Steemit Engagement Challenge S9W2 - Water is Life!

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Hello friends, it's good to be here once again, I hope you're keeping well and enjoying every bit of the engagement challenge. Let me specially appreciate this beautiful community for putting up this interesting contest. The topic is straightforward and essential
I could not but put forth my entry for this contest. I really do hope you enjoy my entry. So let get into it immediately. Enjoy!

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Introduction

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Water is an essential substance of nature, it is quite unique in that it has no taste, colour, odour and what have you...yet very powerful and needed by both human, animals and the environment. Nothing will actually survive without water.

Science has proven that human being can survive for many days without food but cannot survive without water for a very long time. Human and animal alike are made up of both blood and water. Amazing fact right? Yea! You just read that and it's true.

Our environment also need water to thrive because everything in it thrives on water which is the major component for ecological survival.
Haven given us an introduction to the topic, I would love to share my thoughts in line with the guideline given for the contest.

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What is the function of water in life?

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Water has alot of function in the life of human, animal and the environment as a whole. I will mention few of the usefulness of water which I believe most of us here will agree with.

Water is a cleansing agent:Water is used for bathing, we clean up ourselves using water and soap, the major agent here is water. This same water can be used to wash our dishes, clothes and every other form of dirt from substances.

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Water facilitates growth:Farmer will understand this better and that's because they plant. Water is highly need for crops to yield. Other elements needed for growth might be available but without water it will be difficult to grow and develope properly.

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Recreational Purposes : Water can be used for recreational purposes. An example is a swimming pool which is an artificial body of water where fun takes place. We feel relax after swimming and having fun in a pool.

Electricity Generation: This is true in a country like Nigeria where I reside. I do not really know how electricity is generated in other part of the world but in Nigeria, a large body of water is used to generate electricity. It had been the major source of power supply here for ages. I learnt gas is being experimented to serve the same purpose but it not common here.

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How do we describe the value of a drop of water?

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The value of water may not really be ascertained until there is a severe scarcity of water in a place. There is a common saying which I would like to quote here, it say... People do not appreciate what they have until they lose it. Trust me this saying is true.

You might think water is common and can be found everywhere but the day it ceases to be surplus or in abundance you would know what it's worth. I have lived in place where we had to scout for the same water we once have in abundance. It wasn't a funny experience at all.

When we eventually get such water, no matter how little, we would use it carefully and not carelessly, we would appreciate every bit of it. The experience is not friendly at all. Even the environment feels it when there is lack of water. The land goes through what we call draught.

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How is the availability of clean water in your area?

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The system operated in the area where I live presently is the well system form of water generation. Well water are not totally clean, they are treated to be very fit for drinking. Most of the people living in my environment do not really have time to treat the well.

They prefer to use the water from the well for other things other than drinking as it's not totally fit. What we subscribe to is either table water or sachet water which we believe to be pure in this part of the world.

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It's called pure water in most part of Nigeria because it is believed to have been treated thoroughly before been packed and bagged for sale. In conclusion, I would say the available clean water we have here is Pure/table water.

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Conclusion

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Water is an essential substance of nature. I would say it makes nature complete as it can't be done away with. We need it for life. Science has proven that a substantial part of human body contains water. Animals around us including our environment need water to flourish.
The need and importance of water cannot be overemphasized.

I will like to wrap it up here friends. I hope you enjoyed every bit of my entry. Just before I go, I would love to I vote my friends, @josepha @waqarahmadshah @drhira. Gracias!

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Regards
@lhorgic♥️

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