Water plays an important role in our everyday living. Without water surviving would be impossible. Imagine a world without water. The planet is a barren dessert, without the crystal blue ocean nor the wide green array of forests. Living would be tough right? The presence of water is essential, for without its existence life on the planet would be impossible. Water comes in all three forms of matter. Solid, from the thick sheets of ice glaziers in the South and North Pole. Liquid, from the groundwater below to the lakes, rivers and to the salty vast oceans. Gas, from the water vapors in the atmosphere. You see almost a huge portion of the earth is made up of water, which makes our planet the “water planet.”
In our everyday life, we use and come across with water. Therefore on this article I will be sharing with you some of the usage and significance of water not just to us humans but to every living organisms. Let us begin.
1. Households
If you will try to list down all the ways you had consumed water today probably you had washed your face, took a bath, brushed your teeth, and flushed the toilet. As well as washed the dished in the sink, sort out your laundry, cleaned the fruits and vegetable you had brought from the groceries and drank a glass or two of water to quench your thirst. These are just the common uses of water in our houses. If we try to think of it, if the supply of water in our houses had been cut-off surely cleaning, cooking taking care of our personal hygiene would be hard.
2. Agriculture
As you had noticed growing plants on our family garden requires many things especially water. In the agricultural sector water is important. A constant supply of fresh water is essential towards growing crops like fruits and vegetables. Without it harvesting and sending yields to the market to our dining table would be impossible. That is why in farmlands where the land is dry. The solutions they do to solve this problem is either by cloud seeding which involves modifying clouds structure to increase the chance of rainfall or through irrigation, which is the process of supplying water to areas of land. For it to be suitable for growing crops.
3. Industries
The things that you often use like your pair of sneakers, you favorite, sweater, cellphone and blanket had used water in their manufacturing process. I know it may sound absurd, but don’t you know even though water is not part of the final output. Even so water is needed in the industrial processes that produced them. Taken for example a pad of paper will not exist without water. Woodchips are washed and soaked into gallons of water and chemicals to make pulps. Afterwards it is squeezed dry, washed again and pressed to be made into paper.
4. Transportation
During the ancient times voyagers and merchants travel from other places through water to explore, gather or trade goods with other neighboring islands. Taken for example here in the Philippines during the pre-Spanish colonial era our ancestors had been trading their golds and species to the Chines merchants silk, porcelains and other interesting goods. By now in the modern era, water is still vital for transporting. Ships travel by ocean to reach different continents to transport people and goods
5. Recreation
Every summer beaches and swimming pools are populated by people who wanted to escape the scorching heat of the sun. Others also goes to lakes to unwind, ride a boat, catch a fish or just dangle their feet on the edge of the docks. When winter came, people goes to ski rinks to play ice hockey or glide on the ice. While others go to the mountainside covered in white snow to do skiing and little did we knew we are enjoying water in its frozen form.
6. Living things
Our body is made up of nearly 60% of water. Which is essential for our body to function, especially our organs. Other living things like plants needs water to grow and reproduce. When I was in third grade our science teacher explained to how plants makes food for themselves. Plants needs carbon dioxide, sunlight and water to make food in a process called photosynthesis.
7. Habitat
Whether it is salt or fresh water it still provides habitat to many living organisms. Taken for example, a fish takes shelter on a coral reef that grows in the water. Moreover the water where the fish lives provides the said fish with the things it needed for it to be able to survive, grow and reproduce.
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These are just few of the usages and significance of water. We are lucky enough if we have a running water in the comfort of our homes. However for some people they need to go many hardships to acquire drinkable water. As what our science teacher told during our discussion regarding water conservation, the consumable water present in our planet is roughly 3% and who knows when it will last. Therefore as early as now let us conserve and preserve water. Not just for ourselves but for the future generations as well.
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