The Story of Water

"Mummy!"said Anushka while getting into her home,"Mummy! We have a project based on water.We have to answer some questions given by our teacher. Can you help me?" "Oh!Sure dear!" her mother said. Since she was a child of the modern generation, she checked out the internet. Only some information was there in the internet. She observed the nature and found out the rest.

Anushka understood that drinking water comes from one of two sources: Ground water or Surface water. Ground water comes from precipitation that seeps into the ground, filling the open spaces. Surface water comes from precipitation that recharges rivers, lakes and wetlands.

She wondered, "I got the information for 'where does water come from?'. Now I want to know 'where does water go'. Her mother had the answer. She said, "Rainwater flows through rivers and streams. All rivers finally meet ocean. Some of the water is absorbed by the ground. The remaining goes to ocean."

"I don't know which living things use water",she said. Through her observation of nature, she came to the answer. It was, 'All living things use water'.

"I want to know 'how does water become unusable'.", she said. This time the internet had the answer. There are many ways for water to become contaminated, including sewage leaks, human or animal feces in areas near reservoirs, garbage, industrial waste and even air pollution which will contaminate water when it mixes with rain.

Her mother told her that diseases like Amoebiasis, Dracunculiasis, Cholera, Hepatitis A are some of the water borne diseases.

Anushka understood that wastewater is treated with the use of biological, chemical, and physical processes. Wastewater treatment removes solids and biological pollutants, treating the water to acceptable levels before returning clean water, called effluent, back into the environment.

Anushka wanted to prevent scarcity of water. She found how to do that from the internet. One possible solution is the use of desalinization technology. This system is described as filtering salty water through membranes and removing the salt through electro dialysis and reverse osmosis. Another one is to develop and mandate more efficient household water heaters. To prevent scarcity of water, we can also compose new multinational treaties to specify water sharing.

Her mother told her that all living things use water in different ways for different uses. It is used for cleaning, for irrigating crops and landscapes, for cooling, for recreation and for dust control.

She also found some slogans about water. They are:

'SAVE WATER, IT WILL SAVE YOU LATER'

'DON'T LET THE WATER RUN IN THE SINK, OUR LIFE'S ON THE BRINK'

'PUT A STOP TO THE DROP'

'DON'T WASTE IT, JUST TASTE IT'

'WATER,WATER EVERYWHERE BUT NOT A DROP TO DRINK'

'WHEN YOU CONSERVE WATER, YOU CONSERVE LIFE'

'SAVE WATER, SAVE LIFE'

'SAVE WATER, SECURE THE FUTURE'

'SAVE WATER...IT DOESN'T GROW ON TREES'

'STOP THE DRIP TO SAVE THE DROP'

So friends, save water to save your life.

Thank you for your time.