Good morning everyone!
[Hold up your water bottle]
What I'm holding in my hand is more precious than gold. More valuable than diamonds. It's WATER!
Did you know that every single drop of water in this bottle is older than the dinosaurs? The same water that T-Rex drank 65 million years ago might be in your water bottle today! Water never gets old - it just keeps moving around our planet in an endless circle.
But here's the scary truth: Only 1 drop out of every 100 drops on Earth is fresh water we can drink. Imagine if you had 100 candies, but you could only eat 1. That's how little clean water we really have!
And here's something even more shocking - right now, 200 crore people on our planet don't have clean water to drink! That's like every third person in your classroom having no water at all. Kids just like you are walking 6 hours every day just to find water!
[Pause]
Let me tell you something that will blow your mind. Your body is like a walking water balloon! You are 70% water. Your brain? 85% water! Your blood? 92% water! Even your bones are 31% water! You are basically a human river! [smile]
Without water for just 3 days, we would die. Plants would turn brown. Animals would disappear. Our beautiful blue planet would become a dead, dusty rock like Mars.
But water does something magical - it travels! The water you drink today might have been inside a cloud yesterday, in the ocean last week, and inside a dinosaur a million years ago! Water is the ultimate time traveler!
Here's what one person uses water for every single day:
100 glasses just for drinking and cooking
400 glasses for one shower
500 glasses for washing clothes!
That's over 1000 glasses per person every day! And there are 8 billion people on Earth! That's like filling 8 billion bathtubs every single day!
And here's where it gets really crazy: When you waste water, you're not just wasting water. You're wasting electricity too! It takes enormous machines to clean dirty water and pump it to your house. In fact, saving water saves more electricity than turning off lights!
Did you know that it takes 2,700 glasses of water to make just one cotton t-shirt? That's enough water to keep you alive for 3 whole weeks! And your favorite parotta? It needs 2,400 glasses of water to make - from growing the fields, to giving water to machines!
But wait - there's hope! Each one of us can be a water hero! Here's how:
Turn off the tap while brushing your teeth - you'll save 8 glasses of water in just 2 minutes!
Take shorter showers - even 2 minutes less saves 50 glasses of water!
Fix leaky taps immediately - one tiny drip wastes 50 glasses every day!
Use a bucket while waiting for shower water to get hot - you can save 20 glasses and use it to water plants!
Collect rainwater - nature gives us free water from the sky!
And a superhero trick: Plant trees - one tree can clean 15,000 glasses of dirty water every year!
[Stronger voice and more passionate]
Friends, we are not just saving water - we are saving polar bears who need ice to survive! We are saving farmers who grow our food! We are saving our little brothers and sisters who will live on this planet after us!
But listen to this amazing fact: If every student in your school saved just 10 glasses of water per day, in one year you would save enough water to fill an entire pond near your home! Now imagine if every school in your city did this! We could save thousands of ponds worth of water!
Every drop you save today is a gift to tomorrow. Every time you turn off that tap, you are a superhero protecting our planet! You are giving a drink to a thirsty child somewhere in the world!
[Raise the water bottle high]
This bottle of water connects you to every river, every ocean, every cloud in the sky. When you save water, you save the tigers in the jungle, the fish in the sea, and the trees in your garden.
Remember: Water is life. No water, no life. Save water, save EVERYTHING!
I challenge every one of you: Go home today and teach your family one new way to save water. Become the water hero of your house! Show your parents that kids can lead the way in saving our world!
