Sample Image Water is Our Life Line! Sample Image







People must have water. We can not live without it. We must drink water every day. We get half of the water we need from the food we eat. We also breathe in water droplets that are in the air.








Your body is more than half water. Most of your brain is made of water. Your blood is almost all water. Water helps carry body wastes out of your body. Water helps make your joints move. Water inside your body helps keep your body at the right temperature. Even your bones are made of water.








All living things must have water. A tiny plant and a huge tree must have water. Every animal on Earth must have water in order to stay alive. Many plants and animals also depend on water as their home. Every living thing on Earth needs water.







Sample Image It's a Wet, Wet World!
Thank Goodness!		 Sample Image







This is a picture of our Earth. Earth is our home. We live on the Earth. The Earth gives us absolutely everything we need in order to stay alive.









Earth is the only planet that has water. About 80% of the Earth is water. There are oceans, lakes, rivers, streams, AND PUDDLES!



And this is what our Earth would look like if all the water was put together, and all the land was put together. There is much more water than land!









Sample Image How Much Water Do You Use? Sample Image







Each person in Camrose uses about 330 liters of water every day. That is almost three bathtubs of water for one person each day!

How Water is Used
Toilets99 litres
Shower or Bath115 litres
Washing Clothes66 litres
Drinking2 litres
Cooking, Dishes31 litres
House Cleaning17 litres







We like to bring out our swimming pools in the summer. We like to have water gun fights. We water our gardens, and our trees, and our grass, and our flowers. We wash our cars, and our houses, and our sidewalks and our driveways.








Sample Image There is No New Water! Sample Image




We can not make more water. What we have is all there is, forever.

There is no new water. All the water that is on the Earth today has always been on the Earth. The dinosaurs drank the same water that we use today. The pioneers used the same water that we use today.









Sample Image Water Gets Dirty! Sample Image




Herbicides that are used to kill weeds can be washed into rivers and streams.



Rain washes dirt into rivers, lakes, and streams.



Animals wash in streams and lakes.



Paint, gas, oil, or anything else that is spilled on land will end up in water.



When you bath or shower the dirt from your body goes into the water. The soap and shampoo you used to wash with goes into the water.



When you use the toilet the wastes from your body go into the water.



When you wash the dishes the food bits that where on the dishes and the soap go into the water.



When cars leak oil or gas onto the road or driveway, the rain can wash that into rivers, streams, and lakes.



Body wastes from pets and all wild animals can be washed into rivers and streams.



When your clothes get washed the dirt from your clothes and the laundry soap goes into the water.



Pesticides that are used to kill insects can be washed into rivers and streams.



Wastes from factories go into rivers and streams.



Rain can wash fertilizer that people put on their grass or crops into rivers, streams, and lakes.



  • Wash full loads of laundry in the washing machine.
  • The amount of water that is lost from a leaky toilet is enough to fill a bathtub three times a day! Most leaks can be fixed with a new washer.
  • Be sure the dishwasher is full before you run it.
  • Don't let the water run when you brush your teeth or wash your face and hands. Most of the water will be wasted.
  • If you wash your dishes by hand, don't leave the water running for rinsing.
  • Don't let the water run while you clean fruit and vegetables. Just rinse them in a sink or pan of clean water.
  • Take short showers or shallow baths.
  • Help your family fix all water leaks. A tap that drips in your house can waste up to 30 liters of water in one day!
  • Keep a container of cold water in the fridge so you don't have to run the tap until the water gets cold.
  • Don't use your toilet as a garbage can. Putting tissues and other bits of trash in a wastebasket instead will save a lot of water.
  • Always turn taps completely off.




Dirty water has to be used again. Remember, we have no new water. We just use the same water over and over again.

So how do you give water a bath so it can be used again?

Water doesn't really take a bath. But water must be cleaned so that it can be used again and again.





Sample Image Water is always recycled on Earth! Sample Image




  1. Evaporation - The sun heats the water in oceans, rivers, puddles, and even laundry hanging on the line. The droplets evaporate and float up into the air as water vapor. Water vapor also rises into the air from leaves of plants and trees.

  2. Condensation - When the water vapor rises into the cooler air above the Earth, it condenses. The water droplets collect and form clouds.

  3. Precipitation - The clouds cool and become full. The water falls back to the Earth as rain, hail, sleet, or snow.

  4. Lake - When water moves slow or stands still, gravity pulls bits of dirt down to the bottom of a river, lake, or pond. The water is then cleaner.

  5. Groundwater - Some of the water seeps through sand and gravel. This filtering helps to clean the water.


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