project on "WATER RESOURCE USE AND CONSIOUSNESS"

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SOVARANI MEMORIAL COLLEGE
NAME- SK AKIL HASSAN
ROLL NO (COLLEGE) - 7
REGISTRATION NO (C.U) – 445-1121-0101-12
ROLL NO (C.U) – 1445-41-0020 (part ii)
SUBJECT – ENVS
PROJECT NAME – WATER RESOURCE
USE AND CONSIOUSNESS
USEFUL TIPS AND HINTS GIVEN BY – MS.
SANGEETA BALIYAL & MR. SOUMYA POREL

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CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. What is water Resources?
3. Source of water resources
4. What is water pollution?
5. Various causes of water pollution
6. Various effects of water pollution
7. Differentways to stop water pollution
8. Water conservationand the differentways
9. The various steps about Water pollution and water
conservationawareness
10. (I) 1st Study
(II) 2nd study
11. won opinion,analysis, and experience
12. Data Collection

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1. INTRODUCTION
Water resources are sources of water that are useful or
potentially useful. Water resources are used in various ways including direct
consumption, agricultural irrigation, fisheries, hydropower, industrial production,
recreation, navigation, environmental protection, the disposal and treatment of
sewage, and industrial effluents. Water has sources and supplies, economic,
social, and political characteristics which
make it a unique and challenging natural
resource to manage.
97 percent of the water on the Earth is salt
water and only three percent is fresh water;
slightly over two thirds of this is frozen in
glaciers and polar ice caps. The remaining
unfrozen freshwater is found mainly as
groundwater, with only a small fraction
present above ground or in the air.
Fresh water is a renewable resource, yet the
world's supply of groundwater is steadily
decreasing, with depletion occurring most
prominently in Asia and North America,
although it is still unclear how much natural renewal balances this usage, and
whether ecosystems are threatened. The framework for allocating water
resources to water users (where such a framework exists) is known as water
rights.
2. What is water Resources?
Water resources are sources of water that are useful or potentially
useful. Uses of water include agricultural, industrial, household, recreational and
environmental activities. The majority of human uses require fresh water.

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3. Sources of Fresh Water
Surface water
Surface water is water in a river, lake or fresh water wetland.
Surface water is naturally replenished by precipitation and naturally lost through
discharge to the oceans, evaporation, evapotranspiration and sub-surface
seepage.
Although the only natural input to any surface water system is precipitation
within its watershed, the total quantity of water in that system at any given time
is also dependent on many other factors. Thesefactors include storage capacity in
lakes, wetlands and artificial reservoirs, the permeability of the soil beneath these
storage bodies, the runoff characteristics of the land in the watershed, the timing
of the precipitation and local evaporation rates. All of these factors also affect the
proportions of water loss.
Human activities can have a large and
sometimes devastating impact on these
factors. Humans often increase storage
capacity by constructing reservoirs and
decrease it by draining wetlands.
Humans often increase runoff
quantities and velocities by paving
areas and channelizing stream flow.
The total quantity of water available at any given time is an important
consideration. Some human water users have an intermittent need for water. For
example, many farms requirelarge quantities of water in the spring, and no water
at all in the winter. To supply such a farmwith water, a surface water system may
require a large storage capacity to collect water throughout the year and release
it in a shortperiod of time. Other users havea continuous need for water, such as
a power plant that requires water for cooling. To supply such a power plant with

