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Children's fiction
Links to a zillion things you can learn about H2O
Amazing water! It's probably our most valuable natural resource. Nothing can live without it. As the world's population grows, we use more, poison more, and waste more H20 every day. Learn more:
A Cool Drink of Water
by Barbara Kerley (National Geographic Books, 2002)
A Drop Around the World
By Barbara McKinney. Follows a drop of water in its natural voyage around the world, as ice, clouds, snow, underground water, sea water, and on into plants and animals. (See Teaching ideas for "A Teacher's Guide to a Drop Around the World".)
A River Ran Wild: An Environmental History
by Lynne Cherry (Voyager Books, reprint edition, 2002)
Anna’s Rain
by Fred Burstein (Orchard Books, 1990)
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
by Verna Aardeema (Puffin, 1992)
Clean Water (Earth at Risk)
by Karen Barss (Chelsea House Publishing (Library), 1992)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
by Judi Barret (Aladdin Library, 1982)
Come Back, Salmon
By Molly Cone. A school class restores salmon to a stream that hadn't had fish for 20 years.
Down Comes the Rain
by Frankliyn Branley (HarperTrophy; Illustrated edition, 1997)
Euphonia and the Flood
by Mary Calhoun (MacMillan Publishing Company, 1977)
Freshwater Fish and Fishing
by Jim Aronsky (Four Winds Press, 1982)
Jack, the Seal and the Sea
by Gerald Ashenbrenner (Silver Burdett Press, 1990)
Johnny Lion’s Rubber Boots
by Edith Thacher Hurd (HarperTrophy, new edition, 2001)
Keeping Water Clean
by Helen Frost, Gail, PH.D. Saunders-Smith (Editor) (Capstone Press, 1999)
Llama and the Great Flood
by Elen Alexander (Ty Crowell Co; 1st edition,1989)
Mushroom in the Rain
by Mirra Ginsburg (Aladdin Library, reissue edition, 1997)
My River
by Shari Halpern (Macmillan Publishing Company, 1992)
Our World of Water
http://www.environmental-expert.com
by Joan Stephenson (IWA, 2003) Uses children's artwork and writing to teach about water. Profits to WaterAid.
Rain, Rain
by Carol Greene (Children's Book Press, 1982)
Raindrop Stories
by Preston Bassett (Atheneum, 1981)
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Quick Facts About Water
- Water covers 70% of Earth's surface. (That's why astronauts in space dubbed it "The Blue Planet".)
- Only 1% of this resource is drinkable. About 97% is ocean water: salty, unpotable and not usable for irrigation. The other 3% is fresh water, but nearly one-third of that is locked up in the form of glaciers and ice fields.
- The world's population more than tripled in the last century, but during the same time, our consumption of water increased six times. The U.S.A. and Canada, in that order, use the most water per capita.
- Agriculture is the largest user of water world-wide, consuming about 68%. Industry uses 22%.
- Water is life: we might survive a month without food, but less than a week without water.
- Water is weather: rain, snow, ice - and drought. It determines what we eat, what we grow, and what plants, animals and water life thrive.