HOW PEOPLE USE WATER

• Household purposes
• Industry
• Transportation
• Agriculture
• Recreation

IN THE HOME

• Wash your face
• Brush your teeth
• Flush the toilet
• Drinking
• Make food

INDUSTRY & TRANSPORTATION

ARGICULTURE

• Irrigation: supplying water to to areas of land to grow crops
• Gardening & Farming
• Irrigation is the most used water source in the U.S.

RECREATION

• Swimming
• Fishing
• Beach
• Skiing
• Skating

CONSERVING WATER

• Reducing water use
• Recycling water
• Reusing water

IN THE HOME

• Take shorter showers
• Turn off faucet when not in use
• Larger loads of laundry at a time

INDUSTRY

• Paper mills = 1/2 water used
• Cooling pools to reuse water

AGRICULTURE

• Pipes to conserve water
• Sprinkler irrigation: sprays water from overhead
• Drip irrigation: tiny drops of water close to ground

FRESH WATER FOR THE FUTURE

• Desalination
• Melting Icebergs

DESALINATION

• Fresh water from salt water
• Boiling water
• Freezing water
• Filter the water
• Very expensive process

MELTING ICEBERGS

• Millions of liters of pure water
• Could affect the weather
• Could affect living things