Are you thirsty? If you are, why don’t you stand up and get a glass of water and drink it? If I were you, I’d do it. Do it while you still can. Water is one of the natural resources we need the most and also one that we take so little care of. Why aren’t we more careful about the water we consume?
It is a scientific fact that the human body can store enough water to live up to three days without it. After that period of time no man can survive without some water to drink. Although drinking is the most obvious use, we depend on water to many other things. For instance, we use it to grow plants and breed animals that’ll serve as food for us later on. We really need water to survive and there’s no way to live without it. There’s no possible substitute to it.
If we need it so much, shouldn’t we take better care of it? Shouldn’t we use it more consciously than we do now? Even though 70% of our planet’s surface is covered in water, most of it is saline. We cannot drink it. Although there are so many warnings and campaigns being broadcast by the media, there are some people who still use water in careless ways. Sometimes those people don’t even realise that they’re wasting water. For instance, do you turn the water tap off when you brush your teeth? Do you use a broom instead of the garden hose to clean the pathway in front of your house?
Human race is increasing in number and it’s getting harder to find potable water to all those people. We need creative and effective ways to save water. Small measures such as the Japanese houses, designed to reuse the bathwater to flush the toilet, are definitely what we need at the moment. Do you have any good suggestions to save our water? Leave a comment and share your ideas.