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water, a surface water system only needs enough storage capacity to fill in when
average stream flow is below the power plant's need.
Nevertheless, over the long term the average rate of precipitation within a
watershed is the upper bound for average consumption of natural surface water
from that watershed.
Natural surface water can be augmented by importing surface water from
another watershed through a canal or pipeline. It can also be artificially
augmented from any of the other sources listed here, however in practice the
quantities are negligible. Humans can also cause surface water to be "lost" (i.e.
become unusable) through pollution.
Brazil is the country estimated to have the largest supply of fresh water in the
world, followed by Russia and Canada.
Under river flow
Throughout the course of a river, the total volume of water transported
downstream will often be a combination of the visible free water flow together
with a substantial contribution
flowing through sub-surface rocks
and gravels that underlie the river
and its floodplain called the hyporheic
zone. For many rivers in large valleys,
this unseen component of flow may
greatly exceed the visible flow. The
hyporheic zone often forms a
dynamic interface between surface
water and true ground-water receiving water from the ground water when
aquifers are fully charged and contributing water to ground-water when ground
waters are depleted. This is especially significant in karst areas where pot-holes
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Ground water
Sub-surfacewater, or groundwater, is fresh water located in the pore spaceof soil
and rocks. It is also water that is flowing within aquifers below the water table.
Sometimes it is useful to make a distinction between sub-surface water that is
closely associated with surface water and deep sub-surface water in an aquifer
(sometimes called "fossil water").
Sub-surface water can be thought of in the same terms as surface water: inputs,
outputs and storage. The critical difference is that due to its slow rate of turnover,
sub-surface water storage is
generally much larger
compared to inputs than it is
for surface water. This
difference makes it easy for
humans to use sub-surface
water unsustainably for a long
time without severe
consequences. Nevertheless,
over the long term the
average rate of seepage above a sub-surface water source is the upper bound for
average consumption of water from that source.
The natural input to sub-surfacewater is seepage from surface water. The natural
outputs from sub-surface water are springs and seepage to the oceans.
If the surface water source is also subject to substantial evaporation, a sub-
surface water source may become saline. This situation can occur naturally under
endorheic bodies of water, or artificially under irrigated farmland. In coastal
areas, human use of a sub-surface water source may cause the direction of
seepage to ocean to reverse which can also cause soil salinization. Humans can
also cause sub-surface water to be "lost" (i.e. become unusable) through
pollution. Humans can increase the input to a sub-surface water source by
building reservoirs or detention ponds.

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Frozen water
Several schemes have been proposed to make use of icebergs as a water source,
however to date this has only been done for novelty purposes. Glacier runoff is
considered to be surface water.
The Himalayas, which are often called "The Roof of the World", contain some of
the most extensive and
rough high altitude areas
on Earth as well as the
greatest area of glaciers
and permafrost outside of
the poles. Ten of Asia’s
largest rivers flow from
there, and more than a
billion people’s livelihoods
depend on them. To
complicate matters,
temperatures are rising more rapidly here than the global average. In Nepal the
temperature has risen by 0.6 degrees Celsius over the last decade, whereas
globally, the Earth has warmed approximately 0.7 degrees Celsius over the last
hundred years.
Desalination
Desalination is an artificial process by which saline water (generally sea water) is
converted to fresh water. The most common desalination processes are
distillation and reverse osmosis. Desalination is currently expensive compared to
most alternative sources of water, and only a very small fraction of total human
use is satisfied by desalination. It is only economically practical for high-valued
uses (such as household and industrial uses) in arid areas. The most extensive use
is in the Persian Gulf.

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4. What is water pollution?
Water pollution is any chemical, physical or biological change in the quality of
water that has a harmful effect on
any living thing that drinks or uses or
lives (in) it. When humans drink
polluted water it often has serious
effects on their health. Water
pollution can also make water
unsuited for the desired use.
5. Various causes of water pollution
There are many types of water pollution because water comes from many
sources. Here are a few types of water pollution:
1. Nutrients Pollution
Some wastewater, fertilizers and sewage contain high levels of nutrients. If they
end up in water bodies, they encourage algae and weed growth in the water. This
will make the water undrinkable, and even clog filters. Too much algae will also
use up all the oxygen in the water, and other water organisms in the water will
die out of oxygen starvation.
2. Surface water pollution
Surface water includes natural water found on the earth's surface, like rivers,
lakes, lagoons and oceans. Hazardous substances coming into contact with this
surface water, dissolving or mixing physically with the water can be called surface
water pollution.
3. Oxygen Depleting
Water bodies have micro-organisms. These include aerobic and anaerobic
organisms. When to much biodegradable matter (things that easily decay) end up

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in water, it encourages more microorganism growth, and they use up more
oxygen in the water. If oxygen is depleted, aerobic organisms die, and anaerobic
organism grow more to produce harmful toxins such as ammonia and sulfides.
4. Ground water
pollution
When humans apply
pesticides and chemicals
to soils, they are washed
deep into the ground by
rain water. This gets to
underground water,
causing pollution
underground.
This means when we dig
wells and bore holes to
get water from
underground, it needs to
be checked for ground
water pollution.
5. Microbiological
In many communities in the world, people drink untreated water (straight from a
river or stream). Sometimes there is natural pollution caused by micro-organisms
like viruses, bacteria and protozoa. This natural pollution can cause fishes and
other water life to die. They can also cause serious illness to humans who drink
from such waters.
6. Suspended Matter
Some pollutants (substances, particles and chemicals) do not easily dissolve in
water. This kind of material is called particulate matter. Some suspended

