Save Water and Help the Earth

by Best Surgeon Ever!

When I was in science class one day I was learning about water problems around the world. I learned that I was wasting water just by eating a hamburger. Just by eating beef we're wasting 1000 gallons of water per steak. I felt really guilty. It takes 250 gallons to water a backyard grass-- imagine a farm yard? That cows eat the grass all the time, that needs to be watered every two times a day. When the cows eat the grass it sets off a methane and a greenhouse gas. Wow thats sad. Also in other places like Africa the women don’t go to school because they have to help home. When they help home they walk 10 miles where the nearest wells are and the water is not even clean. So they get a lot of sicknesses and diarrhea because of the dirty water. They lose a lot of water and die. We have to stop wasting water and instead help the environment.

MEAT, METHANE, AND GREENHOUSE GAS

There are lots of farmers in the world, and they all use a lot of water for their cows. They use 1000 gallons once every two days. So is it worth it for a hamburger? Because the earth is where we live and we can’t make more water. As lots of people say the water is the center of our earth. The cows also cause the air that we breathe some trouble to us. The cows eat the grass and it goes though there body and it comes out in their gas. It is methane and greenhouse gas. It is not healthy for us to breathe. Thats one of the things that wastes water.

IN AFRICA

All the way across the Pacific Ocean, in Africa, children are thirsty and dying of

diarrhea.The girls don’t get an education because they have to help at home. When they help at homes they have to hold a bucket on there head and get dents because of that. They walk ten miles to get it.  They burn they feet on the sun and there skin from the sun. You may ask why do the do all this thing for. In America just turn on the fountain it is that easy, but in Africa you have to do all these things. The water they drink is not even clean. They have animal droppings in the water. Because of that they get a stomach ache or diarrhea. And since they get diarrhea that means they lose a lot of water. When they lose a lot of water there body won’t be hydrated a lot and they’ll die.

HOW TO HELP

Africa is not the only place that does not have enough water. It’s all over the world and you can help, too. One way to help is try to not eat meat. Another one is try not to eat meat until six o’clock every day or only on special occasions. Another way is to use less water and you can do that by using the dishwasher instead of washing dishes by hand, or not letting the faucet run. There are also people helping in Africa build more wells. For more ways to help is to go to www.water.org.

CONCLUSION

Now you know how water is being wasted. I hope now after you have read this

paper I hope you will be more careful about wasting water. Now get out there and make a change! Water is not something that you can make. It is the center of our earth! A small thing can make a big difference when we all work together!!!