I. Introduction
A. Attention getter: How would you like to have a couple hundred dollars a year to spend on whatever you want with zero or limited investment and save the planet at the same time?
B. Tie to the audience: “ Everyone here today uses approximately 100 gallons of water per day” and I will show you that each one of you can limit that consumption drastically and save both water and money with little or no monetary investment and just minutes of your time.
C. Credibility Material: I have dedicated over twenty years of my life to helping people save water. I have demonstrated these methods on the Discovery Channel and as the expert plumber for the Bob and Rodman Home Fix It show.
D. Preview: With Earth Day approaching this week, I will show you several do it yourself examples how you can put money in your pocket every month and show you where to get many of these products free of charge.
II. Body
A. Most of us are used to having water when we want it and as much as we want. This is not true
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The number one waste of water in American homes are the toilets. Older toilets flush 3 to sometimes 5 gallons per flush. “ The newer toilets are required by code to flush less than 1.6 gallons with the more efficient ones flushing under 1 gallon.” The county you live in may offer a rebate to replace your toilet or give you parts to retrofit your existing toilet. “Cobb, Gwinnett, and Fulton counties give $100 back if you replace a pre 1994 toilet with a newer efficient toilet. This covers the cost of the toilet. You may need a plumber to install. But there are many how to videos and the process is quite simple. They also will send a free retrofit kit if replacing is not an option. With minimal tools, this is an easy swap. If these two options aren’t available, one simple trick will save over $100 per year. You fill a milk jug with water and place it in the tank of the toilet. This displaces a gallon of water and saves that gallon every
to think of different solutions to help with the water shortage. Many solutions that California has
“Water is the driving force of all nature.” Leonardo da Vince once said. Water is a huge part of life, and everything that lives requires water to make it through its days on earth. A lot of people think that the world has massive amounts of water available for use; therefore, most roll their eyes when conserving water is mentioned. After all, 71% of the earth’s surface is made up of water. However, the truth is that only 2.5% of that is clean, drinkable water, and two-thirds of that percentage is unavailable because it is stuck in ice caps and glaciers (water). The water ordeal in America is bigger than many realize, and the United States needs to begin looking at how we can solve this issue. The U.S. needs to acknowledge the impending dangers and help the states that are already suffering by putting water conservation methods in place and investing money into research for alternatives.
Our PSA will come in two parts. The first part will be aimed at assuring residents that current water being provided is of high quality and informing them of the steps taken by the city to prevent similar problems in the future. This reasoned appeal will target the more trusting members of the public such as those in the solidarity group on the Campbell Trust Continuum. The second part of the PSA will describe how city A is putting on a free clean water themed community event to promote water sustainability and celebrate the purification of city A’s water supply. This emotional appeal will target more skeptical members of the public such as those in the discord group.
Persuasion has been a technique to allow people to do something through the use of reasoning or argument. This technique has been seen in writing, propaganda and many other forms that enforce people to choose a side about issues that they feel strong about. It helps influence people’s beliefs toward an issue and changes their perspectives to agree with the argument. Global warming has been a strong issue in current society; however, the issue itself persuades others with awareness but also allows them to contemplate their perspective and provide actions for it. In the text, Under Water by Kate Sheppard, the authors explains to the readers how United States spends billions of dollars on rebuilding the infrastructure of coastlines that
Another problem that will cause a toilet to run water throughout the day is using an old toilet. The EPA estimate that homeowners who replace old toilets can save 13,000 gallons of water a year. If you couple that with the amount of water wasted from a running toilet, you can save significantly on your water bill simply by replacing an old toilet.
The cost involved in water bottles is inconceivable to many. Bottled water costs 240 to 100,000 times more than tap water, which can be brought to your house for just pennies per day; based on city water usage, 4,787 bottled waters could be filled with tap water for $2.10, if each bottled water costs one dollar, you would pay 2,279 times more than if a single bottle is refilled. If tap water cost as much as bottled water, a monthly water bill would be around nine thousand dollars. By virtue of this, society is unaware of the fact that by replacing water bottles with tap water, many countries with economical dilemmas could be less strained.
Americans go to the sink knowing with a simple flip of the nosil, clean water will magically appear. It is often presumed that clean water is a given and it is never acknowledged that saving water in one country could evidently help another country's water...
Tie to the Introduction: Many organizations are working to spread awareness of the issue so that people will conserve water in small ways in their own life. If each of us just takes a few minutes less in the shower or doesn’t just poor old water down the drain, imagine how much water we could be saving.
Why should we care about this topic?All of us need water everyday but many of us don't have
As if its environmental costs weren't enough, bottled water also hurts your wallet. Tap water is readily available from...
Water is essential for humanity’s survival, and even though the world is largely covered by water, only a small percentage is only usable for human consumption. Approximately, on average, 120,000 gallons of water are used annually for a single-family household (Galbraith). This alarming number could be reduced dramatically for the efforts of water conserving and lower water bill prices for families and subsequently saving money that could be used for other expenses. Thus, conserving water would prove beneficial and advantageous to not just Texas, but for everyone else as well. Although environmental policies have been not as popular with Congress and the state legislature, it is still an important problem to consider since there are only a limited amount of resources for public use, such as water.
Water is pure and a transparent liquid that is vital for all humans, plants and animals on the planet. In the United States, people have access to clean drinking water and clean sanitation systems, not like in other parts of the world where clean safe drinking water is getting scarce. A lot of people don’t have access to it, and many regions are suffering severe drought. Yet, humans take it for granted, they don’t appreciate that a reliable clean supply of water is essential to human health, economy and agricultural prosperity. Having clean and safe potable water is a right and not a privilege. Some individuals don’t appreciate the advantage of having clean water available at
Freshwater in the world makes up only a small portion of water on the planet. While the percentage of water in the world is nearly 70%, only 2.5% is consumable. Even further, only <1% is easily accessible to basic human needs. According to National Geographic, “by 2025, an estimated 1.8 billion people will live in areas plagued by water scarcity, with two-thirds of the world's population living in water-stressed regions as a result of use, growth, and climate change.” With this current trend, water will become more immersed in environmental, economic, political, and social changes. Many of these in later years shall need to be addressed as tension rises:
A small drip from a faucet can waste as much as 75 litres of water a day.
“Water is the lifeblood of this planet. Every time a good is bought or sold there is a virtual exchange of water. Every time we interact with water, we change it, redirect it, or otherwise alter its state. We have never learned how to efficiently manage water.”(Cluckie, 2009) Ian Cluckie, Professor of Hydrology and Water Management, emphasizes the fact that humans can’t survive without water. Although water is a renewable resource that can replenish under hydrological cycles, our intervention has interrupted its natural cycle causing its supply to decrease.(Cluckie, 2009)