Wrapping up our conserving water ideas and such + hero time!

After all of last week's craziness in getting our sip of what it feels like to design posters for a cause, (in this case the drought problem we're having right now in California), I'm finally back to show you guys the work that we've done in GDII.

We were asked to make a poster design on ways that we could save every drop of water and for that we researched ways that we could save water, brainstormed ways to catch people's attention to the matter and even created posters for it!

Mine's down below!

There were so many things to do for this project, but to start it off I chose to create a superhero to defend those who need water the most! It took me forever to actually come up with a design and color palette and to stick with it, but I feel super relieved on how it all came together!

This week on GDII: Conserving and saving water...why?

Why it's cause for concern in communities?

• With all the climate changes happening right now, the water reservoirs will be experiencing a shrinkage all over, including Sierra Nevada.
• More and more people are expected to mover over to California by 2050, which means an even SMALLER amount of water for each and every person.
• There is a big problem happening with the systems used with delivering water, mainly with being too outdated or changed by the environment.

A few things we can do:

• First of all, RAISE AWARENESS to the issue happening to us. It is very important to get everyone together to try and find ways to save water.
• Then we can all do our parts in taking care of our homes safely by changing to a water conscious community.
• And most of all, speak to the ones in charge of the government to encourage everyone to save water!

For family households?

• The average family of 4 wastes 881 gallons of water per week just by flushing the toilet.
• 10% of homes that have leaks waste about 90 gallons of water or more per day.

A few MORE things we can do:

• Water your lawn only when you need it.
• The most common, turn off the faucet when washing your hair or teeth. You could save 5 gallons!
• Try to reuse the water that falls from the sinks, shower, and lawn for other things!

But...teens?

A lot of people think that teenagers wouldn't care for any of these things, that with all the schoolwork and stress we deal with on a daily basis, we don't even consider water being on our top priority.

There are lots of things that we worry about, but thing that we DO see is how badly our community has been affected because of these shortages of water.

We're no strangers to seeing our parents' bills and can see how the water one keeps going up, and up, and up.

Everywhere around us we can see that because of the drought we're having here in California, things are changing; plants are wilting and dying, people and animals hardly want to be oueven water in ponds at parks are being used to supply people's needs for water.

We've been limited in the ways we can use water, and unless it rains as much as it did during the Great Flood, we're going to have to find ways to use our water wisely.

Hopefully we all just realize that.


Sources:

• http://www.saveourh2o.org/content/conservation-why-and-how
• http://www.charlottesville.org/index.aspx?page=1681
• http://www.sscwd.org/tips.html
• http://www.epa.gov/WaterSense/pubs/fixleak.html
• http://savethewater.org/water-facts/

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