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Water Cycle Research Paper

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People are being put through immense pain everyday just to get to water. They walk for hours and hours giving up their lives for the sake of water. They carry five gallons for hours so they can provide water for 4 people, a lot of times its more than 4. They walk thorny bushes with no shoes while carrying 41 pounds on their back. They don't have an education because all their time goes to getting water so they cant do anything to stop the cycle. They don't have an education so they can afford to live in a nicer place that actually has water. They cant get an education because then they wont be able to get water. The water they drink from the river is also polluted with harsh chemicals. Thankfully their is organizations to help with this cause. They include water for people, h2o for life, and water.org.

These pollutions don't just affect that one area they affect the whole water cycle. The water cycle consists of condensation, evaporation, precipitation, surface runoff, and accumulation. When the water comes down from the clouds in the from of precipitation you get surface runoff and it accumulates in the ocean or river. Now you add a pollution to …show more content…

The names of the countries are on the left and the different categories are on the top. The country that has the shortest life expectancy is Kenya. Their life expectancy is 53 years. That is 30 years less than the Average life expectancy in the united states. It is 40 years less than the average life expectancy in South Carolina. The country that has to walk the farthest is Africa. They have to walk 3.7 miles just to get to a water source that isn't even clean. It would take them about an hour a day just to walk there at an average speed. Without shoes it would probably add an extra half hour to your time. It would take them an hour and a half just to walk there. There and back it would take them about 4

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