Save Your Water, You Never Know When The Well Will Run Dry

I am a student at GCE lab school, and one of my classes is water. In Water class we learn about the water crisis all over the world. Our class is always trying to understand what being in a water crisis is like, so we can think of better ways to help the community in trouble. To first understand what it was like we had to figure out how much water we personally use everyday. Most of the class was towards the 60 gallon range while I only use 13.36 gallons everyday. We then took a trip to a nearby river, filled up containers and brought them back to the school. Most of us only brought back around 10 gallons each which would be nowhere close to what we normally use on a daily basis. 

My experience carrying water was not fun to say the least. At the beginning I grabbed a large blue storage container which now I regret doing. The river was only 0.3 miles away and I was confident that thanks to my past skills from working on a farm, this would be no problem. As we got to the river I assisted in the process of raising the water from the river and pouring it into buckets. Along the way we thought of other more easy and creative ways to fill, carry and not spill. Once the buckets were all filled we began the journey back to the school. Along the way somehow water was added to my container because other people did not want to carry theirs, but I also gained help along the way from my. Although we lagged behind most of the way back we got the most water back to the school.

When it was all said and done I think between the four of us we each carried around 7-10 gallons. That’s almost my entire daily water usage of 13.36.

For the trip I took I brought back around 10 gallons and for an average French person using around 72 gallons a day, that would mean It would take a french person to make 7.2 trips for water everyday.

With all of the weight of carrying seven trips of ten gallons you would require more drinking water so you would not die from lack of body water.

What the world really needs to do is just get along and share because at this rate we are all going to go extinct and we are acting like a bunch of 2 year olds not wanting to share toys. The world needs to grow up and get rid of capitalism and corrupt politics.

LM, (2016), Pie Chart.

LM, (2016), Poster