a speech on water

“This is Water”

This speech was originally delivered by David Foster Wallace as the 2005 commencement address at Kenyon College. 1

Speech Transcript

Greetings parents and congratulations to Kenyon’s graduating class of 2005. There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?”

This is a standard requirement of US commencement speeches, the deployment of didactic little parable-ish stories. The story thing turns out to be one of the better, less bullshitty conventions of the genre, but if you’re worried that I plan to present myself here as the wise, older fish explaining what water is to you younger fish, please don’t be. I am not the wise old fish. The point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about. Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude, but the fact is that in the day to day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have a life or death importance, or so I wish to suggest to you on this dry and lovely morning.

Of course the main requirement of speeches like this is that I’m supposed to talk about your liberal arts education’s meaning, to try to explain why the degree you are about to receive has actual human value instead of just a material payoff. So let’s talk about the single most pervasive cliché in the commencement speech genre, which is that a liberal arts education is not so much about filling you up with knowledge as it is about “teaching you how to think.” If you’re like me as a student, you’ve never liked hearing this, and you tend to feel a bit insulted by the claim that you needed anybody to teach you how to think, since the fact that you even got admitted to a college this good seems like proof that you already know how to think. But I’m going to posit to you that the liberal arts cliché turns out not to be insulting at all, because the really significant education in thinking that we’re supposed to get in a place like this isn’t really about the capacity to think, but rather about the choice of what to think about. If your total freedom of choice regarding what to think about seems too obvious to waste time discussing, I’d ask you to think about fish and water, and to bracket for just a few minutes your scepticism about the value of the totally obvious.

Here’s another didactic little story. There are these two guys sitting together in a bar in the remote Alaskan wilderness. One of the guys is religious, the other is an atheist, and the two are arguing about the existence of God with that special intensity that comes after about the fourth beer. And the atheist says: “Look, it’s not like I don’t have actual reasons for not believing in God. It’s not like I haven’t ever experimented with the whole God and prayer thing. Just last month I got caught away from the camp in that terrible blizzard, and I was totally lost and I couldn’t see a thing, and it was 50 below, and so I tried it: I fell to my knees in the snow and cried out ‘Oh, God, if there is a God, I’m lost in this blizzard, and I’m gonna die if you don’t help me.’” And now, in the bar, the religious guy looks at the atheist all puzzled. “Well then you must believe now,” he says, “After all, here you are, alive.” The atheist just rolls his eyes. “No, man, all that was was a couple Eskimos happened to come wandering by and showed me the way back to camp.”

It’s easy to run this story through kind of a standard liberal arts analysis: the exact same experience can mean two totally different things to two different people, given those people’s two different belief templates and two different ways of constructing meaning from experience. Because we prize tolerance and diversity of belief, nowhere in our liberal arts analysis do we want to claim that one guy’s interpretation is true and the other guy’s is false or bad. Which is fine, except we also never end up talking about just where these individual templates and beliefs come from. Meaning, where they come from INSIDE the two guys. As if a person’s most basic orientation toward the world, and the meaning of his experience were somehow just hard-wired, like height or shoe-size; or automatically absorbed from the culture, like language. As if how we construct meaning were not actually a matter of personal, intentional choice. Plus, there’s the whole matter of arrogance. The nonreligious guy is so totally certain in his dismissal of the possibility that the passing Eskimos had anything to do with his prayer for help. True, there are plenty of religious people who seem arrogant and certain of their own interpretations, too. They’re probably even more repulsive than atheists, at least to most of us. But religious dogmatists’ problem is exactly the same as the story’s unbeliever: blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn’t even know he’s locked up.

The point here is that I think this is one part of what teaching me how to think is really supposed to mean. To be just a little less arrogant. To have just a little critical awareness about myself and my certainties. Because a huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded. I have learned this the hard way, as I predict you graduates will, too.

Here is just one example of the total wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of: everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute centre of the universe; the realest, most vivid and important person in existence. We rarely think about this sort of natural, basic self-centredness because it’s so socially repulsive. But it’s pretty much the same for all of us. It is our default setting, hard-wired into our boards at birth. Think about it: there is no experience you have had that you are not the absolute centre of. The world as you experience it is there in front of YOU or behind YOU, to the left or right of YOU, on YOUR TV or YOUR monitor. And so on. Other people’s thoughts and feelings have to be communicated to you somehow, but your own are so immediate, urgent, real.

Please don’t worry that I’m getting ready to lecture you about compassion or other-directedness or all the so-called virtues. This is not a matter of virtue. It’s a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default setting which is to be deeply and literally self-centered and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self. People who can adjust their natural default setting this way are often described as being “well-adjusted”, which I suggest to you is not an accidental term.

Given the triumphant academic setting here, an obvious question is how much of this work of adjusting our default setting involves actual knowledge or intellect. This question gets very tricky. Probably the most dangerous thing about an academic education–least in my own case–is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualise stuff, to get lost in abstract argument inside my head, instead of simply paying attention to what is going on right in front of me, paying attention to what is going on inside me.

As I’m sure you guys know by now, it is extremely difficult to stay alert and attentive, instead of getting hypnotised by the constant monologue inside your own head (may be happening right now). Twenty years after my own graduation, I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. Think of the old cliché about “the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.”

This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head. They shoot the terrible master. And the truth is that most of these suicides are actually dead long before they pull the trigger.

And I submit that this is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense. Let’s get concrete. The plain fact is that you graduating seniors do not yet have any clue what “day in day out” really means. There happen to be whole, large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine and petty frustration. The parents and older folks here will know all too well what I’m talking about.

By way of example, let’s say it’s an average adult day, and you get up in the morning, go to your challenging, white-collar, college-graduate job, and you work hard for eight or ten hours, and at the end of the day you’re tired and somewhat stressed and all you want is to go home and have a good supper and maybe unwind for an hour, and then hit the sack early because, of course, you have to get up the next day and do it all again. But then you remember there’s no food at home. You haven’t had time to shop this week because of your challenging job, and so now after work you have to get in your car and drive to the supermarket. It’s the end of the work day and the traffic is apt to be: very bad. So getting to the store takes way longer than it should, and when you finally get there, the supermarket is very crowded, because of course it’s the time of day when all the other people with jobs also try to squeeze in some grocery shopping. And the store is hideously lit and infused with soul-killing muzak or corporate pop and it’s pretty much the last place you want to be but you can’t just get in and quickly out; you have to wander all over the huge, over-lit store’s confusing aisles to find the stuff you want and you have to manoeuvre your junky cart through all these other tired, hurried people with carts (et cetera, et cetera, cutting stuff out because this is a long ceremony) and eventually you get all your supper supplies, except now it turns out there aren’t enough check-out lanes open even though it’s the end-of-the-day rush. So the checkout line is incredibly long, which is stupid and infuriating. But you can’t take your frustration out on the frantic lady working the register, who is overworked at a job whose daily tedium and meaninglessness surpasses the imagination of any of us here at a prestigious college.

But anyway, you finally get to the checkout line’s front, and you pay for your food, and you get told to “Have a nice day” in a voice that is the absolute voice of death. Then you have to take your creepy, flimsy, plastic bags of groceries in your cart with the one crazy wheel that pulls maddeningly to the left, all the way out through the crowded, bumpy, littery parking lot, and then you have to drive all the way home through slow, heavy, SUV-intensive, rush-hour traffic, et cetera et cetera.

Everyone here has done this, of course. But it hasn’t yet been part of you graduates’ actual life routine, day after week after month after year.

But it will be. And many more dreary, annoying, seemingly meaningless routines besides. But that is not the point. The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing is gonna come in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don’t make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I’m gonna be pissed and miserable every time I have to shop. Because my natural default setting is the certainty that situations like this are really all about me. About MY hungriness and MY fatigue and MY desire to just get home, and it’s going to seem for all the world like everybody else is just in my way. And who are all these people in my way? And look at how repulsive most of them are, and how stupid and cow-like and dead-eyed and nonhuman they seem in the checkout line, or at how annoying and rude it is that people are talking loudly on cell phones in the middle of the line. And look at how deeply and personally unfair this is.

Or, of course, if I’m in a more socially conscious liberal arts form of my default setting, I can spend time in the end-of-the-day traffic being disgusted about all the huge, stupid, lane-blocking SUV’s and Hummers and V-12 pickup trucks, burning their wasteful, selfish, 40-gallon tanks of gas, and I can dwell on the fact that the patriotic or religious bumper-stickers always seem to be on the biggest, most disgustingly selfish vehicles, driven by the ugliest [responding here to loud applause] — this is an example of how NOT to think, though — most disgustingly selfish vehicles, driven by the ugliest, most inconsiderate and aggressive drivers. And I can think about how our children’s children will despise us for wasting all the future’s fuel, and probably screwing up the climate, and how spoiled and stupid and selfish and disgusting we all are, and how modern consumer society just sucks, and so forth and so on.

You get the idea.

If I choose to think this way in a store and on the freeway, fine. Lots of us do. Except thinking this way tends to be so easy and automatic that it doesn’t have to be a choice. It is my natural default setting. It’s the automatic way that I experience the boring, frustrating, crowded parts of adult life when I’m operating on the automatic, unconscious belief that I am the centre of the world, and that my immediate needs and feelings are what should determine the world’s priorities.

The thing is that, of course, there are totally different ways to think about these kinds of situations. In this traffic, all these vehicles stopped and idling in my way, it’s not impossible that some of these people in SUV’s have been in horrible auto accidents in the past, and now find driving so terrifying that their therapist has all but ordered them to get a huge, heavy SUV so they can feel safe enough to drive. Or that the Hummer that just cut me off is maybe being driven by a father whose little child is hurt or sick in the seat next to him, and he’s trying to get this kid to the hospital, and he’s in a bigger, more legitimate hurry than I am: it is actually I who am in HIS way.

Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket’s checkout line is just as bored and frustrated as I am, and that some of these people probably have harder, more tedious and painful lives than I do.

Again, please don’t think that I’m giving you moral advice, or that I’m saying you are supposed to think this way, or that anyone expects you to just automatically do it. Because it’s hard. It takes will and effort, and if you are like me, some days you won’t be able to do it, or you just flat out won’t want to.

But most days, if you’re aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose to look differently at this fat, dead-eyed, over-made-up lady who just screamed at her kid in the checkout line. Maybe she’s not usually like this. Maybe she’s been up three straight nights holding the hand of a husband who is dying of bone cancer. Or maybe this very lady is the low-wage clerk at the motor vehicle department, who just yesterday helped your spouse resolve a horrific, infuriating, red-tape problem through some small act of bureaucratic kindness. Of course, none of this is likely, but it’s also not impossible. It just depends what you want to consider. If you’re automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won’t consider possibilities that aren’t annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.

Not that that mystical stuff is necessarily true. The only thing that’s capital-T True is that you get to decide how you’re gonna try to see it.

This, I submit, is the freedom of a real education, of learning how to be well-adjusted. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship.

Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship–be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles–is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.

Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they’re evil or sinful, it’s that they’re unconscious. They are default settings.

They’re the kind of worship you just gradually slip into, day after day, getting more and more selective about what you see and how you measure value without ever being fully aware that that’s what you’re doing.

And the so-called real world will not discourage you from operating on your default settings, because the so-called real world of men and money and power hums merrily along in a pool of fear and anger and frustration and craving and worship of self. Our own present culture has harnessed these forces in ways that have yielded extraordinary wealth and comfort and personal freedom. The freedom all to be lords of our tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at the centre of all creation. This kind of freedom has much to recommend it. But of course there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talk about much in the great outside world of wanting and achieving…. The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.

That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.

I know that this stuff probably doesn’t sound fun and breezy or grandly inspirational the way a commencement speech is supposed to sound. What it is, as far as I can see, is the capital-T Truth, with a whole lot of rhetorical niceties stripped away. You are, of course, free to think of it whatever you wish. But please don’t just dismiss it as just some finger-wagging Dr Laura sermon. None of this stuff is really about morality or religion or dogma or big fancy questions of life after death.

The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death.

It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over:

“This is water.”

It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out. Which means yet another grand cliché turns out to be true: your education really IS the job of a lifetime. And it commences: now.

I wish you way more than luck.

The speech was originally published on the Kenyon College website .

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5 Best Speech on Water [Short & Long]

• 1 1st Speech on Water (25 Min)
• 2 2nd Speech on Water (20 Min)
• 3 3rd Speech on Water (15 Min)
• 4 4th Speech on Water (10 Min)
• 5 5th Speech on Water (5 Min)
• 6.1 What is a speech on water?
• 6.2 What are some important topics that can be covered in a speech on water?
• 6.3 What are some tips for delivering a perfect speech on water?
• 6.4 How can we conserve water in our daily lives?
• 6.5 What can individuals do to contribute to global efforts to address water issues?

Looking for a powerful speech on water? Edukar has provided the 5 Best speeches on water to describe the importance of water in our lives, the challenges we face in managing our water resources, and the steps we can take to ensure that future generations have access to clean and abundant water.

1st Speech on Water (25 Min)

Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening Everyone,

It is an honor to speak to you today about one of the most essential elements of our planet, water. Water is the foundation of life, and without it, nothing can survive. It is essential to sustain all living organisms and is an essential resource for agriculture, industries, and households.

Water is the most found substance on Earth, covering 71% of the planet’s surface. However, despite its abundance, only a small percentage of water on earth is usable for human consumption. The majority of the water on earth is in the form of saltwater, which is not fit for drinking or irrigation purposes. Therefore, we must manage the available freshwater resources efficiently to ensure sustainable development.

Water scarcity is a growing concern globally, and the problem is not only confined to arid and semi-arid regions. Even countries that have ample water resources face challenges in the equitable distribution of water among all segments of the population. The global population is increasing at an unprecedented rate, and the demand for water is also increasing. Water security is a significant concern in many parts of the world, and it is essential to address this issue before it becomes a crisis.

Water is essential for human health, and inadequate access to clean drinking water can cause various diseases and health problems. Water is also critical for agriculture, which is the primary source of food for the world’s population. Without adequate water resources, farmers cannot grow crops, and food shortages can occur, leading to malnutrition and starvation.

Furthermore, water plays a crucial role in the global economy. Industries rely on water for various purposes, including cooling, processing, and manufacturing. Water is a critical input in the production process, and without it, industries cannot function. The economic cost of water scarcity is enormous, and it can severely impact the overall economic growth of a nation.

It is essential to adopt a sustainable approach towards managing water resources. Governments, civil society organizations, and individuals must work together to ensure the efficient use of water resources. We must also promote responsible water consumption practices to reduce wastage and ensure that everyone has access to clean and safe drinking water.

In thh end, water is an essential resource for the survival of all living organisms, and it is our responsibility to manage it sustainably. We must work together to address water scarcity and ensure that everyone has access to clean and safe drinking water. Let us all commit to using water wisely and efficiently, and promote sustainable practices to ensure a better future for generations to come. Thank you.

2nd Speech on Water (20 Min)

Water is one of the most essential resources we have on this planet. It is the source of all life and is vital for our survival. Yet, despite its importance, we often take it for granted. We turn on the tap, and water flows out without a second thought. But the reality is that access to clean water is a privilege that not everyone enjoys.

Today, I would like to discuss the importance of water and the challenges we face in ensuring that everyone has access to it.

First and foremost, water is necessary for human survival. We need it to drink, to wash, to cook, and to grow our food. But it’s not just us humans who depend on water. Animals and plants also need water to survive. Without water, our entire ecosystem would collapse.

Unfortunately, not everyone has access to clean water. According to the World Health Organization, around 2.2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water, and 4.2 billion people lack access to safely managed sanitation services. This lack of access to water has a significant impact on people’s health, education, and economic opportunities.

In developing countries, women and children are primarily responsible for fetching water, which can take up to six hours a day. This not only prevents them from going to school but also leaves them vulnerable to health issues due to the unsanitary conditions of the water sources they have to rely on.

Furthermore, the lack of access to clean water can lead to the spread of water-borne diseases such as cholera, typhoid, and dysentery. These diseases can be fatal, particularly for children under the age of five. In fact, water-related diseases are responsible for 3.4 million deaths each year.

So, what can we do to ensure that everyone has access to clean water?

1. We need to recognize that access to clean water is a fundamental human right. We need to prioritize providing clean water to those who lack access, particularly in developing countries. Governments and international organizations need to work together to create policies that prioritize water security and invest in the necessary infrastructure to provide clean water to those who need it.

2. We need to be mindful of our water usage. In developed countries, we often take water for granted and waste it without a second thought. We need to recognize that water is a finite resource and that wasting it not only affects our environment but also takes away from those who desperately need it. We can do our part by fixing leaky taps, taking shorter showers, and using water-efficient appliances.

3. We need to invest in water conservation and management. This includes investing in rainwater harvesting systems, improving irrigation techniques, and promoting sustainable farming practices. By conserving water, we can ensure that we have enough water to meet our needs and the needs of future generations.

Finally, water is one of the most essential resources we have on this planet. It is necessary for our survival, and everyone should have access to clean water. We need to prioritize water security, be mindful of our water usage, and invest in water conservation and management. By doing so, we can ensure that everyone has access to this fundamental human right and preserve our planet for future generations. Thank you.

3rd Speech on Water (15 Min)

Today, I am honored to speak to you about one of the most precious resources on our planet – water. Water is essential for all living beings and is a fundamental need for life. It is a vital resource that we must protect and conserve for future generations.

We all know that Earth is a blue planet, and water covers about 71% of its surface. However, what many people don’t realize is that only 2.5% of that water is freshwater, and only 1% of that freshwater is accessible for human consumption. With the world’s population growing rapidly, the demand for freshwater is also increasing, and it is vital that we use it wisely.

Water is essential for many aspects of our daily lives. We use it for drinking, cooking, bathing, cleaning, and agriculture. The importance of water in agriculture cannot be overstated. It is a crucial resource for farmers, and they rely heavily on it for crop production. In many countries, irrigation accounts for the majority of freshwater use. It is crucial that we ensure that this precious resource is used efficiently to sustain agriculture and prevent food shortages.

The scarcity of freshwater has become a significant problem in many parts of the world. Water scarcity occurs when the demand for water exceeds the available supply. Climate change, population growth, and poor water management are all factors that contribute to water scarcity. In some areas, people are forced to walk for hours to collect water from a nearby stream or well, which is often contaminated and unsafe for consumption.

Water pollution is another critical issue that affects the quality and availability of freshwater. Pollution can occur from both natural and human-made sources. Agricultural runoff, industrial discharge, and improper waste disposal are just a few examples of human-made sources of pollution. Natural sources of pollution include sedimentation, organic matter, and minerals. Water pollution affects the quality of freshwater, making it unsafe for human consumption and harming aquatic ecosystems.

To address the water crisis, we must take collective action. We must work together to conserve water and protect it from pollution. Governments, businesses, and individuals all have a role to play in ensuring the sustainability of this vital resource. We must also educate people about the importance of water conservation and the impact of our actions on the environment.

Water conservation is the most effective way to address the water crisis. We can all play a part in conserving water by making small changes to our daily habits. Simple actions like turning off the tap while brushing our teeth, fixing leaky pipes, and using a broom instead of a hose to clean our driveways can go a long way in conserving water. We must also encourage the use of water-efficient technologies in agriculture, industry, and households.

At the end, water is a precious resource that we must protect and conserve. The water crisis is a complex issue, and it requires collective action to address it. We must work together to ensure that everyone has access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation facilities. Let us all do our part in conserving water and protecting it from pollution. By taking small steps, we can make a significant impact and ensure that future generations have access to this vital resource. Thank you.

4th Speech on Water (10 Min)

Dear fellow citizens,

Water is an essential resource for all living organisms. It is the foundation of life and is required for basic human needs such as drinking, cooking, and washing. Despite its importance, however, access to clean water is not available to everyone. As a result, it is our collective responsibility to conserve water and ensure that it is available for generations to come.

Water scarcity is a global issue that affects millions of people, particularly in developing countries. According to the World Health Organization, 2.2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water, and 4.2 billion people do not have access to proper sanitation facilities. This situation is exacerbated by climate change, which is causing prolonged droughts and extreme weather events that can damage water supply systems.

Water conservation is critical to ensuring that this precious resource is available for everyone. There are many ways to conserve water, from simple measures such as turning off the faucet while brushing your teeth, to more significant efforts such as implementing water-saving technologies in agriculture and industry. These efforts not only help to ensure that water is available for everyone, but they can also reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

In addition to conservation, we must also address water pollution. Water pollution is a significant threat to both human health and the environment. Industrial activities, agricultural runoff, and improper disposal of waste can all contribute to water pollution. We must take steps to reduce water pollution by implementing stricter regulations on industrial and agricultural activities and encouraging proper waste disposal.

We must also recognize the importance of water management. Proper water management involves managing water resources sustainably, ensuring that water is allocated efficiently, and that there is equitable access to water for all. This requires the involvement of governments, communities, and individuals. By working together, we can create sustainable water management practices that will benefit everyone.

Finally, education is key to promoting water conservation and sustainable water management. We must educate ourselves and our communities about the importance of water, the consequences of water scarcity and pollution, and the steps we can take to conserve and manage water resources. This can include school programs, public awareness campaigns, and community outreach.

5th Speech on Water (5 Min)

Ladies and gentlemen,

Water is a vital resource for life on Earth, and we must cherish and protect it. It is essential to all forms of life, and we cannot survive without it. However, despite its importance, many people take it for granted, wasting it, polluting it, and neglecting to maintain its infrastructure.

Access to clean and safe drinking water is still a significant challenge for many communities worldwide. Even in developed countries, access to water can be limited in some areas. Many people must travel long distances to fetch water or rely on contaminated water sources. This lack of access to clean water not only affects people’s health and quality of life but also hinders their economic development and education opportunities.

