Math Practice: Water Use Worksheet

Water is essential to life on earth. We need water to grow food, keep clean, provide power, control fire, and last but not least, we need it to stay alive!

 If water is constantly being cleaned and recycled through the earth’s water cycle, why do we need to conserve it? The answer is that people use up our planet’s fresh water faster than it can naturally be replenished.

 To provide enough clean fresh water for people, water is cleaned at at drinking water treatment plants before it is used. And after water is used, it is cleaned again at waste-water treatment plants or by a septic system before being put back into the environment.

 Saving water is good for the earth, your family, and your community.

 Watch and enjoy these two videos and learn more about the sustainability of water and it's place in our environment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evH2r5dOq5Q (Links to an external site.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQRvN6MUajE (Links to an external site.)

Now that you have viewed the two videos above, let's learn a little bit about the water cycle.

Math Skills Practice

For this activity, you will calculate how much water people use in the course of an average day. 

Open and complete the attached worksheet.  You may need to use the calculator located in the Accessories area of your computer.

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