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pollutants later settle under the water body. This can harm and even kill aquatic
life that live at the floor of water bodies.
7. Chemical Water Pollution
Many industries and farmers work with chemicals that end up in water. This is
common with Point-source Pollution. These include chemicals that are used to
control weeds, insects and pests. Metals and solvents from industries can pollute
water bodies. These are poisonous to many forms of aquatic life and may slow
their development, make them infertile and kill them.
8. Oil Spillage
Oil spills usually have only a localized effect on wildlife but can spread for miles.
The oil can cause the death to many fish and get stuck to the feathers of seabirds
causing them to lose their ability to fly.
6. Various effects of water pollution
Some people believe pollution is an inescapable result of human activity: they
argue that if we want to have factories, cities, ships, cars, oil, and coastal resorts,
some degree of
pollution is
almost certain
to result. In
other words,
pollution is a
necessary evil
that people
must put up
with if they
want to make
progress.
Fortunately, not
everyone agrees with this view. One reason people have woken up to the

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problem of pollution is that it brings costs of its own that undermine any
economic benefits that come about by polluting.
Take oil spills, for example. They can happen if tankers are too poorly built to
survive accidents at sea. But the economic benefit of compromising on tanker
quality brings an economic cost when an oil spill occurs. The oil can wash up on
nearby beaches, devastate the ecosystem, and severely affect tourism. The main
problem is that the people who bear the cost of the spill (typically a small coastal
community) are not the people who caused the problem in the first place (the
people who operate the tanker). Yet, arguably, everyone who puts gasoline
(petrol) into their car—or uses almost any kind of petroleum-fueled transport—
contributes to the problem in some way. So oil spills are a problem for everyone,
not just people who live by the coast and tanker operates.
Sewage is another good example of how pollution can affect us all. Sewage
discharged into coastal waters can wash up on beaches and cause a health
hazard. People who bathe or surf in the water can fall ill if they swallow polluted
water—yet sewage can have other harmful effects too: it can poison shellfish
(such as cockles and mussels) that grow near the shore. People who eat poisoned
shellfish risk suffering from an acute—and sometimes fatal—illness called
paralytic shellfish poisoning. Shellfish is no longer caught along many shores
because it is simply too polluted with sewage or toxic chemical wastes that have
discharged from the land nearby.
Pollution matters because it harms the environment on which people depend.
The environment is not something distant and separate from our lives. It's not a
pretty shorelinehundreds of miles fromour homes or a wilderness landscapethat
we see only on TV. The environment is everything that surrounds us that gives us
life and health. Destroying the environment ultimately reduces the quality of our
own lives—and that, most selfishly, is why pollution should matter to all of us.

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7. Different ways to stop water pollution
There is no easy way to solve water pollution; if there were, it wouldn't be so
much of a problem. Broadly speaking, there are three different things that can
help to tackle the problem—education, laws, and economics—and they work
together as a team.
Education
Making people aware of the problem is the first step to solving it. In the early
1990s, when surfersin Britain grew tired of catching illnesses from water polluted
with sewage, they formed a group called Surfers Against Sewage to force
governments and water companies to clean up their act. People who've grown
tired of walking the world's polluted beaches often band together to organize
community beach-cleaning sessions. Anglers who no longer catch so many fish
have campaigned for tougher penalties against factories that pour pollution into
our rivers. Greater public awareness can make a positive difference.
Laws
One of the biggest problems with water pollution is its transboundary nature.
Many rivers cross countries, while seas span whole continents. Pollution
discharged by factories in one country with poor environmental standards can
cause problems in neighboring nations, even when they have tougher laws and
higher standards. Environmental laws can make it tougher for people to pollute,
but to be really effective they have to operate across national and international
borders. This is why we have international laws governing the oceans, such as the
1982 UNConvention on the Law of the Sea (signed by over 120 nations), the 1972

