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Water
Imagine , it is a hot summer ’s day, you are walking down the street , the sun is burning your skin , you have been walking quite a while now and suddenly, you feel you are thirsty. So what would you do …. Probably you go to the nearest store down the street and buy a bottle of water; a bubbly water, a vitamin water, a water from the fridge, there is so many variety of waters and still you have something to complain about how the water is to expensive how the day is too hot, how the water is too cold . And now imagine… imagine the people, who live in African deserts, imagine feeling thirsty and not having any water at all, not around you, not anywhere. People who live there they have to make long journeys or treks over rough and barren land to get water and when they finally reach to that hole in the ground , then that water there isn’t even clean . It takes so much time and energy, just to get a glass water or in the Africans case, a filled 90’s plastic bottle filled with soggy liquid , that does not deserve the title “water”. In these countries people dream about water, children dream about water, it should not be child ’s dream, to get just enough water so that her throat wouldn’t dry. More than a 780 million people (that is 10,9% of the world’s population) do not have access to clean drinking water and estimated 400 million of these are children. Every day people are trying to survive and hoping to see tomorrow , hoping that they wouldn’t die in dehydration. Because of the fast growing population in the world the competition for water is bigger every day and more than 3.4 million people die each year from a water related diseases , that is almost the entire city of Los Angeles . Though you may think that water is very common on our planet , but most of it is circulating in oceans and due the high salinity, it can’t be used to satisfy people’s needs . Clean water is only 3% of the World’s whole water supply and even though most of it is in permafrost. Water cleaning is expensive and indicative. That is why we need to use water sparingly. You don’t have to do much to use water sparingly. Just don’t let run the water when you brush your teeth because you may waste about 30 litres of water per day with that, all depending on the time it takes for you. Don’t flush toxic substances down from your sink , because with those in the water system it is harder to get the chemicals out of that water, Instead but those into a garbage can or collecting places. With that you make the water cleaning a little bit easier and these are the little things that matter. But getting clean water to everywhere is a problem and it will always be a problem. We alone can’t do much for it, but if we join forces and work together, we can accomplish many good things. There are charity organisations that collect donations for the people in need for fresh water .I hope sometimes, when you waste water or pollute the water system or complain about your hard life think, about those poor African people in thirst and drought and about their hardships.