Many American scientists are worried about the drinking water in the United States. They think that soon there may be no clean drinking water. Dirt, salt, and chemicals from factories can get into the water, making it unsafe to drink. This is already true in some places. One example is a small town in Massachusetts. Many children in this town became sick because of chemicals in the water. Another place with water problem is California. The water near old air forts is not safe to drink. Many other cities and towns have water problems, too.
The first people to grow coffee beans live in the Middle East. The Persians, Arabs, and Turks were drinking coffee many hundreds of years ago. Then, in the 1600s, Europeans learned about coffee and quickly came to like it. They also liked other foods from the Middle East. Soon there were coffeehouses in many European cities. Europeans took coffee with they traveled to new countries. That is how people in other parts of the world learned about coffee. Now coffee is popular in north and South America, in Africa, and in part of Asia.