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Body of Water
How healthy is your water knowledge?
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Water and the body

• Our body needs water
• To survive
• For chemical reactions in our bodies to take
  place
• To help the blood in our body carry nutrients

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Fast facts did you know?

• Without water, you would only expect to live for
  around one week

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Fast facts did you know?

• The human body loses up to 2 litres of water
  every day

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Fast facts did you know?

• Drinking water
• digests food
• flushes out waste
• regulates temperature
• keeps skin smooth
• protects teeth and gums
• improves concentration

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What happens to your body without enough water?

• Sick
• Dizzy
• Hot

• Muscle cramps
• Headache

• Without water, you would only expect to live for
  around one week.
• How much water should you drink each day?

6-8 glasses
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Body of Water Quiz

• 1. What percentage of your brain is water?
• 2. The body loses water through sweating,
  breathing and ..?
• 3. Water is good for the teeth because it
  contains no s_ _ _ _ ?

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Body of Water Quiz

• 4. How many glasses of water should we drink each
  day?
• 5. If someone does not drink enough water they
  can become d _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _?
• 6. How much water do we get from the food we eat
  each day?

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Work it Out
Active bodies need more water
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Active Advice

• To keep fit and healthy, young people aged 5 -18
  are advised to do 60 minutes of activity every
  day.
• To keep your body fit to do this exercise it is
  important to keep hydrated.

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Active advice did you know?

• Exercise increases body temperature so you lose
  more water.
• For one hour of exercise drink one
• litre of water.
• Drink water before doing exercise in a hot
  environment.

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Make it Clear
The water treatment process
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Fit to drink!

• Our drinking water is taken from rivers and
  aquifers underground water sources

How does the water get from this
To this?
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Making water Fit to drink!
Thames Water

• has 100 water treatment works.
• provides drinking water to 9 million people.
• produces approximately 2.6 billion litres of
  drinking water every day.

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What can water contain?
Bacteria
Invisible particles
Visible particles
Tiny amoeba
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Why treat the water?

• The water treatment process makes the water safe
  to drink by
• screening gt filtration gt disinfection

www.thameswater.co.uk/cycles/
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Lack of water
Not everyone has access to clean water thats fit
to drink

• 1 in 8 people live without access to safe water,
  thats 884m people globally.
• 2.6bn people do not have access to a toilet.
• Women and children sometimes walk up to 10 miles
  to collect clean water.

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WaterAid

• Thames Water has helped thousands of the worlds
  poorest people gain access to safe water and
  sanitation by supporting WaterAid.
• WaterAid is a charity whose vision is of a world
  where everyone has access to safe water and
  sanitation.

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Water is precious

• Water is essential to life.
• Water comes from different sources and is cleaned
  and treated before it reaches our taps.
• Water is precious. We should try our best to be
  water wise and not waste water!