Water Scarcity and the Importance of Water
The class H20 is part of our STEAM curriculum this year, and it's teaching us about water, and how little fresh water is left on the planet. The first Field Experience of H20 was to help us experience what it was like if we had to carry our own water usage every day, like hundreds of thousands of less fortunate people have to. It really opened my eyes to the rest of the world. Carrying only one gallon was easy enough, but the I imagined having to fetch 50 gallons throughout the day, and that that's exactly what some people have to do. The purpose of our first Action Project for H20 was to show the class how much water we used in a day, and how that compared to the rest of the world. I started this AP by calculating my own daily water usage in gallons, which was a lot more than I was expecting, but almost half as much as the average American’s use, which was surprising. I was shocked when I found out how little water people get every day, and how far they have to go to get t...