The overuse of water resources is depleting them. The demands of industries, agriculture, and growing populations are causing water scarcity in many regions worldwide. Climate change is exacerbating the problem by altering rainfall patterns, causing droughts, and increasing the frequency of extreme weather events such as floods and hurricanes.

We must work together to address these challenges and protect our water resources. We must conserve water by reducing our usage and preventing wastage. We can do this by fixing leaking pipes, using water-efficient appliances, and adopting sustainable water practices in agriculture and industry.

We must work to ensure access to clean water for all communities, especially those that are currently underserved. This requires investment in infrastructure, technology, and education. We must also address pollution and protect our water sources from contamination by industrial and agricultural runoff, hazardous waste, and other pollutants.

Finally, water is a precious resource that we cannot take for granted. We must cherish and protect it for future generations. We must work together to ensure access to clean water, conserve water, and protect our water resources from pollution and overuse. By doing so, we can create a healthier, more sustainable world for ourselves and those who come after us.

What is a speech on water?

A speech on water is a talk or presentation that focuses on the importance of water, the challenges we face in managing water resources, and the actions we can take to protect and conserve water.

What are some important topics that can be covered in a speech on water?

Some important topics that can be covered in a speech on water include the importance of water for life and the environment, the challenges of water scarcity and pollution, the impact of climate change on water resources, and the need for sustainable water management practices.

What are some tips for delivering a perfect speech on water?

Some tips for delivering a compelling speech on water include researching the topic thoroughly, using relevant statistics and examples, engaging the audience through storytelling and personal anecdotes, and ending with a call to action or a message of hope.

How can we conserve water in our daily lives?

We can conserve water in our daily lives by taking shorter showers, fixing leaks, using water-efficient appliances and fixtures, watering plants and lawns only when necessary, and reducing our overall water consumption.

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February 8, 2024 by Prasanna

Speech On Water: Water is a tasteless, odorless and colourless, inorganic liquid which is the main constituent of our body and our planet. Water is essential for the survival of all known living organisms. The formula of a water molecule is H2O. Meaning, one molecule is composed of two hydrogen and one oxygen molecule. It does not contain any calorific value.

Water exists in gaseous, liquid and solid form. Water vapours accumulate together and form clouds in the sky. Water is the primary constituent of oceans, rivers, lakes and ponds. The solid form of water, ice, is present in the polar regions of the earth which occur naturally in sub-zero temperatures. In freezing temperatures, snowfall occurs. Snow is the crystalline form of water.

Since water is essential for the survival of all animate things, it is vital to learn about the various ways to conserve water.

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Long And Short Speeches On Water for Kids And Students in English

We are providing a long Speech on Water of 500 words and a short Speech On Water of 150 words along with ten lines on the same topic for the ease of students.

These speeches will be useful for students for their assignments or exam. People can also use these speeches as a reference to write their own.

A Long Speech On Water is helpful to students of classes 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12. A Short Speech On Water is helpful to students of classes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.

Long Speech On Water 500 Words In English

Good Morning, to everyone present here. My name is (your name), and I am going to present a speech about water.

Water is one of the fundamental building blocks of our body as well as our planet. It is a tasteless, odourless liquid which has no calorific value. In can exist is three states namely- solid, liquid and gaseous.

All living organisms require water to survive. Life originated in water. Hence it is easy to gauge the importance of water.

Our planet is composed of over 70% water. So it is easy to think that there could not be any shortage of water.

The truth is that, of the 70% of water on the earth’s surface, only 3% of it is considered to be fresh water. About 2.6% of this fresh water remains frozen in the polar ice caps, hence remain inaccessible to humans.

Thus we are left with about 0.4% of fresh water that can be used for all of humanity. Hence, there is no doubt as to the reason we should start conserving water.

The small percentage of drinkable water can be found in rivers and lakes. But no one is stupid enough to drink water from the river or lake directly. It is a sure way to pave the way for stomach troubles.

Hence the water from rivers is first filtered and then supplied to our home, which is then further filtered using advanced filtration techniques to make it drinkable.

The water from rivers and lakes is polluted continuously by humans. Water pollution occurs due to contamination of water bodies due to human activities like washing, bathing, etc. Water pollution occurs on a larger scale when industries and factories release their untreated, or inadequately treated toxic by-products into rivers, lakes and oceans.

Heavy metals like lead, arsenic and mercury are present in the runoffs. Drinking such toxic water leads to detrimental health hazards like arsenic and mercury poisoning. These diseases cause severe heath damage. Accumulation of such heavy metals in the body leads to eventual death.

Due to water pollution, aquatic biodiversity suffers. Many underwater plants and animals die due to insufficient supply of dissolved oxygen. There is a loss of aquatic habitat. There is a decline in the number of fish, and hence a shortage of food is created. This is one of the problems among many others.

To live a healthy life, it is essential to drink eight glasses of water daily. This water, of course, should be free from any kinds of pollutants.

Techniques like rainwater harvesting can conserve water. Planting more trees help to increase the overall presence of water in the soil.

It is also imperative to make sure that there are no oil spills in the ocean. Oil spills cut off the dissolution of oxygen in oceans and kill all aquatic plants and animals. Sea birds sometimes get their wings wet in the oil and cannot fly. Hence they drown.

Water is rightly called life. And life needs to be saved and nurtured. We are not doing anyone a favour by saving water; we are doing ourselves a favour by making sure that water remains clean.

Short Speech On Water 150 Words In English

Greetings to everyone present. My name is (your name), and I’m going to make a short speech about water.

Water is a colourless, odourless and transparent liquid which is essential for the survival of all living organisms. Though the earth composed of 70% of water, the percentage of water that can be utilised is about 0.4%.

Hence, it is crucial to conserve and use water wisely. We are continuously exploiting the limited amount of usable water in rivers, lakes and ponds.

Activities such as bathing, washing clothes, dumping garbage into water bodies, dumping industrial waste, which is untreated into water bodies cause water pollution. Harmful plants like water hyacinth thrive on polluted water and cut off the supply of dissolved oxygen, hence killing all aquatic life forms.

To Conserve water, we should take a few steps. We should make sure that no tap water is wasted by keeping the tap open when not in use. Rainwater harvesting provides a source of fresh water for drinking. Planting a tree increases the overall underwater supply of water.

Look around, and you will find a lot of things that can make a difference.

10 Lines On Water Speech In English

• Water is a necessary commodity for all living organisms.
• Life cannot thrive without water.
• Life originated in water.
• 70% of the earth’s surface is composed of water, 3% of which is freshwater. Most of the freshwater is trapped in polar ice caps.
• About only 0.4% of water is accessible for use.
• Water pollution is caused due to various human activities like bathing, washing clothes and dumping waste into water.
• Water pollution reduces the amount of dissolved oxygen in water and kills the entire aquatic ecosystem.
• Due to Water pollution, heavy metals such as lead, mercury and arsenic contaminate the water.
• Drinking polluted water causes mercury, lead and arsenic poisoning, which can be detrimental.
• We should stop throwing garbage into water bodies. The use of single-use plastic should be banned as it cannot be degraded and pollutes water.

FAQ’s On Water Speech

Question 1. How much water should we consume in a day?

Answer: It is advised to drink at least eight glasses of water or four litres of water per day.

Question 2. How can we ensure that we drink clean water?

Answer: you should install a filter that purifies water. If the water is to be fed to a baby, it should be boiled.

Question 3. How can we stop the pollution of water?

Answer: we can stop polluting water bodies by not throwing any garbage into it.

Question 4. How can we conserve water?

Answer: We should ensure that taps are appropriately closed after every use so that there is no dripping and wastage of water.

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Speech on Water

“Water is the driving force of all nature.” These are the words told by Leonardo da Vinci. Read this article on water, collect every drop of information and transform yourself into a mighty ocean. Prepare an enlightening speech and let your audience know the dire need for water in our lives.

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Top quotes to use in a speech on water, speech on the importance of water conservation, speech on saving water, speech on the importance of water in the human body, frequently asked questions on water.

• “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” – Ryunosuke Satoro.
• “Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.” – Lao Tzu.
• “In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.” – Kahlil Gibran.
• “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” – W. H. Auden.
• “Water is soft and humble, but it is the most powerful and is the most endurable.” – Debasish Mridha.
• “Water is the lifeblood of our bodies, our economy, our nation and our well-being.” – Stephen Johnson.
• “But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing, in the end, can stand against it.” – Margaret Atwood.
• “Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.” – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi.
• “We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.” – Thomas Fuller.
• “We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau.

Sample Speeches on Water

A couple of sample speeches are given below. Read through these speeches on water and utilise the resource to better understand the topic.

“Water, water, everywhere, nor a drop to drink.” This is a famous line from the poem ‘ The Rime of Ancient Mariner ’ written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Even though 97% of the earth’s surface is covered with water, only a minor percentage of water is clean and safe for drinking. The lack of safe drinking water is a great global issue of our time. It is high time to take necessary actions to effectively conserve our available freshwater resources, which are only 3% in total. Out of this 3%, only 1% is directly available to us from lakes and rivers. The saddest fact is that it is this 1% of freshwater that we are polluting with the process of industrialization, globalisation and urbanisation. It is shocking to reveal the fact that nearly 700 million people do not have access to clean drinking water.

Water conservation is never a choice for us; it is a necessity. Unless and until human behaviour toward water conservation changes, it would not be an overstatement to proclaim that water is extinct. The consequences brought by water wastage will undoubtedly be intolerable.

Water is very important for the survival of human beings. Loss of excessive water or unavailability of water in the human body results in dehydration. It causes much damage to the human body, including extreme thirst, fatigue, organ failures, and death. Water is required for the performance of many functions in the human body. Water regulates and maintains human body temperature, aids in the process of digestion, balances the pH of the human body, lubricates joints and spinal cord, helps with hormone production, helps to deliver oxygen to all parts of our body and so on. In short, without water, the complete performance of the human body’s metabolism will be interrupted. So for a healthy better life, try to stay hydrated and always consume clean water.

Water is the most useful resource on earth. Conservation of water is very important for the sustainability of our planet. We all accept the fact that life without water is impossible. Still, we are not taking action to preserve it. We use water to perform our household chores, agricultural productions, industrial activities, etc. Humans are not the only ones who want water for survival; water is an indispensable component for almost every living thing. Indisputably, we can say that humans are the only ones who waste it.

Do you know why the world celebrates World Water Day on March 22 every year? World Water Day is celebrated to raise awareness among the people on the importance of freshwater for healthy living and to take necessary precautions to tackle the global water crisis. Before participating in rallies and signing petitions for conserving water bodies, the foremost action that we have to take is to know about the factors that are responsible for the deterioration of water. Conservation of water resources is never a single person’s responsibility. Mass participation is required to bring a change in this world and protect our earth as the ‘blue planet’. Let’s remember the words of Helen Keller, “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”. So let’s join our hands for a better tomorrow.

What is the importance of water in the human body?