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London (Dumping) Convention, the 1978 MARPOL International Convention for
the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, and the 1998 OSPAR Convention for the
Protection of the Marine Environment of the North East Atlantic. The European
Union has water-protection laws (known as directives) that apply to all of its
member states. They include the 1976 Bathing Water Directive (updated 2006),
which seeks to ensure the quality of the waters that people use for recreation.
Most countries also have their own water pollution laws. In the United States, for
example, there is the 1972 Clean Water Act and the 1974 Safe Drinking Water
Act.
Economics
Most environmental experts agree that the best way to tackle pollution is through
something called the polluter pays principle. This means that whoever causes
pollution should have to pay to clean it up, one way or another. Polluter pays can
operate in all kinds of ways. Itcould mean that tanker owners should have to take
out insurance that covers the cost of oil spill cleanups, for example. It could also
mean that shoppers should have to pay for their plastic grocery bags, as is now
common in Ireland, to encourage recycling and minimize waste. Or it could mean
that factories that use rivers must have their water inlet pipes downstream of
their effluent outflow pipes, so if they cause pollution they themselves are the
first people to suffer. Ultimately, the polluter pays principle is designed to deter
people from polluting by making it less expensive for them to behave in an
environmentally responsible way.
8. Water conservation and the different ways
1. Check faucets and pipes for leaks
A small drip from a worn faucet washer can waste 20 gallons of water per day.
Larger leaks can waste hundreds of gallons.

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2. Don't use the toilet as an ashtray or wastebasket
Every time you flush a cigarette butt, facial tissue or other small bit of trash, five
to seven gallons of water is wasted.
3. Insulate your water pipes.
It's easy and inexpensive to insulate your water pipes with pre-slit foam pipe
insulation. You'll get hot water faster plus avoid
wasting water while it heats up.
4. Take shorter showers.
One way to cut down on water use is to turn off the
shower after soaping up, then turn it back on to rinse.
A four-minute shower uses approximately 20 to 40
gallons of water.
5. Turn off the water after you wet your toothbrush.
There is no need to keep the water running
while brushing your teeth. Just wet your brush
and fill a glass for mouth rinsing.
6. Rinse your razor in the sink.
Fill the sink with a few inches of warm water.
This will rinse your razor just as well as running water, with far less waste of
water.
7. Check your toilets for leaks
Put a little food coloring in your toilet tank. If, without flushing, the color begins
to appear in the bowl within 30 minutes, you have a leak that should be repaired
immediately. Most replacement parts are inexpensive and easy to install.

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8. Use your water meter to check for hidden water leaks
Read the house water meter
before and after a two-hour period
when no water is being used. If the
meter does not read exactly the
same, there is a leak.
9. Install water saving
showerheads or flow restrictors.
These can save a household 500 to
800 gallons per month.
10. Run only full loads in the
washing machine and dishwasher.
This can save 300 to 800 gallons
per month.
11. Shorten your showers.
Even a one or two minute reduction can save up to 700 gallons per month.
12. Turning off the water while you
wash your hands.
Turning off the water while you lather
uses 11.26 ounces of water on average.
By allowing the water to run while you
wash your hands you waste more than
three times the water than if you turn
off the water while you wash your
hands.

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9. The various steps about Water pollution and water
conservation awareness
Understanding causes: If we don't understand why pollution happens, how can
we hope to stop it? We need to know whether pollution is point source or
nonpoint source—and what causes it
in each case.
Legislation: There are many different
anti-pollution laws and agreements
in operation in the United States,
Europe, and worldwide. Examples
include the US Clean Water Act, the
EU Bathing Water Directive, and the
MARPOL International Convention
for the Prevention of Pollution from
Ships.
Regulation: Sometimes pollution
seems unavoidable: from
papermaking to oil refining, many
industrial processes create pollution
as a byproduct. But instead of
accepting that as a fact, we can
regulate factories and allow them to
emit or discharge only limited
amounts of carefully controlled pollutants. By slowly reducing the levels of
permitted discharges, year by year and decade by decade, we can gradually bring
pollution under control.
Effective enforcement: Laws and regulations are worth nothing unless we're
prepared to enforcethem—and punish offenders with fines or jail sentences. This
is part of an idea known as the polluter pays principle, which means people who
produce pollution should have to pay the costs they inflict on society.

