Natural recourses

Water Uses

Use of Natural Recourses virtual

booklet

By: Katherine Battiston

Water

Index:Water recoursesPrior knowledge

General informationGood/bad use

proposals

Air, soil trees and energy are recourses. Water is also a recourse for food to grow and be fed.

What are earth recourses?

Natural Recourses

Not renewable recourses are the ones that cant be used again, like:

jewelry and metals.

Renewable recourses are the ones that

can be reused, like: Air, water

and soil.

These are materials

founded in earth that help us live better.

How do people use

water recourses

Household use

recreational activities

Personal use

Wash the dishes

Irrigate your

garden

Put water to your pet

fishing

surfing

skating

Take a bath

Wash your

hands

Drink water

swimming

Wash your car

97%

3%Oceans

Fresh water

Earths Water

77%22%

1%

Icecaps, glaciers and inland seas.

Ground water

Other

Fresh Water

lakes

Atmosphere soil moisture

Rivers

39%Less 4/10

61%

Fresh surface water

Uses of Fresh Water

Sources of water that are potentially useful for humans. This uses include agricultural, industrial, household,

recreational and environmental activities.

Agricultural

Industrial Household RecreationEnvironmen

talIt is used 69%. It

have been used for irrigation because there are

many crops that

need to grow.

This is used 15%

for industrial. It is used

for cooling plants, power

source, oil refineries,

solvent etc.

Is estimated

at 15% household uses, like drinking water,

bathing cooking,

and garnering.

Is a small but

growing percentage of total

water use. It can

reduce other uses of water.

Is a small but

growing percentage of total water use

like artificial lakes,

wetlands and any water forms.

are

Types

Water Why water is needed? Water is the most important

recourse in earth, without water we couldn’t grow or even be alive. We need water for plants to grow, care for animals, cook food, brush your teeth, flush the toilet and wash your clothes.

Why do we need to save water?

• Most of the earth is salt water, this is water from the ocean. The ocean water is so salty, that the water we use to cook, wash, clean, drink etc, is called Fresh water. This water comes from rain, rivers and lakes. According to the charts there's less fresh water than saltwater, so it can end faster. That’s why we have to conserve and save our water.

• Turning water off while you are brushing your teeth or washing your face. That will help for not wasting water.

Good use

• Check at home or school for leaky faucets and tell an adult if you find one.

• Take short showers and don’t fill the tube all the way when you take a bath.

• Don’t leave the garden hose on all night when you're watering plants.

• The dishwasher and the washing machine should be full each time your family does a load.

• Letting out the water when you are washing your hands.

Bad use

• Letting drop a faucet.

• Take long showers and fill the tube all the way when you take a bath.

Leave the garden hose on all night when you're watering plants.

• The dishwasher and the washing machine are not full each time your family does a load so you waste more water.

Solution:

• Turn the water off while you're brushing your teeth or washing your face.

• Check your home and school for leaky faucets, and tell an adult if you find one that drips.

• Take shorter showers, and don’t fill the tub all the way when you take a bath.

• The dishwater and washing machine are full each time when your family does a load.

• Don’t leave the garden hose on all night when you're watering plants.

• Problem:

• Letting out the water while you are washing your hands or face.

• Letting drop a faucet.

• Take long showers and fill the tube all the way while you're taking a bath.

• When you wash cloth or plates in the dish water and the water machine, one at the time and not all at once, you waste water.

• Leave the garden hose on all night while you are watering plants.

Proposals

• Recourses: Are materials founded in earth that help us to live.

• Conservation: Is when you save and care about something.

• Decreasing: Having less of something.

Vocabulary

• Millions of people don't have access to safe water. There are problems such as steep drops in the size of Asia's Aral Sea, Africa's Lake Chad and Iraq's Marshlands, The deterioration of coral reefs and the rise of coastal waters because of climate changes. Some developing nations could face, crop failures and conflict over shrinking lakes and rivers if nothing is done to prevent wasteful irrigation and slow evaporation from reservoirs, and drinking-water systems are not repaired.

News

• Severe water shortages affecting at least 400 million people today will affect 4 billion people by 2050. Southwestern states such as Arizona will face other severe freshwater shortages by 2025.

• Adequate sanitation facilities are lacking for 2.4 billion people, about 40% of humankind.

• Half of all coastal regions, where 1 billion

people live, have degraded through overdevelopment or pollution.

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