Essay: (30 points)
prompt: water consumption

all living organisms on earth need water to survive. many, including humans, require fresh water, but only 3% of the water on the earth's surface is fresh water. how is fresh water important to you? how does this affect the way you manage your use of fresh water?

write an essay that explains how you use and conserve fresh water based on how important it is to you. support your explanation using evidence, such as facts and examples.

as you write, remember your essay will be scored based on how well you:

develop a multi-paragraph response to the assigned topic that clearly communicates your controlling idea to the audience.
support your controlling idea with meaningful examples, information, and references from the text.
cite direct quotes and any information that has been paraphrased from the passages that you have read.
organize your essay in a clear and logical manner, including an introduction, body, and conclusion.
use well-structured sentences and language that are appropriate for your audience.
edit your work to conform to the conventions of standard american english.

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The kits were estimated to save 7 - 10 gallons of water per person per day. Tampa estimates that when all the homes in Tampa are similarly retrofitted, more than 2. 1 million gallons of water per day will be saved. Educational efforts in Tampa focus on schools. A number of contests have been conducted. Winning poster and limerick entries are compiled into a water conservation calendar, which is then distributed to the general public. Additional efforts in Tampa include a pilot awareness campaign, an expanded retrofit program, toilet-replacement incentive projects including a rebate program, implementation of water checkups for large residential water users, and enhanced in-school curriculum-based education (RMI, 1991). 

South Florida Water Management District In 1992, the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD, which includes Palm Beach, Dade County, Florida) joined the St. Johns River Water Management District (in northeast Florida) and Southwest Florida Water Management District (Tampa, Sarasota, etc. ) in sponsoring a statewide mass-media conservation campaign that urges residents to conserve water and use it wisely. The campaign features public service spots that urge residents to use xeriscaping and offers other water-saving tips. Educational brochures and how-to guides, an informative video on how to xeriscape a typical Florida yard, and a quarterly newsletter were all produced to support this educational effort. 

The Sfwmd's Six-Point Conservation Policy appeals to local governments to adopt conservation measures. The policy advocates the adoption of local xeriscape ordinances, leak detection programs, ordinances that encourage the residential and business use of low-volume plumbing, rate structures that reward conservation and reduced use, comprehensive public education programs, and daytime irrigation bans. In other programs, the SFWMD offers technical assistance to cities and counties in implementing rain switch ordinances (which require automatic sprinklers to be turned off during rain storms) and water reuse systems, and the district is supporting a statewide Compost Utilization Project. The SFWMD is also a sponsoring member of the states Xeriscape/Water Wise Council Steering Committee, formed to help implement the states Xeriscape Law, passed in 1991. Through conservation partnerships formed in 1992, the SFWMD assisted the Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and Lee county governments in developing daytime irrigation ordinances, and it is urging other counties to adopt daytime irrigation bans (Kirchhoff and Nicholas, 1993). 

California State of California The State Department of Water Resources provides general information and offers technical assistance with water conservation practices to all local water agencies in California. Agricultural irrigation is the largest water use problem in California, and the Department focuses on agricultural as well as urban water use efficiency programs. The urban program includes the following practices: leak detection, water-efficient landscaping, conservation information, public education, urban water management planning assistance, industrial water conservation planning, and water recycling. The agricultural program includes the following practices: drainage reduction, mobile laboratory program for on-farm irrigation system evaluations, the California Irrigation Management Information System (CIMIS), and agricultural water management planning assistance (Keith Watkins, California State Department of Water Resources, Office of Water Conservation, February 9, 1994, personal communication). Los Angeles The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has implemented a comprehensive water efficiency plan to address water use by individual households, businesses, and industries. To limit outdoor water use, L. 

A. offers a landscape water management program, a water conservation garden contest, an annual spring garden exposition, demonstration gardens, weather network stations, a residential irrigation pilot program, a large-turf water curtailment program, xeriscape requirements for new construction, and production and distribution of lawn-watering guides. L. A.