Central Idea: Our water is a treasured resource that should be protected for our future generations

I. About 70% of the earths surface is covered with water. (show globe)

A. Of all this water, only .3% is usable by humans, the remaining 99.7% is either unusable salt water or unavailable fresh water. (show graph #1)

B. Much of the useable .3% is out of reach and locked up in icecaps and glaciers.

II. We all know that water is important.

A. Plants and animals need clean water to survive.

B. People cannot survive more than a few days without water.

C. Almost everything we do uses water: drinking, bathing, growing food and gardens, even making the toys and tools we use today.

III. Although water covers most of the earth, all of us share less that 1% of all the water on earth.

A. The water we have now is all we will ever have. We can not produce anymore.

B. Water is a commodity that is essential to all life on this planet, and it needs our help. It is our responsibility to not only conserve our water supply, but to clean it up as well.

A. Beyond familiarizing you with the many threats to your waterways and potential consequences of those threats, I also wanted to highlight the opportunities that all of us have to clean and protect our water.

III. The effects of water pollution on human health can be deadly. (show picture #2)

B. The toxins enter our bodies through the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe.

B. With your help, we can assure that watersheds across the country are clean & healthy and meet the needs of the wildlife and the people that depend on them.

B. The following are some things you can do to take action

1. Join programs, which take an active role in cleaning up our beaches and waterways.

1. An example of this in humans is a tragedy, which took place in Wisconsin in 1993. More than 100 people died from an intestinal virus linked to contaminated water from farmland runoff where live stock grazed.

2. Ask your representative to protect our coasts

III. In closing, I've made some handouts with viable information on how you can help save our water supply for future generations. (pass out handouts)

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