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The Importance of Freshwater and Why We Should Protect It
Summary: Freshwater is essential to the health of our environment and needs to be preserved and protected. Life requires water to sustain it, yet our supplies are being contaminated by toxins.
Water is one of nature's most important gifts to mankind. it is essential to life and a person's survival depends on drinking freshwater. Water is vital to good health since it helps digest and absorb food and also helps maintain proper muscle tone, supplies sufficient oxygen and nutrients to the cells, get rid of body wastes, and serves as a natural air conditioning system. An average person should drink at least eight glasses of clean water every singe day to be in good health. If a person drank saltwater, they would eventually die because the cells in their body will dehydrate when they try to get rid of the excess salt from the water. Freshwater contains less than 0.2% of dissolved salts.
Although water is highly essential, there isn't adequate amounts of it. Despite the fact that 70% of the world is covered with water, more than 97% of it is...
This section contains 445 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) |