Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Water to Drink

As we all know, water is very important to the life of everybody. Our body needs water. Water helps make blood. It helps keep the body at normal temperature. It melts our food. It carries off waste matter from our body. It also supplies our body with minerals.

Drink six or eight glasses of water a day. See to it that the water we drink is pure. Pure water is free from disease germs. Impure water may cause sickness.

Boil the water that you drink to make it safe. Boiling will kill the germs. If you use an earthen jar for your drinking water, have a clean cover for it. Do not dip a cup into the jar. Use the faucet.
If you deep drinking water in a refrigerator, be sure the bottles are clean and covered.

The government makes the water safe for use in the following ways:
(1) Water from a fiver is made to flow in a dam. The water is made to stand in the dam for many days. In this way the water is made clean because dirt and mud settles down.

(2) Then the water is made to flow in a filter where it is again made clean. The filter separates the dirt from the water. Before the water goes to the homes, chlorine is added to it. Chlorine kills germs in the water.

No comments: