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Cherish water resources

Cherish water resources

By CARRIE POLKPublished 3 years ago 3 min read

Gee! Why is Grandma's house so busy today? One into the house, just know that it is the neighborhood committee uncle aunt to grandma sent a "water-saving model" pennant. Grandma face happy flowers, eyes narrowed into a slit, mouth kept saying: "There is no special way to save water, just reasonable use of all kinds of water." I know grandma has her own tricks for saving water, which have long been well-known.

The first trick - wash rice water water flowers. Every day when I came home from school, I saw that my grandmother did not wash the water after washing the rice, but poured the water into the bottle. I was very curious to ask: "Grandma, you pour the Amoy rice into the bottle for what?" Grandma earnestly said to me: "Wash rice water poured into the bottle fermentation for a few days, but the nutrition of the flowers. Rice water is better than ordinary tap water for flowers. Because there are rich nutrients in rice washing water, can make flowers grow faster and more brilliant. So, rice water is the best way to water flowers." Grandma pointed to the front of the house after the flowers said: "These can be the credit of washing rice water." Grandma planted a lot of beautiful flowers, there are green leaves lined with kumquat white four seasons orange, beautiful and brilliant Chinese rose, Lin long carved epiphyllum, fiery red sunflower, and colorful chrysanthemum... So many beautiful flowers are the result of Grandma's careful care with rice water!

The second trick - face water flush the toilet. Once, I saw the bucket under the bathroom sink was full and wanted to throw it out. I this small move, was careful grandmother found. She ran to me in a hurry and said: "Can't dump, can't dump, pee and poop pull well, use the water to flush the toilet." I said to grandma dismissively: "Don't save so, anyway, now the water is not expensive, spend not a few dollars." Grandma's face immediately turned serious and said, "Our country is a country with a serious water shortage. It is one of the most water-poor countries with very little fresh water resources. We can't waste water, we need to use it properly!" I also rationalize said: "Anyway, now so much water, I have seen a hundred years also can not run out." Grandma touched my head and said, "You! I can't use it all now. What about your children and grandchildren?" I thought about it for a moment and thought it made sense, so I said nothing.

3. Wash your clothes on the floor. Once to Grandma's balcony, you will find many large and small buckets. Do you know what they're used for? I'll tell you, they're for pouring dirty laundry. Do you know what this dirty water is for? They are used to wash the floor. "Such dirty washing of the floor, then the floor is not dirty?" I asked, puzzled. Grandma said: "No, I first use more dirty soapy water to remove stains, oil stains, and then use these more clean water to drag again, this way to wash the floor is very clean. It's better than running water to wash the floor!" Before the words were finished, Grandma went to wash the floor with the bucket. With Grandma's hard work, the room soon became comfortable and clean.

I looked at the wall that a pennant, silently thinking in my heart: if everyone like my grandmother with water-saving "three moves" cherish water resources, the earth mother's body will be more blue.

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