In the year 2070, water has become scarce due to climate change and war. The narrator recalls that as a child in 2015, water shortages were just beginning but not seen as a major problem yet. The narrator's parents told them the issue would fix itself, but it grew severe instead. After World War 3 devastated the nation, the little remaining water was lost. Now, water is not sold in stores and must be found elsewhere, often not being clean. A water purifier is a valuable item, as people sometimes must walk miles to find any water at all and clean water is almost impossible to locate.

1. Year 2070
Liz Ong!
English 11 - Period 3

2. It’s now the year 2070. Many things have
changed since the year 2015. Now and
days we have little to no water. When I was
a kid we had water and it wasn’t as big as a
problem to get it as it is now. Growing up I
would always hear things about how we are
going to run out of water soon if no one
does anything to help the situation. My
parents told me I would never have to
worry about anything because it was just a
little problem and that the situation would
fix itself. I look back at what my parents
had told me and laugh about it. Not a funny
laugh, a laugh of stupidity.

3. People never thought it would get this bad and
now there kids and grandkids are having to
suffer from their mistakes. My kids talk to me
and ask me why we have no water, I never
know what to tell them. The only thing that I
really can tell them is when I was about 19
years old a war happened. World war III, it was
a very intense war and we lost. It ruined our
whole nation, because of this war we lost the
little water we had. Everyone is mad that our
nation didn’t do anything and blame everyone
else that we have no water when in reality its
our own fault for not doing something about it
when it was just a little problem.

4. We should have been prepared for anything
and because we were so selfish and didn’t
care, now we are suffering. Now there is no
water being sold in stores, if you want
water or need it you need to go out and find
it, and most of the time its not clean. A
water purifier is one of the best things that
you could own now and days. Sometimes
you have to walk miles to even get to any
type of water. Clean water is almost
impossible to find. !