Do you use a lot of water every day? I’m sure you do! We all use a lot, but we can also abuse it in some ways, and that will leave us with less clean water for everyone to use. 

We can fix a lot of things including long showers that waste a lot of clean water. 

“My showers are usually about 30 minutes, because I wash my hair, like, every other day,”Lia Cornberg (7) said 

Long showers are one way to waste water, but there are many more things that you do that waste water on a daily basis. 

“Yeah, I waste a lot of water everyday, and things like running the faucet for a long time or taking showers that are way longer than they are supposed to be,”Arya Mathur (6) said 

A lot of people also use water for entertainment! Especially in the summer when it is very hot. 

“During the summer, I go in the pool, like, 5 times a week, and I use water balloons a lot too,” Roma Anand (7) said 

All of these actions combine to a lot of water usage, with a lot of people doing them. There are a lot of ways to preserve our water so it can stay for a long time though. 

“Yes, I do think it’s very important to preserve water, and you can do a lot of simple things, like don’t leave the water running while your brushing your teeth, if you have a leaky faucet you should fix it, or use reusable water bottles instead of plastic water bottles. Things like that,”Librarian Ms. Phillips said 

All of these things are ways to preserve and not waste water so that we can all enjoy it for much more generations.