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Public awareness: The more people know about the causes and effects of
pollution, the more likely they're going to be to avoid adding to the problem.
Community action to tackle pollution, such as voluntary cleanups of rivers and
beaches, is very important.
Education: If we teach schoolchildren that pollution is a problem, perhaps we can
avoid turning them into future polluters?
Political pressure: If we want to create laws and regulations that effectively tackle
pollution, against the wishes of powerfulcompanies, we'regoing to need ordinary
people to apply considerable pressure to their elected political representatives.
That's where campaigning groups and activists can play an important role.
Cooperation: It's easy to point fingers and blame "greedy corporations" for
polluting the planet, but we all have a share of the responsibility for pollution: if
you drive a car, travel by bus, or buy any goods that have been transported, you
use oil, directly or indirectly, and you're partly to blame for oil spillages in the
ocean.
Science: Understanding how pollution travels and persists in the environment can
play an important part in public awareness, education, and applying political
pressure. Good science can inform policy and legislation and empower
campaigners, but science alone rarely makes much difference.
Technology: There may be superb technological ways of cleaning-up pollution we
haven't yet discovered; similarly, there may be ways of avoiding pollution (for
example, by switching from gasoline-powered cars to electric ones to reduce our
dependence on oil).

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10. 1st Survey
1. Name - Nasimul Gani
2. Village name - Dakshin Santoshpur
3. Rural population - 100000+
4. Classification of the population
according to the religion – Muslim (80%), Hindu
(20%)
5. classificationof the population
according to the race – Asian
6. The amount of agricultural land
in the entire territory - 200000 acres
7. How many times cultivate ina year? - 4times
8. Sources of water for agriculture? - Tube call, pond, rain water
9. Is there lack of water for agricultural purposes? - no
10.What alternative sources of water for
agriculture instead the monsoon rain? - tube call, pond
11.Are they using chemical Fertilizer
for agriculture? - yes
12.Sources of Drinking water? – Tube call
13.Is there enoughwater for all your needs? - Yes
14.Number of tube-call inthis village? - Almost all Houses
15.What is the main source of water
used for household? – Tube call
16.How do you purify water? – boiled, Water purifier
17.Ever happened waterborne diseases?- No
18.Is the village has the incidence of
waterborne diseases? - No
19.Arsenic inwater? - No
20.Can you save rainwater? - Yes
21.Is there any role of village Panchayat
on water projects? - Yes
22.Is there any role of N.G.O on water projects? - No

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2nd Survey
1. Name - Rebeka Sultana
2. Village name - Lakhon pur
3. Rural population - 60000+
4. Classificationof the population
according to the religion – Muslim (60%), Hindu
(40%)
5. classificationof the population
according to the race – Asian
6. The amount of agricultural land
in the entire territory - 150000 acres
7. How many times cultivate ina year? - 4times
8. Sources of water for agriculture? - Tube call, pond, rain water
9. Is there lack of water for agricultural purposes? - yes
10.What alternative sources of water for
agriculture insteadthe monsoonrain? - Tube call, pond
11.Are they using chemical Fertilizer
for agriculture? - yes
12.Sources of Drinking water? – Tube call
13.Is there enoughwater for all your needs? - Yes
14.Number of tube-call inthis village? - Almost all Houses
15.What is the main source of water
usedfor household? – Tube call
16.How do you purify water? – boiled, Water purifier
17.Ever happened waterborne diseases? - No
18.Is the village has the incidence of
waterborne diseases? - yes
19.Arsenic inwater? - No
20.Can you save rainwater? - Yes
21.Is there any role of village Panchayat
on water projects? - Yes
22.Is there any role of N.G.O on water projects? - No

