16Resource Water: A Precious

water : A PreciousResource16 You are perhaps aware that 22 March iscelebrated as the world water day! Aschool celebrated water day and invitedposters from the children of your agegroup. Some of the posters presentedon that day are shown in Fig. Jal Hai, To Kal Hai If you have water , you can think of the future teachers must very often be advising younot to waste water . No wonder wecelebrate water day every year to attractthe attention of everybody towards theimportance of conserving amount of water recommendedby the United Nations for drinking,washing, cooking and maintaining properhygiene is a minimum of 50 litres perperson per day. This amount is abouttwo and a half buckets of water perperson per day. Is your family getting atleast this much of water ? If yes, youshould consider yourself fortunatebecause millions of people in ourcountry do not get enough water .

long queues for water (Fig. 16.2), fights, marches and protests for demand of water have become a common sight, especially during summers. Some of the newspaper clippings shown in Fig. 16.3 clearly indicate this message. Is it not true that we face acute shortage of water? Fig. 16.1 Collage of posters What is the message you get from these posters?

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