How do we use water?

Water is used everyday, by everyone. How do we use water? Just waking up in the morning, you used water to shower, brush your teeth and go to the bathroom. Cooking, laundry, drinking, and washing your car are just a few ways we use water in our homes.

But lets think about how we use water indirectly. Every product that you own that came from a factory used water in the production process and for cooling its systems. Your vegetables and fruit that you eat are grown with a lot of water. The grass that the cows eat needs water too. Your gas in your car was refined from oil using large amounts of water. The roads you drive on are cleaned and maintained with water. The electricity that powers your home may have come from a hydroelectric dam or coal burning plant that uses water to cool its discharge. The hospitals that you visit rely on clean water for taking care of its facilities and patients.


There are millions of ways that you can think of that we use water. We need water to live. How can one molecule, H20, be so valuable? Its more valuable than Gold or Oil or diamonds. With something this important, shouldn't we be taking care of it better? We exploit this resource like it will last forever. How can anyone ever justify polluting the one thing that we are dependent on to live? These are all concerns that we are beginning to address in the world. Worldwide conservation and preservation is paramount in ensuring that we survive. In the next post, I'll address the supply of water and why it is so scarce to so many people. Keep following!