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As usual, Rogers and Wilkin introduce unit 9, which is titled "Water," with a large image and some questions for us to think about and respond to.
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Rogers and Wilkin's questions
Think about them for a moment, perhaps one minute, and then write your ideas responding to these questions:
- Where does your drinking water come from? Do you drink tap water or buy bottled water? Why?
- Water covers more than 70% of the Earth's surface, yet many parts of the world don't have enough water. Why is this?
- Which of the following water related problems (choose one only) do you think is the most serious? Why is it more serious than the other two?
- drought
- flooding
- water pollution
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Reference
- Rogers, L. & Wilkin, J. (2013). Skillful Reading & Writing, Student's Book 2. London: Macmillan Education
Although I almost never buy bottled water, I never drink tap water either. I get most of my water from a machine at my condo that provides freshly filtered water for one baht a litre. I think bottled water is expensive, and I'm not sure that it's worth the cost. I'm also unsure whether it's any healthier than the option I use. I think it's prepared using the same technology that the machine at my condo uses. In fact, I'm not sure that there is any problem with using tap water, except that it has an unpleasant taste that filtering seems to remove. I believe that Bangkok's tap water, like Sydney's is perfectly safe to drink. But bottled water is very good business for companies that sell it to worried consumers. But maybe i'm wrong. I haven't checked the research for many years now.
ReplyDeleteIf I have to choose which is the most serious problem between drought, flooding and water pollution, I would choose drought, although the other two are also serious. Floods are bad, but they usually last a short time, so can't inflict too much harm. And water pollution is a slower, long term problem.
Droughts, on the other hand, can push a country into starvation, killing a large percentage of the people, and they inflict massive harm in wealthy nations such as my own country. At the moment, large parts of Australia are suffering a long drought which has been a disaster for farmers, who have lost crops and animals. And there is no sign that this is about to end.
i usually drink bottled water than tap water because its more safe and clean. tap water may be clean but its not a 100% sure.
ReplyDeletei think the reason why there isnt enough water in some countries because they doesnt safe the water and they probably didnt keep water too. thats why they didnt have enough water to drink or use in their daily days.
the most serious water-related problem is drought, beacause without water people doesnt drink water and their plants and crops are dried out. they wont have anything to eat nor drink at all. it can also affects the farmers very much, they cant give waters to their plants and it may affects their jobs.
Although 70% of the earth's surface is water, water that is really important to human is mainly fresh water, which is only a tiny fraction of water overall. Moreover, as human are good at building things, some construction like dams can have huge impact on water distribution on land that can easily make some areas become drought. In fact, many conflicts between countries are caused by these things. In conclusion, not having enough water can be a result from nature of fresh water, and some human activities.
ReplyDeleteFor my drinking water in Thailand, it comes from natural water sources like river, stream or even groundwater. Then, it is purified by many process depended on each company such as using ultraviolet or heating.
ReplyDeleteI always buy bottled water, because I am not sure the quality of tap water in Thailand. Drinking water in Thailand is not acceptable different from western country we can assure that its quality is enough safety for our health. Anyway, price of drinking water in Thailand is not expensive compared with western country.
I think flooding is the worse water problem because it dangerous, it also kill people and destroy. Water pollution may happened after flooding, but it depend on situation, or if flooding wasn't happened there may not water pollution. Drought is a problem too, but I think this problem can be solve.
ReplyDeleteI drinking water from trap. I think bottle water too expensive.
ReplyDeleteMany parts of the world don't have enough water because of soil in there.
I think water related problem is water pollution because when rain a lot after that on the road will have water flood. It's come from garbage there. I notice that we should put a garbage in the bin will protect water pollution in an examples.
I think drinking water come from the rain that the factory brings it into distillation and filtering process for get rid of germ for to drink. I like to buy bottled water because I think it pass many process to get cleans more than drink tap water.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, flooding is more serious than drought and water pollution. Flooding is always caused unexpectedly that causing a lot of damage because people can not prepare to keep stuff.