Water, The Resource We Take For Granted

Water, The Resource We Take For Granted 

Greetings to the person reading, My name is KW, and for the majority of the time Ive been at GCE I have been learning about water. Precisely for this week Ive been learning about water usage globally, percentages, pie graphs, and empathy. We have incorporated everything we learned over these couple of weeks into this project. In my poster, I will also demonstrate the visual aspect of our learning. 

        In class, we watched a video about a girl living in Ethiopia who had to walk nine hours and fifteen minutes for a couple of gallons of water, which wasn’t clean. This makes me feel very privileged because I have an access to water and waste water every day without realizing it. When we went to the Chicago river walk it took 43 minutes for me to carry roughly 2 gallons of water. My closest water source is 3.2 miles away and it takes an hour and 5 minutes to get there on foot. It would take 192 trips to carry all the water I use in just one day.

In my action project, I compared the amount of water the average American uses to the Average Peruvian uses. The average American uses over 300 gallons of water per day, whereas the Average Peruvian only uses about 44.9 gallons of water per day. Also, 0 people in America drink surface water but 2% of people in Peru drink surface water. Which can be filled with a lot of parasites, pesticides, dirt, and runoff. This is unfair and should be a crime, water is a need for life people shouldn't have to drink dirty water to barely survive. 

In conclusion, I think that we can all do a better job at preserving water. Earth is a shared planet and we all as global citizens have to pitch in to take care of our planet. I feel more informed and aware of this global issue and will try to conserve water and not waste it.