Water is very important for the survival of human life. Water is required for the performance of many functions in the human body. Water regulates and maintains human body temperature, aids in the process of digestion, balances the pH of the human body, lubricates joints and spinal cord, helps with hormone production, helps to deliver oxygen to all parts of our body and so on. In short, without water, the complete performance of the human body’s metabolism will be interrupted.

Why is water conservation so important for our lives?

Conservation of water is very important for the sustainability of our planet. Life without water is impossible. We use water to perform our household chores, agricultural productions, industrial activities, etc.

List some quotes to use in a speech on water.

• “Water is the driving force of all nature.” – Leonardo da Vinci.
• “Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.” – Lao Tzu.
• “In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.” – Kahlil Gibran.

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Long Speech on Water Conservation

The existence of life on earth is solely dependent on the presence of water. Therefore, it is of utmost importance that the students must be familiar with the conservation of water. They can therefore find this speech on water conservation very helpful for their exam preparation. We have also provided a short speech and a one-minute speech on the water for students of all classes.

Speech on Water Conservation

A heartiest welcome to all the people gathered here today. I am present here to deliver a speech on water and its conservation. There is no denying the fact that water forms an incredible part of our lives and is considered a fundamental unit of the planet earth. We are all familiar with the several roles that water plays to help us serve a living. This colourless, transparent and tasteless liquid occupies 70% of our planet and can be found in three forms of states- solid, liquid and gaseous. 

Water serves a major role in the survival of all living organisms and hence, the role and importance of water are known to all. Although 70% of water is found on our planet, 3% of the water comes under freshwater, out of which, 2.6% of water always remains frozen. Thus, only 0.4% of it is accessible to humans for drinking purposes.  Thus, it is very important for us to conserve water. Some quantities of water can also be found on rivers and lakes, but it might not be considered drinking water without any testing. Drinking this water may lead to various stomach problems and infections.

River and lake water has to go through a process of filtration before they are delivered to the houses. After that, they once again go through an advanced process of filtration in the households before making them completely drinkable.

But with the growing population and industries, the amount of drinking water in our country is reducing. Most of the seas, rivers, and small water bodies are highly polluted by various contaminants from the industry wastes thus, leading to water pollution. The release of these wastes leads to a high amount of contamination and heavy metal accumulation in the water bodies. Thereafter, making them undrinkable. This has not only affected the lives of human beings but has also greatly impacted marine life due to the insufficient oxygen supply. Many people fall sick due to the lack of proper drinking water and suffer stomach infections due to the presence of these contaminants. Thus, it is our responsibility to stop the dispersal of wastes into the water bodies and start conserving water for the survival of human beings. This water, of course, should be free from any kinds of pollutants.

Some of the techniques that must be helpful in conserving water are rainwater harvesting, planting of more trees to increase the water level in soil and stopping unnecessary wastage of water. Lastly, I would like to say that water is the main source of life on this planet and thus, every drop of water must be used in a proper manner.

Save Water Speech in English

A very warm welcome to everyone. I am going to deliver a speech today on the topic ‘save water’. As the topic says, saving water is our utmost priority for the conservation of water bodies. Life on this planet is dependent on the existence of water, therefore, we must avoid wastage of water. As we know that 70% of the earth is filled with water but only 0.4% of it is considered drinkable, therefore, the amount of water accessible for human consumption is really less. Reduction in the amount of drinking water has occurred due to the human activities that have led to water pollution and contamination. 

A large amount of garbage and industrial wastes are dumped daily into the water bodies that create a large amount of contamination and accumulation of toxic chemicals. This when consumed leads to various chronic diseases and stomach infection. Thus, the amount of clean drinking water has been decreasing at an alarming rate. If this continues, it would be really difficult for living beings to survive on this planet. Thus, we must take necessary steps against these pollutants and move forward in conserving the water bodies. 

Washing of clothes, disposal of harmful substances and wastes into the lakes and rivers must be banned. We can start with the process of rainwater harvesting, plantation of more trees and saving each drop of water from being wasted. 

10 Lines Speech on Importance of Water

This one-minute speech on the importance of water in English is written targeting the students of Class 1 and Class 2 in a simple manner. This speech will thus help them understand the importance of water on this planet.

Water is an essential element for all the living organisms on our planet.

It is the major component for the survival of life on Earth.

Water forms 70% of the earth, out of which 3% of the water is considered to be freshwater.

Out of this 3%, only 0.4% of it is considered to be drinking water.

Large factories and industries dump their wastes into the water bodies causing water pollution.

Due to a large amount of water pollution, there is a shortage in the amount of fresh drinking water in most parts of our country.

Conservation of drinking water has become really important for survival.

Drinking water that contains harmful chemicals may cause various stomach infections and water-borne diseases.

The dumping of industrial wastes and garbage into the water bodies should be banned as it also affects the marine ecosystem.

Water thus forms a major part of our life and its conservation is our responsibility.

WATER – Speech

We all know that water is important for our survival and it is one of the most crucial resources which are required by everyone. Humans may survive without food for some days but they might die when no water is present. Water mainly harbors life and without it many life forms will perish. This can be considered as the primary reason why water is important. Water was found some billion years ago and then it moved into the land. Water has various important nutrients which are imperative to carry out the necessary cycles in the environment. Every living being is directly or indirectly dependent on water. Water is home to numerous species without which many species will perish. It is very important to save water and conserve it so that there isn’t a scarcity of water. 

FAQs on Speech on Water

1. What is the significance of water?

Water is significant for our survival. It is crucial for the survival of all living beings and they are directly or indirectly dependent on water. Humans use it for multiple purposes and water thus has the most significance to humans. Water is required to keep our bodies healthy and the organ system in good shape which is important for the proper functioning of the body. Water helps in the regulation of body temperature which is important for the survival of humans. In agriculture, water is extremely important. It is required to grow crops and for proper irrigation so that there is a good yield of crops. The absence of water can lead to droughts and famines leading to hunger.  In addition, water is a source of transportation too. Furthermore, water is an important source of electricity. We get hydroelectric power from water dams which we use for cooking, bathing, and drinking. Thus, water has many significant roles in our life. 

2. What is water conservation?

Conservation of water can be defined as the strategies, activities, and policies that are required to maintain the natural resources of water bodies sustainably. It also means to protect the hydrosphere and have a sustainable goal where human demands are met without harming the water bodies. Excessive use of water can lead to water scarcity. Urbanization and population growth have a major impact on water usage. The factors like climate change have left a negative impact on the water bodies which is why it has become more important for us to conserve water. Many countries have implemented laws and policies that are aimed at the conservation of water and have been successful.  The main goal of water conservation is to reduce water loss, less usage of water resources, and less wastage of water.

3. What are the sources of water?

Sources of water can be defined as the source or places from where we get water from. These are namely the surface water, groundwater, river flow, and frozen water like from glaciers. These are the natural sources that occur without any human interventions. The other source is the artificial source. Here, fresh water is obtained from the treated wastewater or cleaned water after primary/secondary treatment and desalinated seawater. The water is used in households, agriculture, industries, and many other places. 

4. What is water pollution?

Pollution of water can be defined as the release of unwanted substances into the groundwater or other water bodies like streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans. It becomes very harmful to the water bodies and the animals dwelling there. This harms the natural and normal functioning of the water ecosystems and disrupts everything thus, creating a threat to the ecosystem. The substances can be chemicals or microbes which can cause pollution that can lead to radioactivity or heat in the water bodies. One of the major causes of pollution is due to the disposal of industrial wastes directly into the oceans and also, dumping waste and sewage there. 

5. What are the harmful effects of dams?

Dams are created by causing deforestation at a large scale which causes habitat destruction and destroys the homes of many animals and even makes the people relocate somewhere else. Large dams cause disruptions to the natural flow of the river which then hinders the lives of the fishes and other animals that dwell in the water bodies. This can lead to the extinction of fishes and other aquatic species, the disappearance of many birds in the floodplains, huge forest loss, soil erosion, and erosion of coastal deltas. 

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According to a report released by NITI Ayog, around 21 cities will run out of water. This makes water conservation a pressing issue, not just for the authorities, but for us as individuals also. Our groundwater level is depleting, and surface water is polluted with garbage and industrial waste. So, where do we get water to meet our domestic needs? The only option we are left with is ‘Water Conservation’. Water Conservation is a simple and sustainable way to conserve freshwater by avoiding unnecessary water usage. Today, we will discuss a speech on water conservation to discuss its meaning, uses, and benefits to protect the hydrosphere.

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Ans: Water conservation is the practice of using water sustainably to reduce unnecessary water usage. It involves various strategies and activities designed to manage and protect water resources, ensuring their sustainability for future generations. The importance of water conservation stems from the fact that fresh water is a limited and precious resource necessary for human survival, agriculture, industry, and maintaining natural ecosystems.

Ans: Water conservation is important because it reduces the strain on freshwater ecosystems and helps maintain the health of rivers, lakes, and wetlands. Lowers water and energy bills for individuals and businesses by reducing the amount of water needed for various activities. It ensures water resources are available for future generations. Practicing water conservation reduces the energy required to pump, treat, and heat water, thereby lowering greenhouse gas emissions.

Ans: ‘Good morning, respected teachers and dear friends. Today, I want to talk about something fundamental to our survival yet often taken for granted: water. Water is the lifeblood of our planet. It nourishes our bodies, sustains our ecosystems, and is vital for agriculture, industry, and sanitation. Despite its importance, water is a finite resource, and we are facing a global water crisis. Therefore, water conservation is not just an environmental necessity; it is a moral imperative.

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Is anything needed to be said on the ‘Importance of Water’? No, right! It’s because we all know how much important water is for all of us. Still we continue to waste this precious resource on which the life of each one of us is majorly depended. However, there’s still an urgent need to address this issue and therefore yet another topic we’ve come up with is – Speech on the Importance of Water.

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Long and Short Speech on Importance of Water in English

There are both long speech on the importance of water as well as short speech on the importance of water.

The long ones fit appropriately where you are addressing an event in an organization and the short ones are most suited for school or college events.

But every importance of water speech is meticulously written with a view to inform the audience about the subject matter and to move them to action. Read for yourself to know more!

Importance of Water Speech 1

Respected Class Teacher, teachers and My Dear Friends – Warm Greetings to all of you!

Welcome to our assembly hall! As we know that today is a speech-giving ceremony day and I have chosen a very pertinent topic to address, i.e. Speech on the Importance of Water. However, I am not going to talk about the importance of water in context of our planet and its scarcity, but how important it is for our very own existence. Even then we continue to waste water and don’t realize its importance to an extent where we should think of preserving every drop of it.

It will not be an exaggeration to say that Water is a Life Savior. We can go without food, but not without water. Despite knowing all this, we are wasting this important natural resource. Here I want to reiterate the same fact how important water is for our existence.

