water, while 53 percent worry about water pollution in rivers, lakes and reservoirs.
Those two issues surpassed four other environmental concerns, including air pollution, global warming, loss of tropical rainforests and the extinction of plant and animal species. These survey results are the latest data points in over two decades of tracking worry over these environmental problems among Americans.
A smaller, but still substantial number – ranging between 40 and 45 percent – expressed a great deal of concern about the loss of tropical rain forests, global warming or climate change, air pollution and the extinction of plant and animal species.
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