Why Do We Need To Conserve Water? | Class 7 | Learn With BYJU'S

[Music] water is perhaps the most important component of any ecosystem water cycles through the atmosphere soils rivers lakes and oceans and some water is stored deep in the earth it is also an important part of our daily lives the population and the needs of the people keep growing but water will always be an important part of our lives now since we get most of our drinking water from the rivers can you imagine how important it is for us to protect our rivers [Music] well there is some bad news in this regard turns out things have already turned grim and our fresh water sources are in trouble in fact we are in trouble take for example the city of chennai in may of 2019 it hadn't rained in the city for a stretch of 200 days [Music] this was followed by one of the worst water shortages that the city has seen in the past 30 years [Music] offices schools malls and all other places were shut down for more than a week why do you think this happened well there are a number of reasons for this [Applause] firstly the number of people in the city keeps on growing this leads to overuse of water secondly lack of proper water conservation techniques because of this rain water is not effectively collected and stored thirdly pollution is a big menace water pollution ruins the already scarce fresh water worsening the problems all the waste water from the houses and factories eventually finds its way into the rivers which is our major freshwater source it is high time that we conserve our precious fresh sources of water each of us can do our part it may be even small things like turning off taps when not in use or playing holy with dry colors and on a larger scale as a community we should build rainwater harvesting systems in our houses thereby conserving water if you like this video and want to watch many many more amazing videos like these like and subscribe to our channel now

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Length: 3min 7sec (187 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 16 2021