Page 94 - a-merged_Neat
P. 94

Save Water

                                         Water is most important natural resource made available by mother earth to the
                                         humans. It is essential for existence of life and maintaining ecological balance life
                                         on earth without water cannot be imagined and history is replete with wars fought
                                         between civilization over water. Earth constitutes 71% of water, only 2.5 of it is
                                         fresh water that we use today has probably been around since the beging of life on
                                         Earth. The amount of fresh water that the earth holds has remained constant, but
                                         the  human  consuming  it  increased  manifolds  subsequently,  leading  to  water
                                         scarcity  adequate  measure  must  be  taken  towards  optimal  usage  of  water
                                         harvesting must be implemented in order to ensure future availability of on of the
                                         nature‟s most valuable resource.
                                                                                                                   Deepak Kumar
                                                                                                                                IX-B

                                                                            Did you know

                                         Did you know !
                                         The ultra-rare sumatran rhinoceros recently went dark for 40 years before finally
                                         being spotted again in indonesia.  Fewer than 100 of these  extremely solitary
                                         animals  are  thought  to  exist.  They  only  came  together  to  breed,  yet  they‟ve
                                         managed to hang around for centuries.
                                         Did you know?

                                         Dolphins will talk to one another over the phone and can even recognize each
                                         other‟s voices.
                                         Did you know?
                                         Omo is an extremely rare white giraffe in Tanzania she‟s now old enough to avoid
                                         the threat of lions and hyenas but faces the risk of being taken down as a rare prize
                                         for hunters and poachers.
                                         Did you know?

                                         Sometimes, a male octopus gets eager and treis to male with a female too many
                                         times, so she strangles him and takes him back to her den to feed on for the next
                                         few days.

                                         Did you know?
                                         Glass Gem is a unique strain of corn with kernels that look like pieces of rainbow-
                                         coloured glass.
                                                                                                                              Sapna

                                                                                                                                IX-B




                                                                                      14
   89   90   91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99