Today we watched a very interesting video in science class; it was called ‘flow’. I learned lots of new information and I thought I would share some with you! Pollution and Poverty: Did you know that every year 2 million people die of no water, and think that’s bad? Well most of them are kids under the age of 5! There is an estimate 1 out of 5 children will die even before the age of 5! Also in some places 30 000 people die every day of polluted water. And to think that the water poor people go to get costs more than the average water a wealthy person buys! If they choose not to get a tap installed at there homes (because of costly expenses) they are required to go to the store and buy a tablet every time for there creek to kill the bacteria, but most cant afford that so they go for the risk of not getting a tablet and drink the water right from the creek.
But the other story is Bottled water, every year we spend $30 billion on water, but we spent 3 times that amount on bottled water! Did you know that bottled water costs more than gasoline? And most of them say ‘fresh glacier water’ but they have gone through tests and it turns out that they are just plain old tap water--- and it only cost you 1 penny every 20 refills into a water bottle from your tap.
NOT DONE!!!!!!
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