Water? Another name for water is H2O. Water is made out of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. When they are put together they make a strong bond. They can stay together for millions or even sometimes billons of years. Water covers 70% of the earth surface that includes clouds. Between % of a humans body is water it depends on their body fat.

More about Water If you put all the water on earth in a 3.8 litre jug with the ocean, rivers, snow and water non polluted and polluted you would only get one teaspoon full of water that is safe to drink. When a baby is born 80% of its body is water. A human should drink 8 cups of liquid per day. In the world humans can only use about 30% of water because its under ground or out of reach. If you drink to much water you can die.

More about Water A human being can only last about a week with out drinking water. Some healthy people drink up to 48 cups of water a day.

Transport It takes 7,843 litres of water to make 4 new tyres. It takes 147,971 litres of water to make a new car including tyres.

Meat Cows drink 70 litres a day. Pigs drink double the amount of food they eat. Sheep drink about 4 litres a day. Horses drink about 75.7 litres of water on a hot day. Dogs drink 50ml per 500 grams. Cats should drink two cups a day. Fish drink 1% of their body weight every hour. Goats drink more than 3.8 litres per day. For 500 grams of meat it takes 13.6 litres of water to process the meat.

Fruits and Vegetables It takes about 52.2 litres to make a Orange. It takes about 22.7 litres to make a Lettuce. It takes about 11.4 litres to make a Tomato. It takes about litres to make a Watermelon. It takes 70 litres to make one Apple. It takes 35.2 litres to process one can of fruit or vegetables.

Foods To make a loaf of bread it takes about litres of water. To produce rice it takes about litres of water. It takes litres to produce one egg. It takes about 22.7 litres to make French fries. It takes 2400 litres to make one hamburger.

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Clothing It takes 170,000 litres of water per kg of clean wool. It takes litres of water to make one cotton t-shirt. It takes litres of water to make a pair of jeans and a stone wash pair takes an extra 750 litres.

Proposal Places that don’t have a lot of water need to stop growing plants/trees that need a lot of water to grow. Eg in the desert they need to stop wasting water by growing foods like oranges that take a lot of water to grow. Instead they should grow things like wheat that needs the heat to grow. And not a lot of water.

Proposal Instead of throwing out old clothing like things that are made out of cotton, wool and denim. That took a lot of water to make you could take them to a second hand clothing shop like red cross so they can be worn again by someone else.

Proposal Stop buying canned or processed food. Because it takes 35.2 litres to process one canned of fruit or vegetables. Also fresh food is better for you and has less salt and sugar in it.

Proposal Also if you buy fresh food from New Zealand you are supporting a New Zealander instead of buying food in a can that another country has made. New Zealand Farm

By Kim, Beatrix and Yesol