Drinking Water Persuasive Essay

Poor Countries Water: Not Safe to Drink

The water in your home is probably safe to drink, but places like Flint, Michigan have polluted water or no water at all. Two articles “For the World’s Poor, Drinking water can kill” and “After Pollution in Flint, Some Find Tap Water’s Benefits Hard to Swallow” detail events of polluted water or people refusing to drink water because they heard about the problem in Flint. However, there are many similarities and differences between these articles.

Similarities

These articles have many similarities, such as how they both propose solutions. Both of the texts also state that poor countries have polluted and non - potable water. They both present the problems with drinking water. Both also detail how the

children are affected by the water problems.

Text 1

In “For the World’s Poor…” It talks about the effects of polluted water such as it making loads of people sick (1.5million!) This article talks about how companies are trying to help by digging wells, but still, more than 1.5 million people have illnesses such as diarrheal disease.

Text 2

The article “After Pollution in Flint…” talks about how Latinos won’t drink the tap water because they don’t trust it. Community leaders are trying to convince the Latinos to drink the water but they won’t drink it. The Latinos are instead drinking sugary drinks. Since the Latinos are not drinking any water, they have a lot of cavities. Water has fluoride in it, fluoride helps protect your teeth from cavities.

Conclusion
In conclusion, we need to save our water. Water is important, and we are lucky we have clean water. If we run out of water we might have to use polluted water just like Africa and many other places in the world.