Land and Water Conservation
Land and water conservation is vital to the preservation and overall health of our environment.
Land conservation protects habitats, forests, and natural landmarks and affects the quality of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. With a constantly growing civilization, development into new areas is necessary; it is unnecessary development that is causing problems.
Water conservation may not sound important, since water covers 70 percent of the earth. But the majority of the earth’s water is saltwater, which is unusable for humans. Fresh water accounts for only 3 percent of the planet’s water, and the vast majority of that is frozen as glaciers and ice caps or is located under the ground we walk on. That leaves rivers, lakes, and annual rainfall to provide water for the world’s more than 6.7 billion people—making water conservation extremely important.
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