How many of us know that our body weight is made up of around 60 percent water? Our body makes use of water in all its organs, cells and tissues in order to regulate the body temperature and ensure other bodily functions. Because the water retention capacity of our body comes down as and when we breathe, sweat and digest food. It therefore, becomes important to rehydrate our bodies by drinking fluids and binging on the eatables that contain water. The amount of water our body requires is based on various factors, such as the type of climate we live in, how much physically active we are and if we are going through an illness phase or are suffering from any other major health problem.

Friends, besides satiating our thirst, water also regulates the temperature of our body and keeps the tissues moist in our body. Now just recall the time when your mouth goes dry! If our body is well hydrated, it will retain enough water content for our bones, blood and the brain. Besides, water helps in protecting the spinal cord and it works as a cushion or lubricant for your joints.

The intake of enough water allows our body to excrete waste through sweating, defecation and urination. The liver and kidney use water to allow waste to be flushed out, just like our intestines do. Water can also prevent constipation by softening our stools and help glide the food which we have eaten, through our intestinal tract. But it is important to understand that yet there is no evidence to prove that increasing water intake can help prevent the problem of constipation.

And the list is endless! Water is thus very crucial for our very existence. No living species can survive in its scarcity. It therefore becomes our responsibility to save every drop of water and avoid its wastage. Given to the rising scarcity of water, there is a constant lurking fear for our coming generation. How they would be able to cope up with such a dreary situation?

It is therefore required of us to take a conscientious call and make wise use of water.

This is all from my side, thank you friends!

Importance of Water Speech 2

Good Morning Everyone – Welcome to our Society Clubhouse!

I – Abhinav Kapoor (the secretary of our ABC Society) – feel extremely happy seeing you all coming to this meeting at such a short notice. This is to bring to your kind attention that our society is facing the situation of water crisis to an extent that sometimes water needs to be purchased from the water corporation department. As a responsible citizen of our country, it becomes our responsibility to make a wise use of such an important natural resource.

So the purpose behind calling this meeting is, to bring forward this issue so that immediate measures could be taken to handle it as I am not able to tackle this situation all by myself. Secondly, I want to raise awareness amongst the people about the importance of water so that national consciousness can be developed and everyone use water not more than what is required. And in this, I require the immediate help of all my society members.

People in the ancient times understood that water is the source of life and according to the Asian philosophy “water is the beginning and the basis of all creation”. The first Greek philosopher was Thales in the 6 th century BC who speculated about the chief material element or source of every living being and cosmic phenomenon, i.e. Water.

The view point of Thales is that “water is the divine source of every living being” which brought him to a conclusion that the actual substance of nature and soul is water as the power of water is principally kinetic. Water circulation ensures balance on the planet Earth and within every biological organism. We simply cannot imagine life without water and therefore it is not surprising that water plays a key role in many of the world’s religions.

Friends, do you know that the huge amount of water is contained mainly in oceans that play a crucial role in stabilizing the earth’s climate and making it a hospitable place for humans to thrive. Lands, which are close to the oceans experience more rapid change in the weather conditions. However, water is believed to be an environmental shock absorber. This is the reason why the climate alongside the coastal areas is milder. The heat coming from the sun gets absorbed in the water and fluctuations in the temperature are restricted to a narrower range.

As the particular heat of water is so high that the changes in climate near the oceans is not extreme. The changes in temperature observed from day to night along the coast are minimal in comparison to day and night changes in the desert where you would find little or no water.

So water helps in sustaining our lives in ways more than one. I therefore request each one of you to come forward and contribute towards this cause. Also, let’s find out ways to combat this issue of water scarcity.

This is all I have to say, now may I request you all to feel free to join me here and share your thoughts on the same.

Thanks You!

Importance of Water Speech 3

Hon’ble Principal, Vice Principal, Respected Teachers and My Dear Friends – Warm Greetings to one and all!

It gives me immense pleasure to be standing here and kick starting the speech ceremony of today. I have chosen a very pertinent topic, i.e. Speech on the Importance of Water. In the present times, everyone is facing the situation of water crisis and of this situation persists, I fear how our coming generation is going to survive and cope with it. This is as simple a fact that no living specie can survive in the absence of water.

I, therefore, felt an urgent need to address this issue and spread awareness amongst the people regarding its wise usage. However, we all know about the importance of water, but it’s just that we have become reckless and wastage doesn’t bother us so much so that we are literally stripping off nature of its natural wealth. So, through this platform if I could sensitize people about this issue and influence the minds of the people, my job would be accomplished.

Friends, water is much more than a liquid substance as the existence of this earth is dependent on water. This is the reason why we say Water is Life. The primary reason is that every living species on this earth comprises around 65 to 70 percent of water in their bodies. Life is unimaginable without water whether it’s that of humans, animals and plants or any other living being. Water is the most significant element present on this earth. Water is very much a part of our lives in our day to day activities, such as for drinking, cooking meals, for bathing, for construction, etc.

In spite of the fact that our earth consists of 70 percent water, only 1 percent water is fresh and fit for use and the remaining 97 percent of water is salty whereas 2 percent is in the form of ice in icebergs and glaciers.

These days, human beings are hell bent on destroying the environment and by wasting this 1 percent of clean water in several ways, like:

• Use of water more than is required
• Littering water bodies with garbage
• Reckless use of water in various households

The more is the wastage of water, the more is the consumption of natural resources, such as fossil fuels for producing electricity which is required for the making of clean water. Following are the chief benefits of saving water:

• Less use of such natural resource as fossil fuel for producing fresh water.
• The more water is saved; the more we can put it for the use of plants and animals. This helps in maintaining balance in our ecology.
• We all should preserve water in order to avoid the situation of drought in the near future.
• Water should be preserved for the agricultural use.
• Water should be saved for our future generation as one day it will cease to be available owing to its limited quantity.

Last but not the least; let’s take a pledge that we all will save water in order to save our mother earth.

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Warm Greetings Everyone – How are you all doing?

Hope this day finds you in the best of spirit! Thank you for coming in large numbers and making our campaign – Save Water, Save Mother Earth this grand. Friends, Save Water has become a rallying cry today because of the growing water crisis and if this continues I really fear what will happen to our next generations to come.

It’s high time and we need to always bear in our minds that water is important for the sustenance of human life. When the supply is plentiful, water doesn’t seem to be a limited resource – chiefly, the fresh potable water which is the most important for human survival. Isn’t it? However, in the absence of conscientious efforts to save water, this vital supply of water may get exhausted one day. Conservation gives us economic advantage as well – as equipment and energy are also conserved owing to the direct outcome of water conservation efforts.

The huge majority of life on Earth holds relation to the supply of water. Through conservation we can protect the life on earth and create a balance, which would otherwise become upset in the want of water supply. Overuse or wastage of water will threaten other life forms which in a way help in our sustenance.

Friends, also understand that water is not something that is processed and delivered to your place, free of cost. Every time the water is used, there’s a certain cost involved. The local body of your vicinity charges you a fee. The greater the demand for water, the higher the price you will have to bear. By preserving water, you will be able to save both this precious resource and of course the cost involved per unit.

Conserving water will curb the need of creating and maintaining water treatment as well as delivery facility, such as sewage setups and personal septic systems. The more water you consume; the more this equipment is used and hence requires replacement. In addition, over use of water can also weaken local treatment plants, leading to some water being forced before it undergoes strict purifying treatment, thereby leading to possible health hazards. Likewise, an overburdened septic system can lead to untreated water seeping into the nearby soil ground.

So what is required in the present situation of water crisis is that we could only adopt simple water preservation techniques and method, this way we would be able to go a far way in cutting our water usage considerably, i.e. more than half. If you can put in just a little more effort every day, you can alone bring a major change. It’s whether you use a low flow shower head or simply go for zero-gardening, i.e. in your garden, use such plants that can thrive in the absence of water or require little or no water. You will find that your water bills are reduced in the very first month. Do this bit for saving your planet and doing your coming generation a favor.

This is all I have to say, thank you.

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The Facts About Trump's Remarks Regarding Water, Washing Machines and Rain

The former president delivered the remarks about water during a campaign speech in philadelphia on june 22, 2024., jordan liles, published june 26, 2024.

On June 24, 2024, a Reddit user posted in the r/facepalm subreddit a screenshot containing a long quote attributed to former U.S. President Donald Trump. The post also featured a still image of Trump delivering a speech at a campaign rally. In the purported quote, Trump speaks about people having "no water in your faucets," "washing machines to wash your dishes," and rain.

Trump genuinely did say those words during a speech at a campaign rally hosted at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia on June 22. The source of the Reddit screenshot, however, omitted two parts of Trump's comments that could have provided some context for what the former president was saying.

A Google search helped to find the source of the screenshot in the Reddit post: a June 22 post on X from @BidenHQ, the rapid response account for President Joe Biden's reelection campaign. The X post featured a video of Trump making the remarks that appear in the text of the post. That video was not available to users viewing the screenshot in the Reddit post.

At least one X user responding to the @BidenHQ post  noted  that, while the video included with the post was continuous and did not contain edits, the text transcript included above the video omitted two parts of Trump's comments. Both of those omissions featured Trump talking about flow restrictors.

Flow restrictors are devices perhaps best known for their inclusion in showerheads. They are designed to regulate the flow rate of water through various outlets in homes.

We transcribed Trump's full comments and bolded  the two parts omitted from the text of the Biden campaign's post. Just prior to the beginning of Trump's remarks about water, he referenced Biden and the Green New Deal , saying, "I will end 'Crooked Joe's' wasteful spending and rapidly terminate the green new scam. The green new scam. You know what the green new scam is?" He then continued:

No water in your faucets. You ever tried buying a new home and you turn it on? They have restrictors in there. You want to wash your hair. You want to wash your hands. You turn on the water and it goes drip, drip. The soap, you can't get it off your hand. So you keep it running for about ten times longer. You're trying. The worst is your hair. I have this beautiful, luxuriant hair, and I put stuff on. I put it in. Lather. I like lots of lather because I like it to come out extremely dry because it seems to be slightly thicker that way. And I lather up and then you turn on this crazy shower and the thing drip, drip, and you say, 'I'm gonna be here for 45 minutes. What?' They put restrictors and they put them on in places like here where there's so much water you don't know what to do with it. You know, it's called rain. It rains a lot in certain places. But, now their idea, you know, did you see the other day? They just, I opened it up and they closed it again. I opened it, they close it, washing machines to wash your dishes. There is a problem. They don't want you to have any water. They want no water.

We contacted the Biden campaign by email to ask about the post's transcript omissions and also reached out to the Trump campaign to ask about the former president's comments. We will update this story if we receive any responses.

We were unable to find any information linking the Green New Deal to a flow-restrictor requirement but will update this story if relevant information comes to light.

Video of Trump's Philadelphia Speech

Readers can watch the relevant portion of Trump's speech in a video from a live broadcast hosted on the YouTube channel for The Times and The Sunday Times. The moment regarding his comments about water question begins at around the 42:09 mark.

