Freshwater DVD

We watched a DVD about freshwater and the importance of it. In the DVD four kids wrote a song about freshwater, and one of their lines was "it's melting away it's wasting away I need it there's no doubt about it". In my opinion they were talking about the glaciers and Cryospheres. Did you know that 70% of all freshwater is frozen? and it is melting unusually fast, which has a lot of bad effects, like more danger for people around them and lower amount of water especially in El Niño, which is the warming pattern, opposite of La Niña, which is the cooling pattern.

Another quote is “it’s what we’ve got it’s all….that’s it” which makes sense. Even though the water goes through a cycle, and you can recycle water, it still is something we can’t live without. And the majority of water (97% to be excact) of water is saltwater and not drinkable. Therefore, we must try to conserve water as much as we can, because water is not getting larger in amount. One way to see if water is fresh and good quality though, is looking for bio-indicators like stone flies or mayflies, which need lots of dissolved air in the water, and have it at a cold temperature.

Even though it doesn’t seem like it, we use large amounts of water daily. And Canada has 7 % of the only 3% of freshwater available. Imagine how different it would be if you were in a different part of the world and you didn’t have the luxury to use 130-170 litres of water just to wash your clothes! Or to have 600 dams to hold water when there is a lack of precipitation. But really, even though we have lots of water, it is passed to oceans which have currents like the global conveyor belt which carries water all around the globe. So, overall, every drop really does count.