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11. Opinion, analysis,and experience
Three things no one can’t live without are Oxygen, Water and
Food. No one can live without Water. But do you know how precious is water and
how much pure water we have in world.
If 10 years ago someone had given
suggestion to sell the pure water, I’m
sure people made good joke or laughed
a lot on him. But nowadays mineral or
purified water is billion dollar industry.
People are ready to spend 20 rupees for
water bottle, because we know it’s not
easy to get pure or clean water.
One thing is sure; in future we are going
to get shortage of clean water. In India
you can see water shortage in every
state, whether it’s capital of India, Delhi
or a village of Kolkata. People can’t get
clean water easily.
Make "Water Conservation" compulsory
in all buildings, apartments. Privatize "Water Management" systems which will
bring in more efficiency. Spread awareness about the potential problems arising
due to water scarcity. I think this is more an awareness issue. There is attitude
which has to be eradicated. For this each one can take steps by spreading
awareness among friends, relatives and neighborhood.
Apart from the ideas mentioned initiatives need to be taken for Rainwater
harvesting at the village level. Ponds need to be created and they need to be
maintained. A lot of water is rendered useless because its polluted.
Lot of awareness needs to be spread at village level. A lot of awareness needs to
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Those who wish to protect environment of India they have to concentrate on
political pressure groups. Present laws, constitution, administration network,
awareness is quiet enough to protect our environment, animals, water sources
and pollution controls. People seating in ministries are not fool they know about
environment. Problems are in willingness and decision making. With Our whole
country reeling under a ubiquitous water crisis, we must spread awareness about
how this problem could
be contained. For that,
we ourselves have to
know how to deal with it.
People in India have no
care as to whether they
save water or not. Simple
steps like turning water
off while brushing or
shaving, cleaning of
porches and balconies
with buckets of water
rather than running
hoses, cleaning cars with
bucket water than
running hoses etc.
Each part of the chain worsens the water problem. No single way to stop this
exists. Everybody from individuals to companies to politicians should stricken up.
Otherwise we're looking at water wars real soon. This is not a one day problem;
this is not even one city or village problem. People in our country give damn for
this have any one constructed their house with few pot hole for rain water
harvesting or the villagers have removed the silt form their ponds without waiting
for the Government to come and help had they used drip irrigation and sprinklers
or the people in the city have have disposed their waste properly without
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water to get sunk into ground. If they have prevented the rapid decline of water
table by not exploiting it by bring well (especially commercial use).
Here are some water facts to remember:
Less than 1% of the earth’s water is suitable for drinking
More than a billion people around the globe survive on just over 1 gallon (4 liters)
of water per day
Potentially more than 3 billion people may suffer from water shortages by the
year 2025
66% of the human body
is water
A person can only live
without water for
approximately one week
Some of Facts about,
how valuable clean
Water is:
· More than 4 million people died due to water related diseases.
· 98% of water related diseases occurred in developing countries.
· It takes about 300 litres of water to make the paper for just one Sunday
newspaper. So use paper as less as you can, use E-mail and electronic sources
more.
· On average, women in Africa and Asia have to walk 3.7 miles to collect
water. It can be more in rural villages of India.
· In India alone, water born diseases cost the economy 73 million working
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· Global sales of bottled water account for over $60-$80 billion each year.
· A child dies of water born diseases about every 15 Seconds.
Aren‘t we aware of the different problems occurring in
our nature, especially in different bodies of water? Water pollution is the cause of
our undisciplined actions and irresponsibility. We, humans are only creating
problems that consequently we will also carry the burden of these problems. We
all know that water pollution can affect our health badly and seriously. It can
cause such sicknesses and diseases that
will badly affect our health. We all know
how important water is. Water is
essential to our body. Neither or every
living thing can‘t survive without water.
And so therefore, we should keep,
protect, save, and help prevent our
waters from being polluted ,we should
act as early as now, we should save
rivers, seas and oceans, and other bodies
of water because we will also bear the
burden of this problem. We should not
wait for the time until people are
competing just to get sufficient, fresh
and clean water, the time where clean
water is insufficient to the people and
animals, and the time where in our
sources of water are diminishing or until
the time where there are totally no sources of water. And so, let us be disciplined
and responsible enough to save, protect and conserve not only sources of water
but also our mother nature because our nature provides and helps us in our daily
lives. Let‘s justrealize how important our mother nature is. Itis our only source of
living. Let us not destroy it nor pollute it. Let us act for a change. We need and we
should help save and conserve our mother nature, especially the different bodies
of water. Absolutely, there are many simple ways in how we can help. Change

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ourselves before we construct changes in our nature.
Life is ultimately about choices—and so is pollution. We can live with sewage-
strewn beaches, dead rivers, and fish that are too poisonous to eat. Or we can
work together to keep the environment clean so the plants, animals, and people
who depend on it remain healthy. We can take individual action to help reduce
water pollution, for example, by using environmentally friendly detergents, not
pouring oil down drains, reducing pesticides, and so on. We can take community
action too, by helping out on beach cleans or litter picks to keep our rivers and
seas that little bit cleaner. And we can take action as countries and continents to
pass laws that will make pollution harder and the world less polluted. Working
together, we can make pollution less of a problem—and the world a better place.
So please. Act right now!

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