Trump's Past Remarks About Faucets, Water and Toilets

Trump previously made similar comments about water and flow restrictors at a Whirlpool manufacturing plant in August 2020. At the time, he said, "And the same thing with sinks, toilets and showers. You go into a new home, you turn on the faucet; no water comes out. You turn on the shower. If you're like me, you can't wash your beautiful hair properly. (Laughter and applause). You waste 20 minutes longer. 'Please come out.' The water — it drips, right? You know what I'm talking — they put restrictors on. I got rid of that. I signed it out. That's common sense."

In 2021, the Biden administration reversed Trump's rule that previously increased the flow of water in showerheads. The Washington Post reported at the time, "Trump's shower head rule was part of a broader effort within the administration to relax energy efficiency standards and regulations for an array of household appliances, including dishwashers, washing machines and clothes dryers."

Trump also once spoke about water during a White House meeting in December 2019. At the time, he claimed Americans experienced problems with water "dripping out" of faucets. He also added, "People are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once."  The New York Times reported the toilet-flushing matter related to the EPA and a federal standard for the amount of water used per flush.

Trump and Whirlpool

Immediately after the end of Trump's comments highlighted in the @BidenHQ post, he continued by talking about Whirlpool and laundry machines. Trump said, "And I was with Whirlpool. The head of Whirlpool. I helped save that company because they were being attacked by China and South Korea, and I put tariffs on those machines coming in."

The New York Times reported in April 2019 these washing machine tariffs "stung consumers while lifting corporate profits." The article cited research from April 2019 conducted by the University of Chicago's Becker Friedman Institute for Economics. That research concluded, "Despite the increase in domestic production and employment, the costs of these 2018 tariffs are substantial: in a partial equilibrium setting, we estimate increased annual consumer costs of around 1.5 billion USD, or roughly 820,000 USD per job created."

Further, the conservative Heritage Foundation published an article in August 2020 displaying the headline, "Why Trump's Washing Machine Tariffs Are Cronyism." The story's author concluded, "When the government imposes regulations, taxes or tariffs to aid one industry or company, others pay the price. Beneficiaries of these policies say the government is 'leveling the playing field,' but the truth is that unfairness in the market just shifts to someone else. Ultimately, consumers foot the bill, and American families suffer."

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Diaz, Johnny. "Trump Wants a Review of Toilets: Americans Are Flushing '10 Times, 15 Times.'"  The New York Times , 7 Dec. 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/07/us/politics/trump-toilet-flushing.html.

Flaaen, Aaron, et al. "The Production, Relocation, and Price Effects of US Trade Policy: The Case of Washing Machines." The University of Chicago's Becker Friedman Institute for Economics , 18 Apr. 2019, https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/the-production-relocation-and-price-effects-of-us-trade-policy-the-case-of-washing-machines/.

"FULL REMARKS: President Trump at Whirlpool Factory in Ohio."  YouTube , LiveNOW from Fox, 6 Aug. 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr-gnvs_qF4.

"LIVE: Donald Trump Hosts MAGA Rally in Philadelphia." YouTube , The Times and The Sunday Times, 22 June 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R7hzWfu7wg.

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Tankersley, Jim. "Trump's Washing Machine Tariffs Stung Consumers While Lifting Corporate Profits." The New York Times , 21 Apr. 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/business/trump-tariffs-washing-machines.html.

"Trump Says People Are 'Flushing Toilets 10, 15 Times' in Call for Better Water Standards."  YouTube , Guardian News, 7 Dec. 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGChTEfeeC4.

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Jordan Liles is a Senior Reporter who has been with Snopes since 2016.

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September 1, 2010 by admin

David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon College Commencement Address has gained national recognition for its poignant, practical advice on navigating day-to-day adult life. In his speech, Wallace asserts that the real value of a liberal arts education is learning to become aware of how we choose to think because this mindfulness brings freedom and vitality. His conversational style conceals his deliberate use of point of view, varying types of appeals, and frequent vignettes, all of which work together as a system in his address. Furthermore, the seeming casualness with which Wallace makes his argument–that by consciously prioritizing attention, one resists self-centeredness–belies his complicated use of rhetorical tools to convincingly and appealingly support his claim.

Wallace’s varied use of the first and second person points of view involves listeners in his thinking process. By relaying anecdotes and thoughts through first-hand experience, Wallace maintains a personal and direct tone, and his conversational style challenges his audience to relate to his ideas and view his words as part of an informal dialogue rather than a complex argument. Comments scattered throughout his speech, such as, “I’m sure you guys know by now” and “You get the idea” establish a familiar and relaxed feeling because they resemble American colloquial speech patterns. These remarks convey Wallace’s confidence in his listeners’ ability to understand at his level; they casually close the gap between speaker and audience.

In the first sentence of his speech, Wallace breaks down the barriers that inherently exist between the audience and himself by clearly indicating that what follows will be candid: “If anybody feels like perspiring, I’d advice you to go ahead because I’m sure going to.” He tells some stories in the second person, placing his audience in a hypothetical situation: “let’s say it’s an average adult day, and you get up in the morning, go to your challenging, white-collar, college-graduate job. . .” The inclusion of “you” pulls listeners into the action; Wallace directly challenges his audience to think in terms of their own lives because his argument states that they must change their own mindsets. Yet, later in the same story, he uses the first person to make himself the subject when he says, “I can think about how our children’s children will despise us for wasting all the future’s fuel. . .and how spoiled and stupid and selfish and disgusting we all are.” Had Wallace chosen to use the third person, his ideas would have come across as mere generalizations about society rather than as specific situations relevant to the life of each person in his audience. Wallace’s fluidity with point of view naturally involves the audience and emphasizes that consciousness is a collective process. He notes that all of us, “I” and “you,” must make an effort to adjust our awareness each day and that even he never fully perfects it because it is a daily practice to strive for rather than a singular accomplishment to be finalized. Though most listeners remain unaware of how he uses this tool during his speech, it directly affects their reception of the address a accessible.

Wallace uses numerous rhetorical modes of persuasion to make his argument convincing, and point of view allows him to appeal to ethos , which testifies to a speaker’s credibility. Wallace openly warns his listeners that “if you’re worried that I plan to present myself here as the wise, older fish explaining what water is to you younger fish, please don’t be.” By bluntly admitting that he is “not the wise old fish,” or the persona many commencement speakers adopt, Wallace actually establishes his credibility with the audience in two ways. First, this acknowledgement indicates that he knows the genre. Second, Wallace’s candor and humility put listeners at ease because they realize he is not pretending to be someone he is not, so they can trust him. Later, he assures his audience again: “I’m not getting ready to lecture you about compassion or other-directedness or all the so-called virtues.” Not only does this allay the worries he presumes his audience might have about the purpose of his speech before they tune him out, but it also assures them that he has already considered their concerns and has made an effort to avoid catalyzing their natural anxieties. Wallace cleverly challenges the tradition of commencement speeches only after first showing that he has studied the genre. The audience thus becomes appreciative, and Wallace emerges as both competent and genuine.

Wallace’s appeal to logos , or his audience’s logical and rational abilities, comes in the form of stories that illustrate the choices people must make about how to view familiar situations. In both the fish and Eskimo stories, the audience logically concludes that characters in both situations suffer from flaws in their reasoning. The fish in Wallace’s story asks, “What the hell is water?” and the atheist incorrectly assumes that God does not exist because He was not there to rescue him; instead, he had to rely on “a couple of Eskimos.” In both instances, the audience understands Wallace’s conceptual jokes, which result from irony: people would expect fish to know what water is, and the Eskimos who “happened to come wandering by” the abandoned atheist were most likely sent by God. Both stories support Wallace’s argument that “blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn’t even know he’s locked up” is the result of a lack of awareness.

Wallace also uses parallelism in his appeal to logos to creat a cause-effect construct that rationally proves his argument: if people do not make the choice about how to think, then they will default to a self-centered view of the world and live deadened and dull lives. This parallelism of if-then statements makes his cause-effect logic clear: “If you’re automatically sure that you know what reality is. . .then you, like me, probably won’t consider possibilities that aren’t annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options.” Wallace offers his audince one way to look at the world through a series of examples that appeal to reason because he explains an action (namely, exercising mindfulness of a daily basis) and its consequence–a meaningful, non-miserable existence.

Perhaps Wallace’s genius derives from how he skillfully entwines appeals to logos and pathos , his audience’s emotional response. Imbedded within his reasoning, which again consists of a cause-effect construct and parallelism, Wallace catalyzes feeling: “If you worship money and things. . .then you will never have enough. . .Worship your body. . .and you will always feel ugly. . .Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid. . .Worship your intellect. . .you will end up feeling stupid.” Wallace’s repetition of “worship” and the parallelism of his sentences imitate the routine way people go about their lives. His argument’s urgent yet universal nature pertains to the most basic human emotions people feel every day.

Wallace’s spot-on descriptions of how people view everyday situations from a cynical perspective allow the reader to empathize with him.  For example, he says:

You can choose to look differently at this fat, dead-eyed, over-made-up lady who just screamed at her kid in the checkout line. Maybe she’s not usually like this. Maybe she’s been up three straight nights holding the hand of a husband who is dying of bone cancer. Or maybe this very lady is the low-wage clerk at the motor vehicle department, who just yesterday helped your spouse resolve a horrific, infuriating, red-tape problem through some small act of bureaucratic kindness.

Wallace’s harsh language rings true to listeners who have found themselves thinking the same way about strangers after a long day. Suddenly, listeners can emotionally identify with the situation, and Wallace’s argument emerges as even more pertinent to their lives. His repetition of “maybe” at the beginning of three consecutive sentences establishes a rhythm that evokes emotion and amplifies his thought Wallace admits that in this hypothetical situation, “none of this is likely, but it’s also not impossible.” Here, logic plays a role in admitting the improbability of the aforementioned story, but because it is possible, the hypothetical situation maintains its emotional effect on listeners, who suddenly reflect on similar situations in which they have not given others the benefit of the doubt. In other words, Wallace argues that people must use their rational abilities to feel compassion.

While Wallace’s use of various rhetorical devices creates a powerful and complex argument, the way he intentionally uses first and second person points of view–to address not only his audience but also himself–is ironic and haunting in light of his suicide at age forty-six.

The repetition of vignettes, or parables, grounds Wallace’s speech and lends coherence to the stories that entertain his audience, but by refering to them several times at various moments and interrupting them to provide his own insights, the speech works as a system. Wallace refocuses his argument constantly either by making reference to a story or suggesting another hypothetical situation at least every two minutes, and this keeps listeners involved in his argument for the speech’s entirety, giving them no opportunity to let their thoughts drift.  One of the ways humans learn is through repetition; thus, Wallace’s technique emphasizes through reiteration. At the beginning of the address, Wallace’s fish story concludes with a punch line: “What the hell is water?” but by the end of the speech, when listeners have forgotten the story, he reconnects the audience to the parable, saying, “we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over: ‘This is water.’ ‘This is water.'” This reference to the fish’s habitat at the conclusion of the speech reminds the audience of how the speech began, and ties together the strands of Wallace’s dense, winding argument. The audience leaves with a sense of completion because the speech’s structure seamlessly connects Wallace’s early example to his claim and evidence. Parables by themselves offer a most basic pedagogy. For example, Christ make use of parables to teach his disciples how they should live. Storytelling is an effective tool because it brings a concept to a fundamental level, one to which the audience can easily relate. But Wallace’s skill lies in how he transitions among his parables. They are not singular units but rather work together to create a coherent system of meanings.

