For The Love of Water

One main goal for this course is to connect content and learning with the world experience. As a class, we watched the documentary F.L.O.W. (For the Love of Water)
They were then asked to write a blog post reflection on the movie. Here are some of their thoughts.

"Re-visit one of your routine days and recall how many times you come across water. Let me help you out.  When you wake up in the morning, you probably go to the sink and open the tap, having water come out to brush your teeth, wash your face, and whatever else. Then you might go to your shower or tub and open up more taps to have water come out and just enjoy the flow of cold or hot water throughout your body and just feel the feeling of getting clean.  Later, you eat breakfast with cereal, blueberries, orange juice and believe it or not most of those foods contain water. And after that, throughout the day, you drink a few bottles of water and wash you hands a few times. Anyway you get the point, water is important, we use it a lot for sanitation and hydration, it has just got to be there.
What if you didn’t have water? No water comes out of your taps and no bottles filled with water, foods that don’t have water in them, no rain or lakes, oceans and as a result no…you!" From Hannah's Post

"I thought it was kind of ironic how Nestle was talking about how if they didn’t bottle the water people would drink soda which is full of sugar and would make children obese. I think its ironic that they say that they are helping to lower obesity when they sell candy and chocolate which causes obesity. " From Carly's Post

"My call to action regarding the water issue is that since last year, I have been raising money to build a well in Uganda. I completed my project in late July of this year and the well was built for a primary school of over 500 children. These children no longer have to worry about getting access to clean, safe water and now have the opportunity to go to school and follow their dreams. Many countries throughout the world do not have access to safe water and with the building of this well, this village in Uganda no longer has to worry. Below is a picture of the children of the primary school in Uganda." From Mana's Post

Check out the movie that inspired these students' reflections. F.L.O.W. (For the Love of Water) Then make a difference by signing Article 31

Article 31:

Everyone has the right to clean and accessible water, adequate for the health and well-being of the individual and family, and no one shall be deprived of such access or quality of water due to individual economic circumstance.