Activity on how to save water...?

Question

I'm doing an activity for children to promote awareness of issues affecting water resources. I'm getting pictures and then they will draw another picture next to it of how to save water, e.g, i've got a picture of a running tap and they will draw a tap that's turned off. Can you think of any other ways you can save water?

Also, any other ideas of activities would be a great help. Thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

bath vs. shower

instead of throwing our your full water bottle, empty it into a plant and then recycle the bottle



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Answer 2

Wash your car on  your lawn, or use a car wash that recycles its water supply.

Answer 3

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There is no such thing as "saving" water.

If I take a gallon of water, which came from the municipal water supply, and dump it down the drain - it doesn't leave this earth - it goes to a treatment plant where it is cleaned of whatever came with it and dumped straight back in the lake or wherever it came from.

Our Earth is a giant water recycler. It is impossible to get rid of it unless we put it on rockets and blast it into space.

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There's actually many ways water from a fresh water source can be depleted, through changes in the environment or bottled waters. Some of the water we used may return to that supply, but not all of it.

Answer 4

Only washing a full load of dishes in the washing machine or dishwasher... I guess you could show a partially full dishwasher and a fully loaded dishwasher..

Saving rain water to water plants/trees, instead of using a sprinkler

Instead of buying water drinking tap water or using a water filter/pitcher

Answer 5

oops i see technical answers are not wanted here

tell them this

25% of the planets surface is land

75%of the surface is water and it is rising

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97%of the Earths water is salt

fresh water is only 3% of all the Earths water

most of it is beyond out reach

now much ice is melting and running into the seas fresh water lost for ever.

STORAGE or Location of % of the fresh water

ice and glaziers 74%

groundwater 800 meters + 13.5 %

groundwater less than 800meters 11.o%

Lakes 0.3%

soils 0.006%

Atmospheric in circulation 0.0035%

rivers 0.03%

frozen land or permafrost is not included and represent an unavailable storage of 40%

so of the 3% about 11.6 ,is easily available to us ,in rivers, lakes and ground water surface aquifers,more and more of this is becoming contaminated

overpopulation of an extra 70 million people a year (increasing all the time )and expanding agriculture ,which uses 70% of available potable water supplies ,has brought the good(sweet) water supplies to critical levels ,some countries have been in trouble already quite a while .

Now climate change and desertification, because of irresponsible agriculture ,overgrazing and deforestation is damaging world fresh water production .

It is a good reason for concern and if we do not rectify matters by changing agricultural methods ,reforest ,stop deforestation,become more economic with water use ,stop producing more people ,stop wasting and contaminating water, we will be in serious trouble all round

and could end up looking like Mars

EFFICIENT WATER USE

IN THE HOUSE

one can connect the sink straight to the toilet cistern and so use the water twice ,first to have a shave and then to flush the toilet

also if you bend the ball valve you can regulate the level of the cistern

Always have your Grey water and Black water separate,so that the sink and shower water goes directly into the garden saving on irrigation and at the same time ,making the sewage smaller and easier to deal with ,

This also goes and irrigates the garden but via a cistern of two compartments and a French drain ,on which you plant trees,

Answer 6

There is no such thing as "saving" water.

If I take a gallon of water, which came from the municipal water supply, and dump it down the drain - it doesn't leave this earth - it goes to a treatment plant where it is cleaned of whatever came with it and dumped straight back in the lake or wherever it came from.

Our Earth is a giant water recycler.  It is impossible to get rid of it unless we put it on rockets and blast it into space.

Answer 7

You could do something on rain barrels or rain catching cisterns