The conversational nature of Wallace’s speech appeals to a broad audience, yet his use of numerous rhetorical devices reveals a complex argument that compiles convincing evidence as a system. Wallace has two reasons for presenting his argument in this way. First, the speech’s informal tone keeps it accessible to his audience; his message is significant, and he wants people to hear what he has to say. Second, Wallace resists simplistically supporting his claim because he wants his speech to transform his audience’s lives. To do this, he must present his argument from a variety of perspectives so that few can dispute his ideas. Wallace does not mean for these rhetorical tools to be obvious to listeners; instead, these devices almost subconsciously convert his audience to this way of thinking.

While Wallace’s use of various rhetorical devices creates a powerful and complex argument, the way he intentionally uses first and second person points of view–to address not only his audience but also himself–is ironic and haunting in light of his suicide at age forty-six. The subject of Wallace’s speech  involves “how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.” Yet, in spite of his own cautionary words, Wallace’s suicide serves as evidence that he wasn’t even able to live day in and day out with the mindset he proposes. This sad reality demonstrates that the Kenyon graduates weren’t the only audience Wallace tried to reach. He was also writing the speech for himself. In his attempt to influence others, Wallace needed to remind himself about how to consciously navigate life. Interestingly, at the end of his address, Wallace notes that staying conscious “really  is the job of a lifetime.” His suicide confirms this truth: it is one thing to understand what Wallace is saying about approaching life, but it is completely different to maintain a compassionate mindset at every moment. Thus, Wallace’s legacy reminds us that though it may not be easy, we must keep swimming and remembering “this is water.”

Bibliography

Wallace, David Foster. “Commencement Address, Kenyon College, 2005.” More Intelligent Life. com  (website). http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in-his-own-words . (accessed October 15, 2009.)

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A hearty welcome to all the teachers and students present in the auditorium. I am here to convey a speech on Save Water.  We all know that water is the most useful resource on Earth. Also, we all are aware of its immense uses. We cannot imagine our lives without water. Moreover, we use water for household, agricultural, industrial, recreational and other purposes. Also, it is used for environmental purposes. Although, 70% of the Earth’s Surface is covered by water, yet, only 1% of freshwater is available for drinking. Most of our household tasks cannot be completed without water. Also, in industries, it is used for the preparation of goods and products. Furthermore, it assists in transportation too.

Despite its importance, we are facing deterioration in water resources. Although, it is a natural resource, yet we need to conserve the same. We need to save water for the development to take place in a sustainable manner. We must understand that it is the basis of humanity. Our earth is green because of water. There are many places facing the problem of water scarcity. Thus, we must take effective steps for the conservation of water.

Importance of Water in Life

Water is an indispensable component of life. We cannot survive without water. The human body comprises of a huge amount of water. Thus, human beings and animals need much water to drink. Also, plants need water to grow. From drinking to cooking to everything, we need water. We need safe water for all our organs to function properly. Moreover, we can preserve our environment by saving water.  An excellent example of this is the use of water to produce electricity.  The use of hydropower or hydroelectricity helps in controlling pollution.

Furthermore, it prevents the burning of fossil fuels, coal, etc. for producing electricity. Also, it is essential for maintaining the Earth’s temperature. The human body is made up of a huge amount of water. Thus, human beings and animals need much water to drink. Also, plants need water to grow. From drinking to cooking to everything, we need water.

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How to Save Water?

Water is the most precious component needed for food and life.  All human beings, animals and plants have a requirement of water. Thus, we need to conserve water resources. To conserve or decrease the polluting factors, we must be aware of the factors that lead to its deterioration. Then, we must take some valuable steps. These include turning off the taps, cut down meat-eating and dairy. Also, we must check for water leakage from hand pumps, shower less to save water. Moreover, we must have a pond to use water. Furthermore, the dumping of sewage and toxins into water bodies is a major reason for water pollution. Moreover, fertilizers require a huge amount of water. Thus, we must minimize the use of fertilizers in the fields. Also, we must check for soil erosion by planting trees.

We need water for thousand of tasks in our lives. It provides beauty to nature and maintains the environmental balance. Since it is the basis of our survival and development we should not misuse it.  We must use wisely this sacred gift of nature. We should teach the society by conducting awareness programs. Also, we must use modern techniques for farming. Moreover, watersheds help to conserve rainwater. We must try to educate our children about the importance of water. Its education must be provided at schools, colleges, etc. Also, through media, this purpose can be achieved. Although water is a natural resource available in abundance, it doesn’t mean we can misuse it. It is not a single person’s responsibility to conserve water. We could avoid the wastage of water only by joining hands.

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FACT FOCUS: A look at claims made by Trump at news conference

Trump lashes out at Harris, recommits to a Sept. 10 debate at hourlong news conference

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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In his first news conference since Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee for president, former President Donald Trump said he would debate her on Sept. 10 and pushed for two more debates. The Republican presidential nominee spoke for more than an hour, discussing a number of issues facing the country and then taking questions from reporters. He made a number of false and misleading claims. Many of them have been made before.

Here’s a look at some of those claims.

CROWD SIZES

CLAIM: “The biggest crowd I’ve ever spoken — I’ve spoken to the biggest crowds. Nobody’s spoken to crowds bigger than me. If you look at Martin Luther King when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people, if not we had more. And they said he had a million people, but I had 25,000 people.”

THE FACTS: Trump was comparing the crowd at his speech in front of the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, to the crowd that attended Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech on Aug. 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial.

But far more people are estimated to have been at the latter than the former.

Approximately 250,000 people attended the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, at which King gave his speech, according to the National Park Service . The Associated Press reported in 2021 that there were at least 10,000 people at Trump’s address.

Moreover, Trump and King did not speak in the same location. King spoke from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial , which looks east toward the Washington Monument. Trump spoke at the Ellipse , a grassy area just south of the White House.

CLAIM: “Nobody was killed on Jan. 6.”

THE FACTS: That’s false. Five people died in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot and its immediate aftermath. Pro-Trump rioters breached the U.S. Capitol that day amid Congress’ effort to certify Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.

Among the deceased are Ashli Babbitt, a Trump supporter shot and killed by police, and Brian Sicknick, a police officer who died the day after battling the mob. Four additional officers who responded to the riot killed themselves in the following weeks and months.

Babbitt, a 35-year-old Air Force veteran from San Diego, was shot and killed by a police officer as she climbed through a broken part of a Capitol door during the violent riot. Trump has often cited Babbitt’s death while lamenting the treatment of those who attended a rally outside the White House that day and then marched to the Capitol, many of whom fought with police.

DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION

CLAIM: “The presidency was taken away from Joe Biden, and I’m no Biden fan, but I tell you what, from a constitutional standpoint, from any standpoint you look at, they took the presidency away.”

THE FACTS: There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents the Democratic Party from making Vice President Kamala Harris its nominee. That process is determined by the Democratic National Committee.

Harris officially claimed the nomination Monday following a five-day online voting process, receiving 4,563 delegate votes out of 4,615 cast, or about 99% of participating delegates. A total of 52 delegates in 18 states cast their votes for “present,” the only other option on the ballot.

The vice president was the only candidate eligible to receive votes after no other candidate qualified by the party’s deadline following President Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the race on July 21.

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THE ECONOMY

CLAIM: Suggesting things would be different if he had been in office rather than Biden: “You wouldn’t have had inflation. You wouldn’t have had any inflation because inflation was caused by their bad energy problems. Now they’ve gone back to the Trump thing because they need the votes. They’re drilling now because they had to go back because gasoline was going up to 7, 8, 9 dollars a barrel.”

THE FACTS: There would have been at least some inflation if Trump had been reelected in 2020 because many of the factors causing inflation were outside a president’s control. Prices spiked in 2021 after cooped-up Americans ramped up their spending on goods such as exercise bikes and home office furniture, overwhelming disrupted supply chains. U.S. auto companies, for example, couldn’t get enough semiconductors and had to sharply reduce production, causing new and used car prices to shoot higher. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in March 2022 also sent gas and food prices soaring around the world, as Ukraine’s wheat exports were disrupted and many nations boycotted Russian oil and gas.

Still, under Biden, U.S. oil production reached a worldwide record level earlier this year .

Many economists, including some Democrats, say Biden’s $1.9 trillion financial support package, approved in March 2021, which provided a $1,400 stimulus check to most Americans, helped fuel inflation by ramping up demand. But it didn’t cause inflation all by itself. And Trump supported $2,000 stimulus checks in December 2020, rather than the $600 checks included in a package he signed into law in December 2020.

Prices still spiked in countries with different policies than Biden’s, such as France , Germany and the U.K. , though mostly because of the sharp increase in energy costs stemming from Russia’s invasion.

IMMIGRATION

CLAIM: “Twenty million people came over the border during the Biden-Harris administration — 20 million people — and it could be very much higher than that. Nobody really knows.”

THE FACTS: Trump’s 20 million figure is unsubstantiated at best, and he didn’t provide sources.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports 7.1 million arrests for illegal crossings from Mexico from January 2021 through June 2024. That’s arrests, not people. Under pandemic-era asylum restrictions, many people crossed more than once until they succeeded because there were no legal consequences for getting turned back to Mexico. So the number of people is lower than the number of arrests.

In addition, CBP says it stopped migrants 1.1 million times at official land crossings with Mexico from January 2021 through June 2024, largely under an online appointment system to claim asylum called CBP One.

U.S. authorities also admitted nearly 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela under presidential authority if they had financial sponsors and arrived at an airport.

All told, that’s nearly 8.7 million encounters. Again, the number of people is lower due to multiple encounters for some.

There are an unknown number of people who eluded capture, known as “got-aways” in Border Patrol parlance. The Border Patrol estimates how many but doesn’t publish that number.

CLAIM: Vice President Kamala Harris “was the border czar 100% and all of a sudden for the last few weeks she’s not the border czar anymore.”

THE FACTS: Harris was appointed to address “root causes” of migration in Central America. That migration manifests itself in illegal crossings to the U.S., but she was not assigned to the border.

NEW YORK CASES

CLAIM: “The New York cases are totally controlled out of the Department of Justice.”

THE FACTS: Trump was referring to two cases brought against him in New York — one civil and the other criminal.

Neither has anything to do with the U.S. Department of Justice.

The civil case was initiated by a lawsuit from New York Attorney General Letitia James. In that case, Trump was ordered in February to pay a $454 million penalty for lying about his wealth for years as he built the real estate empire that vaulted him to stardom and the White House.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a state-level prosecutor, brought the criminal case . In May, a jury found Trump guilty on 34 felony counts in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to a porn actor who said the two had sex.

