Speech on Global Water Crisis

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A very good morning to my teacher and my friends. Today, I would like to talk about global water crisis. Do you know that, there are 884 million of people lack access to safe water supplies; approximately one in eight people in the world? Do you know that, there are 3.575 million of people die each year from water-related disease? And do you know that, the water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns? Water is actually a partner in our life. We cannot live without water. The world’s population is increasing so rapidly, however due to the climate impact, the water that is safe to consume, is decreasing daily. Although about 70 percent of the earth is water, only 2.5 percent of that is freshwater. Of the freshwater, 68.9 percent is in the form of glaciers and snow cover, 30.8 percent is groundwater, and about 0.3 percent is in lakes and rivers. We use water everyday. One flush of toilet uses 15 to 19 litres of water, whereas a low-flush toilet uses only 6 litres of water. A five minutes shower uses 100 litres of water, but a five minutes shower with a reduced-flow showerhead uses less than half of this. One dishwasher cycle uses about 40 litres of water, and hand washing the dishes uses about 35 litres of water. Leaving the tap running while you wash your hands uses about 8 litres of water. Leaving the tap running while you brush your teeth uses about 10 litres of water. From here we can see if a person only flush the toilet one time per day, take only one shower per day, wash hands and brush teeth for only a time per day, he or she already uses up to 109 litres of water in a day. But please do not forget that the water used for cooking and drinking has not been included yet! Now let us think about what can we do about this. Drink less? No, everyone will get sick. Stop bathing from now on? No,

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