Please conserve water~~

By Yilin from group B.

When I was young, I started to pay attention to the nature around me. I do not know why I liked to try to save water, electricity and articles for daily use even before I went to school. I remember I would got angry or even cried out when someone did not turn off the faucet after using it. So today I would like to talk about the water resource, I hope we can know the importance of water resource and get together to use it more effectively.

Water seems to cover over 70% of our earth, but the volume that can be used by human being is so limited. Somebody would say we can change the water in the ocean to drinking water, but up to now, researchers have not find a cheap way to do that, which is to say it is not widespread. Only 1% of the water on the planet can be changed to drinking water, so water resource is very precious.

Since the development of the cities, we have sewage treatment plants (where can clean the waste water). They help a lot to make the waste water clean, but, many old cities do not have advanced piping systems (the systems that can separate different kinds of water such as waste water used by citizens, rain, and the water used in the factories), so if people use a lot of water at the same time or there has a big rain, a large amount of dirty water will go directly into rivers! It is terrible for the creatures in the water, and they will get sick or die. People will also suffer from this consequence. What is more, the water cleaned by sewage treatment plants is not clean enough to drink, and it is just available to put into rivers though this will more or less damage the rivers. We ought to save the water we use for more and more people sharing the same valuable resource on our planet.

Personally I think what we can do is not much, but if we all keep on doing something to protect water resource, it will make a big difference. A survey recently shows the average of American uses about 69 Gallons water per day, for 18.5 gallons for toilet, 15 gallons for clothes washers, about 12 gallons for showers, and 11gallons for other use. So you can see some small actions like shortening the showers or turning off the faucet brushing your teeth can add up to conserve water. Here are some tips that we can reduce water consumption at home:

1.       Avoid letting the water faucet run while we brushing teeth, washing face, or shaving.

2.       Turn off the water while we shampoo and condition our hair.

3.       Fix leaking faucets and toilets that an average of 8% (or more) of all home water is wasted through leaks.

4.       Placing a brick in our toilet to conserve the water we use each time.

5.       Turn off the water to every machine in our home if we do not use it.

6.       Wash the clothes when they can fill up the washing machine, and the same as the dish machine.

Thanks for reading my article; let us save water together.