___ Associated Press writers Melissa Goldin and Elliot Spagat and economics writer Christopher Rugaber contributed to this article. ___

Find AP Fact Checks here: https://apnews.com/APFactCheck .

An earlier version of this story mixed up “latter” and “former” in the third paragraph. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech on Aug. 28, 1963, drew a far larger crowd than Donald Trump’s speech near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021.

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In Wilmington speech, Biden stresses access to clean water with new federal funding

It didn't take long for some good-natured ribbing about there being more than one Wilmington.

"Mayor (Bill) Saffo, thanks for the passport to your city," President Joe Biden said at his presidential visit to the Wilmington Convention Center on Thursday. "By the way, you ain't the only Wilmington in America," referring to the one in his home state of Delaware.

And while there was a joke here and there sprinkled among remarks that lasted less than 30 minutes, including some jabs at former President Donald Trump, most of Thursday's speech centered around clean water, infrastructure and jobs for the Port City and across the country.

"It is my great honor to welcome you all here today on this historic day as we host the President of the United States," Saffo said, kicking off the evening's speeches.

Biden in Wilmington: A look at activities surrounding the president's visit on Thursday

The primary purpose behind the president's visit to the Port City was to announce a $3 billion-dollar federal investment into replacing toxic lead piping throughout the nation.

"I'm here to talk about something very basic and fundamental to our communities, to our economy, to our basic human dignity -- safe clean drinking water," Biden said. Lead service lines have been known to pose severe health risks for children, Biden said, including the stunting of growth, slowed learning, and lasting brain damage.

Paris Pugh, a second-grade teacher from Bradley Creek Elementary School, provided insight into the relevance of the issue locally. Bradley Creek Elementary School recently replaced a water fountain with high levels of lead on school grounds using funds from the president's American Rescue Plan.

"My students drink from that water fountain, filling their water bottles every day, so it is a health issue that hits home for me," Pugh said to the StarNews.

"No teacher or student should have to worry about their most basic needs, like access to clean water. Thanks to President Biden and Vice President (Kamala) Harris, students and teachers don't have to worry," Pugh said in her speech.

Biden underscored the need for urgency in addressing this issue.

"There is no safe level of exposure. None," Biden said. "Until the United States of America...deals with this, how can we say we're (a) leading nation in the world?"

Approximately nine million lead service lines remain in the country with approximately 300,000 of those lines present in North Carolina alone, Biden said. Nearly half of the funding allocated to the removal of these lines will be directed to disadvantaged communities across the U.S.

"Studies show communities of color have been the hardest hit," Biden said. "We have to make things right."

The president referred to his 10-year-plan to remove all lead-containing services lines as one of the nation's most ambitious water agendas and highlighted how the initiative will create "good paying jobs you can make a serious living with without a college degree (and that) you can raise a family on."

Referencing Enviornmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan and Gov. Roy Cooper's recent visit to Fayetteville, Biden mentioned the administration's finalization of the first national PFAS drinking water standard. The Biden administration has dedicated $ 9 billion in funding to address PFAS and drinking contaminants.

"Communities across the Cape Fear watershed know too well why this matters," Biden said. "As a consequence of PFAS, you've seen aggressive cancers emerge in that area. It's gone so far, that we're advising and warning you can't eat the fish from the same water that you drink."

Both Regan and Cooper were present in Wilmington on Thursday and spoke prior to the president.

"All of us working together will achieve President Biden's vision of removing all lead pipes in this country," Regan said, adding that as a father himself, he empathizes with other parents who worry about the health and safety of their own children.

Cooper, who the president referred to as "one of the best governors in the United States of America," expressed gratitude for federal support of statewide efforts. "North Carolina is used to being first in the nation in a lot of things," Cooper said. "We're going to stay out front working to protect clean drinking water."

A few audience members voiced their approval of Thursday's overall message following the event.

Kyle Horton, a physician in Wilmington, said she was "really excited about the monumental announcement of investment in clean and safe drinking water," adding that Wilmington is "on the frontline of this crisis in many ways, including with PFAS."

Judy Justice, a former teacher and New Hanover County School Board member, said that "kids from certain neighborhoods where the lead contamination was evident (had a lot) lower test scores" from her experience as a teacher and administrator. "It should have been addressed this way, in my opinion, 30 years ago."

The presidential visit also encompassed discussion of decreasing unemployment rates, the Affordable Connectivity Program, pharmaceutical costs, and the federal deficit, among others.

"We're the only country in the world who (has) come out of every crisis we've entered stronger than we went in," Biden said before heading offstage. "There is nothing beyond our capacity when we work together."

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Aesha Scott Is Embarking on a New "Dream" Career: "Absolutely Surreal"

The Below Deck Mediterranean chief stew is getting into the beverage industry.

After years of working as a chief stew on Below Deck Mediterranean and Below Deck Down Under boats, Aesha Scott is adding a new title to her resume. 

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The New Zealand native just launched Drop, which is an alcoholic coconut water. 

She spoke about her new career venture on the July 29 episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen .

"I am in Melbourne at the moment," she said when host Andy Cohen asked where she and fellow guest Captain Sandy Yawn were calling in from. "I'm here to launch my brand new alcoholic coconut water called Drop."

The interior team crew member released Drop in a liquor store with various locations around Australia.

"It’s been a dream in the works for a while and to see people enjoying it meant the world," Aesha shared about her first Drop event on Instagram . 

Her plan is to ultimately bring Drop to the United States. She shared a carousel of photos from the launch on her Instagram feed. 

"Another couple of snaps from Drop launch weekend in Melbourne!!!!!!" Aesha captioned her post on July 29 . "The whole weekend felt absolutely surreal!! To have something I am so passionate about, that I see big potential and big plans for, is so exciting and so motivating. Watching people hold the real life cans, enjoy the taste, it all felt so special!!!! I can’t wait to see where we are with it in a year’s time and reflect on this weekend. I know we will kill it and have a great time doing it!!"

Aesha went on to thank her loved ones and fans for being "so supportive." "The long drives and phone calls to find a store, the messages to say well done, the comments of support and excitement. I see it all," she continued. "And I am so grateful!!! Yay!!!"

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Below Deck Mediterranean yachties celebrate Aesha Scott's career accomplishment

After Aesha shared the exciting news about Drop, it didn't take long for her Below Deck Med friends to congratulate her. 

"Well done," Season 9 lead deckhand Joe Bradley shared in a comment. 

Julia D'Albert Pusey , who appeared on Season 1 of Below Deck Med , shared a series of clapping hands emojis in her message for Aesha. 

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Anastasia Surmava , who worked alongside Aesha on Season 4, said, "Congratulations my gorgeous girl. I am so proud of you."

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Independence Day 2024: Speech ideas for children for school celebrations

Independence day 2024 speech: from unity in diversity to sacrifices of freedom fighters, here are a few speech ideas for students..

Independence Day 2024 speech: The special day is around the corner and the preparations to mark the day have already started. Every year, August 15 is celebrated with a lot of pomp and granduer. Independence Day marks the end of the British rule in India and the start of an independent nation. On this day, the freedom fighters of the country and their sacrifices are remembered and honoured. People celebrate the day by hoisting the national flag, singing the national anthem and paying their respects to the freedom fighters of the country.

Independence Day is celebrated in every school and other educational institutions. On this day, children deliver speeches, sing patriotic songs or perform dance and mark the special day. As we gear up to celebrate the day, here are a few speech ideas for children.

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Sacrifices of the freedom fighters:

As we move forward, we should look back and remember the ones we owe this independence to. The freedom fighters of the country shed their blood and laid their lives in gaining independence. The speaker can share stories of their journeys and speak of the hardships they faced.

India’s growth and development:

India, since 1947, has shown stellar development and growth in many fields – be it science, or art or medicine. The speaker can focus on the things that we should feel proud about.

The youth and nation:

The young generation is the backbone of a nation. They strive to make the nation better and their contributions can push the country to the world’s stage. This speech can comment on the contributions of young people towards nation-building.

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Unity in diversity:

Our country is the epitome of unity in diversity – be it people, or culture, or language or traditions. The way we bind ourselves and unite ourselves is a beautiful feature for the world to know.

Women and independence:

Women freedom fighters and their struggles in the freedom struggle should be highlighted and honoured. From Sarojini Naidu to Matangini Hazra, these revolutionaries fought for the independence of the country.

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Speech on Importance Of Saving Water

Water is life’s most precious resource, yet it’s often taken for granted. You may not realize how essential it is until it’s scarce. Every drop counts, literally!

By saving water, you are not only protecting the environment but also ensuring future generations can enjoy this vital asset. Let’s understand the importance of saving water together.

1-minute Speech on Importance Of Saving Water

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I stand before you today to talk about something we all need every day – water. It’s very important, yet we often forget to save it. Let’s talk about why we must change this.

Second, even though we see water all around us in lakes, rivers, and rain, we can’t use all of it. Only a tiny bit, about one percent, is safe for us to use. The rest is salt water in the seas, or it’s trapped in places we can’t reach. This means we have less than we think.

Next, remember that our world is getting hotter, and more people are living on Earth than ever before. Both of these things mean we need more water. But if we don’t save water now, we might not have enough for everyone in the future.

We can all save water easily. Turn off the tap while brushing your teeth. Fix leaks in your house. Use less water when you wash dishes or take a shower. Little things can make a big difference.

In conclusion, the need to save water is clear. Water is important for life, we don’t have as much as we think, and we will need more in the future. Let’s all do our part to save water. Remember, every drop saved today is a step towards a better tomorrow. Thank you.

2-minute Speech on Importance Of Saving Water

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Imagine a day without water. No water to drink, to wash your hands, or to cook your food. A day without water sounds impossible, doesn’t it? Because without water, life can’t exist. But we forget this simple truth and often waste water. Today, I want to talk to you about the importance of saving water.

Water is a gift from Mother Nature. We use it every day, all the time. It’s in our tea, our food, our showers, our gardens. It’s everywhere. But do you know that not everyone is as lucky as we are? There are people in the world who walk miles just to get a bucket of water. For them, water is like gold. Precious and rare. We must think about them when we leave the tap running or take long showers.

Now, let’s think about our Earth. Almost 70% of it is covered by water. But only 2.5% of that is fresh water that we can drink. And even from that, a tiny bit is available to us. The rest is locked up in glaciers, ice caps, and underground. So, we have a small pool of water for billions of people and countless animals and plants. It’s not enough if we don’t use it wisely.

Also, when we save water, we save money. More water used means more money to pay at the end of the month. And not just at our homes. The local government also spends a lot of money to treat and deliver water to us. If we use less water, they can save money too. That money can be used for other important things in our community.

Now, how can we save water? It’s not hard. Turn off the tap when you brush your teeth. Take shorter showers. Fix leaks in your house. Use less water when you wash your car or water your plants. Every drop counts. And if each one of us saves a little bit of water every day, imagine how much water we can save together!

Remember, every drop of water is a drop of life. So, let’s pledge today to save water, to save life. Thank you.

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