The importance of water

Guest Blogger: Valentina Vial, Villa Maria Academy, Santiago Chile

Everyone has the right to have water.  This can come from a water source like a river, a stream, a pond or a source of groundwater. This right, in places where water is plenty and the users aren’t many, is well respected and doesn’t cause conflicts. But if we pay attention, in places where water is scarce and it doesn’t reach all the inhabitants of that area, we can see that there are conflicts there. We can’t live without water, so if it’s scarce, people have to fight to get it, which makes it very valuable. In desert areas, defining water rights is a real problem.

Water is something that we should conserve, because if we don’t do it we will be losing something really important for our lives. We should try to use it as little as possible. For example, if we are brushing our teeth, it’s not necessary to keep the water running while we are doing it. There’s no need to take a shower of half an hour if we can do it in ten minutes. I could continue giving examples of how we can conserve water in our lives. They’re small things, but all those things add up and we can conserve a big part of the water of the world so that it doesn’t become a problem for us and for the rest of the world.
 

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