The answer is…
Water!
For every square mile of land on the planet, there are almost 2 and a half square miles of water! And get this, almost all of the water is salt water, mostly in oceans, rivers, and lakes. That means that to get the water that we drink, people and governments around the world create a lot of cool machines and use science to make it drinkable.
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Learning Connections
In elementary school, children learn about planet Earth and, more specifically, the water cycle. The water on Earth and in our atmosphere eventually become precipitation and students also look closely at weather and climate in elementary school.
Extra Resources
For Adults
Check out this article about water from Generation Genius
They also have a cool video
This read-aloud of The Water Princess explores how people get their drinking water
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